Overview
- Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons sent a letter citing agency data that Illinois released 1,768 people with active detainers since Jan. 20, 2025.
- ICE says 4,015 people with pending detainers remain in Illinois custody, including individuals linked to 51 homicides and more than 800 sexual‑predatory offenses.
- ICE warned it would engage the Justice Department and other federal partners to pursue measures against jurisdictions that do not honor detainers.
- Lyons addressed the letter to Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul after a similar September inquiry went unanswered, and state offices did not comment to reporters.
- The agency named cases in which jails released offenders without notifying ICE—such as Victor Manuel Mendoza-Garcia, Juan Morales Martinez, and Amilcar Waldo Gonzalez-Jimenez—and said some were later re-arrested or removed.