...a city in Texas, named after Sam Houston, who would drop deader than he is now if he could see how it turned out...police are being instructed to call federal immigration authorities if they come across an individual who has deportation orders listed in the national crime database.
The new guidance to law enforcement in Texas' largest city comes after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials added 700,000 individuals with deportation orders to the National Crime Information Center database, which is used widely by local law enforcement across the country to track warrants, missing persons, stolen property and other criminal records.
| Underlining the opposite priority of the Biden-Harris administration, which hid that information from those trying to enforce the law. |
"If that is not feasible or offered, our officers will select whatever option does not involve transporting the individual," Hardin wrote in the email, according to the Chronicle.
The updated guidance comes after Houston police recently called ICE on an undocumented immigrant motorist after stopping him for a cracked windshield, bringing renewed attention to local law enforcement's involvement in immigration enforcement.
There are more than 1.4 million people with active deportation orders across the country.
ICE's inclusion of individuals with deportation orders to the crime database broadens the ability for local law enforcement to identify undocumented im
''We've never seen ICE detainers before. They were just never in our system,'' Doug Griffith, spokesperson for the Houston Police Officers' Union, told The Houston Landing on Friday. ''Now the feds have put that into the system. So if we stop somebody and they show an ICE detainer, we have to contact ICE or whatever agency they have the warrant out of.''