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Fox News
a day ago
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ICE detainers in top sanctuary city have skyrocketed under Trump compared to Biden's 4-year term: DHS
FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released numbers on Wednesday showing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already issued 400% more detainers on illegal immigrants in sanctuary city of New York than former President Joe Biden did during his entire term. The data shows that ICE has issued 6,025 arrest requests to transfer custody or detainers since Trump took office in January. DHS says that during Biden's entire presidency, he issued just 9,472 detainers in New York City. Despite the surge in ICE detainers, the department says that New York City has honored only a "handful" of the requests. "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," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital in a statement. "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," she continued." 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 for violent crimes and released by the NYPD." The department also pointed to the "record number of assaults" that ICE officers are facing as they continue to carry out Trump's deportation agenda amid strong pushback from elected Democrats, some of whom have compared agents to Nazis. Assaults on ICE agents are up 830% since Trump took office, according to DHS, and the department said in the press release Wednesday that the violence is "largely driven" by anti-ICE rhetoric and sanctuary policies. New York City's sanctuary immigration policies catapulted to the forefront of the national conversation over the weekend when an off-duty border patrol officer was shot in the face by a man government officials say is an illegal immigrant. The alleged assailant, Dominican national Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, was caught by Border Patrol in April 2023 during the Biden administration and released into the United States. The incident comes two months after a Fox News Digital report found a high number of migrants committing thefts, assaults and drug crimes, as well as grand larceny incidents and sex crimes. According to the data, 3,219 migrants living in 48 shelters across the city were arrested a total of 4,884 times between Jan. 1, 2023 and Oct. 31, 2024.
Daily Mail
2 days ago
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- Daily Mail
Southern metropolis announces it is no longer a sanctuary city as it unveils tough new anti-migrant measures
The Democrat mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, announced that the city will change some of its immigration policies, making it no longer a sanctuary city. Mayor Craig Greenberg announced on Tuesday that the city will reinstate a policy requiring ICE to receive 48 hours' notice before inmates with immigration detainers are released from jail, reported WAVE. The policy requires that inmates booked at Louisville Metro Corrections be fingerprinted and entered into a federal database accessible by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. If Homeland Security informs Metro Corrections that an inmate has a detainer, the jail will provide immigration with a 48-hour notice before the inmate is released. The city had a 48-hour policy until 2017, but had reduced it to a 5 to 12-hour window, which landed them in hot water with the federal government, according to Greenberg. The mayor said he received a letter from the Department of Justice in June saying that Louisville was violating federal law and is listed as a sanctuary city. 'Louisville stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants if we remain classified as a sanctuary city,' the mayor said. 'Many of those funds are used to provide food, rental assistance, and medical care to our most vulnerable residents. I will not risk hurting them either.' He explained that Louisville was the only city in the state not complying with the 48-hour immigration policy, and he believed the reversal would ultimately benefit immigrants. 'This change in designation is critical. Cities on the sanctuary city list right now are experiencing a terrifying increase in raids by ICE, including mass raids. Just look at what's gone on in LA and other cities across the country,' Greenberg said. 'We have tens of thousands of immigrant families in Louisville. We do not want to see highly coordinated and often violent federal enforcement action here, especially in workplaces, residential areas, schools, places of worship, parks and other areas where law-abiding people gather. 'We do not want the National Guard occupying the streets of Louisville. I will not risk the safety of our broader immigrant community.' The mayor claimed that fewer than 100 inmates in the jail each year are charged with crimes and impacted by the detainer. 'I have been assured by the U.S. Department of Justice that, if we reinstate the 48-hour detainers for inmates who've been arrested for crimes, Louisville will be taken off the federal sanctuary city list,' Greenberg said. 'Accordingly, Metro Corrections will begin honoring 48-hour federal detainers as soon as practical because the stakes are too high.' Attorney General Pam Bondi praised Greenberg's decision and called it a 'major victory for the Department of Justice.' 'In a major victory for the Department of Justice, the city of Louisville is dropping its sanctuary city policies as a result of a strong written warning from my office,' Bondi said on X. 'This should set an example to other cities. Instead of forcing us to sue you — which we will, without hesitation — follow the law, get rid of sanctuary policies, and work with us to fix the illegal immigration crisis.'
CNN
2 days ago
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- CNN
CNN's Brianna Keilar presses Letitia James after a border patrol agent was shot by an undocumented immigrant in NYC
New York State Attorney General Letitia James tells CNN's Brianna Keilar the state's policy is to 'cooperate with ICE agents' looking for individuals with criminal convictions but asserts that the 'kidnapping of innocent individuals' by the government agents is also taking place. James' comments come after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's criticism that New York City's 'sanctuary city policies' were to blame for the shooting of an off-duty US Customs and Border Protection officer in an apparent robbery gone wrong.
Fox News
2 days ago
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WATCH LIVE: Trump's promise hits Capitol Hill: Senate targets ‘criminal aliens' in sweeping security push
A Senate panel tackles the threat of criminal illegal immigrants—just days after a Border Patrol agent was shot in sanctuary city NYC by a suspect who slipped in under Biden.
Fox News
2 days ago
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Louisville mayor shifts city's immigration policy after legal threat from DOJ
NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, informed the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday that he is shifting the city's more restrictive policy on federal immigration detainers after the government warned it would sue over it. Mayor Craig Greenberg, a Democrat, wrote in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital that the policy change was partly to avoid being targeted as a "sanctuary" city, a term used to describe jurisdictions with policies at odds with federal immigration enforcement. "My understanding is that, by returning to our pre-2017 practices and again honoring 48-hour detainers, thereby functionally extending the notice period to DHS from 5-12 hours to 48 hours, Louisville will no longer be considered a sanctuary jurisdiction and, as a result, will no longer be vulnerable to the negative consequences of this designation," Greenberg wrote to Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate. "The city will, therefore, adjust its detainer policy to avoid litigation over DOJ's allegations of federal preemption." DOJ SUES NEW YORK FOR SANCTUARY POLICY 'UNDERMINING IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT' The mayor's reversal comes after the DOJ warned in a letter last month that Louisville's detainer policy hindered the Trump administration's ability to crack down on immigration there. The DOJ told Greenberg non-compliant states and cities have faced legal action and freezes on federal funding. READ GREENBERG'S LETTER BELOW. APP USERS: CLICK HERE Detainer policies are one of the most common reasons that cities become designated as sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses detainer forms to notify jails that federal authorities have identified a possible illegal immigrant in local custody that ICE wants to detain. Sanctuary jurisdictions have policies in place to ignore those notices. In the case of Louisville, the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections was not honoring the 48-hour period ICE requested to hold suspects, thereby releasing the suspects from custody before ICE could arrest them. The revelation of Louisville's policy shift comes after Attorney General Pam Bondi mentioned Tuesday morning in an X post that the city was "dropping its sanctuary city policies," though she did not mention details. TWO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CONNECTED TO CBP AGENT SHOOTING ENTERED US ILLEGALLY UNDER BIDEN CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "This should set an example to other cities," Bondi said. "Instead of forcing us to sue you — which we will, without hesitation — follow the law, get rid of sanctuary policies, and work with us to fix the illegal immigration crisis." The DOJ has also brought immigration-related lawsuits in New York, Chicago, Colorado and elsewhere, though judges have not weighed in on the merits of the government's arguments at this stage of litigation.
