Pirate's Cove

There’s some teeth gnashing going on amongst the illegal alien supporters in the Los Angeles area, particularly those who make sure that the illegal criminals stay far away from their fancy-pants homes

L.A. County jails are handing inmates over to ICE for the first time in years

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has resumed transferring jail inmates to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the first time in years, despite local sanctuary policies that aim to shield people from deportation.

Eight inmates were released to ICE in May and a dozen more in June, according to sheriff’s department records reviewed by The Times. Eleven are Mexican, six are Guatemalan, and one each is from Colombia, El Salvador and Honduras. Their ages ranged from 19 to 63 years old.

The transfers to ICE are the first by the sheriff’s department since early 2020, when records show 43 people were sent to federal immigration custody from sheriff’s stations, jails and courts. That marked a steep decline from the 457 handed over in 2019, during President Trump’s first term.

The sheriff’s department and legal experts say the recent transfers were lawful and conducted in accordance with sanctuary policies and ordinances approved in recent years by the state, L.A. County and cities including Los Angeles, Long Beach and West Hollywood.

The LASD received warrants signed by federal judges, and, really, had no option but to hand the criminal illegals over.

Sanctuary laws generally forbid local authorities from enforcing civil immigration laws, but there are exceptions for cases that involve criminal offenses. The recent transfers, the sheriff’s department said, involved warrants for illegally reentering the country after having been previously deported, a federal crime that can carry a multiyear prison sentence.

Is that what they were being held for? Does anyone think that the LASD or LAPD arrested and detained these illegals over that? Or, for something else criminal, and then realized they were illegally present, and someone contacted ICE (when they are not supposed to) or ICE saw the arrest reports?

On the other side of the country in a different sanctuary city

Immigrants File Class-Action Lawsuit to Stop ICE Courthouse Arrests

A coalition of legal groups representing immigrants filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration on Wednesday, arguing that the federal government’s campaign to arrest people at immigration courthouses so that they can be swiftly deported is unlawful and violates due process protections.

The lawsuit, filed by Democracy Forward and three other legal organizations on behalf of 12 immigrants, aims to stop the arrests at immigration courts, a contentious tactic that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency began using in May to increase deportations nationwide.

So, they want to stop ICE from picking up illegals in a safe location as the illegals go to court for….to quote Excitable Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson…(wait for it)…. breaking the law? They don’t want illegals picked up in the streets, at schools, churches, shopping malls, restaurants, or their homes, and now court houses, so, where can they pick them up? Oh, right, they do not want them detained and deported no matter what, even if they are a child rapist.

The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Justice, which oversees the immigration courts; the Department of Homeland Security; and ICE. Several officials at federal agencies also were sued.

The plaintiffs include 12 immigrants, identified only by pseudonyms, from Cuba, Ecuador, Guinea, Venezuela and elsewhere. Many had entered the country without authorization from 2021 to 2024 and had applied for asylum. They were arrested when they showed up at courthouses this year. Most are in detention — in New York, Pennsylvania and Texas — and fear persecution in their home countries, the lawsuit said.

Well, we know that whatever crazy liberal judge gets this they’ll rule in favor of the illegals, and probably try the nationwide injunction thing, despite what the Supreme Court said, and then the judge will be smacked down, either by a courts of appeal or SCOTUS.