Posted on 02/25/2017 10:19:59 AM PST by jazusamo
Sanctuary City Update: Arizona Sheriff Releases Hundreds of Criminal Illegal Aliens
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Sanctuary City Update: Arizona Sheriff Releases Hundreds of Criminal Illegal Aliens
A crackdown on dangerous sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants can’t come a moment too soon. As with our most recent court challenge to San Francisco, Judicial Watch has been a leader (and often the only) legal opponent to sanctuary policies that ignore federal and state laws concerning illegal immigration at the expense of the public’s safety, the rule of law, and our national security. Now, with a Trump administration that might actually join Judicial Watch in going after sanctuary policies, the radicals in “sanctuary cities” are doubling down.
Our Corruption Chronicles blog has the details of dangerous sanctuary craziness in Arizona:
An average of 400 “criminal illegal immigrants” are being released every 10 days by the newly elected sheriff in Arizona’s most populous county, federal law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch, many of them violent offenders.
It’s part of Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone’s new policy to protect illegal aliens, even those who have committed serious state crimes, from deportation. Under a longtime partnership between the county and the feds, the Phoenix field office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was notified when “aliens unlawfully present with additional Arizona charges” were released from the Maricopa County Jail, which is one of the nation’s largest with a population of about 8,000. That ended when Penzone, who refers to illegal immigrants as “guests,” took office this year and, though he formally announced the change last week, it was put into practice much earlier.
During a recent 10-day period, more than 400 criminal illegal immigrants were released from the Maricopa County Jail, according to federal law enforcement officials directly involved in the process in Phoenix. Weekdays are the busiest, with an average of about 40 criminal illegal aliens getting released from Maricopa County Jail facilities, the sources said. On weekends the number drops to about 10 each day. The illegal aliens have state criminal charges ranging from misdemeanors to felonies, driving under the influence and drug offenses. “There’s no telling how many criminals he’s (Sheriff Penzone) putting on the streets,” said a high-ranking federal law enforcement official stationed in Arizona. Judicial Watch’s calls to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office were not returned.
Before the new sheriff changed the system, ICE would send a wagon every 12 hours to pick up criminal illegal aliens scheduled to be released from the main jail in Maricopa County. Under the new policy, Maricopa County officials are not giving ICE “any notification at all of the release of criminal illegals,” according to an agency official in Phoenix who’s not authorized to talk and can’t be identified. Without cooperation from county authorities, federal agents would have to stand at the door to the jail 24 hours a day and guess which prisoner should be deported, sources said. “We can’t stand out there and question everyone that walks out of that jail,” said a federal agent directly involved in the matter. “Even if we did, we would have to make arrests on the street, in the middle of protestors, families and picketers and that will only heighten the danger to agents.”
When Penzone announced the new policy at a press conference last week, ICE issued a statement calling it an “immediate, dangerous change.” The agency’s Phoenix director for enforcement and removal operations, Enrique Lucero, was quoted in local media saying: “Immigration detainers have been a successful enforcement tool to prevent the release of dangerous criminals to our streets and mitigate the possibility of future crimes being committed against the residents of our communities.” Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain specific figures and pertinent information related to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s policies involving criminal illegal aliens. “This is as bad as it gets,” said one federal officer.
Just this month an illegal immigrant released from the Denver County Jail in Colorado was arrested for murder . The Mexican national, Ever Valles, was released into the community in December even though he was a “known gang member” with a lengthy and violent criminal history. The 19-year-old gangbanger was arrested in October on multiple charges, including possession of a weapon and vehicle theft, and was flagged by ICE for removal. Instead, Denver County officials released Valles without notifying ICE, and this month he was arrested and charged with shooting a man to death during a robbery at a rail station in Denver.
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Just as Federal Highway funds can be with held when the speed limits are ignored, with hold funds from Sanctuary Cities.
Off the Wall Ping!
Contact to be added.
Absolutely.
Everyone's got their priorities. Going to war against illegal immigration is my Number One. Eject the invaders and watch how quickly and easily we fix all the other problems.
“In July 2015, the Obama Administration announced that it was ending its Secure Communities Program that had ICE agents detaining illegal aliens at state and local jails and replaced it with the Priority Enforcement Program that protects nearly all illegal aliens held in state and local jails from removal.”
The map at this link is from 2008, but we were already at 200+ Sanctuary Cities at that time!
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/national-security/sanctuary-laws.html
I pray President Trump and AG Sessions come down on these illegal sanctuaries hard and restore the rule of law!
GSA and DOD can through a memo disqualify potential bidders for contracts based on the "environment". CT 3 largest businesses are General Dynamics, Sikorsky, Pratt & Whitney.
I think we’ll see the needle move a bit. We may not get ALL that we want, but we’re FINALLY moving in the RIGHT direction!
Since Maricopa County has released all their violent illegal immigrants, then the Federal Prison system should likewise refuse to incarcerate anyone who Maricopa County desperately wants to keep away from their own citizens.
Trump should release all former residents of Maricopa County who are currently on Death Rows, Super Max, life-without-parole, etc, and release them in Maricopa County, threatening to re-imprison them if they leave the County.
It’s pathetic that Maricopa County went from a law and order Sheriff to an 0bama/Holder clone.
If the Obama administration could go after Arpaio for obeying the law, I don’t see why this administration can’t go after people like Penzone for flagrantly disobeying the law.
The Left has a new strategic plan.
Sue in court—in particular—using a Leftwing federal judge like the one in Seattle; Robart—to force the feds to keep the spigot open.
Now that judges do not need to even cite which law the administration violated, and indeed, totally ignore the written law on the subject, anything can be ruled.
Yes, it is pathetic.
I’d like to take a survey....an honest survey, NOT a fake news survey....about how folks there are feeling about this.
If the Obama administration could go after Arpaio for obeying the law, I don’t see why this administration can’t go after people like Penzone for flagrantly disobeying the law.
^^ THAT ^^
AND.....put Sheriff Joe in charge of the oversight committee.
If the Obama administration could go after Arpaio for obeying the law, I don’t see why this administration can’t go after people like Penzone for flagrantly disobeying the law.
Flood Arizona and California with ICE agents. If the state government officials or LEO’s try to impede, round them up and lock them up too. Aiding, abetting, or harboring federal fugitives (illegals) is a federal offense.
Is hiding illegals worth 5~10 years in a federal penitentiary to a beat cop, a sheriff and his deputies, a mayor, police chief, or a governor?
Keep this crap up, and they will find out the hard way.
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