Glendale Terminates ICE Detainee Holding Contract Over L.A. Riots
“…the City recognizes that public perception of the ICE contract—no matter how limited or carefully managed, no matter the good—has become divisive.”
Glendale, CA, announced it had terminated its contract with ICE to hold detainees at the Glendale City Jail in response to the Los Angeles riots.
Glendale is located about 8.7 miles north of Los Angeles.
This is a local decision and was not made lightly. Since 2007, the City has maintained a highly regulated, locally controlled facility that is maintained to the highest standards, extending basic dignities to those temporarily held—ensuring access to clean accommodations, on-call medical care, family visitation, and legal counsel. By offering local access, detainees were given due-process proximity that is too often lacking in more remote or privately-operated detention centers.
Nevertheless, despite the transparency and safeguards the City has upheld, the City recognizes that public perception of the ICE contract—no matter how limited or carefully managed, no matter the good—has become divisive. And while opinions on this issue may vary—the decision to terminate this contract is not politically driven. It is rooted in what this City stands for—public safety, local accountability, and trust.
The city made the announcement after The Los Angeles Times outed its 18-year contract with ICE.
The publication said the agreement violates California Senate Bill 54, “which prohibits local law enforcement from using resources for immigration enforcement.”
Glendale insists the police department has never “engaged in immigration enforcement, nor will it do so moving forward.”
Glendale Police Chief Manuel Cid told the city council that ICE has rarely used the facility for detentions since former President Barack Obama’s administration.
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burn baby burn!!
“divisive”
what a sick country we have allowed ourselves to become
where civility is now seen as divisive
When obeying the law is seen as divisive.
….not used SINCE Obama’s administration.” Does this mean it was used DURING O’s administration?
They are chickensh*t.
Looking forward to later on in the week when Governor Newsom calls for secession from the United States.
Fine with me.
We can easily admit a conservative Canadian province and keep our 50 state flags.
Only the coastal area from LA to SF. The rest stays and turns red.
How about giving over the land area North of San Diego area, and bounded in the East by the Mountains to a Northern boundary of roughly Sacramento? Heck give them the Pacific NW as well west of the mountains. They can join up with some of BC and become ‘West Canada’ for all I care.
give them nothing but a prison cell
They do not deserve cells, create large pens in the desert, surrounded by razor wire. Put automated water and food dispensers in for them, chips them so that they can receive rations. Do not allow them to have anything else.
Uh not sure if you been paying attention to the political calculus of last couple decades but the Marxists have full control of CA, Oregon and WA right flipping now, have had it for decades and will hold it for the intermediate and probably long term future.
My proposal liberates most of the land mass and frees the productive population in the more sane areas in the Red eastern Counties of those States.
LA? Portland? Seattle? SF? The folks who run these places encourage their population to riot, destroy and burn it down first by their policies and now in LA by refusal to tell them to stop and go home.
You wanna play ‘Captain save a city’…have at it Hoss. I don’t think its possible to fix these places without a significant shift in the political and policy views of their population which won’t happen until we allow them to hit rock bottom.
Somehow, I just don’t see people in, say, the Siskiyous or the Mammoth Lakes district areas taking kindly to goings-on like in Los Angeles.
He might as well call the Culligan man.
Well Trump can just take them
Over
Federalize them all
Take whom over? He can’t just seize state or local facilities. They don’t belong to the USA.
Meh, no whining when those Illegal Aliens detained elsewhere are shipped to a functional detention facility in another State and maybe even Federal Circuit much less Federal Judicial District which would put the adjudication outside the scope of Federal Judges heavily influenced by Blue State Senators.
The inconvenient truth is the Democrat/progressive ‘resist at any and all cost’ strategy is largely working. Deportations are a fraction of what they need to be to make any kind of material dent in the illegal immigrant population that skyrocketed the last 4-years. The government’s capacity to store illegals as their deportation process is completed, is exhausted. FedGov simply doesn’t have any place to put them, and decisions like this by Glendale won’t help.
At most, we’re deporting 1K illegal aliens a day (roughly 7 deportation flights a day, currently, up from about 3 when Biden was president). At this pace, we won’t deport much more than a million illegals over the next 40-months….out of 15+ million who recently entered.
!!!!
exactly
stop the flow of tax money to the states who use our money to fund their agenda
Like th man said ‘we’re gonna need a bigger boat’. So build some temporary complexes on military bases to house them while their case is pending. Since the prime focus being arrested/detained for immigration violations are those with existing removal orders which were defied and the collateral arrests of those who associated with these criminals then folks are a flight risk so detention is entirely justified. Sure as Heck now given the riots to stop ICE makes it beyond Cray Cray to release anyone already captured.
I believe there is considerable money set aside in BBB to do just that. Presuming that eventually passes later this month, or early next month, it’s unlikely any relief financed with that reconciliation bill won’t manifest itself until very late in Q4…probably Q1 of next year.
“This is a local decision and was not made lightly. Since 2007, the City has maintained a highly regulated, locally controlled facility that is maintained to the highest standards, extending basic dignities to those temporarily held—ensuring access to clean accommodations, on-call medical care, family visitation, and legal counsel. By offering local access, detainees were given due-process proximity that is too often lacking in more remote or privately-operated detention centers.”
Looks like in Glendale CA, illegals held prior to adjudication are treated better than actual US citizens were treated after “peacefully” walking through the Capitol on Jan 6.
Sounds like an AirBnB ad.
Glendale terminates contract with ICE because it’s divisive. Well, then why did they enter into it in the first place? What has changed?
Never mind. No need to answer.
Ask the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People what changed.
La Raza….. La Reconquista 2025. Let’s hope they burn down some Muslim properties and see what is done to these infidels.
It wasn’t divisive 18 years ago. 18 years ago the left did not oppose ICE’s existence or its mission.
Yes, they did.
The left is always about open borders. It’s the Communist Internationale
I must say this is one of LI’s more turgid headlines.
I thought the story was about LA having to fire a guy who held their riot control contract because ICE detained him.
“The Glendale Police Department does not enforce immigration law. That is not our role, nor will it ever be.”
Translation by Paula:
“We would rather keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals loose on Glendale streets than cooperate with Trump.”.
How’s that “oppose everything Republicans do” goal statement working out for you, Ken Martin?
This is all quite a change for Glendale just in my lifetime. When I was in grammar school, Glendale had the police force who pulled over black drivers to ask them if they were lost, and offered escorts to the city line. Jews with names like Rabinowitz or Silverstein found houses that were listed for sale in Glendale had just gone under contract when asked about at a Glendale real estate office.
Look at them now.
Nah. This tracks with the way law enforcement is configured in this country. Local police enforce local law. Immigration law is a federal matter. Rapists, murderers and other violent criminals violate local laws and are hopefully prosecuted accordingly.
How about we dump all and I mean ALL the illegals into CA and wall off the state to keep them in. They get what they want and we get what we want. The wall doesn’t have to be physical. It can be part drone and part manpower including the federalized national guard from the surrounding states.
An example of the Dhimmi-crat terrorists’ veto. Similar to the genocidal Islamofascists’/Muslim supremacists’ veto exerted by Muslims living in Michigan, Minnesota and elsewhere in the U.S., that clearly influenced the vicious anti-Israel hostility, slander and backstabbing of the wretched and vile “Biden-Harris” Administration.
Glendale’s move is a feckless capitulation to the Dhimmi-crat-terrorist mob and its violent predations.
I originally read the headline as “Glendale terminates ICE detainee.”
Alas.
Who cares if it violates a bill? Or has California given up on referring to its actual laws as actual laws?
I guess when your attitude toward actual laws is as casual as a parrothead convention, these things happen.
It’s common to continue to refer to an act by the name of the bill it started as. “California Senate Bill 54” is an actual law, enacted in 2017.
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