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    ICE Releases List Of Murderers And Rapists Protected Under Sanctuary City Policies

    Jason Hopkins | Immigration and Politics Reporter

     

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released a list of criminal illegal aliens who were released from jail due to sanctuary city policies, many of whom went on to commit other crimes.

    Washington and Oregon, two states under Democratic Party control, have enacted some of the strongest sanctuary laws in the country that protect illegal immigrants from federal apprehension. Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation in May that prohibits local jails and state prisons from honoring ICE detainers, and bars them notifying ICE when a suspected illegal immigrant is about to be released from their custody.

    The newly minted law puts Washington on par with Oregon and California in terms of the level of restriction placed against federal immigration authorities. Federal law enforcement officials argue that their job becomes much more difficult with these laws, and communities are put in more danger.

    “There is an inherent increase in risk to personnel and bystanders when ICE officers and agents must go out into the community to proactively locate these previously detained criminal aliens,” read a press release from the agency. “ICE commends our local law enforcement colleagues who work to minimize that risk by cooperating with ICE to apprehend criminal aliens at the time of their release from local custody.”

    In a bid to show the horrific consequences of sanctuary laws, ICE on Monday released details of some of the criminals in Washington and Oregon custody who went on to evade ICE apprehension.

    Rosalio Ramos-Romas, a Honduran national, was deported from the U.S. four times before his arrest in Washington in October 2017. However, after local authorities failed to hand him over to ICE, he was then charged in January 2018 of stabbing his cousin to death, decapitating the body, and then attempting to hide the remains in a dumpster.

    A county jail in Kent, Washington, did not honor a January 2014 retainer placed on Jorge Luis Romero-Arriaga, a Honduran living illegally in the U.S., despite being held on a charge of child rape. Local authorities instead released him into the community pending the results of his case. Romero-Arriaga was subsequently convicted in August 2015, according to ICE, and deported from the country.

    The list went to describe other examples of illegal immigrants in Washington and Oregon committing murder after local jails ignored an ICE detainer and released them into the public. In another instances, a Washington county jail refused to honor an ICE request, despite that individual already having been convicted of rape in the state. (RELATED: Mexico Braces For Sudden Influx Of Illegal Immigrants Under Trump Deal)

    Oregon Republicans, long a minority in their state, have grown frustrated over Democratic support for sanctuary policies.

    “Oregon Democrats are more interested in political games, at the expense of real lives, than they are at upholding the rule of law,” Jonathan Lockwood, a Republican spokesman at the Oregon Legislature, said in a statement to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Gov. Kate Brown is endangering Oregonians on virtually every level and has no business being in the governor’s office.”

    ICE argues that not cooperating with their agents puts the community at a greater risk of danger.

    “When local law enforcement decides to uphold sanctuary policies and release illegal criminal aliens without notifying ICE, it is a decision to protect and release criminals who are preying on victims in our communities. By allowing criminal aliens, particularly those with egregious criminal records, to be released it places everyone in potential danger,” said Bryan Wilcox, an acting field operations director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations.

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    c e voigtsberger
    c e voigtsberger
    4 years ago

    I have always been amused when some staunch anti-Second Amendment advocate is held up at gun-point and suddenly has an instant conversion and applies for a concealed carry permit. Or, as the Washington DC newspaper reporter who advocated that anyone who uses a gun should go to prison. Yes, that’s right, prison, not jail. I then expected when he shot a young man skinny dipping in his backyard pool that he was going to march into court and plead guilty and demand the maximum federal prison sentence. Well, not really. I never in my wildest fantasies thought that would happen. And it didn’t. His legal eagle mouthpiece managed a plea deal with a slap on the wrist.

    What we need is for some legislator or governor or assistant governor to suffer the anguishing loss that Kathleen Steinle’s father experienced. I can assure you, ICE would be given the passkey to every jail and prison in each of the “refuge” states with emergency legislation passed before the next sunset and signed by the governor of that state waiting to sign by lurking in the chamber where the vote was taken.

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