“Particularly where we’re dealing with a jurisdiction that is not prone to honoring ICE detainers…our policy is going to be that ICE will instead have the first detainer and that individual will go into ICE custody and deportation,” Lynch told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.
“We have in the past deferred because…we work with our state and local colleagues and we want to make sure that they can in fact adjudicate their cases as well,” Lynch added.
Republicans on the committee were pleased with the new policy. Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) is chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee and said he’s glad the administration and Republicans are “headed in the same direction.”
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