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Sheriff Michael Hennessey is well known for his permissive views regarding immigration. One indication is how he stated a year ago that the federal Secure Communities program would interfere with San Francisco’s sanctuary policy of protecting unlawful foreigners. The program has caused the deaths of several, including three members of the Bologna family who were murdered by a previously arrested illegal alien gangster.
Sheriff Hennessey must have missed the dust-up surrounding Arizona’s strict enforcement law SB1070 where the Obama Justice Department said that immigration was a federal responsibility only and sued the state over that idea.
Recently the Sheriff announced he would begin releasing illegal aliens onto the streets of San Francisco, in defiance of the Secure Communities law. The lucky aliens to be released have been arrested on charges deemed minor, including disorderly conduct, drunk in public and shoplifting.
Does the minor charge category include drunk driving, a crime which has resulted in the deaths of many Americans? Unclear.
Furthermore, Hennessey’s act of defiance may catch on in other liberal sanctuary communities, where public safety is not valued. In fact, Gov. Pat Quinn has announced that he will withdraw Illinois from Secure Communities.
San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey said today he will soon begin releasing undocumented immigrants held in county jail for low-level offenses even if federal immigration officials request that they be held as part of its controversial Secure Communities program.
The program, which requires fingerprints of undocumented immigrants booked into local jails to be shared with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, will not apply as of June 1 to people arrested for low-level misdemeanors in San Francisco, Hennessey said.
The sheriff said the decision to ignore Secure Communities requests to hold the low-level offenders came after a talk last November with David Venturella, the director of the program.
“During the course of that meeting, he revealed that ICE detainers are not binding on a law enforcement agency to honor,” Hennessey said. “They’re merely a request to hold the person, not a legally binding warrant.”
He said he also reviewed San Francisco’s sanctuary law and says his new policy is in line with the local policy.
“I’m enforcing the county law, and not violating either federal or state law,” Hennessey said.
ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said Hennessey’s decision “is unfortunate.”
Kice said, “The identification and removal of many criminal aliens would not be possible without the cooperation of our state and local law enforcement partners.
She said, “ICE detainers are an effective tool to ensure that individuals arrested on criminal charges, who are also in violation of U.S. immigration law, are not released back into the community to potentially commit more crimes.”
Illegal alien Ingmar Guandique was found guilty last November of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy in 2001. The original missing person case got huge media attention because she was having a romantic affair with married Congressman Gary Condit who behaved suspiciously, convincing some that he was responsible for her disappearance. That was the summer preceding the 9/11 attacks, and when the planes hit New York and Washington, the Levy case fell from view.
Despite massive searches of Rock Creek Park at the time (her computer showed interest about the place), her body was not found until a year later by a man walking his dog in a steep forested area. Rep. Condit lost his seat in the 2002 primary because of the scandal.
The sex scandal starring a Washington politician was naturally more appealing to the press than another American killed by an illegal alien. Very little explication about Salvadoran Ingmar Guandique has occurred. The Washington Post produced an original investigation, Who Killed Chandra Levy?, that included a chapter on Guandique, The Predator in the Park, with details about his violent criminal history. However, for all the specifics given about Guandique’s rap sheet, there was no question about why he had not been deported after his 2001 arrest for burglary.
The system has not improved much in the time since, as illustrated by the 2010 drunk-driving death of Sister Denise Mosier at the hands of Carlos Montaro, a repeated DUI offender who had been released pending a possible deportation sometime later.
The Guandique trial was helpfully informational, however. While an earlier report said he came for the usual “better life,” the trial revealed that he came to America to escape a charge of attacking a woman with a knife. Such is the diversity we are supposed to celebrate uncritically.
The man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy nearly a decade ago was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison, a term that could keep him behind bars the rest of his life.
Ingmar Guandique would not be released from prison until he was at least about 80 years old, assuming he lives that long, said District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher. The judge, who called Guandique a dangerous person and sexual predator, said the sentence would ensure he was not a danger to the community if he is released.
Guandique was convicted in November of first-degree murder in Levy’s 2001 disappearance and death, despite a lack of witnesses and no DNA evidence linking him to the crime.
During Friday’s sentencing hearing, Levy’s mother, Susan Levy, asked Guandique directly if he had been responsible for her daughter’s death. He looked her in the eyes and shook his head.
“Mr. Guandique, you are lower than a cockroach,” Susan Levy told Guandique, calling him a “hideous creature” before closing her statement with: “F— you.”
She also read statements from her son, who urged the judge to impose a life sentence, and from her husband, who said Guandique should “rot in hell.”
Guandique, wearing an orange jumpsuit, said in a brief statement in Spanish that he was sorry for what happened to Levy. But, he added, “I had nothing to do with it. I am innocent.”
Levy’s disappearance became a national sensation after she was romantically linked to then-California Rep. Gary Condit. Police initially focused on Condit as a suspect. Levy’s remains were found in Rock Creek Park a year after she disappeared. Police eventually shifted their focus to Guandique, who was already serving a prison sentence for attacking female joggers in the park in the same time frame Levy disappeared.
Guandique is expected to serve about 50 years of his sentence.
Prosecutors had asked for a life prison sentence, arguing that Guandique showed no remorse and had a history of violence toward women. They said Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, fled his village in that country as a teenager because he was suspected of attacking a woman at knifepoint. Continue reading this article
Whether you are in favor of immediate deportation or comprehensive immigration reform, after illegal immigrants are arrested in Arizona, their remaining time north of the border might be a bit too comfortable for some.
We’re taking a look at one of the main detention centers for illegal immigrants. We wanted to take you behind closed doors to see for yourself the kind of treatment detainees are getting in Florence.
Detainees in blue uniforms have no previous criminal convictions. Orange uniforms mean they have minor convictions for things like drunk driving. Those with violent criminal convictions are usually taken to the Pinal County Jail and wear red uniforms.
“The things the public would be surprised at is the treatment that our ICE detainees receive here,” says Ed Preciado, ICE Asst. Field Office Director at the Phoenix field office.
Some people are angry that the U.S. spends hundreds of millions of dollars for centers like these, including Peter Gadiel.
“In effect, we’ve made illegal aliens privileged people who get better treatment than Americans do. It’s wrong,” says Gadiel, a member of New York Immigration Control and Enforcement.
According to Preciado, during the last three years, the number of people that ICE’s Phoenix field office has detained and removed from the country has actually gone up — from 76,000 people during fiscal year 2008, to 92,000 so far this year.
As we walked through the temporary housing area, we saw detainees watching TV, playing cards and chatting. They get up to 5 hours a day of recreation and get to spend hours playing soccer and basketball — and critics say this is almost like a vacation — a vacation that costs taxpayers billions of dollars.
They get two hot meals a day. A spokesperson for the detention center says the quality of food provided to the detainees is the same as that provided to our U.S. military because it comes from the same supplier.
“If I commit a crime, I’m not going to be sent to a vacation camp. I’m going to be sent to jail. And that’s what should happen to illegal aliens,” says Gadiel. “These people should not be treated like our military. They should be treated like criminals.”
Officials at the Florence detention center are also proud of the medical care they offer.
“They get the best medical treatment. If one of the detainees in this facility has a medical issue, they’re seen within 24 hours by our medical staff. I know, myself, if I have to see my doctor, I’ll be lucky if I get seen in a week,” says Preciado.
Bear in mind that the President just announced he would remove the National Guard from three out of four border states in February (now that the election is over) — so you see where Obama’s priorities are:
The Obama Administration plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the Texas, New Mexico and California borders by the end February under a new Southwest security plan, even as turmoil in Mexican border cities grows, according to documents obtained by The Washington Examiner.
A letter sent to various members of the Texas Congressional delegation from Texas’ Gov. Rick Perry’s office says, “In February, 2011, the Texas, New Mexico, and California National Guard forces that were deployed to the border in September, 2010, under President’s Obama’s Southwest Border Augmentation Plan, will have 30 days to complete a total draw down of forces.”
Three-year-old Marten Kudlis was killed as he sat in an ice cream shop by a crash caused by a vehicle driven at 80 mph by Francis Hernandez, a drunk alien from Guatemala who had been arrested 16 times but never deported. Two women in a pickup, Patricia Guntharp and Deb Serecky, were also killed. The killer was convicted on all counts in February and sentenced in April to only 60 years, far less than the maximum 108 years requested by the prosecutor. The punishment hardly seemed adequate for the deaths of three people.
A local paper had more information about the campaign ad:
DENVER – Tom Tancredo is running a television ad that blames his Democratic opponent in the governor’s race, John Hickenlooper, for causing the death of a 3-year-old boy.
The ad features Marat Kudlis, whose son, Marten, died in September 2008 when Francis Hernandez crashed into a pickup and sent both vehicles through the wall of an ice cream store, striking Marten. Two women in the pickup, Debra Serecky, 51, and Patricia Guntharp, 49, also died.
Hernandez was an illegal immigrant who had been in the United States most of his life. He had been arrested or contacted by police numerous times before the incident but never deported.
The boy’s father levels an emotional charge against Hickenlooper in the ad.
“I am sending you Marten’s picture, Mr. Mayor. Try to sleep at night knowing your policy contributed to his death,” Kudlis said.
That’s easier said than done, particularly in the arena of immigration enforcement, where the administration claims increased arrests and deportations of criminals (while ignoring the job-thievery aspect). Having illegal alien crime under control, along with border security, is understood to be a prerequisite to get a mass amnesty out of Congress.
Today’s example of the Obama administration acting against the safety of Americans concerns the death of nun Sister Denise Mosier at the hands of a drunk-driving illegal alien, a crime that got national attention because of the victim.
The accused killer, Carlos Montano, slammed head-on into the nun’s car, in his third drunk-driving incident in five years. He had twice been slated for deportation but somehow was released onto public streets. The notoriety of the case forced DHS head Janet Napolitano to investigate the screw-up.
The truth is that DHS has never taken drunk driving seriously, because the crime is so common. Inebriated driving is actually considered a desirable macho attribute in hispanic culture. If every drunk driving illegal alien were required to be deported, it would take up more resources than the government is willing to expend on public safety.
The Obama bunch say they are “prioritizing” deportations to repatriate the worst criminals first. That’s a reasonable strategy, but drunk-driving illegal aliens endanger all Americans, because everyone travels the roadways and navigates crosswalks. The government’s lack of seriousness is evident in this case, and all the others.
Clearly, the results of Napolitano’s investigation must be really damning, since it is being quashed.
The Obama administration will not release the results of an investigation into why an illegal immigrant with two drunk driving convictions went almost two years without a deportation hearing before a crash that killed a Virginia nun, a senior official said.
Carlos Martinelly-Montano, 23, who entered the country illegally from Bolivia as a child, is accused of killing Sister Denise Mosier, 66, and injuring two other Benedictine nuns while driving drunk in Prince William County on Aug. 1.
The furor over the way Martinelly-Montano’s case was handled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement prompted the agency’s boss, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, to announce an investigation.
“Why is it that this individual was driving?” Napolitano asked at a news conference Aug. 2, one day after the accident on Bristow Road. “He was in the removal process. Why did the removal process take so long?”
The inquiry is complete, but Homeland Security does not plan to make the results public, according to the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the matter.
“It’s a document that includes law enforcement sensitivities, so it will not be made public,” the official said. He declined to discuss the nature of those sensitivities.
Santa Clara County is the home of San Jose and Silicon Valley, so there is a fair amount of California immo-insanity present. Even so, the idea that the Board of Supervisors would unanimously vote to opt out of DHS’ Secure Communities program is pretty stunning. That means police will now be disallowed from checking arrestees’ fingerprints to sort out the dangerous criminals and illegal aliens.
Is it not a no-brainer that law enforcement’s wonderful fingerprint databases should be used as much as possible to protect public safety by removing the bad guys?
Not so, according to the friends of criminal aliens. Even though immigrants are often the victims of illegal alien criminals, the open borders extremists object to any enforcement, even of the worst of the worst.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously voted to opt out of a federal fingerprint reporting program aimed at criminals suspected of being in the country illegally.
The Secure Communities program was implemented in Santa Clara County in May by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
County officials said the program was implemented without the approval of the board, although the Department of Homeland Security has said that Secure Communities is a voluntary program and has provided a potential opt-out process.
Federal immigration officials claim the program is an important information-sharing tool for identifying and expediting the removal of illegal immigrants who are taken into local law enforcement custody.
Opponents of the program, many of them immigrants and immigration rights activists, say the program has been forced on the county by the federal government and the state, and that it hampers public safety.
They claim that implementation of the program results in a disregard for basic civil rights, opens the door to racial profiling, and will have a negative fiscal impact on the county.
“We need the police and we need security, and they need us as well,” one Spanish-speaking resident said through a translator at the board meeting. “We are against this law and any law that attacks our community.”
After hearing testimonies from about 20 people on the issue, the board voted to authorize efforts to opt out of the program, agreeing that implementation of the program conflicts with the county’s policy not to participate in the enforcement of federal immigration law and also potentially jeopardizes the safety of residents by discouraging them from calling police for fear of having their immigration status be questioned.
“It doesn’t make our communities any safer,” Supervisor George Shirakawa said. “I think it creates fear among residents and prevents them from reporting crimes.”
Shirakawa said he is concerned that the gesture to opt out will be merely symbolic, but added, “It does send a message to our residents that we are not going to create an atmosphere of fear in our communities.”
The program works by having local agencies take fingerprints of people who are arrested and checking the fingerprints against the Department of Homeland Security’s identification system and FBI criminal databases. If there is a match, federal agents work with the county in detaining, questioning, and eventually taking custody of the individuals.
Since its activation in the county, the program has resulted in the arrest of 339 illegal immigrants, nearly 75 percent of whom were convicted criminals, according to ICE regional spokeswoman Virginia Kice. She said 98 of those people had prior convictions for serious or violent offenses.
“As these figures demonstrate, Secure Communities is a major step forward in ICE’s efforts to work with local law enforcement to promote public safety in Santa Clara County, and we would welcome an opportunity to discuss the results further with the Board of Supervisors and other county officials,” Kice said in response to the board’s vote.
Opponents argue that although the program targets serious offenders, it sweeps up even people with no criminal convictions or convictions for minor offenses like driving without a license.
Driving without a license often indicates an illegal alien who cannot read English road signs and whose driving experience may consist of piloting a clunker over Mexican dirt roads. It’s not a “minor offense” when dangerous drivers are on the highways.
These leftist groups demand non-enforcement of even laws that clearly protect the public, extending to the point of warning drivers of drunk driving checkpoints, because inebriated drivers are often illegal — see my blog Anti-Safety Protestors Interrupt Police Checkpoints.
Sanctuary for lawbreaking criminals — no matter who is hurt or killed — that’s the goal of open-borders extremists.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, the entire Lone Star state has instituted Secure Communities:
SAN ANTONIO — A federal program that automatically checks the immigration status of suspects booked into local lockups officially went statewide in Texas on Wednesday, two years after the nationwide crackdown began in Houston jails.
I certainly hope the following story is accurate, which reports that DUI illegals will be jailed rather than be released to further endanger the public. The reason given is the death of Sister Denise Mosier (pictured left) at the hands of drunk-driving alien Carlos Montano (pictured right) in August.
In 2005, Rep. Sue Myrick introduced the Scott Gardner Act which states that any illegal alien convicted of a DWI will face automatic deportation, but the bill has never been passed into law.
As a result of the government’s apathy about the danger to public safety posed by inebriated foreigners, drunk driving illegal aliens endanger every American who crosses a street or rides in a car.
WASHINGTON – Immigration officials now plan to incarcerate illegal aliens when they’re arrested for drunken driving, WTOP has learned.
“The message has gone out to the field offices: Take them into custody, and don’t let them out on bond,” a high-ranking source within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tells WTOP.
The new, tougher policy comes after the death of a Catholic nun, allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant with previous drunken driving arrests in Prince William County. Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, an illegal immigrant from Bolivia, was involved in the Aug. 1 crash that killed Jeanette M. Mosier and seriously injured two other nuns in Bristow. Mosier was know in her Benedictine Order as Sister Denise Mosier.
After a 2008 drunken driving arrest, Montano, 23, had been detained by ICE but was released on his own recognizance, pending a deportation hearing. Mosier’s death sparked outrage that Montano had not been in custody.
Earlier, ICE said Montano’s previous alcohol-related arrests did not meet guidelines for detaining him.
“So even after a first DWI we have the authority to take him into custody. People in custody tend to go through the deportation process much faster,” the ICE source said.
Prior to this change, under the Obama administration, ICE had focused on removing violent criminals from the country. Some, including Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert, had argued repeat drunken driving should be grounds for removal.
Ebert says detaining them at the time of their arrest would not be a legal issue.
“They still have rights under our judicial system, but on the other hand, if they commit a crime and are here illegally, they don’t have any right to be released.”
Last week, a Prince William grand jury indicted Montano for felony murder, driving with a revoked license and maiming resulting from drunken driving — the first time Ebert has prosecuted felony murder based on DUI.
“The feeling is ‘this should never happen again,'” says the ICE official. “The decision has been made to treat them like they would violent criminals.”
ICE just noticed that drunk-driving illegal aliens kill? Remarkable.
Asked by WTOP to confirm details of the policy change, ICE spokesman Brian P. Hale issued a statement:
“ICE’s highest priorities are apprehending and removing convicted criminal aliens, aliens who pose a danger to the community, and fugitive aliens. Aliens who are criminals, public safety threats, and fugitives are a main focus for the agency. That includes aliens convicted of DUI, particularly those already ordered to leave the country.”
Even with the new policy, scarce space in ICE detention centers may mean not all impaired drivers will be taken into custody immediately.
“If you have a gang member and a first-time DUI and only one bed, you’re going to keep the gang member in custody,” the ICE source tells WTOP.
Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart, who has been a sharp critic of ICE, says he’s “excited” by the decision.
“This is just the beginning. We have other dangerous criminals that ICE will continue to release until their deportations and that policy has got to change as well.”
Stewart has written to ICE requesting a list of all illegal immigrants in his county who have been released while awaiting deportation hearings. He says he has not heard from the federal government on his request.
The Obama administration has been getting creative to finagle a way to reward illegal aliens and thereby suck up to Hispanics with a scary-to-Dems election looming. (Party elites believe that Hispanics universally want amnesty for illegal aliens, which is not entirely true.)
Suing Arizona was one strategy, to punish the citizens who are trying to enforce immigration laws because the feds have dropped the ball.
The latest Obama scheme has been a backdoor amnesty of releasing aliens who were already arrested and ready to be repatriated.
The Department of Homeland Security is systematically reviewing thousands of pending immigration cases and moving to dismiss those filed against suspected illegal immigrants who have no serious criminal records, according to several sources familiar with the efforts.
Culling the immigration court system dockets of noncriminals started in earnest in Houston about a month ago and has stunned local immigration attorneys, who have reported coming to court anticipating clients’ deportations only to learn that the government was dismissing their cases.
Richard Rocha, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman, said Tuesday that the review is part of the agency’s broader, nationwide strategy to prioritize the deportations of illegal immigrants who pose a threat to national security and public safety. Rocha declined to provide further details.
Critics assailed the plan as another sign that the Obama administration is trying to create a kind of backdoor “amnesty” program.
Oh no, Administration suits said: we are just prioritizing.
But then a memo appeared, revealing a change in policy.
Federal authorities have issued a new policy aimed at stopping deportation proceedings for some illegal immigrants, according to a memo issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The memo, which ICE released on Aug. 20, could affect up to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who are married or related to a U.S. citizen or a legal resident who has filed a petition on their behalf. Illegal immigrants with criminal convictions will not qualify under the plan. ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton wrote the memo to Peter Vincent, principal legal adviser and head of the agency’s removal operations.
The memo directs ICE attorneys to check cases of detained illegal immigrants for any “serious” or “adverse” factors weighing against dismissal, including criminal convictions, fraud, national security and public safety considerations.
“If no investigations … or serious adverse factors exist, the offices of chief counsel should promptly move to dismiss proceedings,” the memo reads. “Once the Field Office Director is notified, the FOD must release the alien.”
The change in policy could affect thousands of the estimated 17,000 pending removal cases. According to ICE data, nearly 40,000 immigrants obtained U.S residency status due to sponsorship of relatives who were legal residents in fiscal year 2009. By comparison, more than 393,000 illegal immigrants were deported during that same span.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, likened the change to a “free pass” for illegal immigrants, a characterization federal authorities denied.
“Actions like this demoralize ICE agents who are trying to do their job and enforce the law,” Grassley told The New York Times. “Unfortunately, it appears this is more evidence that the Obama administration would rather circumvent Congress and give a free pass to illegal immigrants who have already broken our law.”
Mentioned in passing in the video below is the fact that DUI is still considered a minor misbehavior, a misdemeanor in legal jargon, despite the number of Americans who are killed every year by drunk-driving illegal aliens.
Thanks to Ray Tranchant for speaking out as the father of teenager killed in a crash caused by an illegal alien. The public hears too little about the crime victims of unlawful foreigners; the liberal press prefers to swoon over foreign perps and their sufferings in pursuit of a “better life” rather than consider the human tragedies caused by open borders.
The accused killer, Bolivian Carlos Montano, had earlier been handed over to ICE for deportation (twice!) but instead was released onto American streets. He had spent 20 days in jail for two drunk-driving convictions, so was clearly a bad crash waiting to happen. An obviously dangerous illegal alien was released with deadly consequences.
My 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, was killed by an illegal immigrant in Virginia Beach three years ago while sitting at a stop light. Her friend Ali Kunhardt, 17, also perished instantly. […]
Alfredo Ramos, a previous DUI offender and alcoholic, seemed invisible in a system that was good at looking the other way. Virginia Beach and Chesapeake were being accused of being “sanctuary cities” as Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera screamed at each other during the national news hour. O’Reilly was right.
I know what sanctuary means more than most ever will.
Ramos was actually smug at the trial and took his lumps: 40 years in prison. There was nothing I could do but forgive him; forgiveness cleanses the soul. He was an uneducated foreigner patronized by local merchants who needed cheap labor.
Hundreds of thousands of illegals in Virginia do the same. We don’t share a border with Mexico, so the awareness here isn’t as great as Arizona or California.
But the dilemma in Arizona is more important to Virginians than it seems. Last Monday, Sister Denise Mosier was killed in Prince William County. An illegal immigrant from Bolivia with two previous drunken-driving convictions is charged with killing her and critically injuring two other nuns while driving drunk.
As with me, her friends say they have forgiven him and hold no grudges.
Later in the week, in response to this tragedy, the Secretary of Homeland Security said she would get to the bottom of why the illegals are not deported when they are repeat offenders.
Here’s what I would like to tell the Secretary: Ms. Napolitano, ICE was not there in 2007 when my daughter and her friend died. And, though ICE picked up the man who hit Sister Mosier, he wasn’t kept in custody and was sent back out the streets.
This problem is not new.
We know it’s not the people but the system that fails Americans again and again. There have been hundreds of similar stories in America since Tess and Ali died.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez from Illinois reminded me personally in a Congressional hearing that the solution lies with a comprehensive plan that includes amnesty. After all, he said, “they pick your grapes, clean your hotels and are then victimized.” Luis should worry about protecting U.S. Hispanics and instead of counting on prospective Hispanic votes.
But waving a magic wand over 12 million people will not solve this immigration problem. It worries me that we would even consider giving foreigners legal rights to Social Security, health care and school in a time of $14 trillion dollar deficits.
Consider that when 12 million get citizenship, 10 million of their relatives will migrate legally. Of course citizenship will make them pay into the system, but the amount won’t be realized for many years.
I don’t believe the current system can process this many people and verify that some are not criminals or terrorists, let alone pay benefits to new Americans.
On August 1, a previously arrested drunk-driving illegal alien killed a nun, Denise Mosier (pictured left), and seriously injured two others. The alien, Carlos Martinelly Montano (pictured right), had twice been handed over to ICE for deportation, but had instead been released into the community pending a deportation hearing (occasions which have notably poor attendance among those invited).
“ICE contacted me this morning, with great news for Prince William County citizens. They have agreed to release to Prince William County the identities and final disposition of every convicted criminal illegal alien apprehended in Prince William County, Virginia and turned over to ICE through the county’s 287(g) partnership,” Stewart said in a statement.
Stewart said his county’s police referred Carlos Martinelly Montano for deportation twice in the past after he served sentences for drunk driving convictions. But immigration officials released Montano, who allegedly killed Sister Denise Mosier and injured two other nuns in the Aug. 1 accident, on his own recognizance pending a deportation hearing.
“Regardless of which side of the aisle you’re on, or on this issue, we can all agree that if you are an illegal alien and you’ve committed a crime, that you should be deported afterward,” Stewart told Fox News on Friday. “But this guy had been twice handed over to immigration officials and twice released back into the community even though there was an immigration detainer on him. And of course he’s gone right back out and committed the same crime and killed a nun.”
This is good news if true. Dependable illegal alien crime statistics are normally hard to find and squishy. The government has routinely covered up, lied about and obfuscated the degree to which predatory foreign criminals have had their way in easy-going America. Authorities like to say they are pursuing the real bad guys, but recent history is replete with multiple cases of dangerous aliens arrested and released without being deported, with tragic results. (One crime that comes to mind is the preventable deaths of Tennesseeans Sean and Donna Wilson at the hands of a drunk-driving illegal who had been arrested 14 times without being deported.)
Some information about illegal alien crime is available, but mostly in limited quantities for local jurisdictions. For example in 2008 the Houston Chronicle did a fine investigative series on alien crime from researching the Harris County records of arrests and releases. The use of 287(g) which checks the status of arrested persons makes the number of aliens arrested available.
A recently released stat from ICE’s home office is that 120,000 criminal aliens have been deported in the last three years,/a>. That number is only 40,000 per year, and doesn’t count the crimes or classify them regarding violence and deaths. What’s needed is a true picture of the mayhem resulting from open borders and inadequate immigration law enforcement. Of course, all working aliens are job thieves (and may use a stolen Social Security number, a felony), which is not an insignificant crime during this employment depression.
Statistics are lifeless artifacts, which is why I have focused on the individual stories of crime victims for ImmigrationsHumanCost.org, but numeric information is required to develop adequate enforcement policy.
Anyway, the video below has more about Supervisor Stewart’s success in getting ICE to reveal local statistics, particularly the number of dangerous foreigners released instead of deported. Obviously the death of Sister Denise Mosier indicates the Obama gang is no more serious about criminal alien enforcement than previous administrations.
Reporting from Washington — Critics of the Obama administration’s decision to sue Arizona over its new law to control illegal immigration accuse the government of overlooking a more obvious target: the dozens of cities that called themselves a “sanctuary” for immigrants.
“Everyone has noticed the hypocrisy of the government going after Arizona and ignoring the sanctuary cities,” said Bob Dane, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “They have it exactly backwards. Arizona is applying federal law, and sanctuary cities are violating it.”
Justice Department lawyers on Thursday asked a judge in Phoenix to block Arizona’s law from going into effect on the grounds it interferes with federal immigration policy. The law is due to take effect in the coming week.
The Justice Department lawyers say the government wants to catch and deport criminal immigrants, but it does not wish to take custody of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who areotherwise abiding by the law.
Right, as if unlawfully occupying American jobs and using stolen Social Security numbers (a felony) makes the aliens “otherwise abiding by the law.”
But worse than that is the threat to public safety when the most violent foreign criminals are treated like privileged characters, which is what happens in sanctuary cities.
Heather MacDonald explained how the policy is seriously hazardous to public safety by allowing known criminals to roam free:
LAPD officers recognize illegal deported gang members all the time—flashing gang signs at court hearings for rival gangbangers, hanging out on the corner, or casing a target. These illegal returnees are, simply by being in the country after deportation, committing a felony (in contrast to garden-variety illegals on their first trip to the U.S., say, who are only committing a misdemeanor). “But if I see a deportee from the Mara Salvatrucha [Salvadoran prison] gang crossing the street, I know I can’t touch him,” laments a Los Angeles gang officer. Only if the deported felon has given the officer some other reason to stop him, such as an observed narcotics sale, can the cop accost him—but not for the immigration felony.
The most important argument against alien sanctuary is the increasing list of crime victims, including Los Angeles high school football star Jamiel Shaw (shown) who was killed by an illegal alien gangster one day after the criminal was released from jail without being deported.
There are other cases of Americans being killed in preventable crimes — many by previously arrested drunk driving illegal aliens. Sadly, the MSM is incapable of connecting the dots of causality.
There is NO evidence that illegals speak up with evidence against criminals, which is the bogus reason given by many sanctuary supporters; the policy is promoted because the open-borders extremists do NOT care that the program helps violent criminals to stay and commit more crimes against innocent citizens. To them, open borders is an issue that supercedes the rule of law.
Frank and Dawn Glogovsky (pictured), along with their 13-year-old son, were driving home from a family gathering when their car was struck by Jorge Dominguez after he ran a stop sign. (The obituary noted that Frank and Dawn were childhood sweethearts and married in 1988.)
All three members of the family were taken by emergency medical personnel to a hospital, but Dawn died there.
A Burlington man who allegedly caused a fatal car crash Monday while intoxicated is an illegal immigrant who was driving with a suspended license and has served jail time in Racine County for several prior offenses, officials said Thursday.
Because the man is an illegal immigrant, he likely should not have had a drivers license at all and should have previously been turned over to U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement officials for possible deportation after completing his sentences in Racine County, officials said.
ICE officials Thursday confirmed that the man, Jorge Dominguez, 38, is an illegal immigrant. Dominguez, of 544 Chestnut Drive in Burlington, was charged Wednesday with seven criminal offenses including homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle for a crash Monday around 11 p.m. when he allegedly ran a stop sign at the intersection of highways 45 and N in the Town of Paris, killing 45-year-old Dawn Glogovsky and injuring her husband and son, all of the Paris area. […]
Dominguez has been in and out of the Racine County Jail since 2008, serving sentences for past criminal offenses including battery, cocaine possession and obstructing an officer. When local police or sheriffs’ departments arrest an illegal immigrant like Dominguez for such criminal charges, they are supposed to inform ICE, which will place a detainer hold on that individual so that when they are released they go to ICE for possible deportation, said Carl Rusnok, ICE spokesman.
So Dominguez was clearly a dangerous criminal illegal alien, and was jailed in Racine County with an immigration hold put on him, yet he was released into America rather than deported after time served.
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