{"id":23256,"date":"2020-07-22T14:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23256"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:09:57","slug":"ice-detain-criminal-illegal-alien-texas-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/07\/22\/ice-detain-criminal-illegal-alien-texas-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Catches Up With Criminal Alien After Deadly Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
After\nfour arrests \u2013 the latest involving a highway collision that killed three\npeople \u2013 a Mexican national living illegally in Texas finally has the attention\nof U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ivan Robles Navejas<\/a>, 28, was charged with multiple counts of drunken driving, intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault after his vehicle swerved into a group of motorcycle riders on a rural Texas highway. Ironically, victims of the noon-hour crash were members of the Thin Blue Line Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club.<\/a> Robles was not injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the time of the deadly crash, Robles was out on bail<\/a> awaiting trial for a 2018 felony aggravated assault charge in which he allegedly struck another man with a truck before biting off part of the man’s left ear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before\nthat violent episode, Robles had been arrested in 2016\non suspicion of drunken driving. Prior that, he was apprehended in 2013 and convicted in 2015 of evading arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n None of those arrests triggered an ICE detainer, which would have kept Robles off the streets and, in all likelihood, led to his deportation. (A 2017 Texas anti-sanctuary law<\/a> requires local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration agents.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n An ICE spokeswoman said that though agents encountered Robles at the Kerr County Jail after his 2016 arrest, he did not meet the agency\u2019s criteria for issuing a detainer request under the Obama-era Priority Enforcement Program<\/a> \u2013 the \u201cpriority\u201d being to have ICE ignore all but the most violent and dangerous criminal aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Noting that it took four run-ins with the law \u2013 and three\nfatalities — before ICE ordered a hold to keep Robles behind bars, a\nconservative South Texas commentator called it \u201coutrageous that illegal aliens continue to commit\ncrimes in the U.S.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n George Rodriguez also assailed media outlets for failing to exercise journalistic due diligence in identifying Robles\u2019s illegal immigration status. Most news accounts benignly described him as a resident of Center Point<\/a>, a small town a few miles from the crash site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAmericans will never understand\nthe full extent of the problems with illegal alien criminals as long as the\nnews media considers political correctness more important than the truth,\u201d\nRodriguez asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n