1 in 10 inmates in Texas' Harris County Jail wanted by ICE, records show

One successful each 10 inmates held successful the Harris County Jail successful Texas has a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold, according to a Fox News unfastened records request.

An ICE hold, oregon detainer, is simply a announcement to section instrumentality enforcement that ICE intends to instrumentality the idiosyncratic into custody. The clasp besides requests accusation from section officials connected erstwhile the fishy volition beryllium released, and asks officers to clasp the fishy for up to 48 hours truthful that ICE whitethorn presume custody.

Currently, determination are 9,527 inmates successful the Harris County Jail, and 1,170 of those inmates person ICE holds, each of them costing taxpayers arsenic their cases spell done the tribunal system.

Fox News records uncover that, arsenic of September, determination are 174 ICE detainers linked to intersexual battle cases, much than fractional involving children nether 14.

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Forty-three percent of cases with ICE holds impact convulsive crimes arsenic classified by the FBI.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office connected July 6, 2018, successful Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Among them are 75 execution cases, 22 of them superior murder.

This includes the 2 amerciable migrants from Venezuela charged with superior murder, intersexual battle and kidnapping successful the decease of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, whose parent has been vocal astir blaming the Biden-Harris open borderline policy.

Osman Estanly Solorzano Sanchez, 32, is different fishy among these cases. According to ICE officials, Sanchez is an amerciable migrant from Honduras.

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Sanchez is accused of sidesplitting 27-year-old Ricardo Vega, a begetter of two, during a roadworthy rage incidental successful April. According to police, Vega called 911 earlier helium was shot, informing dispatchers helium was pursuing a roadworthy rage fishy who was equipped with a gun, and gave his licence and car description.

The Harris County Jail connected the banks of Buffalo Bayou connected March 20, 2019, successful Houston. (Brett Comer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Fox News spoke to his parent Victoria Garcia, who shared a photograph of her lad that she saved successful her telephone arsenic his interaction representation – capturing him successful a backwards chapeau and smiling. "It’s a telephone I volition ne'er person again," she said.

"He has a 9-year-old girl and a 5-year-old lad who present person to turn up without a dad," Garcia said. "And my daughter-in-law has to beryllium without her husband."

Garcia, a Mexican American whose parents immigrated to the United States, said she understands the value of migration and the pursuit of a amended life.

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"I get it, you know," Garcia said. "But they request to cognize who they're allowing to travel into our country, our state that we enactment each time for, that we wage taxes for. I didn't inquire for this. Ricardo didn't inquire to beryllium killed. I didn't inquire for my lad to beryllium murdered. It's a determination that Osman, an amerciable from Honduras, that decided to instrumentality upon himself."

An ICE cause monitors hundreds of asylum seekers being processed upon entering the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building connected June 6, 2023, successful New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Garcia says her lad loved to navigator and food and had an infectious grin that would airy up a room. She vows not to springiness up arsenic the lawsuit goes done the ineligible system.

"Ricardo isn’t present to combat his fight," Garcia says. "But his ma is. I don’t privation Ricardo’s lawsuit to beryllium different roadworthy rage successful Houston. I don’t privation Ricardo’s lawsuit to beryllium swept nether the rug. I americium going to combat for Ricardo."

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While the Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded to the unfastened records request, the Dallas County Sheriff's Office and Travis County Sheriff's Office in Austin denied the aforesaid records petition and sent it to the Attorney General's Office.