Thursday, October 24, 2019

SANCTUARY CITIES - WORKING HARD TO PROTECT CRIMINALS - "In fact, more Mexicans than U.S. citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in 2018."

Proposed Bill Would Open Sanctuary Politicians Up to Lawsuits

October 23, 2019 Updated: October 23, 2019

WASHINGTON—Under sanctuary policies, many jails release illegal immigrants who have been convicted or charged with a crime, despite a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold the person for transfer of custody.
A bill sponsored by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) aims to allow any subsequent victims of crimes committed by that illegal alien to sue the politicians who created the sanctuary policies.
The bill, Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act of 2019, was introduced in July to the Senate Judiciary Committee and a hearing was held Oct. 22.
“These reckless sanctuary policies are putting our brave law enforcement officers at risk and the general public in harm’s way,” Tillis said. “In many cases, I believe these serious crimes could have been avoided if local agencies simply complied with U.S. law and cooperated with ICE.”
Mary Ann Mendoza, an Arizona woman whose 32-year-old son was killed by an illegal alien in a 2014 car crash, testified at the hearing. She said the group she co-founded, Angelfamilies.com, would encourage American victims to sue their elected officials should the bill pass.
“We feel it will make elected officials think twice about placing irresponsible and dangerous policies in place putting American citizens in harm’s way,” Mendoza said after the hearing.
“Every day, Americans are being marginalized as collateral damage by this incredibly dangerous mindset that criminal illegal aliens deserve above-the-law protections while they remain illegally present in our country.”
The illegal alien who killed her son, police Sgt. Brandon Mendoza, had been in and out of jails in Colorado before he ended up in Arizona.
Mendoza said the man was “more than three times the legal limit drunk and high on meth, drove over 35 miles the wrong way on four different freeways in the Phoenix area, before slamming head-on into my son’s car going over 100 miles per hour.”
Mendoza also railed against politicians who call illegal immigrants “immigrants” and conflate them with those who enter the United States lawfully.

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Angel mom Mary Ann Mendoza during a Senate Judiciary hearing about sanctuary jurisdictions, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 22, 2019. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
“I believe Angel Families would feel vindicated if they had a way to sue the very people responsible for the irresponsible, dangerous sanctuary policies these officials felt they had the authority to put in place with no public approval,” she said. “There is absolutely no logic in turning a dangerous criminal out onto our streets and certainly not an illegal criminal.”
Timothy Robbins, acting executive associate director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, said if he was an illegal alien who wanted to commit a crime, “and not have to worry about being removed from this country, I would do it in a city that does not cooperate with ICE.”
According to research by the Center for Immigration Studies, almost 200 cities and counties have adopted sanctuary policies, as well as nine states.
“Sanctuary city policies that are trying to protect the community are doing the exact opposite. They’re allowing criminals to walk free and to victimize people within the community,” Robbins said. He warned that minor crimes often lead to significant crimes and recidivism rates remain high among criminals.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she was mayor of San Francisco in 1985 when she signed one of the first sanctuary bills in the country. California is now a sanctuary state.
Feinstein said sanctuary policies protect “law-abiding immigrants. They are not intended, and should never be used to shield dangerous criminals.”
But, Robbins said, “you cannot have it both ways.”
ICE is being pushed out of California jails, where it traditionally picked up almost all of the state’s illegal alien criminal population, he said.
“Increasingly, those who insist ICE must focus its enforcement resources on criminal aliens—which it does—are also attempting to restrict the agency’s access to these same criminals by curtailing jail interviews, limiting data sharing, and ignoring detainers,” he said.
He said thousands of the 165,000 detainers that ICE placed in fiscal year 2019 will likely be ignored, triggering the release of criminals. He said jails in sanctuary cities are releasing illegal immigrants who commit murder, rape, child molestation, domestic violence, and drunk driving, as well as gang members.

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Timothy Robbins, acting executive associate director for ICE Enforcement Removal Operations, during a Senate Judiciary hearing about sanctuary jurisdictions, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 22, 2019. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Currently, victims of crime committed by illegal aliens who have been released from jails under sanctuary policies are unable to sue. The parents of Kate Steinle—who was fatally shot in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant—were rebuffed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in March, after trying to sue San Francisco and its former sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. The appeals court refused to reinstate the lawsuit.
Mirkarimi released Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate, a Mexican national, from jail three months before the shooting, despite a detainer lodged by ICE. Garcia-Zarate had already been deported five times.
Tillis said his bill includes a “safe harbor” provision that protects victims and witnesses of crimes, who some say may be scared to report crime if they themselves are in the country illegally. The Department of Homeland Security also has safe harbor protections.
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MEX MURDERS MOTHER IN PELOSI, FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, GAVIN NEWSOM'S ! SANCTUARY ! CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO!
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Steinle’s murderer, Jose Zarate and been deported 5xs!
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"While walking with her father on a pier in San Francisco in 2015, Steinle was shot by the illegal alien. Steinle pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed in her father’s arms."

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In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 s ex crimes, and 4,000 violent k illings. Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally k illed by those who illegally entered our country, and thousands more lives will be lost if we don't act right now.

 

STEALING AMERICA!

Here’s how California surrendered to Mexico… OR WAS HANDED TO MEXICO BY NANCY PELOSI, DIANNE FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS, JERRY BROWN and GAVIN NEWSOM!

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/california-under-mex-occupation-do-not.html


Crimes by Illegal Immigrants Widespread Across US – Sanctuaries Shouldn’t Shield Them

By Hans A. von Spakovsky
“more Mexicans than U.S. citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in 2018.”

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Hans von Spakovsky: Crimes by illegal immigrants widespread across US – Sanctuaries shouldn’t shield them

The decision by a California appeals court Friday overturning the conviction of an illegal immigrant who shot and killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco in 2015 once again put the national spotlight on the serious problem of crimes committed by people in the U.S. illegally.
The appeals court in San Francisco overturned the conviction of Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Garcia-Zarate was earlier found not guilty of first- and second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and assault with a semi-automatic weapon. 
Garcia-Zarate said he unwittingly picked up a gun, which he said was wrapped in a T-shirt, and it fired accidentally. The appeals court overturned his conviction on the firearm possession charge because it said the judge at his trial failed to give the jury the option of finding him not guilty on the theory that he only possessed the gun for a moment.
Opponents of federal efforts to enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress repeatedly claim that illegal immigrants are “less likely” to commit crimes than U.S. citizens – and thus represent no threat to public safety. But that’s not true when it comes to federal crimes.
Non-citizens constitute only about 7 percent of the U.S. population. Yet the latest data from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that non-citizens accounted for nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of all federal arrests in 2018. Just two decades earlier, only 37 percent of all federal arrests were non-citizens.
These arrests aren’t just for immigration crimes. Non-citizens accounted for 24 percent of all federal drug arrests, 25 percent of all federal property arrests, and 28 percent of all federal fraud arrests.
In 2018, a quarter of all federal drug arrests took place in the five judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border. This reflects the ongoing activities of Mexican drug cartels. Last year, Mexican citizens accounted for 40 percent of all federal arrests.
In fact, more Mexicans than U.S. citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in 2018.
Migrants from Central American countries are also accounting for a larger share of federal arrests, going from a negligible 1 percent of such arrests in 1998 to 20 percent today.
Critics will try to downplay the importance of the Justice Department’s report by pointing out that the majority of crimes in the United States are handled by prosecutors in state and local courts. But even there the data is shocking.
A recent report from the Texas Department of Public Safety revealed that 297,000 non-citizens had been “booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and July 31, 2019.” So these are non-citizens who allegedly committed local crimes, not immigration violations.
The report noted that a little more than two-thirds (202,000) of those booked in Texas jails were later confirmed as illegal immigrants by the federal government.
According to the Texas report, over the course of their criminal careers those illegal immigrants were charged with committing 494,000 criminal offenses.
In fact, more Mexicans than U.S. citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in 2018.
Some of these cases are still being prosecuted, but the report states that there have already been over 225,000 convictions. Those convictions represent: 500 homicides; 23,954 assaults; 8,070 burglaries; 297 kidnappings; 14,178 thefts; 2,026 robberies; 3,122 sexual assaults; 3,840 sexual offenses; 3,158 weapon charges and tens of thousands of drug and obstruction charges
These statistics reveal the very real danger created by sanctuary policies. In nine self-declared sanctuary states and numerous sanctuary cities and counties, officials refuse to hand over criminals who are known to be in this country illegally after they have served their state or local sentences.
This refusal to cooperate with federal immigration officials suggests that state and local officials supporting the sanctuary movement believe it’s better to let these criminals return to their communities rather than being removed from this country. Not all of their constituents would agree.
The Texas report is careful to note that it is not claiming “foreign nationals” commit “more crimes than other groups.” Whether that is true or not – and it is certainly true when it comes to federal crimes – is irrelevant.
What is highly relevant to the current debate about immigration policy is that the Texas report “identifies thousands of crimes that should not have occurred and thousands of victims that should not have been victimized because the perpetrators should not be here.”
We know that in Texas and around the country some individuals would be alive today – and their families would not be mourning their loss – if we had a secure border and an effective interior enforcement system.
Instead of trying to obstruct enforcement of our immigration laws, state and local officials should do everything they can to help the feds reduce the very real – and all too often fatal – dangers posed by criminal illegal immigrants.
One of the worst recent examples of a state official who refuses to help federal immigration authorities carry out their duties is North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper.
The Democratic governor recently vetoed a bill that would require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Cooper did so just days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents captured an illegal immigrant charged with first-degree rape and indecent liberties against a child.

Acting ICE Director: ICE Removed More Than 145,000 Criminal Aliens Last Year, Including 10,000 Gang Members

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 (CNSNews.com) - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made more than 105,000 criminal arrests last year and removed more than 145,000 criminal aliens, “to include the arrests of nearly 10,000 gang members and the removal of another 6,000,” acting ICE Director Matt Albence said Thursday.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Albence warned about the dangers of sanctuary cities, calling it a “public safety matter.”

“We are here today to help the public understand the human cost of sanctuary laws and policies, which ban and prevent local law enforcement agencies from working with ICE to include even the simple sharing of information about criminals already in their custody. Laws and policies like these make us all less safe plain and simple,” he said.
Albence said that 70 percent of ICE arrests are made at local jails and state prisons nationwide, “but we used to make more, and we used to get more criminals off the street before sanctuary laws and policies prevented us from doing so.”
“There’s a lot of misinformation out there with regard to how we do our operations and what is required, so I’m going to give a little bit of information and context to dispel some of those myths and misinformation that’s out there,” the director said.
“One myth is the sanctuary jurisdictions along with many politicians and members of the media continually perpetuate is that ICE doesn’t prioritize its limited enforcement resources. Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said.
Albence said that 90 percent of the people that ICE arrests in the interior of the country “are convicted criminals, individuals who’ve been charged with a criminal violation, are immigration fugitives or are illegal re-entrants, meaning they’ve been through the immigration court process previously, been deported and re-entered illegally, which is a federal felony and one of which we received 7,000 convictions for last year.”
“And immigration fugitives, to be clear as well, are those individuals who’ve had their day in court, have exhausted all forms of due process, have been ordered removed by an immigration judge, and failed to comply with that removal order,” the director said.
“Many sanctuary jurisdictions will also incorrectly assert that they cannot hand over custody of criminal aliens in their jails unless ICE provides an arrest warrant signed by a federal judge. Those that say that are either willfully ignorant or patently disingenuous,” Albence said.
“The truth is that federal law does not provide any mechanism for judicial warrants to be issued for civil immigration violations. There is not a single judge, magistrate anywhere in this country that has a lawful authority to issue a warrant for a civil immigration violation. By statute, Congress has given this authority solely to supervisory immigration officers. This is one of the ways in which our system -- the immigration enforcement system -- differs from the criminal justice system, and it's perfectly lawful,” he said.
Albence said that of the nearly 1,300 arrests made this week, ICE officers arrested “nearly 200 who could’ve been arrested at the jail if the detainer had been honored.”
“Of the criminal aliens we took into custody this week, three had convictions for manslaughter or murder. One hundred had convictions for sexual assault or crimes, with the victims of nearly half of them being children. Seventy had convictions for crimes involving drugs, and more than 320 had convictions for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol,” he said.


DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED AMERICAN CITIES IN MELTDOWN

LOS ANGELES, MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY and MEXICAN MURDER CAPITAL OF AMERICA



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"It was instead, downtown Los Angeles, Calif., although the scene was recreated in numerous other cities around the country with substantial Mexican populations. Hordes of Mexican expatriates, many here illegally, were protesting the very U.S. immigration laws they were violating with impunity. They found it offensive and a violation of their rights that the U.S. dared to have immigration laws to begin with."
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Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
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Aztlan's goal, known as La reconquista, is to cede and take over the entirety of the southern and western states by any means necessary and impose a Communist militant dictatorship. President Bush's blanket amnesty program goes a long way to helping the extremists achieve their aim.

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ICE ‘Raging Bull’ Operation Leads to Arrest of 267 MS-13 Gang Members in Los Angeles

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The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
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JUDICIAL WATCH

Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year

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In 1960, according to a USC demographic study, fewer than 10% of the people in the Los Angeles County area were Latino. By 2008, according to federal census estimates, almost half were Latino. Roughly the same was true in the city of Los Angeles.
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"It extends to each issue the Democrats embrace. Every city that has come under Democrat control is proof positive that instead of raising the standard of living for the occupants, the city falls to crime, gangs, and drugs.  In fact, "America is awash with troubled, dysfunctional cities that have been electing Democrat Party mayors for decades." EILEEN F TOPLANSKY

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