Since the start of the Biden-Harris administration, sanctuary jurisdictions have protected more than 22,000 criminally illegal aliens from deportation, according to an analysis of federal data.
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) find From January 20, 2021 to July 15, 2024, sanctuary jurisdictions held more than 22,000 illegal aliens in the United States, despite attempts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to detain them. It is said that he helped the country avoid deportation from the country.
“Each denied detainee represents a criminal alien eligible for deportation who was released into the community and given the opportunity to prey on more victims,” CIS Investigations Director Jessica Vaughn reported. I am doing it.
The numbers reported by ICE also include detainees where law enforcement has refused to detain aliens.cases in which local law enforcement agencies did not give adequate notice to ICE of aliens' arrival before releasing them, and cases in which they released aliens early despite having detainees. [Emphasis added]
In President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' first year in office, sanctuary jurisdictions blocked 2,500 criminal illegal aliens from being turned over to ICE agents.
The following year, in 2022, the number of ICE detainees refused respect by sanctuary jurisdictions more than doubled to more than 5,700. This shows how the Biden-Harris administration has strengthened these policies across the United States.
In 2023, nearly 8,000 ICE detainees will not be honored by sanctuary jurisdictions, and nearly 6,000 detainees will not be honored so far this year.
The incoming Trump administration is likely to tackle this issue head-on, as former Attorney General Jeff Sessions did in 2017.
At the time, Sessions instituted a Department of Justice (DOJ) policy that blocked sanctuary jurisdictions from receiving Byrne JAG grants. As a result, some local governments have canceled their conservation policies.
By February 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously upheld Sessions' policy, ensuring that it was entirely within the Department of Justice's authority to set standards for federal grant applicants. .
After Biden and Harris became president in April 2021, Sessions' policy It's finished.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Please email jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
