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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last Wednesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued 6,025 arrest requests to transfer custody, or detainers, in sanctuary New York City (NYC), since January 20, 2025. To put this into perspective, during the entire Biden Administration, ICE only issued 9,472 detainers in NYC. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, there has been a more than 400 percent increase in the number of detainers lodged in NYC.
“In just six months ICE has issued over 6,000 detainers in NYC alone—that’s a more than 400 percent increase in the number of detainers lodged under Biden,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “When sanctuary politicians like Mayor Eric Adams ignore ICE detainers, they are protecting criminal illegal aliens at the expense of American citizens. These are barbaric criminals with prior convictions for rape, murder, drug trafficking, and instead of holding them for ICE, sanctuary politicians release them back into your communities. These reckless policies have deadly consequences. Just this week, two illegal aliens who entered our country and were released under President Biden shot and nearly killed a brave off-duty CBP officer. Both criminal illegal aliens had been arrested previously for violent crimes and released by the NYPD.”
The original announcement can be found here.
Originally published ICE Detainers Rise Dramatically in New York City Following DHS Enforcement Shift on by https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/border-security/ice-detainers-rise-dramatically-in-new-york-city-following-dhs-enforcement-shift/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ice-detainers-rise-dramatically-in-new-york-city-following-dhs-enforcement-shift at Homeland Security
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