Art Arthur

We have their photographs.

We have their demographic information.

In addition, another 5 million individuals were, you know, haunted the southwest border and were released into the United States.

Those individuals were also photographed, were also fingerprinted, and officers and agents found out where they were headed in the United States once they were released.

Now, a lot of that information isn't accurate because a lot of those people didn't tell immigration the truth, but...

With those fingerprints, with those photographs, and with the names and dates of birth of those individuals, ICE is able to compile a database of people that it is looking for.

Then, anytime anyone is arrested in the United States and fingerprinted, those fingerprints go to the FBI, and the FBI sends those fingerprints to what's called the Law Enforcement Support Center in Burlington, Vermont.

In real time,

The LESC checks all of those fingerprints against its database of aliens that are known to be in the United States.

That's how ICE is able to send out all of those detainers for people who are being held in county jails in Dubuque or state prisons in Montana.

They know who those people are in real time.

At that point, ICE will issue a detainer for those people.

And most local sheriffs, most state systems want to get their criminals off the street.

They want to honor those detainers.

But you talked about sanctuary jurisdictions.

And all of California, thanks to Senate Bill 54, SB 54, is a sanctuary state.

They won't hand those people over to immigration.

Big places like New York and New Jersey, Maryland and Minnesota, they're sanctuaries, too.

So, you know, they will slow walk those detainer requests.

They won't respond at all.