North Carolina Refused 381 ICE Detainers: Four-Time Deportee Held on Rape and Burglary Charges
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a November 10 release that Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged a detainer on October 19 asking North Carolina authorities not to release Richard Calix-Valle, a Honduran national charged with first-degree burglary and second-degree forcible rape. He is being held at the Mecklenburg County Jail in Charlotte, North Carolina.
According to DHS records, Calix-Valle first entered the United States illegally through Texas in 2014, received a final order of removal on December 8, 2016, and has been deported four times: twice in 2014, and again in 2016 and 2017.
The release also gave statewide figures: from January 20, 2025 through November 1, 2026, North Carolina declined to honor 381 ICE detainers, 240 of them in Mecklenburg County (183 at the county jail and 57 at the county's central jail), which is 63 percent of the state total.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the release that when local jails refuse to honor ICE detainers, people already ordered removed are put back into the community, and that federal officers will keep lodging detainers and publishing the data.
A detainer is a request from ICE asking a local jail to hold a person for up to 48 hours beyond their scheduled release so federal officers can take custody. DHS said the case will proceed through the removal process.
(Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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