In a series of tweets published Saturday, Democrat presidential hopeful and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted that those residing illegally in the Big Apple stand their ground against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Let’s be blunt here:
@ realDonaldTrump has turned ICE into a political weapon against our immigrant communities,” de Blasio wrote in a Saturday morning tweet. “To everyone worried this weekend: this is your city.”
In an attempt to comfort those living in the city illegally, de Blasio added, “We will do everything we can to protect you.”
Another tweet directed at illegal aliens, issued by the official NYC Mayor’s Office in both English and Spanish, stated, “You have rights.” Included in the tweet was information on how illegal aliens can seek “legal advice” and guidance on what to do “if you’re worried about being separated from a child.”
De Blasio also warned illegal aliens in New York City of “reports of attempted but reportedly unsuccessful ICE enforcement actions in Sunset Park and Harlem.”
He also stated that the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and other advocates in the area were “connecting with residents and distributing resources door to door.”
A
report from the
New York Times earlier this week said ICE would launch a massive deportation raid, which would target ten major cities and 2,000 illegal aliens.
Last month, President Donald Trump
announced he would delay the raids of illegal aliens for two weeks in order to give Congress more time to work out a bipartisan solution to the immigration crisis at the border.
Speaking to press outside of the White House on Friday, Trump discussed the imminent ICE raids and said, “It starts on Sunday, and they’re going to take people out and they’re going to bring them back to their countries.”
He added, “We’re focused on criminals as much as we can, before we do anything else.”
Abolishing ICE Means
Letting the Worst Criminals Imaginable Stay in the USA
The call to abolish ICE is repeated over
and over again in American politics. This mantra is likely to be repeated with
even greater frequency and intensity as the race for the Democrats’
presidential nomination heats up.
But what does ICE actually do?
A quick look at some of their actions from
the past few weeks reveals the agency to be an unambiguous force for good.
Date:
June 21, 2019
The
street value of that much cocaine is north of one billion dollars.
Though opioids have been getting almost all the attention whenever our
country’s drug epidemic is discussed, thousands are killed by cocaine every
year, too. The number is climbing as well. The
Washington Post notes that , “Overdose deaths from
cocaine increased by about 18 percent each year during the five-year
[2011-2016] period.”
Date:
June 21, 2019
The
man in question, Houcine Ghoul, was a strong supporter of ISIS, and believed in
violently imposing Islam worldwide. In their press release on the matter, ICE
gives this background to his case:
The investigation into Ghoul’s conduct began in
April 2014 when Ghoul posted a photo online that explicitly displayed support
for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign
terrorist organization. This photo displayed an individual holding a sign with
the Arabic phrase, “The victory of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,” and then
below in English, “ISIS,” and “N. Carolina, USA,” the state where Ghoul was
then residing. The photo later appeared in an online propaganda video posted by
others to display worldwide support for ISIS. Though he did not use his actual
name or identity for the online accounts, Ghoul provided a self-description
within the account, “Extremist, terrorist, tough, brain-washed, radical, I love
explosions, booby trapping, beheading the enemy, and am among the supporters of
establishing the religion with the sword.”
Later,
when Mr. Ghoul applied to become an American citizen, he lied and claimed to
have never been affiliated with a terrorist government or advocated the
overthrow of a government. Now, he’s one less threat to worry about.
Date:
June 24, 2019
ICE
targets the worst of the worst, and notes that while all were in the country
illegally, the arrest records of this bunch also included, "assault,
battery, domestic violence, traffic offenses, driving under the influence, drug
possession, drug trafficking, larceny, illegal re-entry after deportation,
illegal entry, resisting officers, and aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon.”
Looking
over the details of this action also reveals how porous our southern border
really is. Quite of a few of these criminals had been arrested and deported
years ago. For example, one 25-year-old Honduran who had a prior conviction for
aggravated assault with a deadly weapon had been deported before. Now that he
has been apprehended, he faces “federal prosecution for re-entry after
deportation.” Another arrestee, a 32-year old Mexican had also been deported
before. This guy is an active gang member with prior convictions for robbery,
evading arrest, and aggravated assault.
Who
wants these thugs in America?
Date:
June 25, 2019
Here
again, we see how ICE only targets active criminals -- often of the most
despicable sort. They make this as clear as can be:
ICE deportation officers carry out targeted
enforcement operations daily nationwide as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts
to protect the nation, uphold public safety, and protect the integrity of our
immigration laws and border controls…. During targeted enforcement
operations, ICE officers frequently encounter other aliens illegally present in
the United States. These aliens are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and,
when appropriate, they are arrested by ICE officers.
The
rap sheet of this round-up included, “drug possession, assault, dangerous
drugs, illegal entry, larceny, marijuana possession, possessing a weapon,
failure to identify and identity theft.” The most monstrous of them all being a
Honduran man wanted for the rape of a minor.
So
when politicians say they want to abolish ICE, are they saying America should
give these people citizenship and leave them alone?
Date:
June 26, 2019
Another
case of a horrendous human being committing crimes in the US after having been
deported. This man, José Ramón Aguilar-Moreno, had been sent back to El
Salvador in 2003 after he was convicted of sexually abusing a child. But he
came back and started posting child pornography to Facebook. He got busted and
now faces up to 80 years in prison.
When
Kamala Harris says she wants to abolish ICE, is she hoping for the support of
men like this?
Date:
July 3, 2019
In
2016, Michael Cerdas Molina was convicted of sexual assault against a minor in
his native Costa Rica. He tried to dodge prison time by hiding out in the US.
But now ICE has busted him, and he will complete his sentence in his homeland.
Under
what rationale should this man have been allowed to stay here?
Date:
July 3, 2019
The
prior convictions of this group is enough to give you goosebumps: “three counts
of murder, two counts of rape, two counts of aggravated assault, five counts of
aggravated assault with a weapon, two counts of assault, sexual assault,
three counts of attempted murder, burglary, child abuse, lewd act on a minor,
driving under the influence, larceny, stolen property, two counts of firearm
possession, two weapon offenses, traffic offence, forgery, three counts of
robbery, resisting arrest, auto theft, and seven drug convictions.”
Now
each and every one of them is back in Cambodia where they came from, and headed
for prison, where they belong.
Supporters
of terrorism, drug-peddlers, murderers, rapists, child pornographers, and
violent criminals. These are just some of the terrible people ICE has rid us of
in just the last three weeks.
ICE
shouldn’t be abolished; it should be expanded.
Another
ICE Sweep Nets Illegals In Triple Digits, This Time In New Jersey
JAZZ
SHAW Posted at 9:21 am on December 13, 2017
It’s
not as if President Trump and the Attorney General haven’t been telegraphing
their punches when it comes to questions of illegal immigration. But all the
warnings in the world don’t seem to be helping illegal aliens – particularly
those who have run into additional trouble with the law – avoid capture and
deportation in record numbers. That happened again this week as ICE pulled off
another highly successful operation in the Garden State. New Jersey residents
now have more than one hundred fewer illegal aliens roaming around, most of
them with serious criminal records.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency announced Tuesday the arrest of 101 illegal immigrants,
targeting criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, and immigration violators, and including
immigrants convicted of drug- and child-pornography-related offenses.
The arrests were the product of a
five-day operation in New Jersey, spearheaded by ICE Enforcement and Removal
Operations (ERO). Among those arrested,
88 percent were convicted criminals, and 80 percent had prior felony
convictions.
ICE put out their own press release with the full details of those
who are soon to be either leaving for home or heading to prison, and they
include plenty of gang members.
These
individuals were arrested in the following counties in New Jersey: Atlantic
(2), Bergen (6), Burlington (7), Camden (11), Cumberland (3), Essex (14),
Hudson (15), Mercer (6), Middlesex (11), Monmouth (3), Morris (1), Passaic (9),
Somerset (4), and Union (6) and the following counties in New York: Kings(1),
New York (1), and Suffolk (1). They range from age 20 to 71 years old and all
were previously convicted of a variety of offenses. Some of the convictions
included sexual assault on a minor, child abuse, possession of narcotics,
distribution of narcotics, robbery, trespassing, DUI, fraud, possession of
child pornography, domestic violence, battery, receiving stolen property,
theft, possession of a weapon, burglary, larceny, aggravated assault,
aggravated assault on law enforcement, assault by auto, shoplifting, invasion
of privacy-recording sexual act without consent, resisting arrest, endangering
the welfare of a child, and illegal reentry.
Rape, assault, drug dealing,
child pornography… they really ran the full gamut. Other operations taking
place at the same time, particularly in Baltimore, targeted members of MS-13
and other gangs, removing drugs and illegal weapons from circulation. During
comments delivered in Charm City, Jeff Sessions reminded everyone that
sanctuary city policies were making law abiding citizens less safe and making
it more dangerous for immigration officials to do their jobs. But that wasn’t
going to slow them down.
There
was also a less than subtle reminder that even illegal aliens who haven’t been
convicted of any additional crimes would not be “safe” from detention and
deportation if they were caught up in a sweep. We’ve arrested more
than 300,000 illegal aliens just in 2017 and
enforcement efforts are only going to increase if new funding requests for ICE
and the Border Patrol are approved.
With
so much dismal news eating up the front pages these days, it’s nice to see some
positive progress on at least one front.
Study: Deporting Illegal
Aliens Saves Americans
Billions in Tax Dollars
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BLOG: THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS IS ACTUALLY MORE THAN 40 MILLION! NOW DO THE MATH.
Deporting the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the United States saves American taxpayers hundreds of billions in public costs, analysis finds.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to conduct a mass deportation effort next week, where at least 2,000 illegal aliens who have final orders for removal will be arrested, detained, and deported from the U.S.
American taxpayers stand ready to benefit significantly from the deportation of thousands of illegal aliens, all of whom have been ordered deported and have refused to leave.
The latest analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarotta compared and contrasted the cost to American taxpayers of millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S. over a lifetime and the cost of deportation.
Based on research from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the cost of illegal aliens to American taxpayers over a lifetime is about $746.3 billion. Compare this to the cost of a single deportation, which is about $10,854 per illegal alien based on Fiscal Year 2016 totals.
Overall, deporting every illegal alien in the country would amount to a cost savings of about $622 billion over the course of a lifetime. This indicates that deporting illegal aliens is six times less costly than what it costs American taxpayers to currently subsidize the millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S.
“There’s a high cost of cheap labor,” Camarotta told Breitbart News.
Last year, President Trump’s administration deported more than 256,000 illegal aliens from the U.S. Assuming that the cost of deportations has been largely unchanged since the Obama administration, this would mean that last year’s deportations, alone, cost about $2.8 billion.
Compared to the annual $116 billion that the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates illegal immigration costs taxpayers, deportations conducted last year were more than 40 times less costly.
The latest Harvard/Harris Poll finds that a majority of Americans support Trump’s plan to mass deport illegal aliens following inaction from Congress. This includes support from more than 8-in-10 Republican voters and more than 5-in-10 swing voters.
As Breitbart News has chronicled , there are about 1.7 million illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico, alone, living in the U.S. despite already being ordered deported or having pending deportation orders.
The latest federal data concludes there are more than 925,000 illegal aliens, in total, with final deportation orders who have continued living freely in the U.S. About 20 percent of these illegal aliens have at least one criminal conviction and almost all are not in federal custody. Roughly 60 percent of these illegal aliens come from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
In this undated image provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration officers arrest and illegal alien for removal. (Public Domain)
ICE Begins Rounding Up Illegal Aliens for Deportation
July 14, 2019 Updated: July 14, 2019
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (
ICE ) agents began a nationwide sweep on July 13 targeting
illegal aliens who have received final deportation orders issued by immigration judges, according to the agency’s acting director, Matt Albence.
Early on July 13, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he received reports of raids taking place in the neighborhoods of Sunset Park and Harlem. The sweeps were “reportedly unsuccessful” de Blasio wrote on Twitter.
President Donald Trump had previously postponed the nationwide operation at the behest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Immigration officials previously said the action would target migrant family units whose cases were processed in an expedited fashion and resulted in a deportation order.
The vast majority of the migrants
involved did not return to court for
their scheduled hearings after being
released into the United States. ICE
sent out letters to 2,000 migrants in
February, advising them to report to a
local office to be removed from the
country. Albence told Fox News on
July 14 that only 3 percent of the
addressees responded to the letter.
“At this point, we have no choice but to go out and execute those lawfully-issued removal orders from an immigration judge,” Albence said.
In New York, the city’s Department of Immigrant Affairs investigated reports of ICE officers checking IDs at a subway station. The department sent an “
on-the-ground team ” which did not spot any ICE personnel at the location.
New York is a sanctuary city which actively opposes immigration actions by federal law enforcement officers. The city uses taxpayer funds to advise illegal aliens on ways they can evade immigration authorities, including at local fairs and seminars . One such seminar provided free MetroCards to attendees.
De Blasio, a candidate for the 2020 presidential election, has used the
mayor’s office to advise illegal aliens that they do not have to open doors for or speak to ICE officers, among other measures meant to thwart the enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.
De Blasio is not the only mayor actively obstructing federal immigration authorities. There are
more than 300 state and local governments with written law, rules, or policies meant to thwart the detention and deportation of illegal aliens.
ICE released a
list on July 14 detailing several cases in which illegal aliens committed crimes after being released back into the public by police departments in locales which declined to honor ICE detention requests. In one such case, an illegal alien held by the Los Angeles Police Department for drug possession was released in February last year, more than a month after ICE asked to detain him. The same criminal has since been arrested and charged with murder.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a pre-emptive lawsuit on July 11 that aims to protect asylum seekers. Open-borders activists held demonstrations around the nation, including an event in Colorado in which attendees pulled down the American flag from a flagpole near an ICE facility in Aurora and replaced it with a Mexican flag. The protesters then defaced the American flag with graffiti and hoisted it upside down.
Administration officials have said that the coordinated move will target about 2,000 people with final deportation orders in major cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Miami.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Refugio City Police Officer Tammy Gregory arrests alleged illegal immigrant Jose Carrasco Leon in Refugio County, Texas, on Nov. 10, 2018. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
ICE Releases Report Highlighting Dangers of Sanctuary City Policies
July 14, 2019 Updated: July 14, 2019
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released its first “Declined Detainer” report on July 14 that highlights the dangers when sanctuary cities block efforts by ICE to remove an
illegal immigrant from the country.
The report , set to be released quarterly and mandated by President Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order on “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” illustrates incidents that occurred during the second quarter of fiscal year 2018.
The report highlights numerous cases in which law enforcement agencies failed to honor ICE detainers after arresting illegal immigrants, who then, after being released, later committed new crimes. Arrests of illegal immigrants included cases of drug possession, murder, burglary, and rape.
“Because ICE is often not alerted by uncooperative jurisdictions when a detainer has been declined, and because ICE may only learn of the detainer having been declined after an alien is arrested for a subsequent offense, the cases contained in this report are examples of a broader public safety issue and are not exhaustive,” the report’s overview states.
The cooperation between ICE and law enforcement agencies are “critical to the effort to identify and arrest removable aliens and defend the nation’s security.”
“Every day, ICE places detainers on individuals who the agency has probable cause to believe are aliens who are removable from the United States and are currently in federal, state, and local law enforcement agency custody,” the report continued.
ICE said they place detainers on certain individuals they believe are “removable aliens in federal, state, and local law enforcement agency custody.”
One case highlighted by the report involved a 30-year-old Mexican citizen who was arrested on Jan. 7, 2018, by the Los Angeles Police Department for possession of a controlled substance. ICE issued a detainer on the same day, but the detainer wasn’t honored and he was released.
On Feb. 26, 2018, the man was again arrested by the same police department for murder and was booked into the Los Angeles County Jail. As of the writing of the ICE report, the man remains in custody. ICE says they have since issued another detainer.
Another case detailed the story of a 41-year-old citizen of Honduras who was arrested on Jan. 31, 2018, by the San Francisco Police Department for the crimes of burglary, obstructing a public officer, and appropriating lost property.
The man was booked into the San Francisco County Jail and ICE issued a detainer the same day, but the detainer wasn’t honored and the man was subsequently released by law enforcement. On April 4, 2018, the man was arrested again by the same police department, this time for transporting and selling a narcotic controlled substance. He was booked into the jail again.
The next day, ICE again issued a detainer, but as of the writing of the report, they said they believe the alien “has been released and remains at-large.”
The report doesn’t publish all cases involving declined detainers, according to its Q&A section. But it does include recent cases in which illegal aliens have reoffended after a detainer was declined, to “demonstrate the significant threat to public safety posed by declined detainers.”
Acting ICE Director
Matt Albence told Fox News on July 14 that the report “is highlighting the dangers caused by some of these sanctuary cities policies.”
“The sad part is a lot of these law enforcement agencies want to cooperate with us. It’s the politicians and these jurisdictions that prevent them from doing so,” Albence continued. He said the National Sheriff’s Association is one of ICE’s closest allies.
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