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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Nearly 500 Illegal Aliens Have Been Released From North Carolina Jails, Despite ICE Detainers

Detention centers across North Carolina have released hundreds of illegal aliens in their custody, defying detainer requests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Local authorities in North Carolina have released nearly 500 undocumented immigrants in the past 10 months. A total of 489 detainers were ignored by the state law enforcement officials, according to data provided by ICE. The ten months cover the duration of the 2019 fiscal year, which began in October of last year and ends this September.

Details of the ignored detainer requests were first reported by WBTV.

“The level of criminal aliens intentionally released into Mecklenburg and the surrounding counties is alarming, but even worse is that the true extent of this dangerous trend may never be fully realized,” a senior Homeland Security official said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “If an illegal alien is arrested for a crime and is then released by local law enforcement without ever alerting ICE officials, a lifted detainer will never be registered in our systems and the alien may only come to our attention once it’s too late.”

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

if either of those illegals commit any violent acts of crime then those that released them should be held fully accountable. Any that impede Federal laws should held accountable of violations of those laws. They are sworn to uphold the Constitution. If you con't do your jobs then step aside.

Anonymous said...

Send them to Pelosi's House !!!

Anonymous said...

They can keep em' too.

Anonymous said...

Don't complain if you end up like Montgomery County.