Oklahoma moves to turn over criminal immigrants in its prisons to ICE

Published February 5, 2025 3:21pm ET



Oklahoma is moving to become the first state to turn over illegal immigrants in state prisons to federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in an effort to jump-start President-elect Donald Trump‘s mass deportation effort and save state taxpayer money.

Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) on Wednesday announced a plan to expeditiously deport more than 500 convicted illegal immigrants in its prisons by transferring them over to ICE, where deportation proceedings before a judge can take place.

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