The San Diego County Sheriff's Department will share records of people who were criminally arrested with
immigration authorities, becoming the first local law enforcement agency in five states to comply with unusual demands for information, authorities said Friday.
In recent weeks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued ‘administrative subpoenas’ — signed by an immigration official, not a judge — to state and local law enforcement agencies in
Colorado, Connecticut,
New York, Oregon and California.
Sheriff Bill Gore's announcement, in a statement from his department late Thursday, came less than a week after ICE issued four subpoenas, the only ones so far in California.