DHS claimed this week that New York has refused to honor more than 16,000 ICE detainers asking the Empire State to turn criminal aliens in its custody over to the agency for removal since the start of the second Trump administration. Tune out claims that Trump II is snatching up “otherwise law-abiding” aliens: the logical reason for this “sanctuary” intransigence is that, traditionally, the vast majority of ICE interior arrests have been “custodial” ones, from jails, detention facilities, and prisons — except, ironically, under the Biden administration. So, New York politicos who don’t think anyone should be deported, even public safety threats, are keeping ICE officers out of their prisons and jails. Here are the facts.
‘Interior Arrests’
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