California is particularly guilty of protecting illegal foreigners and allowing citizens to be in the line of fire. Kate Steinle (pictured below) became one of the best known when she was shot down on a San Francisco pier while strolling with her father. The shooter was an illegal Mexican who had been released by the sanctuary city despite having been deported five times.

Other victims of sanctuary policies include Bambi Larson, three members of the Bologna family, Sacramento County Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County Detective Michael David Davis Jr. and numerous others.

Typically for the sanctuary mindset, the perp in the current case failed to show up for a deportation hearing, but the Fairfax police released him like there was nothing wrong.

Protecting public safety is no longer the most important job of police, it seems. Instead, dangerous foreign lawbreakers are allow to roam the streets at will to do whatever they want.

TUCKER CARLSON: A police officer in the Commonwealth of Virginia has been suspended from his job. What did he do wrong? He helped the federal government enforce the law.

Fox News chief breaking news correspondent Trace Gallagher has more for us tonight. Hey, Trace.

TRACE GALLEGHER: Hey, Tucker. A driver who was involved in an accident did not have a driver’s license, so the responding Fairfax police officer followed standard operating procedure and ran him through the DMV database to look for things like criminal behavior. Well, turns out the driver failed to show up for a deportation hearing, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement had issued an immigration warrant. So at this point the suspect had committed at least two violations. The officer verified the warrant, notified the ICE agent listed as the contact and held the man until the agent arrived.

But Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler said the officer deprived the man of his freedom, quoting here: “We have trained on this issue a lot; this is the first time we’ve had a lapse in judgment, and the officer is being punished.”

In fact, as you said, the officer was suspended.

And former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan is baffled. Watch him:

TOM HOMAN: This world is upside down when those who illegally enter the country in violation of law, who knowingly violate our law, all of a sudden they are the victims, and the ones that enforce law are the bad guys.

GALLEGHER: But since 2007, Fairfax County, Virginia, has barred police officers from confirming anyone’s immigration status. Those accused of crimes are booked into jails, and then their immigration status is checked, but they still won’t cooperate with ICE, so the point is moot. By the way the driver who was held was released a few hours later with an ankle monitor. Tucker.

CARLSON: Remarkable story. Trace Gallagher, thank you for that.

Some of those early supporters spoke at the podium of the Republican nominating convention and appeared during the campaign.

Below, illegal alien crime victim families appeared with candidate Trump in 2016, including Jamiel Shaw Sr. at the podium and Sabine Durden standing next to Trump.

Now, those original crime victim families are hurt and appalled at the president’s U-turn to amnesty for so-called Dreamers:

Remembrance Project families that campaigned for Trump call amnesty a ‘slap in the face’, Washington Times, January 25, 2018

They hugged him, they endorsed him, they appeared on stage after stage in the campaign with him — and now the victims of immigrant crime say President Trump delivered a “slap in the face” after he embraced a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrant Dreamers.

Laura Wilkerson, the mother of brutally murdered Josh, appeared on a Fox News show last week and said, “We don’t owe them anything,” and observed that the DACA amnesty sets a terrible precedent for the crimes of the parents to be rewarded with citizenship for the offspring.

Jamiel Shaw Sr., whose son was murdered by an illegal alien gangster just feet from the safety of the family home, recently tweeted that DACAs are owed deportations, period.

Sabine Durden gave a passionate speech about the loss of her beloved son Dominic at the National Republican Convention where Donald Trump was nominated to be president. Now she is deeply disappointed by the betrayal from the man she once called her “hero.”

Only child, my son Dominic had HUGE DREAMS.
He didn’t get to fulfill them, because he was killed by an illegal 7-12-12.
Democrats don’t care because he can’t vote for them. #NoAmnesty #NoDaca #BuildTheWall
Wake up and protect your Dreamers ! pic.twitter.com/V7PrslC3EL

— Sabine (@sabine_durden) January 28, 2018

So President Trump’s illegal alien amnesty scheme has destroyed the trust of some of his most loyal supporters. They have been thrown under the bus and are being replaced at the big speech by some new faces of illegal alien crime. It’s regrettable that the public will learn the horror of MS-13 savagery only after the bad faith shown toward the president’s early defenders.

In fact, the MS-13 gangsters are some of the most brutal monsters on the planet, yet were knowingly admitted during Obama’s illegal alien border surge and have come to terrorize parts of Long Island and Maryland.

The crime victim parents being highlighted in the State of the Union lost their high school daughters to MS-13 gangsters.

Martha McCallum of Fox News interviewed the parents of Kayla Cuevas after the president’s Long Island speech on July 28, 2017 to talk about the murder of their daughter by MS-13 gangsters. Kayla and her friend were brutally beaten and slashed to death after Kayla got into a disagreement on social media with some gangsters who attended high school with them. (How screwed up is it when MS-13 killers attend high school with our citizen kids?!)

Below, high school girls Nisa Mickens (left) and Kayla Cuevas (right) were murdered by MS-13 gangsters.

It’s reported the parents of both girls will attend the speech.

Trump Guests for SOTU Include Parents of Children Murdered by MS-13, CNS News, January 29, 2018

(CNSNews.com) – The White House on Monday released the details of those who will be guests of President Donald Trump at his first State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Among those who will be seated in first lady Melania Trump’s box are Elizabeth Alvarado, Robert Mickens, Evelyn Rodriguez, and Freddy Cuevas, parents of two girls murdered by MS-13 gang members.

In March 2017, police arrested more than a dozen MS-13 gang members for the murders of 15-year-old Nisa Mickens and 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas in Long Island, N.Y. Their bodies were found in September 2016. Both had been brutally beaten.

Authorities say Cuevas had been “marked for death” because of a feud with gang members on social media, and Mickens had just been “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

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Below, illegal alien Edwin Mejia (left) killed Sarah Root, yet he could post bond even though he was clearly a flight risk.

The systemic lawlessness of the Obama regime has been a plague upon the land and the cause of many preventable deaths caused by illegal aliens. As Senator Jeff Sessions remarked in a hearing about crime victims of illegal aliens, “This administration has consistently and steadfastly placed the goal of amnesty above the goal of public safety.”

Crime victims of illegal aliens are important people to President-elect Trump also, who discussed them (including Sarah) in his acceptance speech and gave three parents a forum to speak at the GOP convention about the loss of their children.

Below, GOP convention attendees carried signs saying “Make America Safe Again!”

In Tuesday’s hearing, details of the conversation between Senators Sasse and Sessions illustrate what an unworkable mess immigration enforcement has become after eight years of its dismantling by Obama.

SENATOR BEN SASSE: Senator Sessions, I’d like to talk a little bit about the Sarah Root case: I know that you and I have discussed it briefly last summer. Sarah Root was woman who was killed a year ago this month in Omaha; she’d just graduated from college and she was killed by a drunken street racer. Omaha authorities believe that this guy had been engaged in similar activity many times in the past. He was an illegal immigrant, he ran into her car, killed her right after her graduation, he was detained by Omaha police, they ultimately notified the department of Homeland Security.

This guy is a flight risk — he was able to post a fairly insignificant bond and he disappeared. The Department of Homeland Security did nothing to detain the guy despite the fact that the Douglas County Sheriff and the Omaha Police Department asked that he be detained. The Obama administration determined that it wasn’t an enforcement priority.

I don’t wanna hold you to specifics on this case here, but I want to get your pledge in this context. I want to hear you talk generally about the coordination between state and local law enforcement on the illegal immigration activities and in particular in cases where serious crimes have been committed. But i wonder if you would pledge now that if i send you a letter the day after you’re confirmed, would you give expeditious attention to responding with some of these details about how enforcement priorities are set inside the federal government

SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS: Thank you Senator Sasse, I certainly will, and it does represent important failures that we’re seeing too often in our system today.

SASSE: Do you have any top-line thoughts on the way local and state officials interact with federal officials on immigration cases?

SESSIONS: Well the immigration enforcement procedures the courts have held are exclusively the power of the federal government, but it’s also clear that a state official has the right to ask somebody for the offense of crossing the border illegally, they have the right to arrest people who have entered the country illegally or repeatedly entered the country illegally for any kind of offense, including the offense of re-entering illegally, and the co-operative system should work in a way that the federal government then evaluates whether or not they want to put a hold on in order not to release that person until they can take them and see them be deported.

And it’s failing in a whole number of ways — you’ve got the sanctuary cities who refuse to tell Homeland Security that they’ve got somebody that’s committed a serious crime so they can be deported, they refuse to honor detainers. On the other side, we’ve got Homeland Security too often having standards or failing to follow up on serious offenses of people who should be deported. So in both aspects I think, Senator Sasse, I think we can do much better and this country has every right to deport persons who are here unlawfully who violate our criminal laws in some other aspect and they should indeed be promptly deported.

SASSE: Thank you, we’ll follow up with the letter, because this guy Edwin Mejia who killed Sara Root — it was obvious to everybody engaged locally, lots of law enforcement and the family whose daughter was killed that this guy was a flight risk, and everyone was screaming to the feds, please don’t let this guy disappear before he can stand trial. He’s now in the top ten most wanted list and nobody thinks he’s ever going to be found. Everybody believes he left the country and this kind of case isn’t an isolated case — it’s a kind of handoff between federal and local law enforcement that could happen repeatedly if you don’t have a federal government that has any clear policies. So we’d like to send you a letter right after your confirmation, asking for clarity about how federal enforcement actions are prioritized.

SESSIONS: And Senator Sasse, I would note that fundamentally that would be a Homeland Security issue initially, and they need to set the standards of what they should and should not do, and I would think that General Kelly would be quite willing to also talk with you about it, as will I.

One of the three parents, Sabine Durden, tweeted her appreciation for Donald Trump giving the crime victims a forum:

THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT @realDonaldTrump FOR GIVING OUR KIDS A VOICE @mamendoza480 pic.twitter.com/74kOfVAD8l

— Sabine Durden (@sabine_durden) July 22, 2016

Actually, Trump spoke at length about immigration, public safety and national security.

Below, the murder of Kate Steinle by a five-times-deported Mexican as she strolled with her father along a San Francisco pier was another reminder that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.

An extra bonus is the list of 282 footnotes included in the official version of the speech illustrating the veracity of Trump’s various points, in case there are any questions about the facts.

In the clip below, a section about crime victims begins at around 8:30:

Lastly, we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place.

My opponent has called for a radical 550% increase in Syrian refugees on top of existing massive refugee flows coming into our country under President Obama. She proposes this despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from. I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people.

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never will be.

Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.

On Monday, we heard from three parents whose children were killed by illegal immigrants Mary Ann Mendoza, Sabine Durden, and Jamiel Shaw. They are just three brave representatives of many thousands. Of all my travels in this country, nothing has affected me more deeply than the time I have spent with the mothers and fathers who have lost their children to violence spilling across our border.

These families have no special interests to represent them. There are no demonstrators to protest on their behalf. My opponent will never meet with them, or share in their pain. Instead, my opponent wants Sanctuary Cities. But where was sanctuary for Kate Steinle? Where was Sanctuary for the children of Mary Ann, Sabine and Jamiel? Where was sanctuary for all the other Americans who have been so brutally murdered, and who have suffered so horribly?

These wounded American families have been alone. But they are alone no longer. Tonight, this candidate and this whole nation stand in their corner to support them, to send them our love, and to pledge in their honor that we will save countless more families from suffering the same awful fate.

We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities. I have been honored to receive the endorsement of America’s Border Patrol Agents, and will work directly with them to protect the integrity of our lawful immigration system.

By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will stop the cycle of human smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will go down. Peace will be restored. By enforcing the rules for the millions who overstay their visas, our laws will finally receive the respect they deserve.

Tonight, I want every American whose demands for immigration security have been denied – and every politician who has denied them – to listen very closely to the words I am about to say.

On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone.

But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens. My plan is the exact opposite of the radical and dangerous immigration policy of Hillary Clinton. Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration. Communities want relief.

Yet Hillary Clinton is proposing mass amnesty, mass immigration, and mass lawlessness. Her plan will overwhelm your schools and hospitals, further reduce your jobs and wages, and make it harder for recent immigrants to escape from poverty.