Operation Guardian Angel: LA Jails Cooperate with ICE on Criminal Aliens

Operation Guardian Angel Launched

• 🎯 A new federal program, Operation Guardian Angel, has been launched with the goal of neutralizing California's sanctuary state policies.
• ⚖️ The operation aims to make communities safer by taking undocumented criminal defendants directly into federal custody from state jails.

Federal Task Force and Warrants

• 🤝 A federal task force has been created, comprising agents from ICE, HSI, FBI, DEA, and ATF.
• 🔍 This task force scans criminal databases daily to identify undocumented individuals in local jails who have prior deportation orders.
• 🚨 If these individuals have returned to the U.S., they have committed a federal felony for illegal re-entry.
• 📜 The U.S. Attorney's office will seek criminal arrest warrants, which sanctuary jurisdictions cannot ignore, unlike ICE detainers.

Enforcement in Los Angeles

• ⛓️ In a rare interaction, the Los Angeles jail was forced to hand over a Mexican national to ICE custody.
• 💥 The individual was facing local charges for robbery but was transferred due to the federal warrant.
• 🚫 California's sanctuary policies were unable to protect this individual from the criminal warrant.

Projected Impact and Future Model

• 📈 Task force officials project arresting 40 to 50 aliens from local sanctuary jails weekly once fully operational.
• 🗺️ If successful in Los Angeles, this operation could serve as a model to neutralize sanctuary jurisdictions nationwide.