The Wake County Sheriff's Office ranks #18 nationwide in the number of deportable aliens released into the public, according to ICE records obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies.
CIS found that the WCSO either declined immigration detainers or provided insufficient notice to ICE for 219 illegal aliens detained in the county between October 1, 2022 and February 6, 2025, nearly half of the 508 total reported for state of North Carolina, which ranks #8 in the analysis.
If you hit the CIS report page, NC has 508 declined detainers overall and the Durham County Detention Center is on the list for the release of illegal aliens with homicide convictions and charges.
