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Protecting individuals in our communities from those who would seek to do them harm should not be a partisan issue. A Republican proposal put forth today to reform Connecticut’s Trust Act would make it easier for our law enforcement officers remove these dangerous individuals from our communities.
By amending the Trust Act to now include C felonies, state and local law enforcement agencies could now hold an undocumented immigrant pursuant to an ICE detainer request for up to 48 hours, and without a judicial warrant, when such individual has been charged with a Class A, B, or C felony.
C felonies include crimes such as: manslaughter, assault, threatening with intent to cause evacuation of a school or day care, house of religious worship, or religiously-affiliated community center, strangulation or suffocation, sexual assault, enticing a minor, burglary, arson, and more.
Below is an example as to the types of cases we are trying to avoid.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-boston-arrests-twice-convicted-sex-offender-connecticut-after-department
