CALIFORNIA COUNTIES IGNORE ICE DETAINER REQUESTS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS

BREITBART — Officials in over a dozen counties in Southern California recently declared that detainer requests from federal immigration agents will be ignored–specifically, illegal immigrants eligible for deportation will no longer be held past the length of their jail times. The announcement comes amid the revelation that more than 36,000 criminal illegal immigrants were released onto U.S. soil by government officials in 2013.
CBS Los Angeles reported that San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino are just three of about 100 municipalities that will no longer honor detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A 2009 ICE policy prompts local law enforcement to hold individuals accused of illegal immigration while they wait to be transferred to federal agents for processing and possible deportation. [Read More]