ICE won't comment on immigrants released from state prisons

Associated Press - July 12, 2007 9:45 AM ET

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Federal immigration officials won't comment on what's happened to more than two dozen immigrants recently released from state prisons.

At least 25 immigrants have completed their sentences for rape, drug trafficking and lewd molestation.

They were to go before Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for possible deportation.

ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok says he can't confirm whether the immigrants appeared because it would be too time consuming and an "administrative burden" to give the status of each immigrant.

The state Department of Corrections says ICE placed detainers on the immigrants and they were turned over to immigration officials when they were released. But the department doesn't distinguish whether the immigrant was in the US legally or illegally.

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