1 in 10 inmates at Harris County Jail in Texas wanted by ICE, data shows

One in 10 inmates held in the Harris County Jail in Texas has a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold, according to a Fox News open records request.

An ICE hold, or detainer, is a notice to local law enforcement authorities that ICE intends to take the person into custody. The Guard is also asking for information from local officials about when the suspect will be released, and asking officers to hold the suspect for up to 48 hours so that ICE can take custody.

Currently, there are 9,527 inmates in the Harris County Jail, and 1,170 of those inmates have ICE holdings, all of which costs taxpayers as their cases move through the legal system.

Fox News data shows that since September, 174 ICE detainees have been linked to sexual assault cases, more than half involving children under the age of 14.

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Forty-three percent of ICE possession cases involve violent crimes as classified by the FBI.

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Among them are 75 murder cases, of which 22 are murder cases.

This includes the two illegal migrants from Venezuela charged with murder, assault and kidnapping in the death of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, whose mother has spoken out about the Biden-Harris impeachment open borders policy.

Osman Estanly Solorzano Sanchez, 32, is another suspect in these cases. According to ICE officials, Sanchez is an illegal migrant from Honduras.

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Sanchez is accused of killing 27-year-old Ricardo Vega, a father of two, during a traffic accident in April. According to police, Vega called 911 before he was shot, informing dispatchers that he was following a road rage suspect armed with a gun, and provided his driver’s license and car description.

Fox News spoke with his mother Victoria Garcia, who shared a photo of her son that she had saved in her phone as his contact image, capturing him wearing a backwards hat and smiling. “It’s a call I will never receive again,” she said.

“He has a nine-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son who now have to grow up without a father,” Garcia said. “And my daughter-in-law has to live without her husband.”

Garcia, a Mexican-American whose parents immigrated to the United States, said she understands the importance of immigration and seeking a better life.

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“I understand, you know,” Garcia said. ‘But they need to know who they are letting into our country, our country that we work for every day, that we pay taxes for. I didn’t ask for this. Ricardo didn’t ask to be killed. I didn’t ask for my son’s murder. It is a decision that Osman, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, has taken upon himself.”

Garcia says her son loved to cook and fish and had an infectious smile that lit up a room. She promises not to give up as the case moves through the legal system.

“Ricardo is not here to fight his battle,” Garcia said. ‘But his mother did. I don’t want Ricardo’s case to become another road rage incident in Houston. I don’t want Ricardo’s case to be swept under the rug. I’m going to fight for Ricardo.’

While the Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded to the open records request, the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and the Travis County Sheriff’s Office remained in Austin denied the same records request and sent it to the attorney general’s office.

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