CE detainee fights to be released to Oakland after nearly 4 years in custody

KTVU ^ | February 15, 2021 | Lisa Fernandez

[artichokegrower]

Walter Cruz-Zavala spends his days lifting weights, reading and drawing. All behind bars.

The 30-year-old Salvadoran refugee has done the same thing every day for more than 3.5 years from a cell in a detention facility that a federal judge recently called "appalling."

[artichokegrower]

During the years of 2011 and 2017 when he was free from custody, Cruz-Zavala was convicted of five DUIs.

Three were misdemeanors. Two were felonies. In 2015, his brother fractured his wrist while he was driving, fell asleep and hit a pole driving home from San Bernardino County on Christmas Eve. Another time, he got drunk and fired off a gun, injuring his own knee.

Came here illegally, joined MS-13, got MS-13 tattoo, 5 drunk driving arrests two of which were felonies, illegal gun possession, shot himself with illegal gun. Send him the hell back home! The job of government is to protect US citizens from scum like this

[rktman]

So the judge is adopting him then?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Wots a “CE detainee”?

[Joe 6-pack]

I think it’s supposed to be, “ICE Detainee”

[OldSmaj]

Quote from the misunderstood miscreant, who was only looking for a better life:

"Everyone makes mistakes. Some are big and other ones. At the end of the day, we are human beings. We all deserve a second chance."

Quite profound, yes?

And I really don't think he should have been locked up that long.

I think his ass should have been deported the moment he became a blip on the ICE radar.

He doesn't want a second chance...he wants third, fourth, fifth...to infinity chances...'cause, you know, he's a poor, misunderstood brown person that the United States should welcome with open arms...no matter the cost or consequences.

[centermass_socrates]

no matter the cost or consequences.

Nail on the head brother. The consequences usually turn out to be someone’s family hit head-on when he misses the next light pole or when someone else gets shot accidently when the illegal moron misses his own kneecap next time.

We should stop paying his free room and board and boot his felonious ass back to Mexico.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Send him back to El Salvador, we have enough drunk driver criminals of our own.

[centermass_socrates]

Sorry, I meant to say back to El Salvador by way of Mexico.

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in a detention facility that a federal judge recently called “appalling.”

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It's putrid the this fed judge finds the loser's cell appalling and doesn't find the scumbag illegal butt-wipe
appalling.

[kearnyirish2]

This issue shows how little our government cares about its own citizens. Also, when illegals were to be covered by ObamaCare in part with cuts to Medicare, it couldn’t have been more clear.