Posted on 12/01/2017 8:14:08 PM PST by upchuck
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the immigrant who entered the United States illegally and was charged with murdering California resident Kate Steinle in 2015, was found not guilty Thursday by a San Francisco jury. President Trump, who has used Steinle’s death to promote harsh immigration policies, quickly responded by calling for a border wall, adding that the “Steinle killer came back and back over the weakly protected Obama border, always committing crimes and being violent.”
These claims are just not true. In reality, the case highlights how much border security has improved and how little a threat undocumented immigrants pose. From 1991 to 1996, Garcia Zarate did cross the border illegally a couple of times. But as Border Patrol doubled and then tripled the number of agents, it caught him every time — twice in 1998, in 2003 and again in 2009, the only attempt in the Obama era.
Even when Garcia Zarate did make it over the border in the early 1990s, he never committed violent crimes, but rather activities such as “inhaling vapors,” selling “imitation drugs” and possessing marijuana and heroin. After each border apprehension since 1998, he served years-long prison terms for attempting to reenter illegally after his deportations. He certainly broke laws, but never with violence.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Pure unadulterated crap from a compost pile.
WaPo and Bezos can go to hell
It's not. It's about the total failure of politicians of both parties to secure our border and evict millions of illegal alien criminals.
No, Was Po, he has made it about ILLEGAL immigration. Rightfully so.
Enemy of the state.
Kate Steinle would not necessarily agree with wapo...
Yeah, the WaPo is trying to get away with, “He wasn’t violent. Well, except for that one murder.”
Their sheeple readership probably will buy it.
If San Francisco had not worked against ICE then Kate would be alive today.
I do not need to read their bs from Washington compost
You just can't make this stuff up.
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Ummm...
...oh, wait...
...they did.
WaPo and Bezos can go to hell
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Bezos is family is well protected. He doesn’t give a flip about Kate Steinle’s family.
It is.
The murderer should not have been here.
San Francisco refuses to cooperate with enforcement and released him back onto the streets to victimize Americans.
He did.
Actually the WaPo is correct. It is about ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Garcia was an illegal.
“David Bier is an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute.”
CATO is a Libertarian think tank.
CATO’s position on immigration: “The overriding impact of immigrants is to strengthen and enrich American culture, increase the total output of the economy, and raise the standard of living of American citizens. Immigrants are advantageous to the United States for several reasons: (1) Since they are willing to take a chance in a new land, they are self-selected on the basis on motivation, risk taking, work ethic, and other attributes beneficial to a nation. (2) They tend to come to the United States during their prime working years (the average age is 28), and they contribute to the workforce and make huge net contributions to old-age entitlement programs, primarily Social Security. (3) Immigrants tend to fill niches in the labor market where demand is highest relative to supply, complementing rather than directly competing with American workers. (4) Many immigrants arrive with extremely high skill levels, and virtually all, regardless of skill level, bring a strong desire to work. (5) Their children tend to reach high levels of achievement in American schools and in society at large.”
FRom: https://www.cato.org/research/immigration
Have at it!
Nothing is impossible and no pain is insurmountable ... when someone else is doing the suffering. If this guy’s daughter were murdered by an illegal, and then let go for deportation, he’d be down at the border with a shotgun waiting for the killer to get off the bus.
it caught him every time — twice in 1998, in 2003 and again in 2009, the only attempt in the Obama era.
roflmao caught him every time where was he in the years in between? ignorance is unbelievable
Criminal aliens have never been considered immigrants until the Democrat party went bat poop crazy recently.
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