Overview
- In a letter, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons urged California to honor detainers for 33,179 inmates in state and local custody.
- DHS said California has released 4,561 migrants with pending deportations since Jan. 20, 2025, including 31 homicide cases, 234 sexual predator cases and 661 assault cases.
- Newsom’s office said the state cooperates on removals from prisons, citing more than 10,000 detainers honored since 2019 and CDCR transfers of certain felony convicts to ICE.
- DHS reported that the inmates with active detainers are tied to 399 homicides, 8,380 dangerous drugs offenses, 1,293 sexual predatory offenses and other serious crimes.
- ICE highlighted specific cases it says were released despite detainers, noting several were later arrested by federal agents or removed from the United States.