I got a Judicial Watch email today that some wild-ass figures in it on the number of criminal – criminal – illegal aliens released in just two states since this past January.
Couldn’t believe the numbers.
Two Sanctuary States Release Nearly 9,000 Criminal Aliens with ICE Detainers Since January – https://t.co/A82WEdWLku
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) December 15, 2025
It is just mind-blowing to me. The criminal disregard for their citizens’ safety, to the rule of law, and for the oath of office those elected officials took to protect the same.
7000 criminal aliens were released in New York state alone.
…In New York the crimes committed by illegal aliens released since the end of January include 29 homicides, 2,509 assaults, 199 burglaries, 305 robberies, 392 dangerous drugs offenses, 300 weapons offenses, and 207 sexual predatory offenses. Among those freed is a Turkish Known or Suspected Terrorist (KST) named Selman Cevik who was let go after being jailed for first degree menacing and harassment, a rapist, Huseyin Aslan, also charged with assault and criminal contempt, and two gang members with convictions or charges for assault, criminal possession of a weapon and robbery. The list is extensive and, alarmingly, the released criminal aliens have been replaced with new ones, according to DHS, which reveals that currently there are 7,113 criminal aliens in custody in New York jails with an active ICE detainer. Their crimes include 148 homicides, 717 assaults, 134 burglaries, 106 robberies, 235 dangerous drugs offenses, 152 weapons offenses, and 260 sexual predatory offenses. New York Attorney General Letitia James and her fellow “sanctuary politicians are releasing murderers, terrorists, and sexual predators back into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk,” said DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Tricia McLaughlin.
The same thing is going on in Illinois where Governor JB Pritzker’s statewide sanctuary policies have released 1,768 criminal illegal aliens since January 20 rather than turn them over to ICE for removal. The crimes of these aliens include five homicides, 141 assaults, 23 burglaries, 4 robberies, 24 dangerous drugs offenses, 15 weapons offenses, and 10 sexual predatory offenses. Among them is Mexican Victor Manuel Mendoza-Garcia convicted of three counts of aggravated kidnapping/ransom and sentenced to 18 years by a Cook County Court, Mexican Amilcar Waldo Gonzalez-Jimenez, convicted of driving under the influence, domestic battery and criminal sexual assault and Mexican Jaime Mandujano-Nunez sentenced to 17 years imprisonment after a 2012 conviction for predatory criminal sex assault of a child in Cook County. DHS reveals that there are currently 4,015 illegal immigrants in the custody of an Illinois jurisdiction with an active ICE detainer. The crimes of these aliens include 51 homicides, 1,134 assaults, 107 burglaries, 36 robberies, 275 dangerous drugs offenses, 120 weapons offenses, and 813 sexual predatory offenses. “We are calling on Governor Pritzker and his administration to stop this dangerous derangement and commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more than 4,000 criminal illegal aliens in Illinois’ custody,” said McLaughlin, pointing out that criminal illegal aliens should not be released back into our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans.
Rhode Island police ignored an ICE detainer earlier this past August. Luckily, the agency knew about it and was waiting when the illegal charged with sex crimes sauntered out of the police station, thinking he was free as a bird.
An illegal immigrant charged with child sex crimes would have been back “in the community” if ICE hadn’t been stationed outside the police department when he was released, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons says. pic.twitter.com/1sDLtADOPW
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 10, 2025
By the 11th of this month, ICE was announcing they’d captured their 10,000th criminal alien in California. That’s only one state and only one city – Los Angeles. Most had lengthy criminal records and had been released time and again, with every ICE detainer ignored.
Good Lord.
DHS officials announced the milestone of 10,000 criminal aliens being arrested in the sanctuary city of Los Angeles. These include many violent criminal aliens, including a woman who had 14 previous convictions. Others arrested include illegal aliens with charges or convictions for murder, drug dealing, sexual offenses, and other criminal offenses.
Immigration enforcement teams surged in Los Angeles this week and arrested multiple criminal aliens who made the DHS “Worst of the Worst” list. The arrests included a repeat offender from Mexico with 14 prior convictions who California’s sanctuary laws had shielded. DHS officials say the continuing sweeps expose how sanctuary policies protect violent criminals until federal agents intervene.
Sanctuaries like California RELEASE criminal illegal aliens back onto the streets to victimize more innocent Americans. For example, ICE arrested Ana Lizbeth Lopez-De Reyes who has FOURTEEN CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS including cruelty toward a child, burglary, fraud, and hit-and-run. We are calling on sanctuary politicians to stop this madness and turn criminals over to ICE,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin (Emphasis from DHS included). “Other criminal illegal aliens arrested yesterday include pedophiles, abusers, and other violent thugs.
The numbers are staggering, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) isn’t making up these arrest records – they’re all easily searchable because they’re bona fide.
It looks like the porcine Pritzker running Illinois is protecting another 4000 or so alien criminals in his state. ICE has asked for them politely.
A lot of good that will do, I guess. He’d rather have them rampaging through his residents and living off their taxdollars.
🚨FIRST ON LOTT: ICE just sent a letter to Sanctuary State Illinois’ AG DEMANDING they hand over the more than 4,000 illegals in their custody.
Illinois has RELEASED more than 1,700 criminal illegals from prison back into our communities.
Here are some of the worst of the… pic.twitter.com/VPoXTMfeG0
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 8, 2025
I just can’t get over the sheer volume of criminals. We have enough homegrown ones – Lord knows we don’t need imported ones who also cost us for their upkeep.
What a way to get Trump, huh?
“The sanctuary state of Illinois has released almost 1,800 illegal aliens, charged with crimes such as murder, assault, burglary, robbery, and sex crimes, back into communities since President Donald Trump took office in late January, new data reveals.”https://t.co/6v37yHrNrT pic.twitter.com/V7lCTy3ppo
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) December 9, 2025
Willfully endangering your own citizens not with one or two bad guys, but with hordes of them?
It doesn’t help that activist federal judges have decided that ICE detainer requests are simply that – a request. Some have even found a sheriff’s department in violation of the Constitution for honoring one.
That’s how crazy this has gotten.
…Immigration detainers are not warrants or court orders. In fact, these detainers are not issued or even approved of by judges. Instead, they are unsworn documents that may be issued by a wide variety of immigration enforcement agents and deportation officers.[3] They are frequently issued without even a supervisor’s review. Therefore, these detainers often do not even represent a finding of a person’s immigration status nor do they provide any proof that the person is even deportable.
Recent decisions by federal judges in Oregon, Rhode Island and the Third Circuit have concluded that immigration detainers are merely requests and do not meet the required evidentiary standards to satisfy a government initiated seizure. The decisions make two things clear: (1) I-247 immigration detainers are requests, and therefore pose no legal obligation that sheriffs must comply with, and (2) local sheriffs who decide to honor these requests, do so at his or her own peril.
Miranda-Olivares v. Clackamas County (D. Ore. Apr. 11, 2014)In Clackamas County[4], a federal district court in Oregon held that a county violated the Fourth Amendment when its jail held the plaintiff in custody solely on the basis of an immigration detainer. The plaintiff was arrested for violation of a restraining order, and ICE issued a detainer the following day. Bail was set at $500, but jail officials on multiple occasions informed family members that posting bail would not result in release, because even after bail was posted, the jail would keep Ms. Miranda-Olivares in custody pursuant to the immigration detainer. After two weeks, she pleaded guilty to the state charge and was sentenced to time served. Because of the immigration detainer, the jail kept her in custody an additional 19 hours, until ICE assumed custody. The plaintiff argued that the county was legally liable for unjustifiably depriving her of liberty, solely on the basis of the immigration detainer, when it 1) denied her release on bail and 2) denied her immediate release after she resolved her state court case.
This is really something, simply gobsmacking what’s been running loose in this country thanks purely to blue state progressives.
I don’t think it, the sheer numbers, get enough attention.
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