By all indications, the intercontinental trail connecting the world to the U.S. southern border is more congested than at any time in recent memory, with people from Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Russia, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and dozens of other countries.
A majority of American adults disapprove of President Joe Biden’s open United States-Mexico border where border crossers are regularly apprehended, briefly detained, and released into the U.S. interior, a new poll reveals.
SF Sanctuary Policy Protected Criminal Alien Arrested for Hate Crime
Six years after Kate Steinle's death the same policies continue to claim victims
On June 28, the Washington Times reported that one Carlos Claros, who was arrested by San Francisco police on April 19 following a brazen daylight robbery that has been termed a “hate crime”, was on the streets thanks to that city’s lavish sanctuary policies. If politicos cared as much about their communities as they hate immigration enforcement, it never would have happened.
Reports indicate that the victims of that alleged offense were a Filipino family of 18 (some as young as six) who were visiting Fisherman’s Wharf on the San Francisco Bay from Wisconsin.
I used to live up the street from the scene, and they had planned to do what most tourists in the City by the Bay do: Go look at the sea lions on Pier 39.
Local reporting indicates that shortly after Patrick Elliott and his family parked their car, they were accosted by Claros (armed with a gun) and two associates. The trio were allegedly attempting to steal the group’s cellphones, and Elliott stepped up to place himself between the gunman and his family.
Claros looked at a female member of the family and responded, “Ugh, you Asians”, and spit toward her. To their credit, SFPD responded quickly and arrested Claros and his confederates in nearby Aquatic Park.
He is facing charges for four felonies and two misdemeanors in connection with the incident, including attempted robbery with a gun. It’s not his first interaction with the law, according to published reports.
As a reporter for local ABC affiliate KGO tweeted:
The Times reported that ICE first placed a detainer on Claros in October 2018 following his conviction for battery and receiving stolen property, but San Francisco refused to honor it. Convictions in December 2018, February 2019, and April 2020 were followed by other ICE detainers, which city officials promptly blew off.
Not that such inaction is a surprise. San Francisco passed its "City and County of Refuge" Ordinance (also known as the “Sanctuary Ordinance”) more than 30 years ago. It generally prohibits employees of the city from using funds or resources to assist ICE in enforcing immigration laws “unless such assistance is required by federal or state law” (whatever that means).
Not satisfied with one stupid law, the city passed another, the “Due Process for All” Ordinance, in 2013. That one, among other things, prohibits cooperation with ICE detainer requests, which explains why Claros was strolling along the Embarcadero on a sunny afternoon in April instead of out of the country.
Why did San Francisco decide either was a good idea? According to them, the Sanctuary Ordinance “helps keep our communities safe”. Not satisfied with just that, the city also contends that the ordinance “helps keep our communities healthy”.
Now, having been a San Franciscan myself, I am all about keeping the communities there “safe and healthy”. I do have to ask, however, how exactly are the safety and health of the 881,000-plus residents of the City and County of San Francisco maintained by a policy that keeps serial criminals on the street?
Immigration enforcement is often difficult to explain to the casual observer, because the direct benefits are diffuse but the direct costs are clear. Let me explain.
Concepts like “national sovereignty” and “the rule of law” are the definition of “intangible”, while the opportunity for any given alien to enter the United States “for a better life” are patent. And the costs of illegal immigration are rarely proximate.
When an individual alien enters the United States illegally to work, it lowers the wages and diminishes the working conditions of other workers legally here with similar skills and education, but we have no idea which workers and where. If the alien is deported, the cost to him or her is clear, but we don’t know the name of the American worker (legal immigrant or citizen) who will benefit.
All of that gets turned on its head when we are discussing sanctuary policies, however.
San Francisco contends that its sanctuary policies protect the safety of the community by ensuring that illegal immigrants won’t be afraid to call the cops when they have been the victims of crime.
That’s an erroneous proposition, as my colleagues have explained, because there is no “chilling effect” on the willingness of immigrants to contact the police, even when those police cooperate with ICE.
In any event, though, cooperation from illegal aliens in sanctuary jurisdictions, even if there were such an effect, is also difficult to quantify. Would immigrant X not have called the SFPD if San Francisco didn’t have a sanctuary policy? You will never really know, though she almost definitely would have.
But the effects of those policies have identifiable victims, not just Patrick Elliott and his family, but also Kate Steinle, who was shot to death six years ago today not far from where this year's April 19 incident allegedly occurred, and those who have survived her.
The shooter in Steinle’s case, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported five times, was also on the street because San Francisco failed to notify ICE when he was released from its custody, thanks to its sanctuary laws.
There is a reason that you are only hearing about an alleged April 19 robbery in late June. Local officials know that sanctuary laws endanger innocent people and provide "sanctuary" only to criminals, so they weren’t telling because it would reveal the flaws in their policy and the costs of their patronizing radicalism.
And Joe Biden’s ICE is not out there telling you when detainers are not honored (assuming that ICE is even allowed to issue detainers anymore), or the illegal status of aliens who engage in hate crimes, because they don’t believe that the immigration laws should be enforced at all, and don’t want you to have any reason to believe that they should be, either.
To the current administration, a crime that is committed by an alien criminal is no better or worse than one committed by a home-grown low-life, because at the heart of their policies is the belief that the American people lack the moral authority to have immigration laws at all.
To them, the United States is such an inherently flawed nation that it has no right to decide which foreign nationals can come and which have to leave. In fact, they believe that the very existence of our current immigration laws is proof positive of the fundamental turpitude of this republic and its people.
That is why they refuse to enforce the immigration laws (except in cases that are so heinous that they cannot be hidden from public sight) and refuse to let the agents and officers who are paid to enforce them do so, either.
Want proof? ICE leadership is “prioritizing” which aliens its officers may question, arrest, detain, and remove, narrowing their targets to terrorists and criminals, recent illegal entrants, certain aliens convicted of aggravated felonies, and a small number of gang members.
Woe unto the officer who missed a memo and arrested the wrong — but still deportable — alien.
Their excuse? The agency has “limited resources”. They are mocking you as they write those words, because they know they aren’t true, but they also know there is nothing you can do about it.
How do I know that? Because their fellow partisans in the House have just released a budget that actually cuts ICE’s budget by $1.55 million.
The crisis at the border? They don’t care, because they want to cut CBP’s budget, too, by a whopping $927 million.
Maybe someday you will prove yourself worthy of deserving immigration enforcement. Until that happens, watch your back the next time you go to see the sea lions on Pier 39.
ICE Issues Non-Enforcement Guidance to Its Lawyers
‘Trust, but micromanage’, as criminal aliens — among others — get a pass
On May 27, ICE’s Principal Legal Advisor (PLA, the agency’s general counsel) John D. Trasvina issued interim guidance to the agency’s lawyers, who represent the interests of the American people in removal cases before the nation’s immigration courts. It is a way-too-long document couched in hoary legal language, vaguely schizophrenic, and gives a pass to most criminal green card holders, among others.
Formally captioned “Interim Guidance to OPLA Attorneys Regarding Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies and Priorities”, the document aims to indoctrinate ICE’s lawyers into the new realities of immigration enforcement under the Biden administration. Trasvina’s guidance draws upon and reinforces other non-enforcement documents that have been issued by the current administration.
Those include a memorandum issued by then-Acting DHS Secretary David Pekoske on January 20, captioned "Review of and Interim Revision to Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies and Priorities” and a February 18 memo from Acting ICE Director Tae Johnson, captioned “Interim Guidance: Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Priorities”.
Basically, those two documents “prioritize” just three categories of cases: alien terrorists or spies; aliens who entered illegally after the utterly arbitrary date of November 1, 2020; and criminals who have been convicted of aggravated felonies or who are (under an unduly narrow definition) gang members.
That is not to say that ICE employees cannot take action against other aliens, but doing so requires complying with an onerous supervisory approval process and weekly headquarters’ review.
If those documents sound familiar, it’s because I analyzed them in a February 23 post headlined “ICE's Enforcement Guidance Wastes the Resources It Claims To Be Conserving”. Trasvina’s latest opus is in the same vein.
There is a lot that could be said — almost none of it good — about the May 27 guidance. I will attempt to be brief, but before I do, let me explain what ICE lawyers are supposed to do.
First, and with limited exceptions, ICE lawyers are not involved in bringing charges against aliens. They may assist CBP and ICE line agents and officers in working up cases on removable aliens, but it is those agents and officers who actually complete and file the necessary documents with the immigration courts to place those aliens into removal proceedings.
In those proceedings (which are heard by immigration judges or “IJs”), however, it is ICE lawyers who offer briefing, evidence, and legal arguments to the court to establish that those aliens (termed “respondents”) are removable, and respond to respondent’s motions and applications for bond and/or relief.
ICE lawyers can also file appeals with the Board of Immigration Appeals, seeking to reverse or modify IJ decisions.
This role requires a high level of independence on the attorney’s part, but some filings have always been subject (to one degree or another) to review by supervising lawyers, and appeals are subject to review and approval by lawyers at ICE headquarters.
Through the end of May, there were more than 1.3 million cases pending before the immigration courts, however, and given that massive backlog, the PLA has little day-to-day influence over the vast majority of them.
The May 27 memo focuses on those attorneys’ exercise of prosecutorial discretion. In this context, that means the commencing and prosecution of removal cases, agreeing to motions to continue or terminate, conceding eligibility for bond or relief, and foregoing appeals of decisions that go in the respondent’s favor.
Historically, prosecutorial discretion has been exercised on a case-by-case basis for truly exceptional cases. Almost all of the respondents who are charged are, in fact, removable, and when I was a trial attorney with ICE’s predecessor (the Immigration and Naturalization Service), I viewed it as my job to complete each case to a final conclusion as quickly as possible, consistent with due process.
I was not an outlier in that regard, and that standard is the norm.
Consequently, terminations of otherwise meritorious cases are usually only done with supervisory consent, cases are only to be continued if they meet rigid legal standards, eligibility for relief is only conceded if it is clearly available, bonds are only set or reduced if there are changed circumstances or if continued detention is inappropriate, and if the IJ screwed up, appeals should be prepared.
The Pekoske and Johnson memos have all but eviscerated immigration enforcement for any new cases involving removable aliens going forward, but it is Trasvina’s that attempts to undo existing ones that are in that 1.3 million-plus case pipeline.
That May 27 guidance does not spike all cases that do not fit into the “priorities” delineated in the Pekoske and Johnson memos, but it does “encourage” ICE attorneys to liberally exercise discretion not to prosecute cases that fall outside of those priorities.
I put “encourage” in quotation marks for a good reason, and it goes to the schizophrenic nature of that document.
The essence of prosecutorial discretion is that the individual attorney should exercise it — or not — based upon his or her independent judgment.
In fact, to support his contention that ICE lawyers have broad discretion to rig the system in the alien’s favor, Trasvina quotes then-Attorney General Robert Jackson, who told a group of federal prosecutors in 1940:
Your positions are of such independence and importance that while you are being diligent, strict, and vigorous in law enforcement you can also afford to be just. Although the government technically loses its case, it has really won if justice has been done.
Such “independence”, however, is implicitly called into question by Trasvina’s requirement that all requests by respondents for prosecutorial discretion — along with any accompanying documents — be entered into his office’s central database (which has the unoriginal name “PLAnet”), regardless of whether discretion was exercised in a given case or not.
The only reason to require such documentation is to allow higher-ups to second-guess and micromanage their purportedly “independent” lawyers, on a real-time basis.
Further, the May 27 guidance contains a list of categories of cases that should usually be dismissed “in the absence of serious aggravating factors” (emphasis added). Included are those involving sick, young, old, and pregnant respondents, as well as long-term green-card holders (formally known as “lawful permanent residents” or LPRs).
Just to be clear, if ICE attorneys are so “independent” that they have the power to allow an alien to remain even though Congress has stated that the alien should leave, what gives Trasvina the ability to tell them how to exercise their discretion in individual cases?
That said, the LPR reference is particularly noteworthy. They are “permanent” residents for a reason: They can stay in the United States indefinitely, so long as they don’t do anything that would get them deported.
Directing the dismissal of charges against those LPRs in all except the most extreme cases means that aliens who were allowed to stay provided that they obeyed the law, and who subsequently violated the law in a way that would make them removable, will get to stay anyway.
Yes, ICE attorneys have discretion, but Congress makes the rules when it comes to immigration. Well, except when a temporary government employee like the PLA does.
The most common reason that LPRs become subject to deportation is because they have committed a crime. Under the May 27 guidance, regardless of how Congress has designated the crime — and again except for the most heinous offenses — those aliens will get to remain, likely to keep committing crimes until they finally cross Trasvina’s vague and arbitrary lines.
How exactly is “justice done” in Jackson’s words in that scenario?
There is not much “justice” in dismissing removal proceedings in cases involving aliens who don’t otherwise have status, either. They are not here legally and they don’t have the right to work, which means that letting them remain in limbo really doesn’t do them many favors.
Allowing them to stay, of course, will just encourage more aliens to enter illegally. Biden’s immigration policies have already made maintaining order at the border next to impossible. Trasvina’s guidance only makes that worse.
Note that this guidance is only “interim” until final diktats emerge from the PLA’s office. Don’t expect them to get a whole lot better. In the “interim”, the independence of demoralized ICE lawyers has been further restrained, while the prospects of alien criminals — among others — have brightened significantly.
Meanwhile, only 33 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of illegal immigration at the southern border.
Biden is also underwater in polling on the issue of crime. A plurality of 48 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of crime while fewer than 4-in-10 Americans approve of his handling of the issue.
Rapists and Child Rapist Illegal Aliens Caught by Border Patrol
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Democrats and their media insist that the border crisis is imaginary. This is how imaginary it is.
U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered 65 migrants in two separate stash houses in Sunland Park, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas on June 30.
Agents found 43 individuals hiding inside of a home in Sunland Park, New Mexico.
Officials say there were 25 Ecuadorans, six Mexicans, six Guatemalans, four El Salvadorians and two Brazilian nationals.
Agents found another stash house on the same day in central El Paso, 22 migrants were hiding inside the home.
And then there are the drugs.
Border Patrol agents seized cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine in three separate busts that happened within an hour of each other on San Diego freeways Wednesday.
And the guns.
Three illegal aliens were nabbed by Border Patrol agents after the trio broke into a Texas home and stole two loaded handguns and ammunition, US Customs and Border Protection announced.
Why exactly did these "refugees" seeking "asylum" need guns for? Maybe the "No Human Being is Illegal" crowd can offer an explanation.
But then there are the illegal alien rapists. Or, as the Biden administration insists on calling them, undocumented abusers.
Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents arrest three criminal migrants with violent sexual offenses after being previously removed from the United States.
Yesterday morning, McAllen Border Patrol Station agents apprehended a 28-year-old male after he illegally entered the United States. During processing, record checks identified the Honduran national as a registered sexual offender. In 2012, the migrant was charged with 2nd degree felony rape of a child under 15 years of age in Suffolk County, New York. He was convicted upon a guilty plea and removed from the United States in 2013.
Later that afternoon, McAllen Border Patrol Station agents arrested a 42-year-old male traveling within a group of twenty-one migrants. The Mexican national has a previous charge of a 4th degree sexual assault in Polk County, Arkansas, in February 2019. The migrant was subsequently deported to his country in July of 2019.
Shortly after, McAllen Border Patrol Station agents arrested a Honduran national after he illegally entered the United States within a group of families. The 42-year-old male’s criminal records identified him as a registered sex offender in Wisconsin. Along with a lengthy criminal record including substance abuse, the migrant was convicted of 4th Degree Sexual Assault in 2012. He was sentenced to 45 days confinement and 2 years’ probation. He was most recently removed in 2015.
Call it Biden's open borders war on women and children.
WE ARE NO LONGER SAFE
IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!
At the park where Garcia’s body was found, Arciniega-Saenz allegedly confessed to confronting the man before stabbing him with a switchblade, decapitating him, and then playing “soccer with his head,” according to an affidavit.
Boston: Muslim Who Stabbed Rabbi Is ‘Violent’ and ‘Very Much Anti-Semitic’
The cops are still baffled as to his motive, of course.
Khaled Awad stabbed Rabbi Shlomo Noginski eight times on Thursday afternoon. Predictably, International Business Times reported on Saturday that “police have yet to establish the motive for the stabbing, and the investigation into the incident continues.” Yeah, this one is a real head-scratcher. Khaled Awad doesn’t seem to be a “white supremacist,” but what else could he possibly be? Help us, Merrick Garland, help us!
Garland has so far remained mum, but Awad’s old roommates and friends at the University of Southern Florida have been more forthright. CBS reported Friday that one of Awad’s old school chums, Eric Valiente, said that while they were in college together, Awad “started becoming violent.” And not only that: “He was very much anti-Semitic. He would say like all types of Jewish jokes. I thought he was joking at first and then I started to see seriousness in his comments. He disgusted me at that point. I wanted nothing to do with the guy. At this point, I was a little scared of him. I was scared of what he was capable of because I realize he was a very dark person.”
Awad got so violent, in fact, that his roommate, Aidan Anderson, moved out and got a restraining order against him. Before that, “we were friends, to be honest with you,” Anderson recalled. “I’m Jewish. And he knew that since I moved in.”
Might that have been why Awad began to get violent? After all, around the time of the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel, Palestinian Muslims and their supporters committed acts of violence against Jews and supporters of Israel all over the United States. In New York City, a Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” attacked a Jewish man in midtown Manhattan. Also in Manhattan, Palestinians threatened violence and screamed anti-Semitic slurs at Jews. One threw a mini-firebomb. Pro-jihad protesters stormed a restaurant and spat on Jewish patrons; one of the thugs threw a bottle. A Muslim, Waseem Awawdeh, was arrested for viciously beating a Jew in Times Square.
In Los Angeles, Palestinian protesters asked people dining at the Sushi Fumi restaurant if they were Jewish, and proceeded to attack them with knives. Elsewhere in Los Angeles, two cars festooned with Palestinian flags chased a Jewish man down a street as he was leaving his synagogue.
In Florida, a van also bearing a Palestinian flag and emblazoned with the slogan “Hitler was Right” drove past a pro-Israel demonstration.
In Skokie, Illinois, a pro-jihad vandal wearing an Arab headdress smashed a synagogue window and left a Palestine flag and a pro-jihad sign inside.
Was Khaled Awad moved by the same rage and hatred of the State of Israel to stab Rabbi Shlomo Noginski? We may never know for sure, especially if the answer doesn’t fit the establishment media narrative, but there is no reason to discount the possibility. For years, Palestinian jihadis have garnered support all over the world by means of victimhood propaganda featuring fabricated atrocities that are designed to stoke rage against Israel and to justify violence against its civilians and supporters.
Could that have had something to do with why a man sitting on the steps of a school and talking on his phone in Boston, Massachusetts would suddenly become the victim of a violent assault? Of course.
There is another, and related, possible motive as well: the deeply-rooted and yet still largely uncrecognized anti-Semitism of the most sacred text of Islam. Did Khaled Awad read the Qur’an’s words about the Jews being the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82)? The Qur’an also says that the Jews fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
Combine that with the vicious Palestinian victimhood propaganda against Israel, and you have a lethal mix. When one believes that Jews are accursed and that one has a divine command to war against them, it becomes far easier to accept all that victimhood propaganda and to begin to see Jews as the focus and source of all the evil in the world.
Khaled Awad may not believe any of this. But the worst aspect of the aftermath of this attack is that investigators may never explore this possibility at all, since it conflicts with multiple assumptions of the reigning Leftist orthodoxy. And that will only help ensure that something like this will happen again and again, while Leftist propagandists continue to charge their foes with anti-Semitism.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 22 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins―Revised and Expanded Edition. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
Illegal Alien from Egypt Accused of Stabbing Rabbi Outside Jewish School
An illegal alien from Egypt allegedly chased down a Rabbi outside of a Jewish school and stabbed him Thursday in Boston, Massachusetts.
Khaled Awad, a 24-year-old illegal alien from Egypt, was charged in district court for allegedly stabbing eight times Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, a father of 12 children, outside the Shaloh House in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston.
According to investigators, Awad ran up to Noginski and pointed a gun at him on July 1 in an attempt to obtain the keys of a school van. At that point, Noginski walked toward the van as Awad allegedly held the gun to him, instructing him to get in the van.
Noginski ran on foot, but Awad allegedly caught up to him, stabbing him eight times in one of his arms, investigators said. Awad was previously charged in Florida for battery and theft and was held in a mental hospital.
According to Awad’s former college roommate, the illegal alien is “very much anti-Semitic” and described him as “violent.”
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency revealed to Fox News that Awad first entered the United States on an F-1 student visa in August 2019. Awad, an ICE spokesperson confirmed, did not stay enrolled in college courses and thus lost his legal visa status in May 2021.
Awad is being held without bail until July 8 when a judge will determine whether or not he is a danger to the community. ICE agents have requested that Awad be turned over to their custody if he is released from Boston law enforcement custody at any time.
Noginski was recovering in the hospital but was released on July 2 to recover at home.
Illegal Alien Out of Jail on Bail Accused of Beheading Man, Playing ‘Soccer with His Head’
An illegal alien out of jail on bail in New Mexico is now accused of beheading a man and then kicking the man’s head around like a soccer ball, Breitbart News has learned.
Joel Arciniega-Saenz, a 25-year-old illegal alien, was indicted by a grand jury this week after being arrested for allegedly murdering 51-year-old James Garcia in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, the day after Father’s Day.
According to court records obtained by KTSM 9 News, Arciniega-Saenz is accused of decapitating Garcia before mutilating the rest of his body and kicking his head around like a soccer ball. At the time of the murder, Arciniega-Saenz was out on bail, according to Las Cruces Sun-News.
When arrested after Garcia’s mutilated body was found 10 yards from his head, Arciniega-Saenz allegedly confessed to the murder, telling investigators that he was seeking revenge because he believed Garcia had raped his wife four years prior.
At the park where Garcia’s body was found, Arciniega-Saenz allegedly confessed to confronting the man before stabbing him with a switchblade, decapitating him, and then playing “soccer with his head,” according to an affidavit.
Arciniega-Saenz allegedly told investigators he kicked Garcia’s decapitated head at about 14 vehicles nearby.
CBS 4 News reported that Arciniega-Saenz had an extensive criminal record. In 2017, he was accused of first-degree murder but a year later, the charges were dropped. In May, Arciniega-Saenz was arrested when he was caught throwing rocks at businesses.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seemingly confirmed to Breitbart News that Arciniega-Saenz is an illegal alien in the United States with an ICE detainer on him, requesting that local authorities do not release him from jail until they can assume custody.
“Under federal law, ICE has the authority to lodge immigration detainers with law enforcement partners who have custody of individuals arrested on criminal charges and who ICE has probable cause to believe are removable noncitizens,” an ICE official told Breitbart News.
“The detainer form asks the other law enforcement agency to notify ICE in advance of release and to maintain custody of the noncitizen for a brief period of time so that ICE can take custody of that person in a safe and secure setting upon release from that agency’s custody,” the official said.
Arciniega-Saenz is being held at the Dona Ana County Detention Center without bail.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
WaPo/ABC Poll: Majority of Americans Disapprove of Joe Biden’s Open Border
A majority of American adults disapprove of President Joe Biden’s open United States-Mexico border where border crossers are regularly apprehended, briefly detained, and released into the U.S. interior, a new poll reveals.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that about 51 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of “the immigration situation at the U.S.-Mexico border” where illegal immigration is set for one of the worst years in American history.
Meanwhile, only 33 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of illegal immigration at the southern border.
Biden is also underwater in polling on the issue of crime. A plurality of 48 percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of crime while fewer than 4-in-10 Americans approve of his handling of the issue.
The polling is only the latest that shows Biden is at odds with Americans over his open borders initiative that has restarted the catch and release operation and promises to bring deported illegal aliens back to the U.S.
A Harvard/Harris Poll released late last month found that about 2-in-3 voters want former President Donald Trump’s border controls reinstated, specifically a policy that allows federal immigration officials to immediately return border crossers to Mexico.
The poll also shows that 64 percent of voters said Biden ought to “issue new, stricter policies to reduce the flow of people across the border.”
A majority of about 55 percent of voters said Biden should have kept Trump’s border and immigration controls that resulted in less illegal immigration, increased interior immigration enforcement, and thus a tighter labor market with boosted U.S. wages.
The Washington Post/ABC News poll was conducted by phone from June 27 to 30, sampling more than 900 American adults. The margin of error is +/- 3.5 points.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Illegal Alien Out of Jail on Bail Accused of Beheading Man, Playing ‘Soccer with His Head’
An illegal alien out of jail on bail in New Mexico is now accused of beheading a man and then kicking the man’s head around like a soccer ball, Breitbart News has learned.
Joel Arciniega-Saenz, a 25-year-old illegal alien, was indicted by a grand jury this week after being arrested for allegedly murdering 51-year-old James Garcia in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, the day after Father’s Day.
According to court records obtained by KTSM 9 News, Arciniega-Saenz is accused of decapitating Garcia before mutilating the rest of his body and kicking his head around like a soccer ball. At the time of the murder, Arciniega-Saenz was out on bail, according to Las Cruces Sun-News.
When arrested after Garcia’s mutilated body was found 10 yards from his head, Arciniega-Saenz allegedly confessed to the murder, telling investigators that he was seeking revenge because he believed Garcia had raped his wife four years prior.
At the park where Garcia’s body was found, Arciniega-Saenz allegedly confessed to confronting the man before stabbing him with a switchblade, decapitating him, and then playing “soccer with his head,” according to an affidavit.
Arciniega-Saenz allegedly told investigators he kicked Garcia’s decapitated head at about 14 vehicles nearby.
CBS 4 News reported that Arciniega-Saenz had an extensive criminal record. In 2017, he was accused of first-degree murder but a year later, the charges were dropped. In May, Arciniega-Saenz was arrested when he was caught throwing rocks at businesses.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seemingly confirmed to Breitbart News that Arciniega-Saenz is an illegal alien in the United States with an ICE detainer on him, requesting that local authorities do not release him from jail until they can assume custody.
“Under federal law, ICE has the authority to lodge immigration detainers with law enforcement partners who have custody of individuals arrested on criminal charges and who ICE has probable cause to believe are removable noncitizens,” an ICE official told Breitbart News.
“The detainer form asks the other law enforcement agency to notify ICE in advance of release and to maintain custody of the noncitizen for a brief period of time so that ICE can take custody of that person in a safe and secure setting upon release from that agency’s custody,” the official said.
Arciniega-Saenz is being held at the Dona Ana County Detention Center without bail.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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