Almost 24,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges have been released into communities since Jan. 20, 2025, due to California’s refusal to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.
“There are more than 81,000 criminal charges or convictions associated with these non-honored detainers,” the DHS said in a Nov. 2 statement.
This includes 3,295 burglaries, 1,097 assaults, 1,088 drug trafficking charges, 169 homicides, and 147 sexual assaults.
An ICE detainer asks a law enforcement agency to notify ICE before releasing a removable illegal immigrant from any prison or confinement facility, or to hold an illegal immigrant up to 48 hours past their scheduled release so DHS has time to take custody of the individual. …