Been happening for decades.
This will rustle jimmies!
Back when I was a supervisory ICE agent, I informed ever local, county, and state LEO agency to never cut loose any aliens they apprehended, they were advised that my duty station would make every effort to go to them and determine alienage and if found to be illegal we would take custody.
I told them that even if I had to get a set of keys I’d do it myself if we were short.
I sent my agents to Prescott and down to Tucson, in one case less than a mile from the old Border Patrol station because they were to “busy” to respond.
That lasted about 3 months until my OIC told me our station was making the others look bad, and ordered me to not send any agents to assist if it was more than 15 miles from my station.
They even gave me a nice little map with a red circle showing how far my “jurisdiction “ could extend.
One of the few times I ever cussed out a supervisor.
Yeah, I’d be at another station when a call for assist would come in and they’d tell the LEOs that they were unable to respond, all while looking at at least 3 lazy f’ers doing such important work like reading the paper or surfing the net.
Only time half these guys made an effort was when it was a big media hoopla, then it was all hands on deck!
Damn, I’m glad I’m out of that, between the politics and BS, I got damn tired of the games.