ICE Detention and Mora County
No ICE detention center, federal immigration building used for detention, or verified county ICE detention contract was found in Mora County. The ICE Detainee Locator entry in the Mora facility map is a federal system route. It is not evidence that ICE operates a jail in Mora. Immigration detention may occur far from the county, and the location can change through transfer.
Mora County also lacks a verified adult detention facility of its own. Official records describe San Miguel County Detention Center as the primary contract jail and Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility as a backup for local adult detention. If either jail records a departure to ICE, the jail's custody episode ended but ICE custody began or continued. The destination field is therefore more useful than the word “release” standing alone.
Trace a Mora ICE Transfer
The local record should come first. Contact the Mora County Sheriff's Office with the person's full name, approximate arrest date, and any case or booking number. Ask Sheriff Americk Padilla's office which facility received the person. Then contact that jail and request the actual departure time, recorded release or transfer type, and destination or receiving agency. Those fields establish whether ICE is a supported path rather than a guess.
- Identify the Mora arrest and the jail that actually held the booking.
- Request the booking and departure record from that jail.
- Look for ICE, an immigration hold, or another federal receiving authority in the destination field.
- Search the official ICE locator using the best identifier available.
- If the locator does not resolve the matter, contact the responsible ERO office by telephone.
- Ask the original jail and ICE sources to clarify any conflict in dates or destination.
A Mora court release order cannot answer the later immigration question by itself. It authorizes action in the criminal case. The detention record shows the processed departure and recipient. The federal immigration source then answers its own custody question. This sequence keeps a local release order from being mistaken for proof that no federal hold remained.
Note: Use the receiving-agency field to trigger an ICE search instead of assuming immigration custody from a missing local roster entry.
Search the ICE Detainee Locator
The official ICE Online Detainee Locator System offers two search paths. The most direct uses the A-number and country of birth. An A-number is an immigration identification number. The other route uses biographical information. Enter the data exactly as the source record gives it and review possible spelling forms. Names can include multiple family names, spaces, or ordering that differs among records.
The A-number path is preferable when a reliable federal or immigration document supplies the number. Do not substitute a Mora booking number, BOP register number, court case number, or NMCD number. Each belongs to a different system. For a biographical search, use the complete name and required birth details shown by the locator. Avoid selecting a result on name similarity alone.
- Choose the A-number route when the full immigration number and country of birth are known.
- Choose the biographical route when no verified A-number is available.
- Enter the name in the form used by the immigration or transfer record.
- Compare the returned identity and facility information with the local departure record.
- Write down the exact displayed status and location without adding an inferred release date.
The locator is a current-custody tool with limits, not a complete historical release archive. It may not show every category promptly or publicly. If a matching result appears, use its facility information to identify the next official contact. If no result appears, move to the telephone fallback rather than declaring community release.
ICE Detainee Search Fields
Keep the identifiers grouped by their source. The local jail record proves the transfer path. The ICE search inputs locate the possible federal immigration record. A federal criminal identifier belongs in BOP or a federal docket, not ODLS. Using the wrong number can produce a no-result that looks conclusive even though the search was invalid.
| Field | Proper use |
|---|---|
| A-number | Use the verified immigration identifier in the locator's A-number route. |
| Country of birth | Pair it with the A-number as the official interface requires. |
| First and last name | Use the person's documented biographical form and consider multiple family names. |
| Date of birth | Apply it only through the biographical route shown by ODLS. |
| Local booking number | Use with the Mora or contract-jail custodian, not as an ICE number. |
| Transfer destination | Use it to confirm that an ICE search is warranted and to identify the receiving path. |
Record the exact status and facility name returned. Do not convert a location result into a prediction about release. Immigration custody, bond, removal proceedings, transfer, and release decisions involve separate records and authorities. The locator result is one current data point.
Missing ICE Detainee Results
An empty ODLS search is unresolved. The number may be incomplete, the name may be entered in a different form, data may not yet be public, or the person's category may not appear through the online interface. A transfer can also occur before the receiving system becomes visible. None of those possibilities proves that the person left detention.
Use the responsible Enforcement and Removal Operations field office as the telephone fallback. ERO is the ICE division responsible for detention and removal operations. The correct office depends on the case and current location, not just Mora County. Use the current official ICE locator and contact path to identify that office. No local phone number or street address is inserted because the research did not verify one for this Mora route.
Online route: ICE Online Detainee Locator System
Unresolved result: responsible ERO field office by telephone
Local source: actual jail's release or transfer record
Mora County ICE facility: none verified
When calling, provide the verified A-number when available, full name, country and date of birth as requested, the sending jail, and the approximate transfer date. Ask for the current facility or the correct office to contact. Do not publish personal identifiers that are not needed to confirm the record.
Note: The ERO fallback should follow a careful identifier check because a misspelled name or wrong number can cause a false no-result.
ICE Release and Civil Custody
ICE detention is federal civil immigration custody. It is separate from a Mora criminal case, a New Mexico prison sentence, and BOP federal imprisonment. A person can receive a release order in a local criminal matter and still transfer to ICE. The local case may remain visible in Mora or Fourth Judicial District records even while the custody record moves to a federal immigration system.
- Release to ICE
- The local jail closed its booking and transferred the person to federal immigration custody.
- Community release
- The record supports departure from detention without a receiving jail or agency, subject to any listed conditions.
- Immigration hold
- A federal immigration request or basis that can affect a local departure and transfer.
- ERO
- Enforcement and Removal Operations, the ICE division used for detention-status follow-up.
These terms should not be blended. “Released” in the sending jail describes the end of that jail's control. The receiving field tells whether the person entered ICE custody. A later absence from ODLS still requires confirmation. Only a source with authority over the later stage can establish what happened next.
ICE Detainee Locator Boundaries
County, state, federal criminal, and immigration systems do not share one complete release list. The Mora County Sheriff can identify the arrest and transport. San Miguel or Santa Fe can document a contract-jail booking when one of those facilities held the person. NMCD covers state imprisonment and public probation or parole data within its scope. BOP covers federal sentenced-prison records from 1982 to the present. ICE ODLS addresses federal immigration detention.
| Question | Correct source |
|---|---|
| Where did a Mora arrestee go? | Mora Sheriff's transport record and the named receiving jail. |
| Did the local jail transfer the person to ICE? | Jail release sheet with destination or receiving authority. |
| Does ICE report a current detention location? | ODLS, followed by the responsible ERO office. |
| Was the person in federal prison? | BOP locator and federal court docket. |
| Did a Mora court authorize local release? | Mora Magistrate Court or Fourth Judicial District record. |
New Mexico VINE can help track a named person in participating county or state custody. Its transfer rules may require re-registration when custody changes. VINE is not the ICE locator and cannot establish the immigration outcome. For federal prison status rather than immigration detention, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons release path.
Request Mora ICE Transfer Records
A focused New Mexico IPRA request can document the local side of an ICE transfer. Ask the Mora Sheriff's Office or actual contract jail for the booking number, booking facility, actual departure date and time, release or transfer type, holds, and destination or receiving authority. Request existing electronic records and accept lawful redaction. If the office is not the custodian, ask it to identify the agency that holds the record.
IPRA applies to New Mexico state and local records. It does not require a local custodian to create or explain an ICE record. The request should stop at what the local agency did and where it sent the person. The federal follow-up then uses ODLS and ERO. This split creates a traceable chain without asking one office to speak for another.
The New Mexico Case Lookup can identify the local docket, but it is not the official filed record and may not show every document. Ask the court clerk for the filed release, bond, dismissal, judgment, or other order. Compare its legal authority with the jail's processed departure and destination. A court order can precede the transfer.
Note: Request the destination field by name because it is the fact that separates community release from an ICE custodial handoff.
Confirm an ICE Detainee Release
A complete conclusion needs the sending jail's record, a valid ODLS search, and ERO confirmation when the locator is silent or unclear. First verify that ICE actually received the person. Then match the A-number or biographical details. Read the online result exactly. Finally, ask the responsible office about current custody or the next official source.
Do not call a missing local roster entry an ICE transfer. Do not call release to ICE a return to Mora County. Do not call an empty ODLS result proof of freedom. Each conclusion outruns the source. The correct outcome may be confirmed ICE detention, a later transfer, a community release supported by an official record, or status that remains unresolved.
For a broader named-person route covering county jail, NMCD, courts, VINE, BOP, and ICE, use the Mora County released-inmate search. The immigration branch should activate only when the case or transfer record supports it. That keeps the ICE system in its proper role as an exception path rather than a default county search.