{"id":22162,"date":"2019-11-11T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22162"},"modified":"2019-11-11T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T14:18:25","slug":"ice-sheriffs-criminal-aliens-sanctuary-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/11\/11\/ice-sheriffs-criminal-aliens-sanctuary-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Sanctuary Sheriff Asks for the Impossible to Excuse His Outrageous Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sheriffs of Buncombe, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, and Wake counties, North Carolina, stopped<\/a> honoring immigration detainers this year.\u00a0 Since their decision, local authorities released more than 500<\/a> criminal aliens during the past fiscal year, which ended September 30, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This, despite a 2015 state law<\/a> banning sanctuary policies.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently, it was Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller (D), who released<\/a> illegal-alien child molester Marvin Ramirez Torres at the end of October.\u00a0 Torres had been in jail for more than two years and was ultimately convicted of \u201cindecent liberties with a minor\u201d on an eleven-year-old girl.\u00a0 Sentenced to a shockingly lenient 16 to 29 months, the time he had already served was applied to that sentence and he was released the next day.\u00a0 Despite ICE\u2019s detainer request, Sheriff Miller\u2019s jail released him into the community without even notifying the federal agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, local District Attorney \u00a0Todd Williams (D), concerned about Miller\u2019s sanctuary policies, called<\/a> United States Attorney Andrew Murray as soon as Torres was convicted, and he was in federal custody within a matter of days.\u00a0 Murray blasted Sheriff Miller for releasing him, saying \u201c[a]s U.S. attorney and previously as district attorney for Charlotte, I’ve witnessed firsthand the devastating impact that sanctuary policies can have on a community \u2026 I’ve seen how these policies destroy the lives of innocent victims and their families.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheriff Miller hid behind his claim that Buncombe County is not a sanctuary jurisdiction.\u00a0 This is what Center for Immigration Studies Andrew Arthur calls the<\/a> \u201csanctuary jurisdiction fig leaf.\u201d It is the idea that law enforcement officials would cooperate with ICE if the federal agency would simply give them an arrest warrant signed by a judge, rather than the administrative warrant that accompanies an immigration detainer signed by an ICE supervisor.\u00a0 Hundreds of the jurisdictions FAIR identified as sanctuaries in its 2018 survey<\/a> have variations on this policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the glaring problem: \nJudicial warrants for immigration violations do not exist.  Federal law simply does not provide for them\nbecause immigration is a civil and administrative matter, not a criminal one\nwhich a federal judge has authority to issue a warrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Congress could theoretically create such warrants,\nthey\u2019ve wisely decided to leave the decision with ICE and not flood the federal\ncourts with demands for judges to review those requests.  Until Congress changes the law, a local\nofficial complaining that ICE won\u2019t give them a judicial immigration warrant is\nessentially no different than demanding ICE provide them with a unicorn.  They\u2019re both imaginary.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanctuary officials, like Sheriff Miller, who claim they\nneed a judicial warrant to hold dangerous criminal aliens for ICE confuse the\npublic in order to shift the spotlight away from their reckless and lawless\npolicies.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheriffs of Buncombe, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, and Wake counties, North Carolina, stopped honoring immigration detainers this year.\u00a0 Since their decision, local authorities released more than 500 criminal aliens during the past fiscal year, which ended September 30, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This, despite a 2015 state law banning sanctuary policies.\u00a0 Most<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":7493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[520,577,1524,1346],"yst_prominent_words":[2257,7076,7073,2691,5454,1943,2812,1918,1963,2030,2252,7075,2771,1925,2063,6622,2059,4188,7072,7074],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22163,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions\/22163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22162"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}