ICE releases dangerous criminals, hundreds of them convicted of serious felonies and crimes of violence, without even putting local law enforcement on notice. Law enforcement doesn’t know these convicted murderers, kidnappers and other violent criminals are back on our streets — not until they are arrested for their next crime.

That’s particularly unsettling in the case of sex offenders.

In 2013, ICE opened detention facility doors holding 426 individuals convicted of felony sexual assault who should have been deported, if ICE was doing its job.

In many jurisdictions, communities are assured by statute that they will be informed if a convicted sex offender is released into their neighborhoods. That notification cannot happen if local law enforcement doesn’t even know they are back on the loose.