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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal officials arrested an illegal immigrant who was recently released from a county jail despite facing multiple charges of sex crimes against children.

Oscar Adalberto Penate, a 56-year-old from El Salvador, was taken back into custody on July 27 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations and the IRS' Philadelphia offices. The Department of Homeland Security said Penate – who had an ICE detainer placed on him – was allowed to walk out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania "due to the county's sanctuary policies."

"If the elected officials in Montgomery County are not going to protect the citizens

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