Prince William County, Va. - Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will release to Prince William authorites the identities and final disposition of every convicted criminal illegal immigrant apprehended in the county and turned over to ICE, said Chairman Corey A. Stewart on Saturday.
Stewart indicated that this reversed three years of "stiff-armed" responses by ICE to the same question. "They've also said they will increase detention center space in Virginia to hold illegal aliens until deportation. It won't solve the problem, but it will help alleviate the prob-lem."
Stewart says "this data is the tip of the iceberg" and will show that millions of convicted criminal illegal aliens in this country have been released while awaiting deportation.
"This is not a small number we are discussing. Americans will be shocked when they realize how many convicted criminal illegal aliens are being released back into our communities and how long their deportation proceedings take."
The county's most recent request was a letter from Stewart to ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton on Aug. 5, on the heels of the early morning traffic death of Sister Denise Mosier on Aug. 1.
An illegal immigrant with multiple convictions is charged in the accident. Prince William County's top prosecutor said he will ask a grand jury to upgrade charges against convicted drunken driver Carlos Martinelly Montano to felony murder.
Montano, an illegal immigrant from Bolivia, was arraigned Wednesday morning on charges of involuntary manslaughter, drunken driving as a third offense and driving on a revoked license in the Bristow Road crash that killed Mosier and seriously injured two of her fellow sisters.
A judge ordered him held without bond at the Prince William-Manassas regional jail.
-- Staff reports
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