A new directive released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials calls for targeting criminal aliens in courthouses anywhere in the U.S.
Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan signed the order on January 10.
“Federal, state, and local law enforcement officials routinely engage in enforcement activity in courthouses throughout the country because many individuals appearing in courthouses for one matter are wanted for unrelated criminal or civil violations,” Director Homan wrote in the police directive. “ICE’s enforcement activities in these same courthouses are wholly consistent with longstanding law enforcement practices, nationwide, and courthouse arrests are often necessitated by the unwillingness of jurisdictions to cooperate with ICE in the transfer of custody of aliens from their prisons and jails.”
Refusal by officials in sanctuary jurisdictions puts officers in danger.
“The State of California wants to put politics ahead of public safety,” Homan stated. “What they’ve done is force my officers to arrest dangerous criminals on their turf — in their homes and their place of business — rather than arresting them in the safety and security of a county jail.”
The director said the sanctuary policies of California and other jurisdictions put officers and the public at risk. “When you release a public safety threat back into the public, it’s a foolish decision.”
Homan threatened to have officials in sanctuary jurisdictions charged with violating federal law.
“I think we charge some of these sanctuary cities with violating federal law,” Homan continued, saying the DOJ needs to “hold these politicians personally accountable. More citizens are going to die because of these policies. These politicians can’t make these decisions and be held unaccountable for people dying.”
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/02/02/ice-chief-orders-agents-target-criminal-aliens-visiting-courthouses/
