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2025 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 94. Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights
Subchapter I. Crime Victims’ Rights
§ 9404. Rights of victims; prohibition against detaining a victim exclusively for immigration violation or to turn over to federal immigration authorities absent warrant.
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§ 9404. Rights of victims; prohibition against detaining a victim exclusively for immigration violation or to turn over to federal immigration authorities absent warrant.
(a) It is the public policy of this State to protect the public from crime and violence by encouraging all persons who are victims of crimes to cooperate with the criminal justice system and not to penalize these persons for being victims or for cooperating with the criminal justice system.
(b) If an individual is a victim of a crime, a law-enforcement officer may not detain the individual exclusively for any actual or suspected immigration violation or turn the individual over to federal immigration authorities absent a judicial warrant or a valid court order.
85 Del. Laws, c. 142, § 1;
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