{"id":21820,"date":"2019-08-09T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T18:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21820"},"modified":"2019-08-09T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T18:57:13","slug":"worksite-enforcement-ice-illegal-alien-workers-immigrationreform-com-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/08\/09\/worksite-enforcement-ice-illegal-alien-workers-immigrationreform-com-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Family Permanently Separated by a Sanctuary Church, a Sanctuary State, and an Illegal Alien with a DUI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\u201cU.S. defends secretive Mississippi ICE raids as local, state officials decry effect on children,\u201d blared the headline in the Washington Post<\/a>, after ICE arrested hundreds of illegal aliens working at meatpacking plants in Mississippi. The Post coverage was just one of many that focused on the impact of immigration enforcement on the children of the people who were arrested for violating federal laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A thousand miles or so away, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, immigration policies separated another father from his five children. In this case, Sean Buchanan\u2019s children will never see him again<\/a> because he is dead. Buchanan was killed on Aug. 2 while riding his motorcycle, when a car swerved into his lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The car was driven by Miguel Ramirez Valiente, an illegal\nalien from El Salvador. But there\u2019s more to the story. Ramirez Valiente was\ndriving with a revoked license. The revocation was a result of a 2018\nconviction for drunk driving, and one day earlier he had been denied\nreinstatement of his license because he had failed to complete alcohol therapy\nand fulfill his community service obligations. He apparently wasn\u2019t such a\ngreat guy off the road either. Ramirez Valiente was twice charged with reckless\nendangerment and domestic violence, although in both cases the charges were\ndropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, Ramirez Valiente, an illegal alien with a pending\ndeportation order was still behind the wheel on a Colorado highway, without a\nlicense, when he struck and killed Buchanan. He managed to do this because he\nhad a lot of help. Among those who aided and abetted in this tragedy are the\nvirtue-signalers at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Colorado\nSprings, who earlier this year allowed him to hole-up in their basement to make\nsure that if ICE arrested him they would have to do so under the worst possible\noptics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The justification for Ramirez Valiente dodging the consequences of his illegal behavior, and for his enablers, was, of course, the children. \u201cMy three children and I are terrified that he will be deported. His children need him. So do I,\u201d said his wife in a tearful news conference in January<\/a>. Likewise, Ramirez Valiente himself invoked his kids as a reason why he should be exempt from the consequences of his actions. \u201cI can\u2019t be separated from them. I have always worked hard to support my family, and they depend on me,\u201d he pleaded. The church\u2019s pastor, Rev. Nori Rost, castigated the government as being immoral for attempting to enforce immigration laws<\/p>\n\n\n\n