Chicago officials are not backing down in the face of\ncriticism from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials after a\nMexican national was released from jail and subsequently re-arrested for\nmolesting a 3-year-old child shortly after he was returned to the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf ICE is complaining, then they should do their job better,\u201d said<\/a> Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot last week after ICE\u2019s Chicago field office director Robert Guadian took issue with the sanctuary policies that granted Christopher Puente, a previously deported aggravated felon, an opportunity to sexually molest a child at a McDonald\u2019s restaurant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPuente should have been in ICE custody last year and\nremoved to his home country. Instead, irresponsible lawmaking allowed him to\nwalk free and prey on our most vulnerable,\u201d stated Guadian in reference to the\nJune 2019 detainer issued by ICE after Puente was arrested on theft charges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the mayor\u2019s lead, Chicago Police Department\n(CPD) officials stated they would continue to actively hinder ICE\u2019s efforts to\nenforce federal law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur pledge to restrict ICE access to our information systems and our refusal to cooperate with ICE immigration enforcement measures has not changed,\u201d the department brazenly asserted in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to ICE<\/a>, since he was deported in 2014, the Mexican criminal has been convicted of burglary, forgery, trespassing, domestic battery and related offenses. Each of those arrests represented an opportunity for local authorities to turn Puente over to ICE and ensure that he was permanently removed from the streets of the Windy City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And Puente isn\u2019t the only foreign criminal walking unimpeded through the streets of Chicago. The detainer issued for his arrest is just one of more than 1,000 detainers that Cook County, which covers Chicago, refused to honor in FY2019<\/a>, and in FY2018, police officials refused to honor<\/a> a single one of the 1,162 detainers issued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lightfoot\u2019s dedicated loyalty to the lawlessness of\nsanctuary policies means is the reason why more than 2,000 criminal illegal aliens\nare today freely walking the streets of Chicago. Perhaps it is time she do her<\/em> job better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chicago officials are not backing down in the face of criticism from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials after a Mexican national was released from jail and subsequently re-arrested for molesting a 3-year-old child shortly after he was returned to the community. \u201cIf ICE is complaining, then they should do their job better,\u201d said Chicago<\/p>\n