Monday, October 6, 2014

LA Times: More jails refuse to hold inmates for federal immigration authorities - "Currently, more than 225 local law enforcement agencies nationwide have adopted policies to completely ignore requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to hold an inmate for an additional 48 hours after his or her scheduled release date from jail." (Imagine being more Multicultural Marxist than the Obama administration. Soon governors, mayors and hospital administrators will be demanding a greater share of the foreign Ebola infected.)



More jails refuse to hold inmates for federal immigration authorities

Border Patrol


Emboldened by recent court rulings, more and more counties and cities across the country are refusing to jail inmates extra days to give federal authorities time to deport them.

In most jails until recently, inmates booked on criminal charges and suspected of being in the country illegally were often held for an additional 48 hours at the behest of federal immigration officials.

These "holds" created a pipeline for the deportation of thousands of people from the United States in the last decade. Now, that enforcement tool is crumbling. ...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/immigration/la-na-ff-immigration-holds-20141005-story.html