Before immigration raids in LA, CA prisons helped with ice with the best goals- calm

From Wendy Fry and Byrhonda LyonsCalmness

This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

Following the release of immigration breaks that have caused weeks in Los Angeles, the Trump administration damaged California policies to protect those who have described as “the worst of the worst”, which means that immigrants convicted of crimes with violence.

“Why do governor Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass care more about violent killers and sexual criminals than to protect their own citizens?” said the Secretary of the Ministry of Homeland Security Trisia McClaplin in a News News announcement group of LA detaineesS

However, the records and analysis of Calmatters show that the state has previously coordinated with immigration and application of customs trying to hand over two of the best goals to the LA agency: Roland E. Veneration-Enriquez And Kuon Chan Fan, both had served time in state prisons for violations of violence.

This collaboration undercuts the characteristics of the Trump administration why a large -scale immigration repression in the second largest city in the country has begun.

Chan Fan, who had served time after conviction for murder, was released directly in ICE in 2022, records show.

As for Veneracion, the staff of the State Prison in May told ICE about the forthcoming release of the prisoner, but the feders did not raise him. Instead, the convicted sexual criminal was released and the icy arrests in Los Angeles were tried two weeks later.

California is the so -called Sanctuary It is not applied to unauthorized immigrants convicted of serious crimes, and state prisons have handed over over 9,000 people with these origins on ice after governor Gavin Newo has taken office in 2019, state data show. The same rules apply to the district prisons where Sheriffs sometimes complain that ice fails to take people who believe they should be deported to Compliance with the Sanctuary ActS

In these cases, prison or prison staff interact with federal immigration authorities before the release of someone.

Four others on the list “The Bigant of the Belore” had served time in prisons in Los Angeles and Orange County, according to the Ministry of Homeland Security. Officials in these prisons said they did not know if Sheriff’s MPs were in communication with ICE for these men before their release.

The best Trump employees have repeatedly said they are aimed at “criminal illegal aliens” but an immigrant and Civil Rights Groups claim to have launched federal authorities An indiscriminate BLIC for application, which is the most workers working most of Latin American communities who are not threats to public safety.

Between June 6 and 22, immigration implementation teams arrested 1618 deportation immigrants to Los Angeles and the surrounding regions of southern California, the Ministry of Interior Security confirmed to CalMatters last week. During this time, masked agents have arrested car wash employees, farmers, US citizensand people who visit their Hearing an immigration courtS

Federal data obtained from the Cato Institute It shows 65% of people reserved in ice detention since October 2024, they have no penalty. More than 93% of the reserved have never been convicted of violence crimes, according to the Libertarian Research Center. Data shows that immigrants – including those who are undocumented – commit crimes in much lower percentages than citizens born in the United States.

Customs immigration and implementation officials did not answer questions from Calmatters about Veneracion and Chanh Phan’s arrests.

How do the ice holding

Ice retention – or “retaining immigration” – is a written request between prison or prison and federal immigration authorities to coordinate the release of the prison directly to immigration authorities, usually to start the deportation process.

Ice retention or retention is the main method of immigration authorities they use to find people to deport. Immigrant Legal Resources Center, a national non -profit purpose, which provides legal training and provides a prior policy in California and Texas, estimated in January, that 70 to 75% of the icy arrests in the interior of the United States were historical gears by another law enforcement agency, such as local prisons.

When a person enters the state prison system, the correction department is obliged to identify people who may be deported within 90 days and send an initial investigation to ice. Usually the ice will answer whether the person can be deported and, if so, issue a detention. Retention means that the ice will take the custody of the face when they are released.

Shortly before an individual is released, the staff of the state prison re -connect with ICE and inform them that the date of release of the person is approaching. The ice then decides whether they will lift the person or not.

So far, in 2025, ICE has taken 587 people out of 11,231 prisoners, released from the state prison system. They take about 87% of the people they have placed a detention, The status data showS

What do we know about ex -prisoners detained in LA

Veneracion-enriquez55, he was released from the California state prison in May after spending 28 years in prison for rape, according to the California Sex Criminal Database and the correction department. The correction department was ready to hand it on ice, but the day before its release, ICE canceled its detainee, civil servants confirmed in response to Calmatters questions.

During this month, the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation contacted ICE for the pending release of Veneracion, as required by law. Emails show that they have notified ICE that Veneracion will be released within 15 days. Usually, the Federal Immigration Agency prefers to keep criminals in a controlled location directly outside a state prison. But on May 19, Ice canceled power, according to civil servants. He was released a day later.

Veneracion was released and gave an ankle monitor to carry this, which broadcast its location to law enforcement agencies. His address was included in the register of sexual criminals. According to state records, his last registered address was in an apartment complex in Long Beach.

The immigration authorities then arrested Veneracion, a citizen of the Philippines, on June 7 during his regularly planned ice registration in the Los Angeles ice office. It is unclear if he was deported.

Chan Fan, the other former state prisoner, emphasized on the list of internal security department, “The Bigant of the Bigger”, was released directly to the ICE arrest in August 2022 during the Biden administration, according to the records of the correction department. It was conditional until August 14, 2024.

“The criminal illegal alien, arrested during an ice operation in Los Angeles, committed the notorious murder of gangs related to two teenagers of the prom,” is the title in the press release, the Ministry of Internal Security sent to publish his arrest on Chan Fan, 49. He had spent 24 years in prison for second -degree murder.

“This criminal illegal foreigner is the one that governor nuance, Mayor Bass and the rebels in Los Angeles are trying to protect against US citizens,” ” The Ministry of Interior Security wrote in the press releaseS

It is unclear what happened after California released it on ice, such as whether Chan Fan remained in ice retention or whether he was released from ice in Los Angeles and then arrested again last month. Calmatters has no details where or how Chanh Phan was arrested by ICE earlier this month.

NEWSOM veto changed to expand the Law on Sanctuary

California passed its law on the sanctuary during the first Trump administration. It aims to protect unauthorized immigrants accused of minor deportation disorders.

The law allows state corrections to continue to work with federal immigration agencies with respect to persons who are in the state arrest who face deportation after serving their sentences. It also allows local law enforcement officers to work with federals for persons convicted of serious or violent crimes, such as attacks, violence against children, crime and other crimes.

At the local level, at least one sheriff wants the ice to take more people.

In March, the Orange County sheriff made titles to complain that the ice had not lifted all the people he could. Sheriff Don Barnes told the Council of Orange District Supervisors that out of 48,000 suspects, booked in prison in 2024, 733 were deportable, but the law of the state’s sanctuary prevented MPs from alert ICE about 456 prisoners. Of the other 277, 49 were not taken by the federal authorities, Barnes told the council.

“Those who are not taken from ice continue to sacrifice our community and consume resources for law enforcement,” he told the District Council.

State legislators have tried to expand the protection of the sanctuary to people in prison. In 2019 And 2023, Newsom vetoed two bills that would limit the cooperation of the ICE adjustment department.

In the most veto he said that this law “strikes the correct balanceS “

NEWSOM has long positioned California as an immigrants’ bastion, often publicly confronted with federal officials in terms of deportation policy. But under his watch, the state facilitated thousands of transfers from the prison to the ice point, which he recently stressed back to social media with the Deputy Chief of Trump Staff Stephen Miller.

“Yes, we are looking for a sanctuary of your nonsense,” the Newsom press recently published, answering criticism from a former Trump assistant in April. “PS Voldermort, you need to know that the state has coordinated 10 588+ times with ice to remove dangerous criminals from the state since the governor Newsom took office.”

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