Posted on 03/07/2018 12:05:44 PM PST by jazusamo
An illegal immigrant suspected of a fatal hit-and-run is avoiding Immigration and Customs Enforcement thanks to the Denver Sheriff's Department. The suspect was driving his pickup truck when he collided with a semi-truck earlier this week. The semi-truck driver died after the vehicle caught fire, and the pickup driver fled the scene.
After the driver was taken into custody in Denver, he was found to be an illegal immigrant, 26-year-old Ivan Zamarripa-Castaneda. ICE wants him for potential deportation, but the Denver Sheriff's office is refusing to comply with the agency. Instead of cooperating, the sheriff's office said it wants a warrant. The problem is, obtaining a federal warrant for each individual is "extremely time consuming" and something ICE just "doesn't have the resources for,” considering they send out thousands of detainers on a daily basis, ICE Spokesman Carl Rusnok explained.
“By ICE taking custody of these individuals, we actually help improve public safety by taking these criminal aliens off the streets and ultimately removing them to their country of origin,” he added.
Thanks to Denver's noncompliance, however, if Zamarripa-Castaneda posts his $25,000 bond, he’s a free man until his next court date.
The Denver Sheriff's Department, it turns out, stopped honoring detainer requests back in 2014. They have plenty of company. Perhaps no state has done more to spit in ICE's face than California. Last week, Oakland, California Mayor Libby Schaaf even encouraged "undocumented citizens" to evade the immigration authorities. In a social media post, she warned the community that ICE agents were planning a raid in the next 24 hours. Her heads up very well may have allowed hundreds of individuals to flee, because when ICE showed up , they found only 232 of the 864 illegal immigrants that were supposedly living there.
By the way, 115 of the 232 detained individuals were found to have "serious or violent" criminal records.
The Trump administration sued California for its insubordination Wednesday. Attorney General Jeff Sessions followed up the announcement with a speech targeted at the officials who continue to encourage dangerous sanctuary city policies.
"How dare you," he warned the likes of Schaaf.
I see the DOJ should send out some guidance in that illegal aliens arrested on a crimes should not be eligible for bail.
If I declare myself “Trans-Mexican”, do *I* get a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card?
Thank goodness he didn’t refuse to decorate a cake for a couple of queers.
It is a troubling sign to see this flaunting of established law by officials who should have absolutely no choice about having to carry out enforcement.
It is your job. If you don’t do it, you shouldn’t have that job.
Plain as that.
Simple solution, tell them a W76 is on the launch pad with their coordinates entered. They have one hour. No action, then say KYA goodbye.
Well said.
This illegal b!tch was later absolved by the oregon appeals courts of any wrong doing and was allowed to stay in the U.S.
What a country, eh?
I posted several threads on that pathetic miscarriage of justice.
She and her boyfriend should have done hard time over that but it was in OR and they felt sorry for them.
By letting these official thugs off the hook for aiding and abetting criminal and murderous illegals, Sessions is purposely and actively torpedoing President Trump’s immigration agenda.
There is no other possible explanation for Sessions passivity and tolerance of blatant lawlessness. This man is as much evil as he is incompetent.
Liberal Logic 101: “ make my community less safe for me, my family and my neighbors because... I hate trump”. Duuuuuu
I’d love to see these sanctuary city people go to prison for life
They can get the death penalty or life in prison. Look at (B)(iv).
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2001-title8/html/USCODE-2001-title8-chap12.htm
§1324. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
(a) Criminal penalties
(1)(A) Any person who—
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(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
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shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—
(i) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;
(ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;
(iii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and
(iv) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.
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For every illegal they shield, sanctuary cities should have federal funds deducted from what they would normally receive. That would hit ‘em where it hurts.
I agree, and I hope they start this in the best example possible, California.
Start at the governor and move down through other elected offices at the capital and down through the police departments and any other agencies they can think of. Our schools should be on the list.
This is where I get confused.
ICE wants him released to them to deport him but what about the State of Colorado wanting to prosecute him for the crime?
Granted once he posts bond they’ll never see him again.
But on the off chance he’s too stupid to leave and allow him himself to be convicted, wouldn’t that better serve justice?
Feds trump county. Nothing to stop ICE from going in and taking the killer.
Something I learned a long long time ago: When another is HELL BENT on a fight...GIVE it to them.
Regarding the taking of a dump in downtown Denver. You will be arrested. You will not be charged with a felony which would get you deported. Just charged with a misdemeanor such as to keep living in Denver.
Do they want vigilantes? Because this is how you get vigilantes...
“Arrest, indict, try, convict, sentence and hang the traitorous officials of the Denver Sheriff’s Department for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
If the “oath of office” for LEO’s in Denver is the same as the one the CA cops have to swear to uphold ( at least as regards supporting and defending the Constitution) then there are ample grounds for arresting the sheriff and any of his complicit deputies.
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