Last week, ICE officials picked up a suspected Venezuelan gang member on his release from NorCo's jail after serving a misdemeanor sentence of 3-6 months for a sexual offense related to a person under 16. This Venezuelan is in this country illegally and is subject to deportation. According to The Morning Call, an ICE news release claimed that an immigration detainer, which is essentially a request that they be notified 48 hours before someone is released, was ignored.
Executive Lamont McClure explained at last night's NorCo County Council meeting last night what actually happened. "I believe that an undocumented person who also commits crimes, if ICE wants them, to deport them, they should be able to deport them. He said the county devised a procedure in which it will hold an undocumented immigrant for 48 hours after the sentence is served to give ICE an opportunity to determine if they want to take an undocumented criminal. The county will hold the immigrant an additional further 48 hours if ICE obtains a warrant signed by a federal magistrate. "If they don't have that, they are released at the date and time they're released, and ICE can pick them up on the corner." He added that "people who are here unlawfully and commit crimes should be deported, but there are also constitutional limitations."
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