The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department in California Issues a Statement on Two Arrests in the Santa Clarita Station Parking Lot: Federal Immigration Agents Took Two Men Into Custody on November 5, and the Department Says It Had No Advance Notice and Takes No Part in Civil Immigration Enforcement
The Los Angeles County Sheriff Department in California has issued a statement about two arrests in the parking lot of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff Station on November 5, in a case reported by local outlet KHTS and recounted again on November 13.
The department said immigration enforcement is the responsibility of federal law enforcement agencies, that it plays no part in civil immigration enforcement, that station personnel had no advance notice of the federal action, and that Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not use sheriff facilities to stage operations.
According to KHTS, one of the men, Luis Daniel Morales-Arana, 42, of El Salvador, was taken into custody at the station on a misdemeanor drug possession charge, and the second, Jesus Cazares Aguilar, 26, of Mexico, was booked by the California Highway Patrol Newhall office on November 4 on a misdemeanor DUI charge.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson later said both men were arrested by ICE after being released back into the community by the Santa Clarita Valley station. KHTS noted that this claim comes from DHS, and that its own reporting confirmed the charges and custody timeline but not the release claim.
Immigration records showed one of the men held at the Desert View Annex in Adelanto as of November 13.
Source: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
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Photo: 图：从中央公园望向圣克拉里塔市（资料图），两宗逮捕发生在该市警局站停车场。Mdm.Bla 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Santa Clarita seen from Central Park (file photo); the two arrests took place in the parking lot of the city's sheriff's station. By Mdm.Bla, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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