BY: Sam Dorman
March 31, 2017 9:40 am
The Department of Homeland Security added
the entire states of California and Connecticut to its list of U.S. jurisdictions that hinder cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in detaining illegal immigrants.
Both states had enacted legislation called "Trust Acts," allowing local law enforcement to ignore ICE's requests to detain certain illegal immigrants in custody. However, the legislation maintains that an illegal immigrant would be detained if the individual had a criminal past.
DHS listed the states in a report mandated under President Donald Trump's immigration executive order signed at the end of January. The order directed DHS to release weekly information on cities and counties in the United States that failed to comply with ICE detainers.
The Declined Detainer Outcome Report also includes a list of jurisdictions with policies that hindered cooperation with ICE detainers.
The list, composed of
150 jurisdictions, contained only two states. Many of the jurisdictions were counties, the majority of them from California or Washington, according to a report from the Washington Times.
Six of the ten jurisdictions that ICE named as those that "do not comply with detainers on a routine basis" came from California.
Los Angeles and New York City took the top two spots on that list.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/dhs-effectively-designates-california-and-connecticut-sanctuary-states/
