Justice Department requests lists of all noncitizen inmates being held in California jails
On Thursday, the US Department of Justice asked California districts to submit lists of all prisoners in their prisons and the crimes they were accused or convicted, and their planned release dates.
The Ministry of Justice said that “data demands”, including Los Angeles and San Francisco districts, were designed to help the abolition of illegal aliens who commit criminal offspring after entering the US illegally.
The demands add another layer of the Trump administration’s already shaken lawn war on the immigration policy of California, the state and the local shelter laws. US immigration and customs conservation agents are dragging thousands of arrests as part of President Trump’s call for deportation of mass deportation, and the Ministry of Justice is already suing the city of Los Angeles about its sacred policy.
The state officials have for a long time defending California’s sacred policies, which has provided exceptions in cases that prohibited local authorities from implementing civil immigration laws but containing criminal offenses. They also criticized administration and ice agents for their latest arrest tactics in Southern California, including referring to figures showing that the majority of those arrested were not criminal convictions.
It was not clear whether the demands would have – and whether they would create a legal difficulty from the state or districts. California Atty. General Rob Bonda’s office did not respond immediately to a request.
The Los Angeles County Sharif department recently continued to transfer some prison prisoners to the ice for the first time in the years and showed criminal exceptions regarding the state and local shelter laws.
La County spokesman directed the questions about the request to the sheriff department.
On Thursday morning, when the request was asked during the Civil Opadiona Commission meeting, La County Şerif Robert Luna said that the information about all district prisoners was open to the public on the website of the department.
“As soon as you reserve, process and come to life, this is a national system, so the representatives of the federal government will know that you are in custody,” he said. “So not to inform them, it’s an automatic notification based on your fingerprints.”
The Ministry of Justice said that he hopes that the districts will voluntarily comply with their demands. However, if they do not, “the court will follow all the tools available to obtain data, including subpoena or any other compulsory process,” he said.
“Even though it violates every illegal alien federal law by definition, they show that those who continue to commit a crime after doing so pose an increasing risk for the safety and security of our country.”
Considering that there are non -citizens and other visa holders, not every citizen in the United States is illegal in an illegal way. However, as a part of immigration pressure, the Trump administration has increased to people in these categories.
Atty. General Pam Bondi said in his own statement about demands that the removal of “criminal illegal aliens” was the “highest priority ın of the administration.
Orum I look forward to cooperating with California’s district sheriffs to realize our common duty to keep California and all Americans safe, Bond said Bondi.
In May, Luna’s department prisoners transferred from prisons to ice for the first time since the beginning of 2020. Between May and June, the department handed over 20 prisoners to the federal agency.
At the surveillance meeting of Thursday, Luna said that the department received a request for 995 civilians from ICE in 2024 and did not comply with any of the legally. However, the department said that 20 prisoners should be transferred because each of them received federal judicial warrants from federal authorities.
He said he expects such warrants to increase, which would increase the number of returned prisoners.
“These are legal documents signed by a judge. We cannot deny them,” he said.
District General Inspector and other experts Max Huntsman said that the sheriff department should comply with the warrants by the Federal and State Law and that the process was legal under state and local sacred policies.
Times personnel writers Rebecca Ellis and Rachel Uranga contributed to this report.
