ICE Field Agent: Illegal Alien Murder Suspects, Gang Members Being Set Free

Fox News — Local police agencies across the country are frustrating efforts at the federal level to detain and deport criminal illegal immigrants, leaving immigration officials scrambling to track them down. In the last nine months, 275 counties have refused to honor requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they be notified before releasing an illegal immigrant from custody. In doing so, those jurisdictions have released some 9,000 with criminal records who otherwise would have been removed from the U.S. In the past, these so-called “detainer requests” from ICE were routinely granted. Now, however, the very counties that once turned over thousands of illegal immigrant felons to ICE are refusing — afraid of being sued for holding the wrong person or forced to renege by immigrant-friendly policies in Democrat-dominated districts. [Read More]