ICE Warns Illinois Is Releasing Violent Criminal Illegal Aliens Despite Detainers: 'They're Deciding that Dangerous Criminals ... Are More Important Than the Families That Live Here'

Christina Shaw : Dec 8, 2025
Fox News

[FoxNews.com] US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is warning that Illinois officials are releasing violent criminal illegal aliens despite active immigration detainers, a move the agency says is putting the public at risk. In the letter shared with Fox News Digital, Todd Lyons, ICE's senior official performing the duties of director, said Illinois has "tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens" in custody—individuals who, he noted, have committed crimes ranging from murder and rape to child pornography and armed robbery. Lyons said these offenders "should be swiftly removed from the United States ... and not be returned to our streets to wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via Fox News)