Denver Listed as Uncooperative by ICE in Weekly Report Ordered by Trump [View all]

When President Trump issued an executive order on January 25 threatening to pull federal funding from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, the order mentioned that the Department of Homeland Security would start publishing a weekly report calling out jurisdictions with jails that refuse to honor Immigration and Custom Enforcement “detainer requests," wherein ICE asks jails to hold suspected undocumented inmates for periods longer than 48 hours after their sentences end, allowing ICE to screen and possibly detain the individuals for deportation hearings.

This week, the Trump administration made good on its promise: DHS posted a report on its website purportedly showing all declined detainers between January 28 and February 3.

According to the report, 206 out of 3,083 detainer requests across the country that week were not honored, and they included jails in four counties in Colorado: Denver, Boulder, Jefferson and Weld.

The declined detainer from Denver County concerned an individual who was allegedly in jail for driving under the influence.

Read more: http://www.westword.com/news/in-report-ordered-by-donald-trump-ice-lists-denver-as-uncooperative-in-providing-detainer-requests-8895915