Blue State Ignoring Active Immigration Detainers And Releasing Violent Criminals, ICE Says

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According to Fox News, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a warning that Illinois officials are putting the public at risk by releasing “violent criminal illegal aliens.”

Todd Lyons, acting ICE director, reportedly said in a letter that Illinois has “tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens” in custody.

The letter, shared with Fox News Digital, said the individuals committed crimes such as armed robbery, child pornography, rape, and murder.

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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.”

According to data provided by ICE, Illinois has released 1,768 criminal aliens with active detainers since January 2025. ICE said the crimes tied to those offenders include homicides, assaults, burglaries, weapons offenses and sexual-predatory crimes.

The agency also said another 4,015 criminal aliens with pending detainers remain in state or local custody, including individuals linked to 51 homicides and more than 800 sexual-predatory offenses.

ICE provided a list of some of the detainers that were not honored, requiring federal officers to track down offenders after their release.

The warning follows a similar letter sent to New York Attorney General Letitia James, demanding that she “honor ICE arrest detainers of the more than 7,000 criminal illegal aliens in the state’s custody.”

The 7,000+ “criminal illegal aliens” include “murderers, sexual predators, and those convicted of or charged with weapons offenses,” DHS stated.

Blue State Has Released Nearly 7,000 “Criminal Illegal Aliens,” DHS Says – Demands Attorney General To Turn Over Thousands In State Custody

WHMI shared further:

Some of the offenders were later re-arrested or removed from the United States by ICE, according to the documents.

Lyons cautioned that Illinois’ ongoing refusal to honor immigration detainers “plainly jeopardizes public safety” and asked if the state intends to change course or continue releasing violent offenders who may otherwise “walk the streets of Illinois again.”

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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