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Laura IngrahamonX / Twitter1d ago
🚨 18,000 CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS WERE RELEASED FROM PRISON LAST YEAR 🚨
@SenEricSchmitt : “There were 18,000 criminal illegal aliens released from prison just last year in sanctuary jurisdictions.”
“Those jurisdictions run by Democrats don't wanna tell ICE to come and get them and deport them.”
“That's crazy.”
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Accuracy92%
Framing35%
Context70%
Tone25%
Analysis Summary
In 2025, sanctuary jurisdictions refused to honor nearly 18,000 ICE detainer requests for people arrested on criminal charges — an accurate statistic cited by DHS leadership. However, the post conflates a factual policy dispute (whether local resources should be used for federal immigration enforcement) with deliberate malice toward deporting criminals. The framing uses alarm graphics and loaded language to suggest sanctuary officials actively want criminals released, when the documented debate is actually about resource allocation and constitutional federalism. The post omits that ICE retains full legal authority to arrest these individuals and does so — the difference is efficiency, not obstruction.
Claims Analysis (3)
“18,000 criminal illegal aliens were released from prison last year”
DHS Secretary Noem revealed that in 2025, sanctuary jurisdictions refused to honor 17,864 detainers on illegal aliens that had been arrested for local crimes. The 18,000 figure (rounded) matches multiple sources citing the same 2025 data.
“These were criminal illegal aliens released from sanctuary jurisdictions”
ICE detainers are requests to local law enforcement that federal agents be notified when an illegal alien is to be released from custody. The goal is to ensure that agents can arrest an illegal alien in the safety of a jail rather than on the streets of American communities. The individuals were arrested for crimes and held in custody before being released by jurisdictions that refused ICE detainer requests.
“Democrat-run sanctuary jurisdictions don't cooperate with ICE on deportation”
The figure shows the extent to which sanctuary jurisdictions, particularly sanctuary states like California, New York, and Illinois, are working to shield illegal aliens from federal immigration law. However, the description of their motivation as deliberate obstruction (not wanting ICE to come) conflates policy with animus. These jurisdictions don't hide anyone from federal agents or block deportations. They draw a line around local tax dollars and local personnel, declining to volunteer those resources for federal immigration operations.
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