Who were detained and who absent intervention from the aclu or other organizations would have been deported. there are systematic structural problems in the way that this detainer process works and that s why local jurisdictions, cities, counties, states all over the country should stop participating in it in this way. i think it s important to note that the detainers that i.c.e. issues are really just requests that cities and counties can choose to grant or can choose to refuse, and the fact that so many of them choose to grant them is a serious problem that winds up having financial liabilities for the taxpayers of those jurisdictions. and we know, you know, cnn has reported that there is an i.c.e. officer called brian oxley in little rock, arkansas, who was fired last may and faces charges, including forging his supervisor s signatures on request warrants for undocumented immigrants through documents obtained show other officers across the five-state region where oxley worked