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Thank Gavin Newsom for this one: NEARLY 24,000 ILLEGAL ALIENS have been RELEASED from California jails DESPITE ICE DETAINERS, with criminal records involving more than 81,000 charges or convictions, including HOMICIDE and S*XUAL ASSAULT. According to a new Department of Homeland Security report, California authorities have refused to honor ICE detainers and released nearly 24,000 illegal aliens from custody since January 20, 2025. DHS says the criminal histories associated with those detainers include 169 homicides, 147 s*xual assaults, 1,088 drug trafficking charges, 1,097 assaults, and 3,295 burglaries. The figures include both charges and convictions, not necessarily separate convicted offenders. Among the cases identified by DHS is Ursulo Montenegro Martinez, a Mexican national with convictions for negligent manslaughter with a weapon, narcotics offenses, and illegal entry. ICE lodged a detainer on June 23, 2025, but Los Angeles County released him instead. The same county reportedly released Taron Gorgoyan, an Armenian national convicted of voluntary manslaughter, assault likely to produce great bodily injury, and identity theft, despite a March 6, 2026 ICE detainer. In San Francisco County, Carlos Alberto Amaya-Velasquez, an El Salvadoran national with prior arrests for attempted m*rder and convictions for accessory after the fact and receiving stolen property, was released despite a May 14, 2026 ICE detainer. DHS also identified Salvador Jesus Serpas-Hernandez, an alleged Rebels 13 gang member from El Salvador with convictions for m*rder, child cruelty, and domestic battery. Los Angeles County reportedly released him despite an April 1, 2026 ICE detainer. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin blasted California Governor Gavin Newsom and other state officials, saying they had turned California into "a hotbed of illegal alien crime." Mullin accused sanctuary politicians of releasing convicted m*rderers, child abusers, kidnappers, and gang members instead of cooperating with federal immigration authorities. California's sanctuary laws restrict local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities, including certain detention requests. State officials have defended those restrictions on legal and public-trust grounds. The DHS figures raise a serious public-safety question: When ICE requests custody of someone with a documented violent criminal history, should sanctuary policies prevent local authorities from transferring that person to federal custody? #SanctuaryState #California

— Blue Lives Matter (@bluelivesmtr) November 4, 2026

According to a new Department of Homeland Security report, California authorities have refused to honor ICE detainers and released nearly 24,000 illegal aliens from custody since January 20, 2025.

DHS says the criminal histories associated with those detainers include 169 homicides, 147 s*xual assaults, 1,088 drug trafficking charges, 1,097 assaults, and 3,295 burglaries. The figures include both charges and convictions, not necessarily separate convicted offenders.

Among the cases identified by DHS is Ursulo Montenegro Martinez, a Mexican national with convictions for negligent manslaughter with a weapon, narcotics offenses, and illegal entry. ICE lodged a detainer on June 23, 2025, but Los Angeles County released him instead.

The same county reportedly released Taron Gorgoyan, an Armenian national convicted of voluntary manslaughter, assault likely to produce great bodily injury, and identity theft, despite a March 6, 2026 ICE detainer.

In San Francisco County, Carlos Alberto Amaya-Velasquez, an El Salvadoran national with prior arrests for attempted m*rder and convictions for accessory after the fact and receiving stolen property, was released despite a May 14, 2026 ICE detainer.

DHS also identified Salvador Jesus Serpas-Hernandez, an alleged Rebels 13 gang member from El Salvador with convictions for m*rder, child cruelty, and domestic battery. Los Angeles County reportedly released him despite an April 1, 2026 ICE detainer.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin blasted California Governor Gavin Newsom and other state officials, saying they had turned California into "a hotbed of illegal alien crime."

Mullin accused sanctuary politicians of releasing convicted m*rderers, child abusers, kidnappers, and gang members instead of cooperating with federal immigration authorities.

California's sanctuary laws restrict local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities, including certain detention requests. State officials have defended those restrictions on legal and public-trust grounds.

The DHS figures raise a serious public-safety question: When ICE requests custody of someone with a documented violent criminal history, should sanctuary policies prevent local authorities from transferring that person to federal custody?