CV NEWS FEED // The Biden White House this week said it wants law enforcement in “sanctuary” jurisdictions to refer criminal migrants over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for possible deportation.
“When a local jurisdiction has information about an individual who could pose a threat to public safety, we want them to share that information with ICE,” a spokesperson for the White House told FOX News Wednesday.
FOX White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich said that this new rhetoric represents a “big shift” from when Biden first ran for president.
“As a candidate in 2020, Biden answered ‘no’ when asked if undocumented immigrants arrested by local police should be turned over to immigration officials,” Heinrich wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
FOX explained that sanctuary cities “either limit or outright forbid law enforcement from honoring ICE detainers, which are requests from the agency that ICE be notified ahead of their release from state custody and allowed to transfer illegal immigrant criminals into custody.”
The illegal immigrant who murdered University of Georgia student Laken Riley last week was reportedly arrested in New York City – a sanctuary city – in August of last year. He was “cut loose before immigration officials could file a request to ask local cops to hold him in custody,” The New York Post reported.
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In addition, The Daily Wire reported that a “group of violent illegal aliens viciously beat two New York City Police Department officers late [January] and were later released due to the city’s Democrat sanctuary city policies.”
“After they were released from custody, they flipped off reporters while smirking,” the Daily Wire noted. The “illegal aliens then fled the state and were on their way to California when they were stopped and arrested by federal authorities in Arizona.”
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Sources cite this incident as a possible reason for New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ recent call for modifications to the Big Apple’s sanctuary city policy.
“We should not be allowing people who are repeatedly committing crimes to remain here,” Adams stated Monday. “If you commit a felony, a violent act, we should be able to turn you over to ICE and have you deported.”
