{"id":22524,"date":"2020-02-18T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22524"},"modified":"2020-02-18T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:21:12","slug":"sanctuary-policy-ice-criminal-aliens-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/02\/18\/sanctuary-policy-ice-criminal-aliens-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silenced Voices of the Sanctuary Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Of the many voices weighing in on the deployment<\/a> of an estimated 100 specially-trained Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to cities nationwide, there was one voice that directly addressed the real consequences and costs of sanctuary cities. Speaking before a gathering at a White House border security event on Friday, Daria Ortiz told the story of her grandmother, Maria Fuentes, a 92-year-old who was raped and murdered in New York City last month by a criminal illegal alien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe tragedy in all of [her grandmother\u2019s murder]is that this could have been avoided had there been no sanctuary law. The tragedy is that my grandmother will never be here again. The man that is responsible for this should have never had the opportunity to do this, had his multiple offenses not been ignored. The system not only failed our family, it failed our city,\u201d said<\/a> Ortiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The brutal slaying, which FAIR covered in January<\/a>, was committed by an illegal immigrant from Guyana who had been in NYPD custody<\/a> on charges of beating his own father. But authorities acting in accordance with New York City\u2019s sanctuary policies put him back on the streets, thereby presenting another criminal with the opportunity to re-offend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As Ortiz noted, her grandmother immigrated to America\nfrom the Dominican Republic legally and worked multiple jobs so she could\nprovide her family with a better life. Conversely, her murderer came illegally\nand continued to break laws. But it was criminal aliens that sanctuary\npoliticians in New York City have sought to protect. And these policies continue\nto protect deportable criminals by refusing to provide Immigration and Customs\nEnforcement (ICE) with information about them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ICE has been forced to subpoena the city<\/a> for that information and details about three other criminal aliens who are or were in NYPD custody. Still, New York resists in favor of the criminal aliens. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called the suit<\/a> \u201cpolitical\u201d and it does not appear the city will produce the requested documents unless ordered to do so by a judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While sanctuary jurisdictions say they want ICE to focus on apprehending criminal aliens, they still block access to information about most criminal aliens. This obstruction has resulted in the Justice Department and ICE resorting to suing<\/a> jurisdictions, including San Diego County<\/a>, the state of Connecticut<\/a>, and the city of Denver<\/a>. It also has led to ICE requesting support from tactical agents from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) as it carries out enforcement actions nationwide, including in Chicago, Detroit and Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n