Posted on 08/15/2007 5:31:08 AM PDT by Calpernia
At a news conference on Tuesday, Newark Police Director Gary McCarthy said the immigration status of a chief suspect in the murders of three college students behind an elementary school August 4 is "irrelevant."
"What's relevant to me is that they're murderers, and what's relevant is that a heinous crime has occurred," said McCarthy.
Jose Carranza, 28, one of three suspects so far charged in the execution-style killings, is an illegal alien from Peru. However, despite his many encounters with the legal system, his immigration status wasn't determined. Had federal immigration officials known Carranza was arrested in connection with child rape allegations first in January and then again in May, they could have immediately moved to detain the accused at his bail hearings. But federal officials were never notified. Carranza posted $150,000 bail and was freed in late May.
McCarthy contended there were no guarantees the feds would have acted. "They might have and they might not have," he said. Before he could be asked another question by reporters, Newark Mayor Cory Booker interjected. "It is no way the obligation of the city police department to bo going around doing the work of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]." Booker added that talk focusing on Carranza's imigration status could have a chilling effect on immigrants in his city. He said immigrants, both legal and illegal, are routinely picked on by criminals.
Booker and McCarthy revealed no specific information about the ongoing hunt for three more suspects, two of whom are juveniles. The 24-year-old being sought, Rodolfo Godinez of Newark, was a fugitive on the night of the murders and has been for four years. He became a fugitive in July 2003 after failing to appear in Superior Court on charges that he robbed and attacked three people in Irvington a year earlier, according to court records obtained by the Star-Ledger.
The news conference was called so Mayor Booker could unveil a street surveillance program he says will reduce crime in the city's most dangerous neighborhoods. The multimillion dollar program will saturate high-crime areas with cameras and gunshot detection technology. The total number is expected to reach more than 120 when all are in place by next summer.
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Exactly right.
THEY are the ONLYones that have the authority to arrest criminals and place them into the court system.
To blame those of us who differentiate between violent thugs and peaceful, hard-working illegal immigrant families who are just trying...as Fred Thompson said..."get along like the rest of us", makes no sense whatsoever. They are terrorized by these felons as much as anybody else.
Only small-minded simpletons would say the Chevy Suburban causes global warming...and any posters that say sympathetic Americans are "the enemy" belong in that same 'simpleton' category.
Not to be able to differentiate between Nelitza...the cleaning lady who works 60 hours a week and Paco...who unlawfully carries a weapon and spends 60 hours a week preying on innocents...is delusional and isn't intelligent enough to discuss this issue.
It isn't your job to prevent them from doing it either you frigging bonehead.
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NJ is as corrupt as ancient Rome. now with Menendez in power anyone with an Hispanic name is safe . ( Joke is he moved out of Hispanic Union City as fast as his feet could carry him and moved to white yuppy Hoboken )
I live in north NJ and the average person is totally sick of the illegal ownership of our old neighborhoods. When you speak English around here people look at you like you have 2 heads. The politicians are ALL in on the deal too. There will be a backlash , mark my words , people have HAD IT !
You got that right---we know these disturbed liberals thrive on chaos.
The belief that middle-class America is a criminal blight is the thinking of the disestablishment crowd.
That crowd is composed of a glib, gullible privileged elite on a jihad to (a) tear down every building block of Western civilization and (b) religiously cleanse every facet of American life.
Donk politicians in a Donk city in a Donk state showing the country how well Donk policies work.
Unbelievable. I hope he lives to regret that remark.
Anyone else here note the beautiful ethnic diversity of the panelists? Anyone else wonder at the stated purpose of the panel: “looking after the human rights and civil rights of each and every immigrant.”? Shouldn’t the issue be “figuring out why our state is overrun by illegal aliens who are overwhelming our schools, hospitals, jails, and welfare programs”?
Interesting that Bubba signed it, though, ain't it? Someone should ask Hillie whether she supports the law and giving it some teeth.
Booker got a campaign endorsement from the Campaign for a National Majority which has a directory affiliation listing with The Praxis Project.
Buh, bye Booker.
>>>>NJ is as corrupt as ancient Rome. now with Menendez in power anyone with an Hispanic name is safe .
http://justwhatithink.com/blog/index.php?y=2006&m=11&d=8
Recepción al Congressman Menendez de New Jersey
Anyone remember this???
Major emphasis, bump.
It's a hyphenate fellate-a-thon.
So it isn't relevant that Newark, and NJ in general, flaunts federal law by refusing to even report illegal aliens, never mind arrest them, who the cops find there in the course of their criminal investigations?
How can city and state officials get away with blatantly refusing to even recognize federal immigration laws that don't fit their ultra-leftist political views, and who actually help lawbreakers evade those laws? If Congress had a pair it would cut off all federal funding to every state and city that refuses to enforce the laws of the land. But then Congress won't do anything to enforce immigration law itself, so it can't very well compel the states and cities to do what it won't do.
The American people had better stop worrying about things that actually are irrelevant, and start doing something relevant by cleaning house at the Capitol Building next year.
The only way we can affectively clean house is if voter fraud is cleaned up. Those checks and balances are in the hands of our congress critters. The creates a catch 22.
Great post of relevant articles. The following timeline from the NY Post says it all.
“Carranza, who arrived in New Jersey from Peru in 1991, was first arrested last October after a bar fight in West Orange, where he and two others used bottles and chairs to cause “significant bodily injuries” to one of the four victims, court papers say.
He was charged with felony aggravated assault. A municipal court judge set Carranza’s bail at $50,000. It was later reduced to $20,000. He posted 10 percent and walked free.
That allowed Carranza to return to what prosecutors said was four years of sexual torment he inflicted on a child that began in 2003 when she was just 5.
Orange police arrested Carranza again in January, and Judge John Kennedy set the initial bail at $150,000, which he posted by bond.
He was re-arrested a month later in Newark on the same sex charges and a second bail was set at $300,000, a court official said.
But Essex County Judge Thomas Vena agreed to consolidate the charges, and allowed Carranza to go free based on the bond he posted in the original case.
“Essex County prosecutors never consented to lowering the bail or consolidating the bail,” a spokesman said.
Months later, an Essex County grand jury indicted him on 31 counts on those allegations of child rape.
Still free, prosecutors said that last Saturday Carranza and at least two others forced four victims at a Newark schoolyard to their knees and shot them all in the head execution-style, killing three.
“He should have been off the street,” Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura.
But the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office never alerted the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that Carranza was an illegal alien and out on the streets, as recommended by federal guidelines.”
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I have no clue, but the perp they arrested for these murders seems a lot older than 28, imho. No one knows who is in this country, it’s a crapshoot.
>>>...but the perp they arrested for these murders seems a lot older than 28, imho.
I agree.
Agreed. Vote fraud put and keeps many liberals in power, and the rest of Congress doesn't appear to care enough to expose and condemn it. Congress is not concerned about the welfare of the people or the nation as a whole, only about their own best political and financial interests.
IMHO it's way past time for a general house cleaning at the Capitol building and then work on down to the state governments. But that won't happen, and not only because of vote fraud. Also because the American people are far more interested in who will be the next American Idol or what guy Paris Hilton is "doing" now than they are in the survival of the nation.
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