The U.S. Department of Homeland Security quietly corrected false information it published after The Charlotte Observer reported it incorrectly said a Honduran man charged in a Charlotte murder was released “back onto North Carolina’s streets… after authorities failed to honor the ICE detainer.”
The man has never been released, the Observer reported. DHS did not reply to requests for comment, but it corrected its statement online. The updated statement does not have a correction line or indicate any changes have been made.
DHS — the department that oversees Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — released a statement after Border Patrol agents landed in Charlotte on Nov. 15. It listed “a handful of the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens — including murderers, rapists, and pedophiles — who were RELEASED back onto North Carolina’s streets because of sanctuary policies.”…