{"id":22471,"date":"2020-02-05T14:14:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22471"},"modified":"2020-02-05T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:15:01","slug":"illegal-aliens-sanctuary-city-philadelphia-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/02\/05\/illegal-aliens-sanctuary-city-philadelphia-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia is Playing by a Dangerous Set of Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sanctuary city politicians often rely on tortured reasoning in order to defend placing the comfort of immigrants, regardless of status or criminal history, ahead of public safety. But Philadelphia\u2019s Office of Immigration Affairs<\/a> statement that its \u201cpolicies uphold the Golden Rule\u201d is painfully warped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is a very dangerous and irresponsible game to be playing in a city that is home of an estimated 50,000 illegal aliens<\/a>, more than any metropolitan area in the northeast outside of New York City. But sanctuary politicians rarely feel the real-world impact of gambling with public safety by releasing violent criminal aliens from custody. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do they really want done to them what they are doing to the law-abiding citizens of Philly? Would Mayor Jim Kenney, who infamously danced<\/a> around his office following a pro-sanctuary court ruling, really be so welcoming to a recidivist violent criminal alien moved in next door? But that is what happened because of his policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take the case of a 36-year-old Mexican national\nrecently arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The\nunnamed alien was familiar to law enforcement having been arrested on at least\nsix occasions since 2018. His crimes ran the gamut from simple and aggravated\nassault to making terroristic threats. He also had failed to appear at several\njudicial hearings related to those arrests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, the Philadelphia district attorney\u2019s office went so far as to write a letter to an immigration judge in York, Pa.,, \u201cwhich was used as supporting evidence to help get him a favorable custody decision and ultimately released from ICE custody,\u201d according to an ICE press release<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCity officials have indicated that they do not want to be a part of immigration enforcement, and yet in this case [of the 36-year-old Mexican], they go on record and write a letter to an immigration judge, to help get an individual released? This is a dangerous policy, as I am sure the most recent victim(s) can attest to,\u201d said<\/a> ICE Enforcement and Removal Philadelphia Deputy Field Office Director Gregory Brawley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Releasing a habitual offender was not an accident, as\nthe case of another criminal alien, Hector Moran-Espinoza, sadly demonstrates.\nLast November, ICE agents arrested the Guatemalan national for sexual abuse\nagainst children following his release from custody of the Philadelphia police\nfor the second time. The first release took place after his April arrest and in\nboth cases ICE lodged detainers against him. The details of his crimes were not\ndisclosed given the age of the victims, but the mere list of charges is\nchilling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an ICE press release<\/a>, Moran-Espinoza was arrested by Philadelphia police April 2, 2019, for \u201cinvoluntary deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, unlawful contact with a minor-sexual offenses, statuary sexual assault, endangering the welfare of children-parent or guardian commits offense, corruption of minors, indecent assault-without the consent of other person, reckless endangerment of another person, rape by forcible compulsion, sexual abuse of children-photographing, videotaping, depicting on a computer or filming sexual acts, and aggravated indecent assault without consent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE requested Philadelphia police hold him until\nagents could get to the precinct to take custody of Moran-Espinoza, but he was\nreleased anyway. He would encounter police again when he was arrested five\nweeks later for sexually assaulting a minor under the age of 13. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe victims in this case are young children, whose\nlives are now forever changed,\u201d said ICE Philadelphia Field Office Director\nSimona Flores-Lund,  driving home the\nserious consequences of the city\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanctuary policy defenders talk a lot about the fears illegal aliens have about deportation if they cooperate. They talk little about provisions in U.S. law that afford several protections<\/a> for legal and illegal immigrants who have been victims of a crime. And they talk even less about the victims of those criminal aliens who they are responsible for putting back into the community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanctuary city politicians often rely on tortured reasoning in order to defend placing the comfort of immigrants, regardless of status or criminal history, ahead of public safety. But Philadelphia\u2019s Office of Immigration Affairs statement that its \u201cpolicies uphold the Golden Rule\u201d is painfully warped. That is a very dangerous and irresponsible game to be playing<\/p>\n

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