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Series of Errors Allowed Shooting Suspect, in U.S. Illegally, to Remain
New York Times ^ | March 9, 2016 | TRACI ANGEL and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

Posted on 03/10/2016 9:01:27 AM PST by reaganaut1

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Mexican man who stands accused of murdering five people and was captured Wednesday was in the country illegally and should have been jailed or deported last year, federal immigration officials said, but three times in less than a year, he was arrested and allowed to go free because of procedural errors.

Pablo A. Serrano-Vitorino, 40, who was caught after a manhunt across two states, had a felony conviction on his record, had been deported once before and had returned to the United States illegally.

In November 2014, he was convicted of a misdemeanor drunken driving in Coffey County, Kan., but Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, which did not know he was in the country, has no record that the local authorities notified the agency, said Gillian Christensen, the press secretary for the agency. Some law enforcement agencies do not routinely notify the agency of possible undocumented immigrants unless they are charged with felonies.

Last June, Mr. Serrano-Vitorino was arrested here on a domestic battery charge, and the police notified the immigration agency but did not send his fingerprints, Ms. Christensen said. In that situation, she said, the agency first verifies people’s identities in person before asking the police to hold them for possible deportation. But Mr. Serrano-Vitorino was released before that could happen.

And in September, the agency received notice that Mr. Serrano-Vitorino was in court in Overland Park, Kan., after an arrest on a charge of driving without a license. In that case, the agency did ask that he be held, but conceded Wednesday that it had sent the request to the wrong agency — to the sheriff’s office, which did not have him in custody, rather than to the court. Once again, he went free.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: alien; aliens; illegal; illegalimmigration; immigration
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1 posted on 03/10/2016 9:01:27 AM PST by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Unexpectedly....


2 posted on 03/10/2016 9:02:25 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: reaganaut1

Obama’s FedGov.

Will be Hillary’s FedGov, too.


3 posted on 03/10/2016 9:02:47 AM PST by truth_seeker
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To: reaganaut1

Series of errors = total system failure.


4 posted on 03/10/2016 9:03:29 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: reaganaut1

Mr. Trump, Here is your poster boy for the wall.


5 posted on 03/10/2016 9:05:57 AM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: reaganaut1

Errors. Mmmmmmm....nice.


6 posted on 03/10/2016 9:05:59 AM PST by The Toll
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To: reaganaut1

There needs to be a “Kate Steinle Hall of Shame” set up and all of these unnecessary killings of US Citizens by “deported illegals” chronicled.
Trump would use it as a battering ram against Hitlary!


7 posted on 03/10/2016 9:06:03 AM PST by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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To: reaganaut1

Well, you can’t expect gubbermint employees to keep track of all these funky little details, can you? They have more important things to do.


8 posted on 03/10/2016 9:06:30 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: reaganaut1

This is NOT a ‘series of errors’
It is part and parcel of a plan that exactly happened here in July.

Same shuffling around to the same agencies deliberately to set them free:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/29/ohio-murder-suspect-in-country-illegally-ordered-not-to-be-detained-in-earlier0.html


9 posted on 03/10/2016 9:08:39 AM PST by mabelkitty (Trump 2016! #NoDNoR - Send Congress packing - third party in 2016!!)
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To: reaganaut1

America is become a shooting gallery and illegals&thugs are given free passes to kill as many citizens as they can.. meanwhile Obammy is fighting Climate Change.. and Hillary is laughing..


10 posted on 03/10/2016 9:10:17 AM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: reaganaut1

Dead people all over the place and government is running around making it’s usual excuses.

Whoops, just more errors. Now get all those bodies out of sight.


11 posted on 03/10/2016 9:14:25 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: reaganaut1

Btw, has Obama held a news conference or did a speech regarding this mass murder like he promised he would?

I haven’t see it.


12 posted on 03/10/2016 9:17:22 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: reaganaut1

It wasn’t “errors”. It was a policy by the president to not deport illegal aliens.


13 posted on 03/10/2016 9:18:14 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: reaganaut1

I long for the day when one of these “undocumented angels” kills one of those pro-immigration politicians, or a family member of such.


14 posted on 03/10/2016 9:18:50 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: Rummyfan

Just “procedural errors”


15 posted on 03/10/2016 9:21:24 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Rummyfan

American Lives Matter!


16 posted on 03/10/2016 9:24:20 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: Cicero

Yeah, like porn surfing during work hours.
Government workers = lazy bums.


17 posted on 03/10/2016 9:25:54 AM PST by Original Lurker
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To: Menehune56

cluster f


18 posted on 03/10/2016 9:26:40 AM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: reaganaut1

I like the line “immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native born people”.
The gubmint likes to break down crime into statistics. I want to know which native born people they are referring to. Does any one here think that the gubmint would answer my question?


19 posted on 03/10/2016 9:27:07 AM PST by certrtwngnut ("Peace through superior fire power". Ted Nugent)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
It wasn’t “errors”. It was a policy by the president to not deport illegal aliens.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner.

20 posted on 03/10/2016 9:32:21 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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