{"id":21134,"date":"2019-03-01T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T20:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21134"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:32:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:32:25","slug":"more-evidence-sanctuary-policies-threaten-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/01\/more-evidence-sanctuary-policies-threaten-public-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"More Evidence Sanctuary Policies Threaten Public Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Feb. 26, U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced<\/a>\nthe sentencing of Juan Ramon-Vasquez, a previously deported Honduran who had\nbeen convicted of repeatedly raping a child while living illegally in the\nsanctuary city of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramon-Vasquez, who was deported in 2009, exemplifies\nthe serious danger presented to the community when Immigration and Customs\nEnforcement (ICE) detainers are not honored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After returning illegally to the U.S., Ramon-Vasquez\nlanded in a Philadelphia prison, but ICE\u2019s request to hold him was ignored and\nthe criminal alien was released. The end result was the repeated rape a young\nchild, a crime which garnered him a sentence of 8 to 20 years in state\nprison. Ramon-Vasquez received an additional sentence of 21 months is for\nimmigration violations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter the City let this criminal loose on the streets\nof Philadelphia, Ramon-Vasquez repeatedly raped an innocent child. \nIf the ICE detainer had been honored by local law enforcement, this crime never\nwould have happened, and the victim would have been spared horrendous\nphysical and mental trauma,\u201d said McSwain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told criminals like Ramon-Vasquez to take note,\nstating that \u201cunlike the Philadelphia government, we are not on your side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pro-amnesty politicians and activists like promote\nsanctuary policies in warm and fuzzy terms like \u201cwelcoming\u201d or \u201cembracing\u201d of\nimmigrants, but the evidence shows they pose a real and direct threat to the\npublic safety of all residents \u2013 immigrant and native-born alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week when ICE\narrested three criminal aliens<\/a> in western Michigan who had been\nreleased from the custody of the Kent County Sheriff\u2019s office despite active\nimmigration detainers being in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kent County only adopted a policy to refuse to honor\nICE detainers in January \u2013 an action that was taken in response to the mistaken\ndetention<\/a> of a U.S. Marine veteran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kent County Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young rightly\ncalled for a review of the ICE detention, but she went too far in enacting a\npolicy preventing officers from honoring detainer requests, which she said\nstemmed from \u201cconcern\u201d about the reasons for Jilmar Ramos-Gomez\u2019\ndetention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, less than two months after the policy went into\neffect, three criminal illegal aliens were released onto the streets without\nregard to the threat they posed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Feb. 28, ICE announced the arrests, including one Mexican\nnational who charged with drunk driving and who had prior arrests for battery,\nbattery 2nd, fraud-false info to law enforcement, felony-reentry after\ndeportation, according\nto ICE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second was an illegal alien from Honduras who\u2019s been\narrested for assault with intent to murder and was convicted [IM1]<\/a> days\nearlier of assault with a dangerous weapon \u2013 a felony. Nonetheless, under the\nnew policy, he was released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As policymakers consider changing policy on ICE\ndetainers, perhaps they should first review the findings<\/a>\nfrom an Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) investigation which showed California\nlaw enforcement agencies have refused to honor a sizeable number of immigration\ndetainer requests for illegal aliens charged with serious felonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, over a 27 month period ending on December\n31, 2017, California police and sheriffs\u2019 departments refused to honor over\n5,600 immigration holds, including over 3,400 which were classified by ICE as\nthreat level 1 and 2 offenses. These included, but were not limited to,\nhomicide, kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, drugs,\nburglary, and fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As U.S. Attorney McSwain said, sanctuary policies\nthreaten public safety and there is mounting evidence to prove it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Feb. 26, U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced the sentencing of Juan Ramon-Vasquez, a previously deported Honduran who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a child while living illegally in the sanctuary city of Philadelphia. Ramon-Vasquez, who was deported in 2009, exemplifies the serious danger presented to the community when Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/p>\n

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