In the annals of Sanctuary zones for protecting illegal alien criminals, Montgomery County Maryland might be considered notorious. Former immigration judge Andrew Arthur remarked in an August 28 interview with Tucker Carlson, “Montgomery County probably has one of the strongest anti-ICE policies that I can think of.”
Last summer, the county had a run of weekly arrests of illegal aliens for rape and sexual assault.
In fact, Montgomery County’s Sanctuary policy and the resulting crime wave by illegal aliens prompted a protest rally in September attended by writer Michelle Malkin and radio host Larry O’Connor.
Fast forward to the present, and the Sanctuary policy and illegal alien crime both remain in the county.
On Wednesday, Laura Ingraham presented a brief history of Trump vs. sanctuary, then followed with the most recent illegal alien sex crime.
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TUCKER CARLSON: The Trump administration won a victory in Federal Court today and its ongoing fight against the nation’s many sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants. Chief breaking news correspondent, Trace Gallagher has the details on what happened. Hey, Trace.
TRACE GALLAGHER: Hey, Tucker. This is a big battle victory for the President because it means he might go on to win the war.
Remember back in 2017, the administration moved to withhold about $400 million in federal grant money from cities and states that have implemented sanctuary laws and policies where they refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities when it comes to dealing with illegal immigrants.
The cities and states quickly filed lawsuits and a series of lower courts ruled in their favor. Later, the more liberal 3rd, 7th, and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeal upheld the lower court decisions saying the administration had to give up the grant money.
But now the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has sided with the administration and because there is now a major conflict between the various Circuit Courts, it’s likely the Supreme Court will step in to make the final call and decide from the court leaning five-four conservative, SCOTUS has repeatedly and long said the Federal government maintains broad power over states when it comes to immigration policies — Tucker.
CARLSON: Interesting. Trace Gallagher, thanks for that.
GALLAGHER: Sure.
LAURA INGRAHAM: This was a huge victory for the Trump administration today. A federal appeals court ruling that he can in fact withhold funding from so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with ICE. Perhaps the president should start with the sanctuary in his own backyard, the D.C. suburb of Montgomery County, Maryland, just a few miles from where we are broadcasting tonight.
In the span of just two months in 2019, the county saw at least nine illegal aliens arrested for rape and sex abuse crimes, many of them against children. And this week we saw perhaps the most disturbing case yet. Two high school students aged 19 and 20, yes, you heard that right, were arrested and charged with raping two different 11-year-old girls — 11-year-olds. One of the suspects, the 20-year-old, is a Salvadoran national who is living here illegally.
So what’s a 20-year-old man, illegal alien, doing enrolled in a public high school, paid for by the tax dollars obviously? Maryland law requires that all residents up to the age of 21 get free public education for high school, including illegal aliens. If you are a Maryland resident, maybe just think about calling your representative, ask why your tax dollars are going towards this? That would be a good idea.
And my next guest says Montgomery County has become a hotbed of illegal alien crime, and now it’s bleeding into his county, Frederick County. Joining me now is Chuck Jenkins, sheriff of Frederick County, Maryland. Sheriff, what’s your message tonight to the people watching all of this? They’re thinking, oh, this is just one county, or two counties.
SHERIFF CHUCK JENKINS: Hi, Laura. You know what, this has been affecting Frederick County for years. Prior to them even declaring century status, we were seeing the criminal element, the criminal illegal aliens come up from Montgomery and P.G. counties, bleed into Frederick County. We’ve been dealing with crime.
INGRAHAM: I just want to put this up on the screen so people understand the scope of what we’re talking about. There are 10 illegals that were arrested for sexual assault from July to November of 2019. Here are their names. And this is during this span, this is when the Montgomery County executive Mark Elrich signed that executive order barring ICE agents from actually going into the court houses to arrest these people. And meanwhile we’ve got the laundry list of individuals raping, in many cases, young minors.
JENKINS: Absolutely. We’ve seen gang crime. We’ve seen machete killings in Frederick County. We have seen rape and sexual assault.
INGRAHAM: How long have you been in law enforcement?
JENKINS: I’ve been 30 years in Frederick County.
INGRAHAM: Let’s go back 30 years because that’s about the time I moved to this area. I can’t believe I’m saying that. That’s how long I’ve been here. That’ about the time I moved here, 1987, pretty much right after college. It was a different place.
JENKINS: It was a different world up there, then, absolutely. Frederick County is still largely rural county, population 250,000 people, but we never saw the problems with the gang crime, the criminal element that has bled over from the hotbeds of illegal aliens in P.G. and Montgomery County.
INGRAHAM: So the people Frederick County, the law abiding taxpayers who work hard and try to send their kids to public schools, why are they electing these people? Why are people getting elected in the state house?
JENKINS: I don’t understand that. As a matter of fact, I was in Annapolis today fighting century state bills that may come into play this year. It’s lunacy. It’s absolute lunacy. Listen —
INGRAHAM: What do you say to the average American watching in middle America tonight, watching this and feeling helpless? They feel helpless like they can’t — if they are living in a blue county, they feel helpless.
JENKINS: They do. They need to put pressure on their elected officials, their legislators, their congressmen, their local sheriffs and chiefs of police. In Frederick County, we got a little bit different up there. We work with ICE, we cooperate with ICE. We’re a 287-G county.
INGRAHAM: You are helping them.
JENKINS: We arrest, we detain, and we deport criminal aliens, absolutely. Over 12 years we have deported 1,563, including 110 criminal gang members. Our streets are fairly safe.
INGRAHAM: Have you ever seen machete killings, MS-13 a few years ago?
JENKINS: Never heard of them 30 years ago, ever.
INGRAHAM: How about 20 years ago?
JENKINS: Not even 20. I’d say in the past 10 to 12 years we’ve really seen the influx of this violence. And Laura, remember this, the populations that are coming to this country are from the most violent countries on the face the planet.
INGRAHAM: The best and the brightest, we are getting the best and the brightest. Sheriff, thank you for what you’re doing. Stay safe and thank you.
