Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say approximately ten detainees at a facility in Massachusetts barricaded themselves inside and caused more than $25,000 worth of damages after being told they were being transferred to a medical wing for coronavirus testing.
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/violent-clash-over-coronavirus-tests-ice-detention-center-massachusetts-3-n1198726">NBC News reports</a> that each of the ten detainees reported having at least two symptoms consistent with a COVID-19 diagnosis and all ten had to be moved to a medical wing for testing.
The detainees claim they resisted being moved because they were afraid they would become contaminated with the virus, even though they were already exhibiting symptoms.
&#8220;This all started because a group of 10 detainees each reported having at least two symptoms of COVID-19. The health care professionals told me they had to be tested in the medical unit because of the reported symptoms. The detainees refused to go into the medical unit for testing,&#8221; the center&#8217;s ranking official, Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson, said in a statement released Friday. &#8220;The detainees refused to comply, became combatant and ultimately put the lives of themselves and many Bristol County officers at risk with their reckless actions.&#8221;
The ten detainees barricaded themselves inside a wing of the building, which they then tried to destroy, &#8220;breaking windows and ripping washing machines and pipes off the walls,&#8221; according to ICE. They “trashed the entire unit,” officials added in a statement.
The <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/03/ice-coronavirus-destroy-violent-massachusetts/">Daily Caller News Foundation</a> also reports that the ten detainees launched an offensive against officers sent in to handle the situation: &#8220;When corrections officers, special response team members, and the K9 unit entered in order to control the situation, they were attacked by the detainees,&#8221; the agency&#8217;s statement says.
No officers were injured in the incident, but three of the detainees were transferred to a nearby hospital, one with symptoms of a &#8220;panic attack,&#8221; one over a pre-existing condition believed to be asthma, and one “for a medical incident after being removed from the ICE wing.” At least one of the detainees contacted an immigrant advocacy group looking to file a complaint against the ICE facility.
&#8220;[T]he sheriff approached me violently, grabbed my arm and scratched me, police came with pepper spray, spraying in everyone’s face and spraying in my mouth, and I suffer asthma,&#8221; the detainee reportedly told the immigrant advocacy group, according to NBC News. &#8220;They want to take us to the other unit to be tested. We don’t want to go on the other unit for cross contamination. We want to be tested, but not moved.&#8221;
Immigrant detention centers have become a flashpoint for coronavirus concerns, largely because the virus is known to spread easily in confined spaces like prisons, detention facilities, and nursing homes. The United States Customs and Border Protection Agency has let hundreds of detainees free over concerns about the spread of coronavirus and adopted a position, back in April, to simply turn around individuals discovered crossing the U.S.&#8217;s southern border illegally rather than hold them for criminal or asylum adjudication.
Immigration advocates have been pressing for the full release of inmates held on immigration charges, claiming the system itself places individuals in danger of contracting COVID-19.
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ICE Detainees Refuse Coronavirus Testing, Trash Detention Facility Instead

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Protesters demanding that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency stall all ongoing operations and release illegal immigrant and criminal detainees in custody have a new &#8220;social distancing&#8221;-friendly method of demonstrating against ICE: they&#8217;re driving around ICE buildings in various cities, blaring horns and waving signs.
&#8220;Multiple people showed up in their cars outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center on Tuesday to demand Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) release all of their detainees from custody out of fear for their health and safety if there is an outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus in ICE facilities,&#8221; <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/03/31/antiice-protesters-stage-demonstration-to-demand-ice-free-all-detainees-because-o-n2566099">Townhall reported</a>.
But because Los Angeles, California, is aggressively enforcing social distancing and shelter-in-place orders, in order to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus, the protesters were forced to get behind the wheel in order to avoid being ticketed for being too close (it does not seem, however, that they gave much thought to the climate-related cost of a an all-car demonstration).
&#8220;[P]rotesters drove around the block in their cars, holding signs, and honking their horns for their demands to be met,&#8221; the outlet added. &#8220;They were also calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to help free everyone who is currently in ICE custody.&#8221;
Occasionally, the parade of cars would stop and protesters would exit vehicles holding a banner that stretched more than the requisite six feet.
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We are outside the DTLA Metropolitan Detention Center. We can see inmates cheering, waving, and banging on their cell windows. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/releasethemnow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#releasethemnow</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/meltICE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#meltICE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/detentionisdeadly?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#detentionisdeadly</a> <a href="https://t.co/WAjgcg48jY">pic.twitter.com/WAjgcg48jY</a>
&mdash; Never Again Action — Los Angeles (@LA_NeverAgain) <a href="https://twitter.com/LA_NeverAgain/status/1245072191189741568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A similar protest happened in Chicago earlier in the week.
&#8220;About 2 dozen vehicles are driving around the ICE building in Chicago, blaring their horns, and signs decorating their cars demanding the release of those in detaiment amid COVID-19 pandemic,&#8221; one Twitter user noted on social media, above a video of the demonstration.
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About 2 dozen vehicles are driving around the ICE building in Chicago, blaring their horns, and signs decorating their cars demanding the release of those in detaiment amid COVID-19 pandemic <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chicago?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chicago</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Covid_19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Covid_19</a> <a href="https://t.co/NjzWWfEKJL">pic.twitter.com/NjzWWfEKJL</a>
&mdash; Tyler LaRiviere (@TylerLaRiviere) <a href="https://twitter.com/TylerLaRiviere/status/1244722383501627392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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One Los Angeles protester told Townhall reporters, &#8220;We need to make sure that we free them all, release them all from detention because it&#8217;s only one person who&#8217;s infected who can turn an entire detention center into a death camp.&#8221;
The Customs and Border Protection Agency agrees, which is why the Trump Administration has ordered a limit to the number of illegal immigrants who can be detained in border facilities at any given time, and why the United States is reportedly embracing a &#8220;turn back&#8221; approach to border control. Agents who capture individuals crossing the United States&#8217; southern border between official border checkpoints are being sent back to their home countries where possible.
For the most part, ICE is responsible for immigration enforcement and not border detention &#8212; something that still seems to confuse anti-ICE protesters &#8212; and according to statements released by the agency last week, ICE has suspended much of its immigration enforcement work, though they are still capturing and deporting individuals they believe are an imminent threat to the safety of others.
ICE has also, reportedly, cut down on the number of its deportation flights, though they are using existing flights to help rescue Americans stranded abroad, mostly in Central American countries. Deportation flights that might have returned to the United States are being given over to the purpose of flying back stranded American tourists and workers who were unable to get a commercial flight home after the coronavirus-related border closures went into effect.

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Anti-ICE Protesters Introduce Coronavirus-Friendly Demonstration Methods

ICE air operations, the arm of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency that handles international deportations, has rescued nearly 500 American citizens trapped abroad by coronavirus-related travel restrictions.
ICE has halted some deportations in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-to-halt-deportation-efforts-amid-coronavirus">according to Fox News</a>, but criminals &#8220;deemed a safety risk or under mandatory deportation order due to criminal history&#8221; are still being arrested and flown out of the country on ICE deportation flights.
&#8220;Homeland Security Investigations will continue to carry out mission critical criminal investigations and enforcement operations as determined necessary to maintain public safety and national security. Examples include investigations into child exploitation, gangs, narcotics trafficking, human trafficking, human smuggling, and continued participation on the Joint Terrorism Task Force,&#8221; ICE said in a press release from earlier in March. &#8220;This work will be conducted based on ability to coordinate and work with prosecutors from the Department of Justice and intake at both the U.S. Marshals Service and Bureau of Prisons.&#8221;
Where ICE must fly, however, it is using its planes to help Americans who were unable to get home before the United States closed off most international air travel. In total, <a href="http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2020/03/29/ices-deportation-flights-rescue-hundreds-of-americans-stranded-in-central-america/">the Daily Caller News Foundation</a> reports, ICE has brought back 466 Americans who would have been otherwise stranded in Central America.
&#8220;Following orders of final removal, ICE deported Salvadoran and Honduran nationals back to their home countries on Friday. On the return leg of these flights, the agency took aboard U.S. citizens who were stranded due to COVID-19 lockdowns,&#8221; the outlet reported late last week.
&#8220;ICE on Friday flew home 130 U.S. citizens from Honduras via two different flights, and another 127 U.S. citizens from El Salvador — all of whom were able to occupy &#8216;Space Available; seats on the return leg of these repatriation flights,&#8221; they continued.
The flights typically return home with just a pilot and crew on board.
“ICE will continue to work with the State Department to facilitate the safe return of U.S. citizens on future removal flight returns from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a press release about the program. “These return operations could also potentially expand to other countries outside of the Northern Triangle.&#8221;
The program is also occupying ICE&#8217;s time while most of its immigration enforcement efforts have been sidelined. Border enforcement agencies have stepped down most efforts because of limited room at detention facilities and concerns that crowding arrested illegal immigrants in existing facilities could result in a coronavirus outbreak. Last last week, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-detainees-ordered-released-coronavirus-concerns/story?id=69828254">a judge ruled that detainees</a> who particularly vulnerable to the novel coronavirus should be released.
The Trump administration announced earlier in March that they would take a stricter approach to the country&#8217;s northern and southern borders. Only essential travel will be allowed across the border between the United States and Canada, and even fewer travelers will be allowed across the United States-Mexico border. Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers who cross somewhere between official border checkpoints are reportedly being turned back.
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ICE Is Using Deportation Flights To Bring Home Americans Stranded Abroad

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, announced Wednesday that it would halt some immigration enforcement and deportation efforts while the United States tries to halt the spread of coronavirus.
ICE says it will, instead, focus its efforts on fugitives deemed an immediate threat to the public or those under a &#8220;mandatory deportation&#8221; order &#8220;due to criminal history,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-to-halt-deportation-efforts-amid-coronavirus">Fox News reports</a>.
The agency issued a statement on social media Wednesday night.
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Updated ICE statement on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a>: <a href="https://t.co/JyQ3d2Nsl3">https://t.co/JyQ3d2Nsl3</a> <a href="https://t.co/PxgAy2aSX8">pic.twitter.com/PxgAy2aSX8</a>
&mdash; ICE (@ICEgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov/status/1240441630072745985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;To ensure the welfare and safety of the general public as well as officers and agents in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic response, [ICE] will temporarily adjust its enforcement posture beginning today, March 18, 2020. ICE&#8217;s highest priorities are to promote life-saving and public safety activities.&#8221;
“During the COVID-19 crisis, ICE will not carry out enforcement operations at or near health care facilities, such as hospitals, doctors’ offices, accredited health clinics, and emergent or urgent care facilities, except in the most extraordinary of circumstances,” the agency added. “Individuals should not avoid seeking medical care because they fear civil immigration enforcement.”
ICE does, however, do more than just intercept, arrest, and deport individuals suspected (or convicted) of violating the United States&#8217; immigration laws. It also conducts investigations into &#8220;child exploitation, gangs, narcotics traficking, human trafficking, [and] human smuggling&#8221; and works in partnership with other terrorism task forces handling those threats.
ICE says that those investigations will continue while other operations are suspended.
Department of Homeland Security acting head, Ken Cucinelli, told Fox News that people should not assume deportations and other critical actions have been suspended but rather, operations are being reconfigured for officer safety: &#8220;That does not mean that no other removable aliens will in fact be removed, but during the current public health situation, removals will be done in such a way as to minimize the exposure of our agents and of the removable aliens we are encountering. ICE will exercise its law enforcement authority in a manner that accounts for the dangers presented by COVID-19, while maintaining the safety and security of the communities it has sworn to protect.”
The Trump administration is expected to announced stricter controls on immigration sometime this week, in response to concerns that the coronavirus could spread across the country&#8217;s northern and southern borders.
On Wednesday, the White House announced that, in cooperation with the Canadian government, immigration across the U.S.&#8217;s northern border would be completely locked down, except to lawful U.S. residents. Sources close to the Trump Administration said Wednesday that strict measures are planned for the U.S.-Mexico border, as well, including a possible change to the United States Customs and Border Protection operations that would see agents intercept and turn back individuals crossing the border illegally between official ports of entry, even if they request asylum.
Such measures would help border patrol officials avoid packing detention facilities on either side of the border &#8212; a situation which could prove dangerous to both immigrants and border patrol officers, given that all immigration and asylum hearings are postponed until at least April 30th.
Fox News reports that no detainees have tested positive for coronavirus.

ICE Will Halt Some Immigration Enforcement, Deportation Efforts During Coronavirus Lockdown

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is on the defensive this weekend after Immigrations and Customs Enforcement announced that a convicted felon, now facing charges of sexually assaulting a toddler in a downtown Chicago McDonalds bathroom, was supposed to have been turned over to ICE and deported &#8212; and had been deported before.
&#8220;ICE said in a news release Thursday [Christopher] Puente was placed into Chicago police custody in June of 2019 after he was arrested for theft,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/5973356/">according to a Chicago ABC affiliate</a>. &#8220;According to ICE, Chicago police were expected to hold Puente until he could be taken into their custody, as Puente was expected to be deported.&#8221;
Because Chicago is a so-called &#8220;Sanctuary City&#8221; and has lenient bail policies, Puente was released back into the community.
Puente is now charged with raping a 3-year-old girl in the bathroom of Chicago&#8217;s landmark &#8220;Rock &amp; Roll McDonalds,&#8221; a major tourist destination just north of the city&#8217;s downtown, and just west of its &#8220;Magnificent Mile&#8221; shopping district. Puente allegedly lured the girl away from her father, who was attending to the girl&#8217;s brother inside a bathroom stall. Puente, police say, dragged the girl into his stall, locked the door, molested and assaulted her. The girl&#8217;s father, alerted by her screams, rescued her, but could not catch Puente, CPD says, who bolted from the bathroom and out the door of the McDonalds, into the street.
&#8220;Puente was being investigated for trespassing when police recognized him from the surveillance pictures because he was wearing the same clothes he has on following Monday&#8217;s attack,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/no-bond-for-man-charged-in-sexual-assault-of-toddler-at-river-north-restaurant/5950934/">ABC Chicago</a> said in a seprate story.
Chicago&#8217;s branch of ICE says &#8220;Puente had been deported to Mexico in 2014 over a prior burglary conviction, but tried to get back in five days later, claiming to be a citizen, and later skipped out on a hearing before an immigration judge. He was ordered deported again in 2017 in absentia,&#8221; <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/02/28/mayor-lori-lightfoot-sanctuary-city-welcoming-city-deported-convicted-felon-chirsotpher-puente-sexual-assault-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement/">according to CBS Chicago</a>.
&#8220;Puente has been previously convicted of burglary, forgery, trespassing, domestic battery and related offenses and has a record dating back 20 years,&#8221; CBS noted.
Now ICE is blaming Chicago&#8217;s &#8220;Welcoming City Ordinance&#8221; &#8212; and its supporters &#8212; for facilitating a horrifying crime.
&#8220;How many more victims must there be before lawmakers realize that sanctuary policies do not protect the innocent?” ICE&#8217;s Chicago field office director told CBS. “Puente should have been in ICE custody last year and removed to his home country. Instead, irresponsible lawmaking allowed him to walk free and prey on our most vulnerable.”
Lightfoot laid the blame on ICE: “If ICE is complaining, then they should do their job better, and they shouldn’t do things that are traumatizing young children,&#8221; she said, referring to ICE operations where parents are arrested in front of kids. &#8220;That’s not acceptable, and I was very clear and blunt about that. How is that right?”
&#8220;They&#8217;re critical because we have said very clearly we are a welcoming city, a sanctuary city. Chicago Police Department will not cooperate with ICE on any immigration-related business,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s affected their ability to conduct immigration raids across the city. But that&#8217;s exactly our intention. We have to make sure our police department is seen as a legitimate force in all our communities.&#8221;
ICE has again requested that Puente be held in anticipation of another possible deportation. Puente is currently in jail awaiting trial on the sexual assault charges.

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Chicago Mayor Defends ‘Sanctuary City’ Policy After ICE Says Man Accused Of Raping Toddler Was Previously Deported

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On Saturday, former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan appeared on “Fox &amp; Friends: Weekend” with host Griff Jenkins.
During the segment, Jenkins asked Homan about the Trump administration’s plans to allow Border Patrol agents to travel to sanctuary cities in order to capture illegal immigrants.
Homan praised the policy, saying that Trump is “absolutely right,” and that he himself asked Congress to do something about the issue for years, but they didn’t, and they won’t because “they want it to be a 2020 issue.”
Homan added that when “California passed their sanctuary law,” and he was the head of ICE, he “sent a lot of additional agents out to California,” which he claims the state saw as “retaliation.”
<blockquote>It wasn&#8217;t retaliation. When you take an agent of the jail, an agent that can process ten illegal aliens during a shift, and you choose to kick the officer out of the jail, then release those ten illegal aliens, it takes a whole fusion of operations teams to find this person on his turf, [who has] access to who knows what weapons &#8230; cover the backdoor, cover the front door, make an entry team. So, it takes a hell of a lot more agents.</blockquote>
“I&#8217;m glad the President&#8217;s doing this,” Homan said. “This is a great idea. This will help arrest those who are public safety threats and take them off our streets.”
Jenkins asked Homan if Trump’s new policy will “send a message south of the border,” to which Homan replied, “Absolutely.”
<blockquote>It&#8217;s going to send a strong message that, look, this country is not open to illegal immigration. If you&#8217;re lucky enough to get by the Border Patrol, you&#8217;re not home free no matter what the Democrat leadership wants to say. You can go to a so-called sanctuary city. There&#8217;s no sanctuary. ICE is not going to allow sanctuary; neither is the Border Patrol.</blockquote>
Switching gears, Jenkins then played Homan a clip of former Vice President Joe Biden speaking with journalist Jorge Ramos, claiming that illegal immigration isn’t a “burden,” but “a gift.”
Homan reacted, saying that Biden has “lost his mind because illegal immigration is not a gift.”
<blockquote>Legal immigration is &#8230; that&#8217;s why the President wrote a plan to base immigration on merit where those people can assimilate, help us grow this country and this economy. Illegal immigration is far from a gift. 31% of women being raped is not a gift. Children dying on the border is not a gift. Me, [standing at the] back of a tractor trailer with 19 dead immigrants at my feet was not a gift. Driving down American wages is not a gift. Taxing our schools and our hospitals is not a gift.</blockquote>
Homan then noted that when he worked under the Obama/Biden administration, he was given the Presidential Rank Award. “I don&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing other than pandering. It&#8217;s just a ridiculous statement to make.”
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According to the official <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-ead-thomas-homan-receives-2015-presidential-rank-award">ICE website</a>, Homan was given the award in part because he “marshalled efforts to handle the surge of unaccompanied children and family units from Central America who illegally entered the United States from across the Texas Rio Grande Valley,” and “he spearheaded the management and reform of the largest civil detention system in the nation.”
During his State of the Union speech on February 4, President Trump urged Congress to pass Sen. Thom Tillis’ (R-NC) legislation, which would allow people to sue sanctuary cities “when a loved one is hurt or killed as a result of these deadly practices.”
<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2059/text?r=1&amp;s=1">S. 2059</a> reads in part:
<blockquote>Any individual, or a spouse, parent, or child of such individual (if the individual is deceased or permanently incapacitated), who is the victim of a murder, rape, or any felony (as defined by the State) for which an alien (as defined in section 101(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<a href="http://uscode.house.gov/quicksearch/get.plx?title=8&amp;section=1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(3)</a>) has been arrested, convicted, or sentenced to a term of imprisonment of at least 1 year, may bring an action for compensatory damages against a State or a political subdivision of a State in the appropriate Federal or State court if the State or political subdivision failed to comply with—
(A) a request with respect to an alien that was lawfully made by the Department of Homeland Security under section 236 or 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<a href="http://uscode.house.gov/quicksearch/get.plx?title=8&amp;section=1226">8 U.S.C. 1226</a> and 1357); and
(B) a detainer for, or notify about the release of, the alien.</blockquote>
The following is a portion of the president’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-state-union-address-3/">SOTU speech</a> pertaining to illegal immigration:
<blockquote>In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public, instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed.
Just 29 days ago, a criminal alien freed by the sanctuary city of New York was charged with the brutal rape and murder of a 92-year-old woman.  The killer had been previously arrested for assault, but under New York’s sanctuary policies, he was set free.  If the city had honored ICE’s detainer request, his victim would still be alive today.
The state of California passed an outrageous law declaring their whole state to be a sanctuary for criminal illegal immigrants – a very terrible sanctuary – with catastrophic results&#8230;
Senator Thom Tillis has introduced legislation to allow Americans like Jody to sue sanctuary cities and states when a loved one is hurt or killed as a result of these deadly practices.
I ask Congress to pass the Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act immediately.  The United States of America should be a sanctuary for law-abiding Americans, not criminal aliens.
In the last three years, ICE has arrested over 5,000 wicked human traffickers.  And I have signed nine pieces of legislation to stamp out the menace of human trafficking, domestically and all around the globe.  My administration has undertaken an unprecedented effort to secure the southern border of the United States.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Former ICE Head Praises Trump’s Proposal To Send Border Patrol Agents To Sanctuary Cities

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On Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, a constitutional attorney by training who also frequently opines on issues pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">immigration enforcement</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-federal-government-has-no-more-important-josh-hammer">border security</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEglbpSPJ2o&amp;feature=youtu.be">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the latest immigration- and crime-related craziness to emerge from the sanctuary jurisdiction that is the state of California.
&#8220;Since California became a sanctuary state in 2017, the number of inmates with immigration detainers being arrested again after being released from jail has jumped, according to a new report from Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes,&#8221; Los Angeles&#8217; local CBS affiliate <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/02/04/oc-sheriff-sb-54-sanctuary-state-law-repeat-crimes-increase-undocumented-immigrants/">reported</a> earlier this week. &#8220;According to Barnes, more than 1,500 inmates released in 2019 had ICE detainers, a request from the federal agency for notification that a particular inmate has been released. Of those inmates, 238 were re-arrested in Orange County for new crimes, including assault and battery, rape, and robbery.&#8221;
&#8220;The rate of recidivism for those with ICE detainers is up from 2018, when 123 were arrested again for new crimes, out of more than 1,800 such inmates, according to the report,&#8221; the outlet continued.
Hammer has been previously outspoken on the topic of sanctuary cities, opining in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> last summer that the majority of sanctuary jurisdictions blatantly violate the text of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373">8 U.S.C. § 1373(a)</a>, which reads: &#8220;Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.&#8221;
&#8220;The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, as applied to § 1373(a), therefore prohibits state and local governments from shielding a removable illegal alien from ICE when ICE issues a detainer request on the alien,&#8221; Hammer wrote.
Joining Wheeler, Hammer decried the <a href="https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116">disproportionately high rate of crime</a> for illegal aliens in America before making a similar legal point that he made in the Daily Wire op-ed. He accused sanctuary jurisdictions of adopting similar logic to that of the old Confederacy:
<blockquote>Very few people in the conservative punditry class are making this point, but my reading of federal law is that laws like California&#8217;s are blatantly illegal. If you look at title eight of the United States Code, section 1373, subsection (a), it says very clearly that no federal, state, or local government can &#8220;prohibit&#8221; or &#8220;restrict&#8221; sending any information to the Department of Homeland Security, which of course includes [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)]. Put another way, when ICE requests detainer information, these states cannot just refuse it. That is literally against the United States Code. And of course, that law is promulgated directly pursuant to the Supremacy Clause of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Article VI of the Constitution</a>.
Liz your high school viewers might recall from civics class in high school: This was the entire so-called &#8220;nullification crisis&#8221; of the 1830s, with John C. Calhoun in South Carolina. And it&#8217;s the reason why, in my personal writings on this topic going back months, I always refer to the sanctuary jurisdictions as &#8220;neo-Confederate,&#8221; because it&#8217;s literally what&#8217;s going on here. They are adopting John C. Calhoun-esque, defying-federal law, Confederacy-style public policy and legal argumentation.</blockquote>
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Former Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan unloaded on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Sunday and Monday over recent remarks she made where she encouraged people to commit obstruction of justice by tipping off criminal illegal aliens to upcoming raids by ICE officials.
Over the week, Ocasio-Cortez said, &#8220;Organizing is about tipping people off if you start to see that ICE and CBP are in communities, to try to keep people safe. &#8230; I&#8217;m here because Senator Sanders has actually committed to breaking up ICE and CBP.&#8221;
Homan responded, &#8220;It&#8217;s ridiculous, it&#8217;s extremely stupid statement made by somebody I&#8217;ve never considered real smart anyways.&#8221;
&#8220;But here&#8217;s an elected lawmaker, she&#8217;s a congresswoman standing on a stage telling people how to obstruct ICE, tipping off people ICE is looking and she needs to realize that 9-out-of-10 of everybody ICE arrested last year was a convicted criminal or pending criminal charges,&#8221; Homan continued. “Last year, 137,000 criminals, 2,000 were murderers, 12,000 sex offenses, 45,000 assaults, 62,000 drug offenses, 10,000 weapons offenses, and she wants the community to tip these people if ICE is in their neighborhood operating.”
&#8220;ICE&#8217;s job is already extremely dangerous, now she&#8217;s making it more dangerous,&#8221; Homan continued. &#8220;She&#8217;s one of these Democrats who keeps saying, &#8216;nobody&#8217;s above the law, the president is above the law, we need to impeach the president cause he&#8217;s not about the law,&#8217; but apparently illegal aliens are above the law because ICE isn&#8217;t allowed to arrest them, it&#8217;s ridiculous statement. It&#8217;s a dangerous statement.&#8221;
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Former ICE director Tom Homan continues to rip &quot;ridiculous&quot; and &quot;extremely stupid&quot; statements by AOC, after she instructed folks to obstruct ICE raids. <a href="https://t.co/ruP73PGhr9">pic.twitter.com/ruP73PGhr9</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1222020934510333952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday, Homan responded by telling Fox News, &#8220;I&#8217;m disgusted, she says she wants to tip off the communities to keep the communities safe, that&#8217;s what ICE is doing.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE is keeping the community safe,&#8221; Homan continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s an incredibly stupid statement she made, which doesn&#8217;t surprise me because she&#8217;s about as far from smart as anybody could possibly be, but what she said is dangerous. These men and women put their lives on the line every day to arrest criminals off the streets, especially in New York.&#8221;
&#8220;My last year as ICE director, we took 5,000 criminals off the streets of New York,&#8221; Homan continued. &#8220;These ICE agents have done more to protect the residents of New York than she ever has done or ever will do.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a dangerous statement, it&#8217;s idiotic, and I just can&#8217;t believe that she can stand up on stage and make a statement like that and not have any repercussions from the House Ethics Committee,&#8221; Homan continued. &#8220;They are trying to remove the president of the United States, a sitting president, and at the same time she&#8217;s saying ICE shouldn&#8217;t remove criminal aliens. They say the president is obstructing them, there&#8217;s no one that&#8217;s been obstructing more than Congress. They&#8217;ve been obstructing this president from day 1.&#8221;
&#8220;She&#8217;s standing on stage and telling people to give a heads up that the good guys are going to be arresting the bad guys in your neighborhood&#8230; that&#8217;s obstruction, that&#8217;s a crime,&#8221; Homan continued. &#8220;She&#8217;s disgusting, something needs to be done about it.&#8221;
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&quot;She&#39;s about as far from smart as anybody can possibly be!&quot;
Retired ICE director Tom Homan absolutely eviscerates AOC for her &quot;dangerous&quot; &amp; &quot;idiotic&quot; attacks. She encouraged folks to tip each other off during ICE raids, which ends up protecting, in many cases, violent criminals. <a href="https://t.co/IlNOK4isI8">pic.twitter.com/IlNOK4isI8</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1222020172778631168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Former ICE Director Unloads On ‘Idiotic,’ ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Disgusting’ Ocasio-Cortez

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On Saturday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued its pushback against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">lawless</a> scourge of sanctuary cities — this time focusing upon the particularly recalcitrant government of Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s New York City.
ICE &#8220;served four immigration subpoenas Friday on the New York Department of Corrections (NYDOC) requesting information on multiple illegal aliens who were criminally arrested in New York City, and yet under New York’s non-cooperation policies officials have refused to honor ICE detainers or even provide ICE with information about the release dates of criminal alien public safety threats,&#8221; the agency stated via <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-issues-subpoenas-obtain-information-refused-under-ny-sanctuary-policies">press release</a>. &#8220;Issuance of these immigration subpoenas was necessary because the NYDOC has continued to ignore ICE’s requests for information and cooperation.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE uses statutorily-authorized immigration subpoenas to obtain information as part of investigations regarding potential removable aliens,&#8221; the release continued. &#8220;ICE has not historically needed to use its lawful authority to issue these subpoenas to obtain information from other law enforcement agencies as most law enforcement agencies throughout the country willingly provide ICE with information regarding aliens arrested for crimes in the interest of public safety.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE is using every tool available to obtain information regarding the whereabouts and other relevant information regarding removable aliens from jurisdictions that chose to, or are unable to, cooperate with ICE,&#8221; the agency wrote, before providing details about the four criminal aliens — ranging from age 21 to 38 — about whom it recently sought information from NYDOC.
&#8220;Like any law enforcement agency, we are used to modifying our tactics as criminals shift their strategies; but it’s disheartening that we must change our practices and jump through so many hoops with partners who are restricted by sanctuary laws passed by politicians with a dangerous agenda,&#8221; lamented Henry Lucero, acting deputy executive associate director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, as quoted in the ICE press release.
Just yesterday, The Daily Wire&#8217;s Hank Berrien <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-releases-list-of-9-violent-illegal-immigrants-freed-by-ny-sanctuary-policy-plus-6-more-who-could-be-released">reported</a> that ICE has also released a list of nine illegal aliens whom ICE claims have been &#8220;released in New York communities&#8221; due to the metropolis&#8217;s sanctuary policies. &#8220;ICE also named six additional illegal immigrants who may be released, some of whom have been charged with murder and child rape,&#8221; Berrien noted.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-illegal-immigrants-freed-by-new-york-citys-sanctuary-city">reported</a> by Fox News, acting ICE Director Matthew Albence &#8220;cited statistics saying that last year ICE lodged 7,526 detainers via its New York field office. Those individuals accounted for 17,873 criminal convictions and 6,500 criminal charges. He went on to say that those charges and convictions include over 200 homicides, over 500 robberies, over 1,000 sexual offenses, over 1,000 weapons offenses, and over 3,500 assaults. However, only about 10 detainers were honored by the city, officials said.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> last July, I argued that most sanctuary jurisdictions flagrantly violate federal law — and in particular, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373">8 U.S.C. § 1373(a)</a>, which provides: &#8220;Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.&#8221; I opined:
<blockquote>It is true that the U.S. Supreme Court’s so-called “<a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-supreme-court-reinforces-the-10th-amendment">anti-commandeering doctrine</a>,” most famously articulated in the 1992 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-543">New York v. United States</a> and the 1997 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1996/95-1478">Printz v. United States</a>, stands for the proposition that the federal government cannot forcibly “commandeer” state governments to help the federal government enforce federal law. As Justice Scalia <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZO.html">wrote in Printz</a>, “The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program.”
But a plain reading of 8 U.S.C. § 1373(a) does not seem to countenance a violation of the anti-commandeering doctrine. Under § 1373(a), state and local officials are not coerced into “enforc[ing] a federal regulatory program.” Rather, under the text of the statute, all state and local officials are prohibited from doing is issuing a “restrict[ion] [upon the] sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.” Put simply, the issue at hand in § 1373(a) is not federal commandeering of state actors to enforce a federal program; rather, the issue is the prevention of state and local officials from openly defying and subverting federal law. And the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause plainly forbids the states from openly defying and subverting federal law. The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, as applied to § 1373(a), therefore prohibits state and local governments from shielding a removable illegal alien from ICE when ICE issues a detainer request on the alien.</blockquote>

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Investigators with multiple federal agencies are reportedly reviewing evidence of alleged crimes committed by far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that center around her marital history.
The Blaze reported that toward the end of last year, &#8220;the Department of Justice had assigned an FBI Special Agent in Charge, or SAC, to review <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/david-steinberg-tying-up-loose-threads-in-the-curious-case.php">Rep. Ilhan Omar&#8217;s apparent, astonishing spree of felonies</a> from 2009 to 2017.&#8221;
The Blaze noted that the &#8220;FBI SAC stated that the wide range of criminal activity suggested by the evidence against Rep. Omar may lead the FBI to expand the review to other federal departments&#8221; and that in recent weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Education inspector general have reportedly joined the investigation.
The Blaze&#8217;s report was authored by David Steinberg, who has extensively covered the criminal allegations against Omar for many months while at PJ Media.
The Blaze reported that ICE&#8217;s involvement in the investigation pertains to &#8220;questions about [Rep. Omar&#8217;s 2009 marriage],&#8221; which allegedly includes &#8220;eight instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud, and even bigamy.&#8221;
The Department of Education inspector general is reportedly looking into whether Omar&#8217;s 2009 marriage to a British citizen was &#8220;an attempt to facilitate federal student loan fraud, or other fraud involving higher education.&#8221;
The Minnesota Star Tribune has <a href="http://www.startribune.com/new-documents-revisit-questions-about-rep-ilhan-omar-s-marriage/511681362/">reported</a> the following timeline of Omar&#8217;s marital history:
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<blockquote>1982: Ilhan Omar is born in Somalia, the youngest of seven children.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>1997: Omar, still a teenager, settles in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis after fleeing Somalia&#8217;s civil war with her family and spending four years in a refugee camp in Kenya.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2002: Omar, now 19, marries Ahmed Hirsi, 22, in their “faith tradition” in Minnesota, but they don&#8217;t legally marry.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2008: Omar and Hirsi, now the parents of two children, reach an “impasse in our life together” and divorce in their faith tradition.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2009: Omar, at 26, marries Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, 23, whom she identifies only as a “British citizen.” School records show he attended high school in St. Paul and studied art at North Dakota State University.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2012: Omar and Hirsi reconcile and have a third child together.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2014–15: Omar files joint tax returns with Hirsi, though they are not yet legally married; she remains legally married to Elmi.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2016: Omar, endorsed by the DFL over longtime incumbent Phyllis Kahn, is elected to the Minnesota House, becoming the first Somali-American, Muslim legislator in the United States. But her campaign is rocked by allegations in a Somali news forum and the conservative Power Line blog suggesting that Elmi is her brother and they married for unspecified immigration benefits.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2017: Omar is granted a legal divorce from Elmi.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2018: Omar legally marries Hirsi and is elected to Congress.</blockquote>
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The Star Tribune&#8217;s report from last June stated that newly released &#8220;investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.&#8221;
Omar, who has repeatedly claimed that the allegations are baseless conspiracy theories, has refused to answer questions or turn over any documents to the <a href="https://apnews.com/cc2ccd70de56405098d2f259bf0e46c5">Associated Press</a> or the Star Tribune that could debunk what she claims is a conspiracy theory.

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Law enforcement in Cook County, Illinois, allowed more than 1,000 criminal illegal aliens to go free in Fiscal Year 2019, ignoring detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/cook-county-declined-more-1000-ice-detainers-fy19">press release</a> from ICE highlighted some of the illegal immigrants who were released from prison despite ICE lodging immigration detainers, including domestic abusers and an attempted murderer. One of the men who were released from Cook County law enforcement officials were rearrested without officials notifying ICE that they had been released. South African national Rasheed Abass, 50, was arrested in June 2019 for indecent exposure, released, and then arrested in July for assault. ICE placed detainers on him after each arrest but were ignored. Nicaraguan national Kennete Acevedo Ortiz (also known as Kennev Vasquest-Rugama), 28, was arrested three times in Fiscal Year 2019, once for driving under the influence, once for domestic violence, and a third time for failing to appear in court.
“The most concerning issue about working in an area that refuses to cooperate with ICE is not only that we do not know which criminal aliens are being released from custody, but the public doesn’t know either,” said Henry Lucero, ICE’s acting deputy executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations in the press release. “Because ICE does not have access to standard Illinois law enforcement databases, it’s difficult to accurately account for all the aliens who have been arrested, released and committed additional crimes. However, with the limited information ICE can verify, we know that police resources are being wasted, more people are being victimized, and it’s a matter of time until something more significant happens.”
ICE officials also listed the following offenders as being released or about to be released even after a detainer was lodged:
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<blockquote>On Dec. 3, 2018, ICE lodged a detainer with the Cook County Jail on Rokas Ablacinskas, a 22-year-old citizen of Lithuania, following his arrest for attempted murder, aggravated battery of a victim over the age of 60 and aggravated battery in a public place. Without notifying ICE, the Cook County Jail released Ablacinskas Sept. 17, 2019, and he remains at large in the community.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>On, Dec. 10, 2018, ICE lodged a detainer with the Cook County Jail on Isidro Ramirez-Hernandez, a 52-year-old citizen of Mexico, following his arrest for aggravated domestic battery and strangulation. Despite an active immigration detainer, the Cook County Jail released Ramirez-Hernandez March 18, 2019, and he remains at large in the community.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>On Aug. 10, 2019, ICE lodged a detainer with the Cook County Jail on Mahmoud Abu Maghli, a 27-year-old citizen of Jordan, following his arrest by the Burbank (Illinois) Police Department for recklessly discharging a firearm. He remains in the Cook County Jail where, under existing sanctuary laws, he will be released into the community.</blockquote>
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ICE detainers pertain to people who have been arrested and suspected by ICE of being removable aliens. The detainers merely request that law enforcement officials notify ICE when a criminal alien is being released and to maintain custody for short amount of time so that the agency can take the alien into custody.

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Political observers in the year 2020 know that, for the Democratic Party and the broader political Left alike, intersectionality often reigns supreme. For those still wondering what exactly &#8220;intersectionality&#8221; is, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro has produced a helpful explanatory video on the topic:
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&#8220;Intersectionality is a form of identity politics in which the value of your opinion depends on how many victim groups you belong to,&#8221; Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-what-intersectionality-jacob-airey">explained</a>. &#8220;At the bottom of the totem pole is the person everybody loves to hate: The straight, white male. And who’s at the top? Well, it’s very hard to say, because new groups claim victim status all the time. No one can keep track.&#8221;
Alas, it should come as no surprise that contemporary Democrats would rally around what is perhaps one of the most readily identifiable sub-identity groups boasting immense &#8220;intersectional&#8221; street credibility: The transgender illegal alien.
&#8220;House Democrats plan to call on a key immigration agency to release all transgender people who are currently being detained, arguing that the U.S. has failed to follow guidelines to protect individuals who face more perilous conditions in detention than other migrants,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">reported</a> yesterday.
The outlet then reported on the precise contents of the early copy of the letter it obtained. The letter will be sent to Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Matthew Albence. Per <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">The Hill</a>, the letter reads, in relevant part:
<blockquote>We write to demand the release of all transgender people currently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Transgender migrants and asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, solitary confinement, physical assault, and medical neglect. These inhumane conditions and systematic abuses are evidenced in countless reports and accounts by formally detained people.</blockquote>
According to the outlet, the letter cites research from left-wing organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, and the Center for American Progress in order to argue that &#8220;due to their gender identity, transgender migrants are more likely to face &#8216;the pervasive use of solitary confinement&#8217; and that they are &#8217;97 times more likely to be sexually victimized&#8217; compared to &#8216;their cis-gender and straight counterparts in detention.'&#8221;
The effort is being led by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL), who TheBlaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/house-democrats-want-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">notes</a> is of the belief that ICE is actually required to release all transgender detainees. In order to advance that claim, the letter cites a 2015 ICE memo and the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s 2020 appropriations bill.
&#8220;Quigley&#8217;s office is working to get lawmakers&#8217; signatures on the letter and expects to send it to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and ICE Director Matt Albence later this week,&#8221; the Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-democrats-to-ask-ice-to-release-all-transgender-immigrants-in-custody">reports</a>.
The year 2019 was a busy year for ICE, especially over the first six months. Record numbers of illegal aliens seemed to flood over America&#8217;s porous southern border on a seemingly monthly basis, although the tide has stemmed over the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/month-decline-unauthorized-border-crossings-nearing-million/story?id=66134521">past few months</a>. As the 2020 election heats up, President Donald Trump is continuing to emphasize border security and immigration enforcement as key political priorities.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reportedly filing new claims with the immigration courts seeking to begin deportation proceedings against several people who fall under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, on the assumption that DACA will be allowed to expire without Congressional action.
<a href="https://wgntv.com/2019/12/28/ice-asking-courts-to-deport-daca-recipients/">The Chicago Tribune&#8217;s media wire</a> reports that ICE is &#8220;asking immigration courts to deport some young adult immigrants who have remained in the U.S. under a program known as DACA,&#8221; even though the program is still under active litigation and both sides have petitioned the United States Supreme Court to hear appeals related to the executive order, signed by former President Barack Obama and discontinued by President Donald Trump.
Information about ICE&#8217;s filings comes from immigration advocates whose clients are the subject of the deportation hearings.
&#8220;DACA recipients, while they’re supposed to be protected, we’re seeing they are actually being targeted in some cases,” one immigration rights activist told Tribune media, adding that he&#8217;s heard of DACA recipients being targeted for deportation hearings in at least three states though he did not provide the media outlet with proof of his claims.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/21/us/ice-reopening-dreamer-deportation-cases-invs/index.html">CNN reports</a> that &#8220;ICE has begun asking immigration courts to reopen administratively closed deportation cases against DACA recipients who continue to have no criminal record, or only a minor record. Immigration attorneys in Arizona confirmed at least 14 such cases being reopened since October, and CNN also found DACA recipients whose cases recently were reopened in Nevada and Missouri.&#8221;
So far, CNN found, DACA recipients have been warned that if DACA is allowed to expire, they should expect administrative proceedings, suspended when DACA was passed, to be reopened, but haven&#8217;t yet been asked to appear in court.
“There’s some fear, there’s anxiety,” the same activist added in his interview with the Tribune. “Obviously there’s a lot of unknown.”
DACA protects immigrants (commonly referred to as &#8220;Dreamers&#8221; because of the DREAM Act that gave rise to the idea of DACA) who were brought to the United States illegally by adults when they were minors and could not actively consent to breaking United States immigration laws, but it is an executive order with a sunset provision, meaning that DACA was never intended to provide limitless protections from deportation for those covered by the order. Former President Obama, ostensibly, authored and signed the order assuming that Congress would make the protections permanent &#8212; something that was discussed several times but never happened.
The Trump Administration &#8212; and President Trump himself &#8212; has said that he has no intention of re-upping the order, leaving Congress in charge of extending DACA protections, if they so choose. The Administration has not, however, said that they will actively pursue deportation against DACA recipients; they may be leaving that decision up to ICE.
Although ICE may be filing orders to begin deportation proceedings, it&#8217;s unlikely any immigration court will pursue those requests &#8212; at least while DACA is still under litigation and parties to such litigation are still pursuing appeals. The Supreme Court heard an appeal on DACA back in November 2019, over whether the Trump Administration properly ended the program. A decision from the Supreme Court on the issue isn&#8217;t expected until May or June of 2020.

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A Guatemalan woman who was convicted and sentenced to to 12 1/2 years in prison after a 2008 Minnesota crash in which four children aged 9 to 13 were killed, then was deported in 2016 after serving eight years of her sentence, was arrested by federal immigration officials who found she had reentered the United States.
Olga Franco del Cid, 35, was arrested at her home in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, on Tuesday, as <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7738899/Guatemalan-woman-deported-conviction-deadly-school-bus-crash-arrested-entering-US.html">The Daily Mail</a> reports. The <a href="http://www.startribune.com/guatemalan-who-killed-4-in-2008-cottonwood-minn-bus-crash-arrested/565550162/?refresh=true">Star-Tribune</a> reported of the 2008 accident:
<blockquote>Responders at the scene found Franco del Cid behind the steering wheel, her right foot wedged under a crumpled dashboard near the accelerator. Her attorneys argued that her boyfriend was the one driving the van and fled because he didn&#8217;t want to be deported to Mexico. They argued that he was thrown out of the van on impact, and Franco del Cid was thrown into the driver&#8217;s seat.</blockquote>
The Daily Mail added, “At least 10 people were hospitalized for injuries suffered when the minivan broadsided the school bus after turning right on a country road. The bus rolled on its side and crushed the hood and cab of a pickup truck.” As <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2008/02/20/school">MPR News</a> noted at the time, the pickup driver, James Hancock, said from his hospital bed to the Star Tribune, &#8220;I saw the maroon van run a stop sign; it blew over the railroad tracks and hit the bus, sending it sliding into me. The next thing I knew, they were hauling kids out and it was chaos.”
In the crash, which got national attention, Hunter Javens, 9, and his brother Jesse Javens were killed along with Emilee Olsen, 9, and Reed Stevens, 12, of Marshall, as <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2008/02/20/school">MPR News</a> noted. MPR added:
<blockquote>Emilee&#8217;s mother, Traci, is a physical education teacher at the school. Reed&#8217;s mother, Kandy, is a former teacher. Lakeview Schools Superintendent Sheldon Johnson read a message from Kandy Stevens. &#8220;She wants people to know that Reed was a young man who loved God, his country and his family,&#8221; said Johnson.  &#8220;And he also loved his football family.  We know that he is with the Lord, and we ask all parents to give their kids an extra hug, tonight and every night.&#8221;</blockquote>
As the<a href="https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/crime-and-courts/4792392-ICE-arrests-woman-involved-in-fatal-2016-Minnesota-school-bus-crash"> Duluth News Tribune</a> reported of Franco del Cid, &#8220;She was convicted on 24 separate charges, including four counts of criminal vehicular homicide, and sentenced to more than 12 years in prison &#8230; While she was in prison, Franco del Cid began corresponding with Jerome Harvieux, now 36 and living in Maple Grove. The couple married in 2009 and they have a child together, but Harvieux filed for divorce in October, according to court documents.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.marshallindependent.com/news/local-news/2018/02/illegal-immigrant-convicted-in-causing-crash-deported-in-2016/">The Marshall Independent</a> added, &#8220;During the trial, the defense argued that Franco del Cid’s then-boyfriend, Francisco Sangabriel Mendoza, was really driving the minivan that hit the school bus, and that the crash threw her toward the driver’s seat. Mendoza fled after the crash &#8230; The Pioneer Press reported that Franco del Cid’s marriage (to Harvieux) didn’t necessarily mean she could stay in the country — she would still go through a deportation hearing either during her sentence, or after it was complete.&#8221;
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On Monday, alerted that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had arrested roughly 250 students since January on immigration violations as part of a sting operation involving a fake university, actress Alyssa Milano, a fervent opponent of ICE, tweeted, &#8220;OH MY GOD. ICE has arrested about 250 students who were enrolled at a fake university set up by ICE to lure in students.”
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ICE has arrested about 250 students who were enrolled at a fake university set up by ICE to lure in students.<a href="https://t.co/2P8iZtnMGB">https://t.co/2P8iZtnMGB</a>
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Someone might alert Milano —a strident voice consistently ripping the Trump administration for its immigration policy — of one little fact: the University of Farmington in Michigan was created during the Obama Administration in 2015. The sting operation was code-named “Paper-Chase.” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190131014820/https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2019/01/30/federal-agents-used-fake-michigan-university-to-find-undocumented-immigrants/2722791002/">The Detroit News</a> reported in January 2019 that eight &#8220;recruiters&#8221; for the university who hailed from India were charged with visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit. Those eight recruiters allegedly made more than $250,000 from the university, in lieu of recruiting students.
Prosecutors argued that the students enrolled in the university so they could retain their student-visa status and stay in the U.S. despite being aware &#8220;that they would not attend any actual classes, earn credits or make academic progress towards an actual degree,” as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/us/farmington-university-arrests-ice.html">The New York Times</a> reported. The Times said the recruiters were “accused of enlisting at least 600 people to enroll in the school.”
Matthew Schneider, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, stated in a news release, “We are all aware that international students can be a valuable asset to our country. But as this case shows, the well-intended international student visa program can also be exploited and abused.” Former federal prosecutor Peter Henning stated, &#8220;It’s creative and it’s not entrapment. The government can put out the bait but it’s up to the defendants to fall for it.”
In a sentencing memo for one of the recruiters, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Helms wrote, &#8220;Their true intent could not be clearer. While &#8216;enrolled&#8217; at the University, one hundred percent of the foreign citizen students never spent a single second in a classroom. If it were truly about obtaining an education, the University would not have been able to attract anyone, because it had no teachers, classes, or educational services.&#8221;
The Times added, “Each of the foreign citizens who ‘enrolled’ and made ‘tuition’ payments to the University knew that they would not attend any actual classes, earn credits, or make academic progress toward an actual degree in a particular field of study,” the indictments said, adding that the students knew that ‘discretion should be used when discussing the program with others.’”
<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/ice-arrested-250-foreign-students-fake-university-metro-detroit/4277686002/">The Detroit Free Press</a> reported:
<blockquote>Out of the approximately 250 students arrested on administrative charges, &#8220;nearly 80% were granted voluntary departure and departed the United States,&#8221; the Detroit office of ICE&#8217;s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) told the Free Press in a statement Tuesday. Out of the remaining 20%, about half of them have received a final order of removal; some of them were ordered removed by an immigration judge, and others &#8220;were given an expedited removal by U.S. Customs and Border Protection,&#8221; said HSI Detroit. The remaining 10% &#8220;have either filed for some sort of relief or are contesting their removals with Executive Office for Immigration Review,&#8221; said HSI Detroit.</blockquote>

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien who was previously jailed for alleged rape and other criminal charges.
Jesus Romero-Bisos was released by the Philadelphia Police Department on October 17 even though ICE had placed an immigration detainer. Philadelphia police had arrested Romer-Bisos “or the criminal offenses of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, unlawful contact with a minor/sex offense, statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault without consent, sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of minors, indecent assault of a person less than 13 years old, reckless endangerment of another person and harassment,” ICE <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-captures-illegal-alien-released-philadelphia-custody-despite-detainer-criminal">reported</a>.
Romero-Bisos was also charged “in a second scheme of criminal conduct with unlawful restraint with serious bodily injury, indecent assault without consent, simple assault and harassment.
Despite these charges and the immigration detainer, the Philadelphia police department released Romero-Bisos. The police department told The Daily Wire that all inquiries regarding Romero-Bisos’ release were being referred to the office of Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney. The mayor’s office did not immediately return a Daily Wire inquiry.
Three weeks later, on November 8, deportation officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) found Romero-Bisos and arrested him. He is currently in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings.
“ICE is willing to work with local law enforcement at all times,” said ICE Philadelphia Field Office Director Simona Flores-Lund. “ICE shares the city’s ultimate objective to protect public safety and national security while simultaneously preserving the critical community-police bond. Unfortunately, elected officials are putting politics before the law, and most significantly before the safety of the communities they swore to serve.”
Philadelphia is a sanctuary city, meaning it won’t cooperate with federal immigration officials to deport illegal immigrants. As ICE explained, these policies put citizens at risk by allowing potentially dangerous individuals into the communities. The organization said that the lack of cooperation from local law enforcement increases “the likelihood that other individuals previously not targeted for arrest will be taken into ICE custody.”
This incident has occurred even though ICE field agents in Philadelphia arrested 45 illegal immigrants in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-offices-across-the-country-arrested-hundreds-of-criminal-illegal-immigrants-last-week">reported</a>, most of the illegal immigrants arrested had previous criminal histories, “including driving under the influence and sex-related crimes.”
“ERO deportation officers are committed to enforcing the immigration laws set forth by our legislators,” said Simona Flores-Lund, field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia at the time of the arrests. “Targeted operations like this reflect the vital public service that ERO officers do every day to protect the nation, we will continue to conduct similar operations, while seeking to ultimately remove criminal aliens with a final order of removal and other immigration fugitives who pose a threat to public safety.”
Many of the illegal immigrants arrested by ICE at the time had been released from prison despite detainers requested by federal immigration officials.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden brushed off mounting calls from within the Democratic Party to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday afternoon, noting that the agency can be reformed with proper leadership.
&#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t abolish ICE. We should reform the system. ICE is not the problem,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-knocks-left-wing-of-democratic-party-we-shouldnt-abolish-ice">told reporters</a> at a campaign stop in Concord, New Hampshire. &#8220;The policies behind ICE are the problem, and that is easy enough to fix if the president knows what he or she is doing.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s remarks come on the heels of a recently released immigration plan by his Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The proposal is a sweeping set of policy initiatives, which in addition to abolishing the immigration enforcement agency also imposes a moratorium on all deportations, grants complete welfare access to illegal immigrants, and accept no less than 50,000 individuals in the first year who are migrating to the United States because of climate change.
The plan was reportedly crafted in partnership with various illegal immigrants who are currently residing in the country and are shielded from deportation by former President Barack Obama&#8217;s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
&#8220;My father came to America as a refugee without a nickel in his pocket, to escape widespread anti-Semitism, and find a better life,&#8221; Sanders said during the release of his proposal. &#8220;As the proud son of an immigrant, I know that my father&#8217;s story is the story of so many Americans today. When I am in the White House, we will stop the hatred towards our immigrant brothers and sisters, end family separation, and locking children up in cages.&#8221;
Biden, however, has been relatively vague on his immigration stances and has yet to release a detailed immigration platform. The presidential hopeful has called for comprehensive changes to the U.S. immigration system that would increase the current level of immigrants, legalize the status of DREAMers, and provide a pathway to citizenship for the illegal immigrants living in the United States that don&#8217;t have a criminal record and are employed.
During the second Democratic National Committee (DNC) primary debate, Biden revealed that he still opposed decriminalizing border crossings, stating that those seeking to immigrate &#8220;have to wait in line.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact of the matter is, you should be able to – if you cross the border illegally, you should be able to be sent back,&#8221; Biden said at the time. &#8220;It&#8217;s a crime.&#8221;
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who ended her bid for the presidency in August, was one of the first 2020 Democratic contenders to call for abolishing the agency. She received widespread backlash months earlier after saying multiple times that ICE needs to be abolished, but her comments came at a time when numerous other congressmen were advocating for the abolishment of the agency as well.
House Democrats introduced a bill in early July to abolish ICE, but after House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced he planned to bring the proposed bill to a vote, those same Democrats called it a &#8220;political stunt,&#8221; and vowed to vote against their own proposal.

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As of right now, most national head-to-head polls for the 2020 presidential general election show President Donald Trump losing to his Democratic Party presidential primary rivals. This trend generally holds, regardless of whether the nominee is any of the leading top three Democratic candidates: Former Vice President <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html">Joe Biden</a>, Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_warren-6251.html">Elizabeth Warren</a> (D-MA), or Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-6250.html">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT).
While the Trump campaign might be tempted to rest on its laurels and sneer at the polls based upon a look back at the perceived polling debacle that was the 2016 presidential election, such a move would be just as haughty as it is myopic. As Harry Enten&#8217;s <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-polling-error-behind-clinton/">article</a> from November 4, 2016 — that would be four days before the general election — presciently pointed out, in retrospect, polling from the 2016 election cycle was not actually irreconcilable with a Trump victory. Trump obviously trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls, but his victory was actually not outside the realm of polling feasibility — or even outside the realm of polling reasonableness.
As such, the 2020 Trump re-election campaign would be wise to focus on what it can do to win over a larger share of independent, moderate, and suburban voters. In doing so, the Trump campaign would be wise to look back to a much-ballyhooed part of Karl Rove&#8217;s 2004 blueprint for George W. Bush&#8217;s re-election: Specifically, that campaign&#8217;s ingenious focus on the &#8220;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/security-moms-bushs-secret-election-weapon-gl6jc8cxr7j">security mom</a>.&#8221; The mythical &#8220;security mom,&#8221; at the time, was symbolized by the proverbial suburban mother who was worried about revanchist Islamist terrorism and sought to protect her home and family against those who would seek to kill us.
Although some of the specific animating issues have changed over the past 15 years, there is tremendous potential this election cycle for Trump to deploy similar messaging and reach out to a similar sect of voters.
Violent crime in America, despite overall dramatically declining since the 1990s, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-in-defense-of-prosecutors">unfortunately spiked</a> over the past few years. Why isn&#8217;t Trump formally renouncing the <a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20191004/he-was-released-early-from-prison-in-february-now-hes-wanted-for-murder-on-federal-hill">harrowing</a> First Step Act jailbreak law, the passage of which he apparently already <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-reportedly-regrets-passage-jailbreak-first-step-act-gullible-conservatives-supported/">regrets</a>, and doubling down on &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221;-style anti-crime messaging?
Left-wing Democrats are campaigning harder than ever on anti-Second Amendment, gun-grabbing policy proposals. Why isn&#8217;t Trump leading Republicans on a 2020 platform of cracking down on the gun felons that <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/decriminalization-delusion-14037.html">light-on-crime</a> jurisdictions like California seem <a href="https://calmatters.org/gun-violence/2019/10/felons-firearms-california-federal-charges-gun-control-newsom/">hellbent on unleashing</a> upon the general public?
The global jihad — as embodied both by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-josh-hammer">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, the mother&#8217;s milk of Sunni jihad, as well as more public-facing Islamist outfits like al-Qaeda and Islamic State — continues, 18 years after 9/11, to pose a threat to the U.S. homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump running on a platform of discussing not just the wall and border security, but also the arguably even more indispensable issue of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">interior visa enforcement</a>? What about the need to radically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-never-forget-911-we-need-rethink-how-we-josh-hammer">restructure our immigration policy</a> away from letting in largely unvetted populations of Middle Easterners?
Across the nation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-who-will-stand-for-the-forgotten-american">neo-Confederate</a> &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; jurisdictions employ anti-<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Supremacy Clause</a> erroneous legal &#8220;reasoning&#8221; to defy <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiHsv7v4LXjAhWTHM0KHZKMB7gQFjAAegQIAxAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.cornell.edu%2Fuscode%2Ftext%2F8%2F1324&amp;usg=AOvVaw2EunpYa249SvA-oBwwFrS2">federal immigration law</a>, ignore ICE detainers on <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/another-illegal-alien-arrested-brutal-rape-notorious-sanctuary-montgomery-county/">violent criminal aliens</a>, and aid and abet the work of the transnational Mexican cartels that traffick drugs and criminals alike into the homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump proposing more aggressive policies to strip federal funding away from sanctuary jurisdictions and effectively message to suburban voters that the government will act to help prevent MS-13 thugs from terrorizing their neighborhoods?
There are a myriad other examples, to be sure. But to maximize its 2020 re-election chances, the Trump campaign ought to focus more intensively on appealing to moderates and suburban swing voters. In order to do so, there is no better platform than a safety and security agenda tailored to the very &#8220;security moms&#8221; that President Bush so effectively courted in 2004.

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Police in Chicago were warned not to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on issues of immigration.
The Chicago Police Department (CPD)sent a memo, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-dont-cooperate-dhs-immigration">obtained by Fox News</a>, to officers in late September telling them to wait for a supervisor to arrive before assisting DHS. Upon arrival, the supervisor will direct CPD officers to leave the scene, “if the request is to assist with an immigration arrest or detention. Fox News confirmed the authenticity of the memo but could not determine whether Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was behind the directive.
Several sources within the CPD told Fox that the new policy puts both departments at risk.
“See what happens when that happens and a DHS agent is injured because of a lack of response by CPD. Sickening what’s happening here,” one source told the outlet.
“You’ll not find a single real police officer that would refuse to assist another agency,” said another.
Chicago is one of at least 36 sanctuary cities in the United States that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within DHS. In addition to dozens of cities, whole counties and states are also considered to be sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.
A DHS spokesperson told Fox that the memo to Chicago police officers was dangerous.
“The Department of Homeland Security is deeply concerned with the dangerous anti-law enforcement direction given by the leadership of the Chicago Police Department. The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line every day to protect the citizens of this country from dangerous criminals,” the spokesperson told the outlet. “Failing to support fellow law enforcement officers upon request for assistance not only places our heroic police officers in greater danger but keeps criminals on the streets and makes all of our communities less safe, specifically the great City of Chicago.”
The CPD told the outlet that law enforcement would assist a federal agent who is in danger but would not assist in the arrest. Instead, they will “advise and leave the scene.”
The new policy for CPD came around the same time that a Virginia police officer was suspended <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-officer-suspended-after-cooperating-with-ice">for cooperating with ICE</a>.
The officer was suspended after responding to a vehicle crash. During routine license checks, the officer discovered that one of the drivers had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear for a deportation hearing. The officer notified the ICE contact listed on the notification of the warrant, who was nearby. The officer then arrested the driver and turned them over to the ICE agent.
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. said in <a href="https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/chief-roesslers-statement-on-officers-custodial-detention-and-ice-notification/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">a statement</a> that officer violated a department order requiring them to ignore such a notification unless the person in question is “being taken into custody for any other violation of law.” Roessler emphasized in his statement that officers are extensively trained on this distinction and that the suspended officer “deprived a person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.”
The arrested driver spent three hours in custody and was released.

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Singer Selena Gomez is &#8220;afraid&#8221; for the United States due to the ongoing illegal immigration crisis and hopes Americans will feel more empathy and compassion for illegal immigrants.
In an op-ed for <a href="https://time.com/5690070/selena-gomez-americas-immigration-crisis/">TIME</a>, the &#8220;Good for You&#8221; singer recalls her own family&#8217;s history of illegal immigration, starting when her aunt crossed the border in the 1970s — followed by her grandparents, who then bore her father in Texas.
&#8220;In 1992, I was born a U.S. citizen thanks to their bravery and sacrifice,&#8221; writes Gomez. &#8220;Over the past four decades, members of my family have worked hard to gain United States citizenship. Undocumented immigration is an issue I think about every day, and I never forget how blessed I am to have been born in this country thanks to my family and the grace of circumstance. But when I read the news headlines or see debates about immigration rage on social media, I feel afraid for those in similar situations. I feel afraid for my country.&#8221;
While Selena Gomez acknowledges immigration is a &#8220;divisive political issue,&#8221; the remainder of her essay focuses solely on the plight of the illegal immigrant — thereby neglecting the litany of Americans who have been negatively affected by an open southern border, from drugs trafficked to wages slashed.
&#8220;It is a human issue, affecting real people, dismantling real lives. How we deal with it speaks to our humanity, our empathy, our compassion. How we treat our fellow human beings defines who we are,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;I understand it’s flawed and that we need rules and regulations, but we also have to remember that our country was formed by people who came here from other countries. It’s time to listen to the people whose lives are being directly affected by immigration policies. It’s time to get to know the individuals whose complex stories have been reduced to basic headlines.&#8221;
Gomez goes on to write about her experience producing the documentary series &#8220;Living Undocumented,&#8221; which, again, did not fully explore the highly complex issue of illegal immigration and instead merely focuses &#8220;on eight immigrant families in the U.S. from different countries and backgrounds, all facing possible deportation.&#8221;
&#8220;I watched footage outlining their deeply personal journeys and I cried,&#8221; she cried. &#8220;It captured the shame, uncertainty, and fear I saw my own family struggle with. But it also captured the hope, optimism, and patriotism so many undocumented immigrants still hold in their hearts despite the hell they go through.&#8221;
After describing the individuals and their stories, Gomez expresses her concern by the way people are being treated in the United States. She makes this claim several months after she said the anti-abortion laws in Alabama and Georgia were &#8220;<a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/heres-how-selena-gomez-is-taking-a-stand-against-anti-abortion-laws.html/">deeply upsetting</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;To see what is happening right now in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and several other states in our country is not only deeply upsetting but seems that it can’t possibly be real in 2019. It’s no one’s business what a woman chooses to do with her body. End of story,&#8221; she wrote on her Instagram back in May.

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