Jessica M. Vaughan is director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies.
YOU REALLY WANT TO HAND THESE PEOPLE AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP???
One of these is Victor Aureliano Hernandez Ramirez2 who, together with an accomplice, was arrested in July 2015 for raping and then bludgeoning 64-year-old Marilyn Pharis, of Santa Maria, Calif. She died eight days later. Ramirez had been arrested for battery in May 2014 and was in the custody of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff. ICE issued a detainer in order to begin the deportation process after the charges were resolved, but the sheriff did not comply, apparently in accordance with California's state sanctuary law that went into effect on January 1, 2014.3
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Across the U.S., there are 340 cities, counties, and states that are considered "sanctuary cities". These jurisdiction protect criminal aliens from deportation by refusing to comply with ICE detainers or otherwise impede open communication and information exchanges between their employees or officers and federal immigration agents.
The number of jurisdictions that are obstructing immigration enforcement has grown to roughly 340, according to the Department of Homeland Security.1 This has resulted in the release by local authorities of approximately 1,000 criminal aliens per month.
According to an updated report prepared by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for Congress, between January 1 and September 30, 2014, local sanctuaries released 9,295 alien offenders that ICE was seeking to deport. More than 600 people were released at least twice.
Out of these, 5,947 of the criminal aliens (62 percent) had significant prior criminal histories or other public safety concerns even before the arrest that led to a detainer. Fifty-eight percent of those with a prior history of concern had prior felony charges or convictions; 37 percent had serious prior misdemeanor charges, and 5 percent had multiple prior misdemeanors.
An alarming number — 2,320 — of the total number of released offenders were subsequently arrested within the time period studied for new crimes after they were released by the sanctuaries.
One of these is Victor Aureliano Hernandez Ramirez2 who, together with an accomplice, was arrested in July 2015 for raping and then bludgeoning 64-year-old Marilyn Pharis, of Santa Maria, Calif. She died eight days later. Ramirez had been arrested for battery in May 2014 and was in the custody of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff. ICE issued a detainer in order to begin the deportation process after the charges were resolved, but the sheriff did not comply, apparently in accordance with California's state sanctuary law that went into effect on January 1, 2014.3
ICE was not able to re-apprehend most of the offenders released by the sanctuaries. As of last year, 6,460 (69 percent) were still at large. Of those still at large, 1,377 (20 percent) had another criminal arrest following the one that resulted in the ICE detainer.
One violent illegal alien offender who is now at large because of a local sanctuary policy is Francisco Javier Chavez. In August 2015, Chavez was arrested for brutally beating the two-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, breaking a leg and both of her arms.
4 Chavez has a long rap sheet, including felony drug and drunk driving convictions and a prior deportation. ICE issued a detainer, but the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department released him anyway after he posted bail, even though California’s law would have permitted them to hold him.
Of the 6,460 criminal aliens who were still at large during the time period studied, 3,802 (58 percent) had prior felonies or violent misdemeanors.
New Sanctuary Listings
In July, the Center for Immigration Studies reported that ICE had identified 276 jurisdictions that, as of September 2014, had policies obstructing immigration enforcement, primarily policies to ignore ICE detainers.5 ICE updated this list in December 2014 to add another 41 jurisdictions that adopted sanctuary policies. They are:
- Lafayette Parish, La.
- Rio Arriba, N.M.
- Prince George's County, Md.
- Montgomery County, Md.
- Douglas County, Neb.
- All New Mexico counties
- Northampton, Mass.
- Chesterfield County, Va.
- Clayton County, Ga.
These jurisdictions have been added to our map of sanctuaries.
6 No jurisdictions were removed from the list by ICE.
A DHS spokesperson confirmed to me on October 5, 2015, that roughly 340 jurisdictions had adopted non-cooperation policies, but that some of those jurisdictions had recently revised their sanctuary policies to allow at least some cooperation with ICE. The spokesperson declined to provide either a list of the 340 total non-cooperative jurisdictions or a list of the ones that had allegedly improved their policies.
Most Sanctuary Releases in California
ICE has identified the 20 jurisdictions with the most rejected detainers. Most are in California.
Some Sanctuaries in Denial
After we published the ICE report and its findings, including the map of sanctuaries, we received a few complaints from law enforcement agencies and a few requests to be removed from the list because they did not wish to be described as sanctuaries. Some sheriffs maintained that they would be willing to comply with ICE detainers, but are not able to do so because of local or state ordinances.
To be clear, the list of sanctuaries was compiled by ICE, and I obtained it through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Some sheriffs have stated that they should not be described as sanctuaries if they are participating in the administration's new Priority Enforcement Program (PEP). However, PEP explicitly allows jurisdictions to obstruct immigration enforcement by ignoring detainers or barring ICE access to jails. Under PEP, immigration officers also issue "requests for notification" asking local authorities to tell them when a criminal alien in their custody will be released so ICE can attempt to take custody for deportation. Local agencies are free to ignore these notifications, or to choose which criminal aliens will be held for ICE. Some areas, such as Los Angeles County, have agreed to only partial participation in PEP.
7 With such a policy, they are still protecting many deportable criminal alien offenders from removal. They are still restricting their officers' ability to communicate with ICE, still obstructing ICE from performing its legitimate and important mission, and still putting people in their community at risk of harm from individuals who should instead be deported. Clearly, PEP is not even close to being an effective answer to the sanctuary problem.
When ICE cannot take custody of criminal aliens in jails, it has to send officers out to the streets to re-apprehend them. This is expensive, dangerous, and upsetting to the community. I am told that one deportation officer can issue 10 to 15 detainers in a day, with a couple of others needed to take the criminal aliens into custody. But locating and arresting just one released criminal alien requires a lot more: one case officer to do the research and paperwork, at least two officers and a government vehicle to conduct five to eight hours or more of surveillance to home in on the subject, a trip back to the office to get the supervisor's signature, another trip to the offender's address to stake out and wait for him to leave his house, and potentially a public confrontation and chase that ensues upon contact. Multiply this by hundreds of targets, and it becomes a major commitment of resources to re-arrest just a fraction of the criminal aliens who are now on the loose.
Solution Lies with Congress
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has introduced a bill that would address the problem of sanctuaries in two ways.
8 First, it would withhold certain federal funds to jurisdictions that restrict communication with or obstruct ICE from taking custody of deportable aliens. In addition, it would provide certain critical legal protections to the overwhelming majority of sheriffs and police chiefs who are and want to be fully compliant and cooperative with ICE.
This bill offers an effective approach that will help reverse sanctuary policies and prevent the release of criminal alien offenders who are causing so much harm in American communities. Without disincentives, the diehard sanctuary jurisdictions will not change on their own. The Obama administration has said it will not act to discourage them, and actively enables them. Congress must not continue to allow these irresponsible sanctuaries to bog down ICE and to put us all at risk in the process.
End Notes
8 "S.2146 - A bill to hold sanctuary jurisdictions accountable for defying Federal law, to increase penalties for individuals who illegally reenter the United States after being removed, and to provide liability protection for State and local law enforcement who cooperate with Federal law enforcement and for other purposes."
TEXAS: THE INVASION CONTINUES
LA RAZA ON THE RISE: MURDER, RAPE and vote DEM FOR MORE….
TOM
TANCREDO:
OBAMA’S
IMPERIAL AMNESTY FORCED
DOWN THE THROATS OF AMERICA…. But
will these hordes of
illegals vote for LA RAZA
Hillary?
"Obama’s most radical goal has
not been the transformation of our economy, our foreign policy, or our place in
the world. Obama aims to transform what it means to be an American." ----
TOM TANCREDO
PATRICK
BUCHANAN: OBAMA’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA
BEGINS AT OUR BORDERS
“Yet
nothing that happens on these borders imperils America so much as what is
happening on our own bleeding border with Mexico.” Patrick Buchanan
JUDICIAL WATCH on OBAMA’S SABOTAGE of HOMELAND SECURITY
“This appears to be part of the Obama Administration’s bigger plan to
blow off Congress by using its executive powers to grant illegal immigrants
backdoor amnesty.”
BARACK OBAMA and the MEXICAN DRUG
CARTELS: A PARTNERSHIP
BARACK OBAMA'S SABOTAGE OF
HOMELAND SECURITY INCLUDES PARTNERING WITH THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS TO DESTROY
THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS... THE FIRST STEP IN BUILDING AN OBAMA DICTATORSHIP.
Feds make secret alliance with Sinaloa drug cartel
What does the US Department of Justice, the Sinaloa drug
cartel, and the spy corporation Stratfor have in common? According to CIA
documents leaked by WikiLeaks, they’re all at the center of the new US strategy
in the War on Drugs. In 2012, Whiteout Press exposed the shocking alliance in
the article, ‘Secret US Alliance with Sinaloa Cartel exposed’.
Then, over the
summer, JW reported that Mexican drug cartels are smuggling
foreigners from countries with terrorist links into a small Texas rural town
near El Paso and they’re using remote farm roads—rather than interstates—to
elude the Border Patrol and other law enforcement barriers.
TAKING DOWN AMERICA:
Obama and the LA RAZA Mexican Drug Cartels Hit
Chicago!
DEPORTATION LIES: Obama’s
conspiracy to surrender to our borders to Mexico as he fights for the borders
of Muslim dictators over there.
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal
how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government
entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
Giving Illegals Access to Welfare
‘An Assault on the U.S. Taxpayer,’ Researcher Says
Robert Rector of The Heritage
Foundation
70% of all
invading ILLEGALS end up on welfare. Getting an American job with a stolen
social security number is NEVER and issue!!!
“The share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a
child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very
high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of
education and their resulting low incomes — not their legal status or an
unwillingness to work. . ."
Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will
Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'
what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add
it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the
MEXICAN now operate in 2,500 American
cities!
COMING FOR OBAMA’S AMNESTY, ANCHOR
BABY WELFARE AND U.S. JOBS…
Nearly a MILLION more…..
Mexicans jumped
America’s open borders this year.
THERE ARE NOW 40 MILLION ILLEGALS
IN OUR COUNTRY, JOBS AND WELFARE LINES!
ANCHORS
POPULATION
SURGE
MEXICO DOUBLES THE POPULATION OF AMERICA, FILLS OUR JOBS,
PRISONS AND WELFARE OFFICES AND VOTED
DEM FOR MORE!
hell!
they have NO IDEA how many illegals have jumped our borders in the last year!!!
JUDICIAL
WATCH:
“Our friends at the Center for Immigration Studies just this
week announced that their
analysis of census data shows that "the nation's immigrant
population (legal and illegal) hit
a record high of 42.1 million in the second quarter of
this year - an increase of 1.7 million
since the same quarter of 2014." This means that the noncitizens now comprise
"13.3
percent of the nation's total population - the largest share in
105 years.”
Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
January 10, 2011
By: James Walsh
Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the
cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education,
healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or
more politically correct, “undocumented immigrants”) with ties to Mexican drug
cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the
southern border.
While the declining job market in the United
States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal
aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as
drug-smuggling “mules.”
LA RAZA
FASCISM:
(LA
RAZA is the Mexican fascist party that is funded by Barack Obama and operates
out of the White House under LA RAZA V.P. Cecilia Munoz.)
"We have an aging white America. They are not making
babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population and I
love it. They are sh *** itting in their pants with fear. I love
it." ---Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas
*
"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for
services to
non-citizens -- was the last gasp of white America in California."
---Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party
*
Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going
to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're
right. We will take them over. . We are here to stay."
*
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California
State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California
is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
*
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La
Reconquista" in California."
*
“WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF OUR
COUNTRY (U.S.) BY VOTE IF POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF NECESSARY!” THE MEXICAN
FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race” NOW SENIOR PARTNER OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
*
“Through love of having children, we are
going to take over.” AUGUSTIN
CEBADA,
BROWN BERETS, THE LA
RAZA FASCIST PARTY of AMERICA
OBAMA FUNDS LA RAZA
WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS AND IT OPERATES OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA
SUPREMACIST CECELIA MUNOZ – GOOGLE IT!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/11/poverty-in-america-as-mexico-expands-la.html
LARAZACRIME
SUPER TOP CRIME TIDAL
WAVE
MURDER,
RAPE, LOOT and then they go vote DEM for more WELFARE…. the
illegals already get our jobs!
……..do you really want Obama’s amnesty hoax to legalize
Mexico’s looting and destroy the GOP?
ILLEGAL CRIMINALS
RELEASED ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
MORE MEX CRIMINALS RELEASED ON US BY OBAMA’S LA
RAZA-CONTROLLED DHS
GUILTY! OBAMA AND THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE HE INVITES
OBAMA RELEASES CRIMINALS
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE BARACK
OBAMA’S CONTEMPT FOR THE TRUTH, OUR LAWS OR BORDERS!
Obama Administration Lied
About Crimes Committed by
Released Illegal Immigrants
The Obama Administration lied last year when they
informed Congress and the public that the 2,200 people that the Administration
released from incarceration to save money had only minor criminal
records.
USA TODAY, gaining the data from U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through the Freedom of information
Act, reports that some of the illegal
immigrants had been charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, drug trafficking,
and homicide.
RAPE! MURDER! LOOT! And then go vote dem
for more!
JERRY BROWN’S LA RAZA-OCCUPATION of MEXIFORNIA:
A MEXICAN WELFARE STATE AND CRIME TIDAL
WAVE
Half
the murders in MEX-occupied CA are now by Mexican gangs!
LA RAZA DEM GOV JERRY BROWN VOWS TO MEXICAN PRESIDENT OPEN
BORDERS AND MORE GRINGO-PAID “FREE” WELFARE… illegals already get our jobs and
billions in welfare in MEXIFORNIA!
"This
is the other Mexico," he said of the United
States, which is home to
an estimated 11 million
Mexican immigrants.
Gov.
Jerry Brown, on a trip to Mexico, seeks to position California as a more
welcoming place for immigrants... $25 BILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE NOT WELCOMING
ENOUGH?!?
We’ve
got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of
Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the
country of Mexico.
THE LA RAZA MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE half the
prison population in CA and half the murders are by MEXICANS
40% of Federal Criminal Cases in 2013 Were in
Districts on Mexican Border
We’ve
got an even more ominous enemy within
our borders that promotes “Reconquista of
Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona,
New Mexico and Texas into the
country of Mexico.
MEX DRUNK
DRIVER MURDERS FAMILY
LA
RAZA MURDERING MEXICANS… really want AMNESTY?
And for others, it means exemption
from even immigration law itself. Take the case of Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros,
part of Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. After
being convicted of two felony hit-and-run deaths in Oregon, she received
probation. The government then dropped its immigration action against her.
She's now free and eligible for both a work permit and a Social Security
number.
JUDICIAL WATCH: 165,000 MEX CRIMINALS ON THE LOOSE.
IT’S ALL PART OF OBAMA’S CATCH, RELEASE, LOOT AND
VOTE DEM PROGRAM!
“Until lawmakers end
the catch-and-release policies of the Obama administration,” said Jessica
Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, “any infrastructure improvements,
new strategies, and better metrics are pointless.”
ANOTHER DAY IN AMERICA’S OPEN and UNDEFENDED BORDERS….
and another RAPE and MURDER by a Mexican criminal long on the loose.
SANCTUARY CITIES… But isn’t
California a sanctuary state???
ILLEGALS
ABOVE THE LAW AND LOOTING ACCORDINGLY!
“Sanctuary
policies are especially harmful when they let criminal immigrants be released
back to the street instead of removed to their home country, giving them the
opportunity to continue preying on the community, creating needless new
victims,” wrote Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for
Immigration Studies, a Washington-based think tank. More than 200 cities and local jurisdictions across the
country have such
policies, according to CIS.
MEXICO’S
BIGGEST EXPORT NEXT TO DRUGS: criminals!
“Sanctuary
policies are especially harmful when they let criminal immigrants be released
back to the street instead of removed to their home country, giving them the
opportunity to continue preying on the community, creating needless new
victims,” wrote Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for
Immigration Studies, a Washington-based think tank. More than 200 cities and local jurisdictions across the
country have such
policies, according to CIS.
But on
Thursday, the Clinton campaign clarified her position: “Hillary Clinton
believes that sanctuary cities can help further public safety, and she has
defended those policies going back years,” said Xochitl Hinojosa, a campaign
spokeswoman, in a statement.
CRIMINALS
RELEASED
OBAMA’S RELEASE OF MEXICAN
CRIMINALS ON US
MORE MEX CRIMINALS RELEASED ON US BY OBAMA’S LA
RAZA-CONTROLLED
DHS
GUILTY! OBAMA AND THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE HE INVITES
OBAMA’S CRONY
BANKSTER-DRIVEN ECONOMY
First he sabotaged
America’s borders and then invited endless waves of illegals to grab America’s
jobs and keep wages depressed.
Then he went after America’s
pensions, medicare and social security towards his design of destroying the
American middle-class.
AND IT’S WORKING!
“Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase,
Bank of America (ALL MAJOR DONORS TO BARACK OBAMA) and every other major US
bank have been implicated in a web of scandals, including the sale of toxic
mortgage securities on false pretenses, the rigging of international interest rates and
global foreign exchange markets, the laundering of Mexican drug money, accounting fraud and lying to bank
regulators, illegally foreclosing on the homes of delinquent borrowers, credit
card fraud, illegal debt-collection practices, rigging of energy markets, and
complicity in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.”
Sanctuary Cities Like Chicago Harbor Criminals
By Mark Krikorian
The Chicago Sun-Times, October 11, 2015
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/7/71/1020970/counterpoint-14
Dennis McCann was killed in 2011 by an alleged drunken
driver in Chicago. The man charged, Saul Chavez, was an illegal alien with a prior felony who had never been reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
This time ICE was alerted and requested custody, but because of Cook County’s sanctuary policies to shield criminals from deportation, Chavez escaped punishment by posting bail and running off.
Congress has allowed sanctuary jurisdictions like Cook County to nullify federal immigration law for far too long. Sanctuary policies put our communities in danger and must be stopped.
Information obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies
from ICE shows that the number of sanctuary jurisdictions
has grown to 340, and each month they have been releasing
about 1,000 criminal aliens whom ICE wanted to take into
custody. Most of these people had significant prior criminal
histories or other public safety concerns even before the
arrest that led to the ICE request. A large number have been
subsequently re-arrested for new crimes – crimes they
would not have been able to commit had they been deported.
This is not a problem that is going to fix itself. Nor is President Obama going to take steps to rein in these rogue jurisdictions. In fact, the administration’s new Priority Enforcement Program, known by the faintly comical acronym PEP, explicitly allows jurisdictions to obstruct immigration enforcement.
That’s why action by Congress is needed. Legislation introduced by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) takes a balanced approach to curbing this dangerous practice. First, it would withhold certain federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions. There’s no reason cities, counties, or states that subvert federal law should be subsidized by the federal treasury.
The bill also would protect from predatory lawsuits the vast majority of sheriffs and police chiefs who understand that cooperation with ICE is essential to public safety. The Obama administration has actually made it easier for the ACLU and others to sue cooperative sheriffs and police if ICE makes a mistake. Local law enforcement must be accountable for its own actions, but not for errors by the feds.
Without disincentives, diehard sanctuary jurisdictions like Cook County will not change their irresponsible policies. Congress should act to preserve the integrity of federal immigration law.
Sanctuary Cities Ignore ICE Orders to Free 9,295 Criminal Aliens
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, October 13, 2015
. . .
If it passes federal funding will be withheld from sanctuary states or cities that fail to comply with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued detainer requests for illegal aliens. The money would be redirected to states and localities that follow the law. “There is absolutely no reason that any U.S. city should be allowed to ignore our nation’s immigration laws and provide a safe harbor for illegal immigrants,” said Louisiana Senator David Vitter, in a statement introducing the measure this month. Illegal immigrants have committed other murders and terrible acts of violence across the U.S. since the San Francisco incident that drew national attention, Vitter said.
That’s because in less than a year 340 sanctuary cities, counties and states around the U.S. released 9,295 alien offenders that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was seeking to deport. More than half had significant prior criminal histories and 600 were released at least twice by jurisdictions that protect criminal aliens from deportation by refusing to comply with ICE detainers. The figures were made public recently by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a nonprofit dedicated to researching the consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.
Of the illegal immigrants released into unsuspecting communities, 58% had prior felony charges or convictions and 37% had serious prior misdemeanor charges, the CIS probe found. An astounding 2,320 of the freed offenders were subsequently arrested within the eight-month time period studied for new crimes. Here’s an enraging example included in the CIS document: Victor Aureliano Hernandez Ramirez, arrested in July 2015 for raping and bludgeoning a 64-year-old California woman who died eight days later. Ramirez had been arrested for battery a year earlier but the county sheriff blew off an ICE detainer that would have deported him in accordance with California’s state sanctuary law.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/10/sanctuary-cities-ignore-ice-orders-to-free-9295-alien-criminals/