Trump's Misleading L.A. Story - FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump claimed that federal immigration officials asked the Los Angeles Police Department in January to detain an "illegal immigrant," but the police "let him go, and he killed somebody." That's not how it happened. The murder occurred last summer — before federal immigration officials say they issued a detainer request — so it did not happen after police released him, as Trump implied. Los Angeles has a history of being what Trump refers to as a "sanctuary city." In 2012, Los...
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/05/trumps-misleading-l-a-story/