{"id":22458,"date":"2020-02-03T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22458"},"modified":"2020-02-03T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:00:00","slug":"illegal-alien-criminals-ice-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/02\/03\/illegal-alien-criminals-ice-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Arrests Convicted Felon, Angering Local Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Erika Gonzalez Zuniga<\/a> is an illegal alien with multiple criminal convictions for theft on her record. She has illegally entered the United States on multiple occasions and was ordered deported by a judge. Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested her outside of a courthouse in Hidalgo County, Texas. This action by ICE angered Congressman Vicente Gonzalez<\/a> who represents the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was disturbed to learn that ICE arrested Ericka Gonzalez\nZuniga at the Hidalgo County Courthouse yesterday,\u201d complained Rep. Gonzalez.\nIt\u2019s not that ICE did anything wrong, or violated anyone\u2019s rights in exercising\nthe arrest warrant. It\u2019s just that ICE\u2019s action might make other immigration\nlaw violators nervous. \u201cWhile lawful, this lacked forethought, incites fear in\nour community, and may have a detrimental impact on our local justice system,\u201d\nbecause people who violate laws might be apprehensive about showing up at\nplaces where our laws are enforced (or something like that), the congressman explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Gonzalez Zuniga was not at the Hidalgo County Courthouse last week facing charges of her own. She was not there because she had been called to testify in a case, or because she was providing valuable information to police or prosecutors. Rather, she was there to lend support for her son who was being sentenced<\/a> to 20 years in prison for killing Sandra Coronado, a Hidalgo County Sheriff\u2019s Office Communication Officer, while he was driving drunk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only didn\u2019t ICE do anything that was unlawful, as\nCongressman Gonzalez concedes, they acted with considerable forethought and\nexecuted the arrest of a convicted felon (and the mother of another one) under\nthe safest possible conditions \u2013 one in which they could be certain that the\nsuspect would not be armed. \u201cUnder ICE policy, courthouses are not considered\nsensitive locations. In such instances where officers seek to conduct an arrest\nat a courthouse, every effort is made to take the person into custody in a\nsecure area, out of public view, for the safety of those involved,\u201d stated Nina\nPru\u00f1eda,\na spokeswoman for ICE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If ICE\u2019s action was important enough for a member of Congress\nto put out a press release expressing his disturbance, it kind of begs a\nquestion that he and other critics of ICE enforcement need to answer: If ICE\nshould not arrest someone with multiple felony convictions on her record, who\nhas entered the country illegally on several occasions and has a pending\ndeportation order, at a location where she is least likely to be armed, then\nwho, in their opinion should ICE be going after and where?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a rhetorical question by the way. We already know the\nanswer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erika Gonzalez Zuniga is an illegal alien with multiple criminal convictions for theft on her record. She has illegally entered the United States on multiple occasions and was ordered deported by a judge. Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested her outside of a courthouse in Hidalgo County, Texas. This action by ICE angered<\/p>\n

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