Harris County Jail Inmates in Texas Wanted by ICE, Records Show

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

An ICE hold or detainer is a notice to local authorities that ICE intends to detain the person. The detainer also requests information from local officials about when the suspect will be released and asks officers to hold him for up to 48 hours so ICE can assume custody.

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

Fox News records reveal that, as of September, there are 174 ICE arrests linked to sexual assault cases, more than half involving children under 14 years old.

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Forty-three percent of ICE arrest cases involve classified violent crimes by the fbi.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Headquarters on July 6, 2018, in Washington, DC (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Among them are 75 murder cases, 22 of them capital homicide.

This includes the two illegal immigrants from Venezuela charged with capital murder, sexual assault and kidnapping in the death of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, whose mother has expressed her opinion of blaming the Biden-Harris administration. open border policy.

Osman Estanly Solórzano Sánchez, 32, is another suspect among these cases. According to ICE officials, Sánchez is an illegal migrant from Honduras.

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

The Harris County Jail on the banks of Buffalo Bayou on March 20, 2019 in Houston. (Brett Comer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

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

“He has a 9-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son who now have to grow up without a dad,” Garcia said. “And my daughter-in-law has to be left without her husband.”

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

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“I get it, you know,” Garcia said. “But they need to know who they allow 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 to be killed. “It’s a decision that Osman, an illegal from Honduras, decided to take upon himself.”

An ICE agent monitors hundreds of asylum seekers being processed as they enter the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Garcia says her son loved to cook and fish and had an infectious smile that would light up a room. She vows not to give up as the case goes through the legal system.

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

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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 in austin denied the same request for records and sent it to the Attorney General’s Office.