Crime and Corrections Oversight

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has taken custody of Ibrahim George Kallon, a Sierra Leonean national whose visitor visa expired in 2024, after he was arrested Feb. 11 by Glenolden, Pennsylvania police on multiple sex‑offense charges while he was in training to become a Delaware County Prison corrections officer. Local authorities charged Kallon with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, false imprisonment and indecent assault, according to ICE. The agency publicly accused Delaware County Prison of releasing Kallon back into the community despite an ICE detainer, forcing ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers in Philadelphia to arrest him “at‑large” and warning, “If the county won’t protect its own residents, we’ll do it for them.” The case follows a similar January ICE arrest of a Liberian national accused of posing as a U.S. citizen while working as a Minnesota prison guard, and is already being folded into the administration’s broader narrative about local “sanctuary‑style” decisions undermining public safety. Key questions, which county officials have yet to answer publicly, include how Kallon cleared hiring screens for a corrections‑officer training slot and why the jail did not honor the federal detainer in a serious violent‑crime case.