Posted on 12/30/2018 6:46:34 AM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump found a strong political issue in a brutal and needless crime on Thursday when he tweeted about the murder of a central California police officer at the hands of a man believed to be an illegal immigrant.
This awful crime is likely to upend the debate surrounding a government shutdown that began because Trump rejected a compromise budget -- which the White House had signaled he would sign -- that did not include some $5 billion for border wall funding.
For their part, Democrats don't want to give him that victory.
That could change.
On Friday, Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson announced that authorities had arrested a suspect, Gustavo Perez Arriaga, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, in connection with the shooting death of Newman police Cpl. Ronil Singh. Singh had pulled over Arriaga for suspected drunk driving Thursday at 1 a.m.
The suspect, he said, had two prior convictions for drunk driving, a "known gang affiliation" and was trying to flee to Mexico. "We can't ignore the fact that this could have been preventable," the sheriff said.
Christianson faulted California's sanctuary state law that prohibits local enforcement from communicating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless authorities are holding an undocumented immigrant convicted of certain felonies within 15 years.
"Ladies and gentlemen" he warned, "this is not how you protect the community."
Singh was the personification of the American dream -- a legal immigrant from Fiji who "came to America to become a police officer," a grief-stricken Police Chief Randy Richardson told reporters.
The 33-year-old Singh leaves behind a wife and a beautiful five-month old baby boy. "He had a fascination for making himself better," said Richardson.
It is impossible to learn of Singh's death and not think of Kate Steinle, the San Francisco woman who was fatally shot in July 2015 as she walked along the city's waterfront with her father and a family friend. The man who shot her, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, was an undocumented immigrant with a long criminal record that included seven U.S. felony convictions and five deportations to Mexico -- and he was on the streets courtesy of San Francisco's sanctuary city law.
After Garcia Zarate was released from a federal prison in 2015, authorities transferred the multiple felon to San Francisco based on a warrant for a 20-year-old marijuana charge. The district attorney's office then dropped the moldy charge. Rather than comply with an ICE detainer request, the sheriff's office freed the career criminal in keeping with the sanctuary city policy.
Steinle's death was completely preventable. "She was murdered because of a failure of immigration policy," said Mark Krikorian of the pro-enforcement Center for Immigration Studies. San Francisco's 2013 sanctuary ordinance protected undocumented immigrants in custody unless they had been convicted of a violent felony in the past seven years.
Supporters of sanctuary laws essentially believe that noncitizens not only have the right to break U.S. immigration laws, but also the right not to be deported if they are convicted of many felonies and misdemeanors.
No wonder Trump accuses them of supporting open borders.
As a Republican candidate for president in 2015, Trump quickly seized on Steinle's preventable death as "yet another example of why we must secure our border immediately. This is an absolutely disgraceful situation and I am the only one who can fix it Nobody else has the guts to even talk about it. That won't happen if I become president."
Singh's death shows how a legal immigrant who did everything right can be the one who pays for bad laws.
Shortly before Christmas, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux blamed California's sanctuary state law from preventing his officers from honoring a detainer request by ICE for Gustavo Garcia, who had been arrested for erratic behavior and testing positive for a controlled substance. Rather than hand Garcia over to ICE, Tulare released him. Within minutes Garcia began shooting people. He killed two and injured others.
"That tool has been removed from our hands," Boudreaux told reporters, "and because of that, our county was shot up by a violent criminal."
Washington should do something about this.
When are these writers going to stop calling illegals “undocumented immigrants”? There is no such thing as an “undocumented immigrant”, it is an oxymoron.
These ersatz conservatives are just plain stupid letting the left make up the terminology for debates.
The Left not only doesn’t care, they are immediately turning back to the death of the two invader children. The death of a legal immigrant or US citizen is either an inconvenient fact or progress because this is the death of an oppressor over the beloved illegal alien.
Demonrats outraged over two sick illegals that died. NOT outraged that an illegal shot and killed a police officer.
For their part, Democrats don’t want to give him that victory.>>>>>>>>>>>
I hope they keep it up.
The BIG HURT will soon descend on these leftist Anti-ICE traitors.
Illegal alien invaders
they will never use the correct term. it makes them look bad to say the truth
May all these liberals supporting illegals be slaughtered by illegals.
Illegal alien Driver charged with manslaughter after crash kills two Beach teens
Charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter is Alfredo Ramos, 22, who gave his address to police as the 100 block of Trace Court, Barnes said. That address, just off Virginia Beach Boulevard, is less than two miles from the scene of the collision.
The Virginia Pilot went out of it's way to bury the fact that the driver, Ramos, was an illegal alien.
The illegal alien accused of murdering 33-year-old Newman, California police officer Ronil Singh the day after Christmas has been arrested by the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department, along with two alleged accomplices.
Gustavo Perez Arriaga, an illegal alien living in California, was arrested on Friday after he allegedly shot and killed Singh — a legal immigrant from Fiji — during a routine traffic stop, as Breitbart News reported, on December 26.
Over his police radio, Singh called out “shots fired” and as police arrived at the scene of the traffic stop, they found the officer on the ground with a gunshot wound. Singh was transported to a nearby hospital where he later died.
Perez Arriaga was arrested along with 25-year-old Adrian Virgen and 27-year-old Erik Razo Quiroz, both of whom are suspected by law enforcement of aiding the illegal alien in evading arrest following the murder.
The law enforcement community has been mourning the loss of Singh, who Newman Police Chief Randy Richardson called “an American patriot” during a news conference this week, Breitbart News noted. ...”
The illegal immigrant wanted by California cops for the murder of one of their own may have connections to a Mexican-American street gang, according to an image circulating on social media confirmed as authentic by investigators.
The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department – which is leading the investigation into the killing of Newman Police Cpl. Ronil Singh – posted the image, and several others, on its Twitter account early Friday morning.
“We can confirm these are pictures of the man who murdered Corporal Ronil Singh,” the department said.
“We CANNOT, however, confirm that the correct name or birth date is being put out.”
The photo shows the alleged “cop-killer” posing in a tank-top shirt, with a metal chain necklace draped around his neck and a large flaming skull tattoo visible on his right arm.
Underneath the tattoo is the word “$ur3no$,” which, according to police in Washington State, is Spanish for “southerners”.
“Sureños are a group of Mexican-American street gangs with origins in southern California (south of Bakersfield),” reads a profile on the group in a police gang recognition guide. “The gang has allegiance to the [California] prison gang, Mexican Mafia, aka “La Eme”.
Ten alleged members of the Sureños gang were charged in April for their suspected roles in seven murders in the Bay Area dating back to 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf -- who once warned Northern California residents about an impending ICE raid -- said she has “no regrets” for her actions and said the federal immigration agency “has gone astray.”
“I have no regrets, none. The more time goes by, the more certain I feel that I did the right thing in standing up for our community and pointing out our values are not aligned with our laws,” Schaff told BuzzFeed in an interview. “That’s hopefully the message that is sent out.”
"I have no regrets, none. The more time goes by, the more certain I feel that I did the right thing in standing up for our community and pointing out our values are not aligned with our laws."
Schaaf also slammed federal immigration authorities, saying that Immigraion and Customs Enforcement should be abolished.
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That picture of what appears to be a happy family must be problematic for the left and the amnesty right.
Then again human life doesn’t have much value to them.
Except maybe their own families?
Now there's a novel idea.
But it ain't going to happen.
Washington is all talk and no do. All hat and no horse, as they say.
After reading an interview with Gen. Kelly in the LA Times taking a shameless, petty swipe at President Trump on his way out the door, I don't think there's anybody in DC I trust anymore but Trump himself.
Whatever happen to going out the door with your head held high and your mouth shut?
Name it the Singh Wall bill and lets see how many congresscritters vote no.
The said thing is, come the next election cycle, the Unions that “represent” police officers will endorse and actively support the very demonicRATS who turned California into a sanctuary state. Sadder still, so will many officers.
Fences to keep out illegals are for elites and no fence or wall is allowed for US citizens because elites believe all US citizens are better off dead instead of having a wall and security equal to elites
Knowing liberals like I do, they will frame it to be a gun-access issue.
Not an illegal-immigrant issue.
That police officers brave soul.. may he be at peace and in rest with the HOLY FATHER.. this should have never been allowed to happen.. things are going to change.. he will not be forgotten
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