laws. those laws require us to promptly remove aliens when they are convicted or detained of certain crimes. the vast majority of american people support this common sense requirement. according to one recent poll, 80% of americans believe that cities that make arrests -- that arrest ill egal immigrants shoud be required to turn them over to immigration authorities. unfortunately some states and cities have a doped policies designed to frustrate this enforcement of immigration laws. this includes refuses to detain known felons under federal detainer requests or otherwise failing to comply with these laws. for example the department of homeland security recently issued a report showing in a single week there were more than 200 200 instances of jurisdictions