ICE detained 49% of 109,000 arrests inside prisons and 44% in communities from late January to late June of this year, according to Deportation Data Project figures. Many of the detained inmates had committed minor, non-violent offenses such as traffic and immigration violations. Operating inside prisons requires ICE to send detention requests to prison officials and to wait for acceptance before making arrests. Sanctuary city policies often result in released foreigners before ICE can take custody, undermining the jail detention strategy. Officials responded by increasing ICE presence and criticizing local laws that restrict immigration status checks, citing cities like Boston and Los Angeles.
This trend is reflected in figures from the Deportation Data Project, which indicate that from late January to late June of this year, 49% of the 109,000 arrests occurred inside prisons, while 44% took place in communities. These numbers would seem to prove the Trump Administration right when it claims to be going mostly after criminal immigrants to make the country a safer place, but records show that most of the foreigners serving a sentence committed only minor offenses, such as traffic violations, immigration violations.
To operate inside prisons, the federal agency must follow a protocol that involves sending prison officials a request to detain undocumented inmates. Only when these requests are accepted can agents go to the prison facilities to arrest them again. The main problem the government faces in implementing this strategywhich guarantees quick and low-cost detentionsis sanctuary city policies. In many of them, foreigners are released before ICE officials can take them, which has intensified the struggle between Washington and local authorities in cities like Los Angeles
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