One sticking point is ICE’s use of detainer requests, which the agency lodges with local police when it becomes aware that a person being detained is eligible for deportation. Through these requests, ICE asks local police to hold individuals for a longer period of time so that ICE agents can respond and assume custody of them.

In an interview Tuesday morning, Homan confirmed that immigrants living here without legal authorization, but with no criminal record, were swept up in the operation.