A Town Near You? ICE Reveals Locations of Convicted Murderers It Freed
Blue Squares: Final Book Out Detention Center for the Releases (Not all locations are exact)
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First, it must be noted that the original ICE document enumerating the 36,007 releases indicates that the count of criminal aliens with homicide convictions is 193, not 169. It is not clear why ICE did not provide information to Sen. Grassley on all 193 homicide-conviction releases.
ICE states that 154 of the 169 aliens with homicide-related convictions were freed because of a court order, leaving nine releases that were at ICE’s discretion. This contradicts an earlier ICE statement saying that about one-fourth of the releases (or about 48) were discretionary.
Some of the court-ordered releases are the so-called Zadvydas cases, where ICE must release or anticipates being ordered to release an alien because the alien’s country refuses to cooperate in the deportation process. Others are likely the result of a Ninth Circuit ruling allowing for bond hearings for aliens whose detention lasts for six months.
ICE says that the discretionary releases were due to “eligibility for bond” or “deteriorated health or advanced age”, without providing details or numbers.
ICE does not specify how many, if any, of the homicide convicts have been removed from the country. It states that only 131 have been issued a final order of removal, and that one of the freed convicts was granted voluntary departure. That individual is the only one that ICE says has left the country. This gives the impression that the rest of the homicide convicts who were freed are still at large somewhere in the United States.
ICE’s response follows on an internal audit report on ICE’s botched case management that resulted in the release of 2,226 detainees in February 2013. Most of those releases occurred in Texas and Arizona.
The following is a listing of the cities and towns associated with the freed aliens with homicide-related convictions in 2013, which are shown in red on the map. ICE also provided a list of the detention centers from which the aliens were released, which are shown in blue on the map.
Alaska (2) | |||||
Anchorage | 2 | ||||
Arizona (3) | |||||
Phoenix | 1 | ||||
Buckeye | 1 | ||||
Tucson | 1 | ||||
California (48) | |||||
Los Angeles | 6 | ||||
Pomona | 3 | ||||
San Jose | 3 | ||||
Glendale | 2 | ||||
Sacramento | 2 | ||||
Beverly Hills | 1 | ||||
Huntington Park | 1 | ||||
San Pedro | 1 | ||||
Montrose | 1 | ||||
Pacoima | 1 | ||||
Reseda | 1 | ||||
Burbank | 1 | ||||
N. Hollywood | 1 | ||||
Chino Hills | 1 | ||||
S. El Monte | 1 | ||||
La Puenta | 1 | ||||
Rosemead | 1 | ||||
Oceanside | 1 | ||||
Vista | 1 | ||||
Adelanto | 1 | ||||
Murrieta | 1 | ||||
Irvine | 1 | ||||
Westminster | 1 | ||||
Anaheim | 1 | ||||
Fullerton | 1 | ||||
Garden Grove | 1 | ||||
Corona | 1 | ||||
Oxnard | 1 | ||||
Batton Willow | 1 | ||||
Fresno | 1 | ||||
San Francisco | 1 | ||||
Antioch | 1 | ||||
Hayward | 1 | ||||
Emeryville | 1 | ||||
Stockton | 1 | ||||
Rancho Cordova | 1 | ||||
Tahoe City | 1 | ||||
Florida (23) | |||||
Miami | 7 | ||||
Hialeah | 3 | ||||
Homestead | 2 | ||||
Lake Worth | 2 | ||||
Tallahassee | 1 | ||||
Oviedo | 1 | ||||
Pembroke Pines | 1 | ||||
Opa-locka | 1 | ||||
Ft. Lauderdale | 1 | ||||
W. Palm Beach | 1 | ||||
Delray Beach | 1 | ||||
St. Petersburg | 1 | ||||
Naples | 1 | ||||
Georgia (7) | |||||
Atlanta | 3 | ||||
Lawrenceville | 1 | ||||
Norcross | 1 | ||||
Mableton | 1 | ||||
Newnan | 1 | ||||
Illinois (2) | |||||
Plainfield | 1 | ||||
Springfield | 1 | ||||
Iowa (2) | |||||
Des Moines | 1 | ||||
Sioux City | 1 | ||||
Kentucky (1) | |||||
Louisville | 1 | ||||
Louisiana (2) | |||||
Kenner | 1 | ||||
Baton Rouge | 1 | ||||
Maryland (1) | |||||
Owings Mills | 1 | ||||
Michigan (1) | |||||
Pontiac | 1 | ||||
Minnesota (5) | |||||
Minneapolis | 2 | ||||
St. Paul | 1 | ||||
Mankato | 1 | ||||
Willmar | 1 | ||||
Nevada (2) | |||||
Reno | 2 | ||||
New York (15) | |||||
Bronx | 5 | ||||
Brooklyn | 3 | ||||
Manhattan | 2 | ||||
Staten Island | 1 | ||||
Ridgewood | 1 | ||||
Queens Village | 1 | ||||
Jamaica | 1 | ||||
Syracuse | 1 | ||||
North Carolina (4) | |||||
Charlotte | 2 | ||||
Durham | 1 | ||||
Wingate | 1 | ||||
Ohio (2) | |||||
Columbus | 1 | ||||
N. Olmsted | 1 | ||||
Oklahoma (1) | |||||
Gate | 1 | ||||
Oregon (2) | |||||
Fairview | 1 | ||||
Portland | 1 | ||||
Pennsylvania (3) | |||||
Sharon | 1 | ||||
Allentown | 1 | ||||
Philadelphia | 1 | ||||
Texas (4) | |||||
Houston | 2 | ||||
Cypress | 1 | ||||
Katy | 1 | ||||
Virginia (2) | |||||
Alexandria | 2 | ||||
Washington (1) | |||||
Seattle | 1 | ||||
Wisconsin (1) | |||||
Milwaukee | 1 | ||||
Total | 134 |
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