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| NM localities have stopped honoring ICE 'detainer' requests |
| 2015-04-06 |
| U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say that refusal by jails to cooperate with so-called "detainers" is resulting in unauthorized immigrants with violent criminal pasts -- including alleged rapists, child abusers and drug traffickers -- being released in New Mexico before federal authorities can take them into custody. But the counties being asked to hold those individuals are pushing back, citing lawsuits and costs, among other objections. Nearly every New Mexico county detention center, along with hundreds of other jurisdictions around the country, have in most circumstances stopped honoring ICE's 48-hour "detainer" -- a request to hold arrested persons whom the agency suspects are in the country illegally...Counties say ICE should be held to the standards of other federal law enforcement agencies and charge people with an immigration crime, seek a warrant for their arrest or arrest them upon their release. "County jails can't hold a person unless they are criminally charged," said Matt Elwell, director of the Luna County Detention Center, which stopped honoring ICE detainers three years ago. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #1 Why bother when you're just going to release them anyway. The reimbursement doesn't match the expense. Besides, most illegals leave the state as quickly as possible. Why remain someplace that just as poor and corrupt as it was back home? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-04-06 09:08 |