It could be 2014 rather than 2015. But the ICE Acting Deputy Director. Dan Ragsdale. sent a letter out to hundreds of political jurisdictions. law enforcement jurisdictions. and said to them: This ICE detainer order that you have been getting. that you have been complying with because it is an order. it is really not an order. It is just a suggestion. So we are not going to enforce that. and neither are we going to protect you if you are sued for detaining someone that ICE has put a detainer order on. They essentially said: We dont have your back at the Justice Department. even though the law directs that we do have. And so that brought about more sanctuary cities. more sanctuary jurisdictions. entire counties that have decided they are not going to cooperate with ICE. So when ICE sends an ICE detainer order to a sanctuary jurisdictionoften. a citytheir policy is: We arent going to turn this criminal over to ICE. We are going to turn him loose instead. Well. when they turn them loose instead. they do so by the tens of thousands.
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