SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio’s two largest law enforcement agencies will now notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if they encounter undocumented migrants with warrants for removal or deportation. This decision follows ICE’s recent entry of more than 700,000 administrative warrants into a national crime database.
Erinaldy Agosto, a San Antonio immigration attorney, expressed concern over the new guidance given.
Records indicate that San Antonio police officers and Bexar County sheriff’s deputies will contact ICE if they encounter undocumented immigrants with administrative warrants. Agosto noted that ICE’s recent actions of entering warrants into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) mark a departure from the previous presidential administration’s practices…