Sanctuary cities across the United States have protected tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens from federal immigration law, an expert witness told Congress on Wednesday.
In testimony to the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) President RJ Hauman said that from Oct. 1, 2022, to Feb. 6, 2025, sanctuary cities shielded more than 25,000 criminal illegal aliens by refusing to hand them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as requested.
“… in more than 1,400 instances the jails failed to give adequate notification to ICE to take custody of the aliens,” Hauman said of the figures, published by the Center for Immigration Studies.
More than half of those declined ICE detainers — some 52 percent
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