The number of people transferred from jails to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement dropped from more than 1,100 five years ago to 18 inmates last year
Immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday pressed the county’s sheriff and Board of Supervisors to end the practice of releasing county inmates to federal immigration officials or notifying them when someone is about to get out of jail.
The Sheriff’s Department can comply with ICE requests if the inmate meets specific circumstances — including whether the inmate has been convicted of certain serious or violent felonies, such as child molestation or abuse, in the last 15 years. Ray acknowledged the heartbreak. He also pointed out that there are the victims. Of the 18 people transferred to ICE last year, one was jailed for molesting a child under the age of 14, and another had committed domestic violence causing injury. Eight had been jailed for drug-sales-related charges, including two who had narcotics such as cocaine or opiates.
According data Ray shared at the meeting, the department transferred 1,143 inmates to ICE in 2017. The number of transfers dropped to 266 inmates the following year in 2018, and rose by five in 2019. The department has made changes. For example, over the last five years, it stopped posting an inmate’s release date online — where ICE agents could see it and be waiting for the person outside their home. The department’s also posts onlineBefore the forum, about 50 activists rallied outside the County Administration Building.
“The way he came back was in a body bag,” said Alvarez-Lopez, now a single mother. “He died in Tijuana where he didn’t have his family — his family is here in San Diego. That moment when I think of having to tell my daughter that her dad was dead, because of this whole process, this whole system that was really not meant to support our community… I can’t really describe in words that moment, because it obviously was so painful and deep.
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