The states have policies prohibiting local jurisdictions, including jails and prisons, from complying with ICE detainer requests. ICE has lodged thousands of detainer requests with jurisdictions where illegal foreign nationals are already in custody after they’ve been charged with crimes in order to transfer them into federal custody. ICE officers are making the request because they already have orders from federal immigration judges to apprehend criminal foreign nationals, take them into custody, and process them for removal. Illinois and New York replied to Lyons initial communications that they won’t honor ICE detainers requests; California did not respond, DHS said. DHS has cited examples of violent offenders being released onto the streets in California, Illinois and New York, with the majority being Mexican nationals.