The 41 illegal immigrants who were briefly being housed at the Anchorage Correctional Complex have been relocated to prisons in the Lower 48.
Alaska took the inmates in to help relieve overcrowding in a Tacoma ICE facility. Earlier this month, six of the inmates were then relocated, and the final 35 inmates left on Monday.
Their stay in Alaska was part of a renegotiated agreement that the State of Alaska Department of Corrections has with ICE, under which illegal immigrants who are awaiting deportation processes can be housed in Alaska prisons when space is available.
The ACLU-Alaska, Socialists, and Democrats decried the move, and the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee held a hearing to expose the matter as a violation of human rights.
Local left-leaning media has insinuated that Department of Corrections released the inmates based on the pressure from the ACLU, but the housing of the inmates was always a temporary measure and their removal from Alaska was under the control of ICE and was part of standard operations to get illegal aliens out of the United States as quickly as possible.
