{"id":22843,"date":"2020-04-20T16:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22843"},"modified":"2020-04-20T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:17:47","slug":"border-security-enforcement-wall-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/04\/20\/border-security-enforcement-wall-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Without a Wall, U.S. Border Remains Open Door to Illegal Alien Felons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deporting convicted illegal alien criminals \u2013 and keeping them out of the United States for good \u2013 is tougher than it seems \u2026 and definitely harder than it should be. One important reason is that lawless \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions flout federal immigration laws and frequently release illegal alien felons (including murderers, rapists, and pedophiles) to prey on the general population rather than honor an ICE detainer. Another reason is a largely porous, almost 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico \u2013 much of which still either has no barriers whatsoever, or has woefully inadequate ones (although <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EVfdfAVX0AoZXcC.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">158 miles<\/a> of the Border Wall System have been completed under Trump). This allows illegal alien felons, even when they are eventually removed to their homelands, to sneak back into the United States, sometimes repeatedly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are a few recent cases that illustrate this point and underscore the need for a wall\/fence along the Southwestern border. All the examples are taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/illegal-immigration\/examples-serious-crimes-illegal-aliens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">FAIR\u2019s online archive<\/a> of the most egregious crimes committed by illegal aliens in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>In March 2020, Jose Lopez-Gonzalez, a 35-year-old man from El\nSalvador, was arrested after police responded to a distress call and found him\nraping a half-naked, semi-conscious woman in an alley stairwell. The crime\noccurred in Montgomery County, Maryland, where Lopez-Gonzalez is believed to be\nassociated with the brutal Central American MS-13 gang. He was previously\ndeported on two occasions, but somehow managed to re-enter \u2013 twice.<\/li><li>On the night of March 15, Arturo Perez-Gallegos, an illegal alien\nfrom Mexico, struck and killed a pedestrian in the Houston, Texas, area, and\nthen fled the scene. Perez-Gallegos also showed \u201cseveral signs of intoxication\u201d\nwhile driving with a child in his truck. The illegal alien had been deported in\n2006. He subsequently re-entered, but managed to avoid another removal in 2016\ndue to immigration officers invoking \u201cprosecutorial discretion\u201d under lax Obama\nadministration policies. He also received a quite lenient sentence of only six days\nin jail after breaking into the apartment of the mother of his child and\npunching her in the left eye.<\/li><li>An illegal alien from Mexico \u2013 Christopher Puente \u2013 allegedly\nsexually assaulted a three-year-old girl in the bathroom of a McDonald\u2019s restaurant\nin Chicago, Illinois, in February. Puente, who has a long criminal history, was\ndeported in 2014, but sneaked back into the U.S. five days later. In June 2019,\nICE placed a detainer on Puente after he was arrested for theft. However, as a\nresult of Chicago\u2019s sanctuary policies, he was released back into the\ncommunity. The Chicago Police Department and Mayor Lori Lightfoot have defended\ntheir decision to release Puente.<\/li><li>Jose Luis Torres Garcia, a Mexican national suspected of killing\nthree men in California, was arrested in February with 15 pounds of marijuana\nin his vehicle. Torres Garcia was apprehended in Wyoming for allegedly\nmurdering Jaime Covarrubias Espindola, Jose Maria Aguilar-Espejel, and Rodrigo\nAguilar-Espejel, all of whom were found at a cemetery in Perris, California, on\nFebruary 17, 2020. He had been deported twice, but he did not let that stop him\nfrom returning illegally.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The above sample is by no means exhaustive. Unfortunately, there are many more similar cases showing a disturbing pattern. In each case above and this is the key point &#8211; a crime occurred that was <em>completely preventable,<\/em> had a border wall or fence been in place to prevent the perpetrator from illegally sneaking into our country. In some cases, misguided sanctuary policies (Puente) or Obama-era enforcement policies (Perez-Gallegos) laid the groundwork for crimes that tougher enforcement and border security could have likely prevented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, none of this is to stereotype all illegal aliens as criminals. Yet, some certainly are, and they take advantage of our porous borders as much as other illegal aliens. CBP <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/cbp-enforcement-statistics\/criminal-alien-statistics\" target=\"_blank\">statistics<\/a> showing small numbers of criminal aliens apprehended by the Border Patrol do not reflect those who sneak through undetected. According to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/illegal-immigration\/scaap-data-suggest-illegal-aliens-commit-crime-much-higher-rate-citizens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">FAIR study<\/a>, illegal aliens are also three times as likely to be incarcerated than U.S. citizens and legal immigrants. (And the fact remains that illegal re-entry remains a federal felony, i.e. a crime.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to\nbe as effective as possible, enforcement and removals must be accompanied by\nsecuring our borders to ensure that they, and the Southwestern one in\nparticular, do not become a revolving door for re-entering felons. A border\nwall\/fence may not keep out every single criminal alien, but \u2013 when\nsupplemented with technology and manned by sufficient personnel \u2013 it will\nundoubtedly deter many while serving as a valuable force multiplier for the\nBorder Patrol. It will also certainly reduce the number of such preventable\ncrimes as showcased above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deporting convicted illegal alien criminals \u2013 and keeping them out of the United States for good \u2013 is tougher than it seems \u2026 and definitely harder than it should be. One important reason is that lawless \u201csanctuary\u201d jurisdictions flout federal immigration laws and frequently release illegal alien felons (including murderers, rapists, and pedophiles) to prey<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/04\/20\/border-security-enforcement-wall-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":16640,"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":[5],"tags":[1323,140,1102,1524],"yst_prominent_words":[2216,8423,2019,2043,2042,2286,2075,1922,4696,1995,2013,2010,8421,2008,8147,2771,7860,2059,8422,1933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843"}],"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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22844,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843\/revisions\/22844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22843"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}