Local authorities in sanctuary California sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement on another wild goose to arrest a dangerous illegal-alien criminal because they ignored a detainer from the agency.
The murderer was on the loose for six days before ICE finally caught him. He did not, apparently, murder anyone else, but the refusal to obey a lawful immigration order once again jeopardized Californians.
Last month, an ignored detainer on an illegal-alien thug ended in the murder of two people at a church.
And as The New American reported on Monday, ICE has begun arresting illegal-alien criminals whom a federal court ordered released from a holding facility.
Child Murderer Caught
On December 10, ICE reported, agents finally caught Carlos Morales-Ramirez, a Salvadoran illegal alien whom state prison authorities in Chowchilla, about 40 miles northwest of Fresno, released on December 4.
ICE had filed an immigration detainer to no avail on August 28.
On Jan. 9, 1998, Morales-Ramirez, now 44, was convicted of second-degree murder, assault on a child causing death, and great bodily injury to a child causing death by the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.
“State sanctuary laws grant law enforcement officials the discretion to cooperate with immigration authorities in instances where serious or violent crimes have been committed, Los Angeles field chief David Marin said “again, we are talking about the murder of a child — rather than working with our officers to ensure this convicted aggravated felon was safely handed over to ICE, he was released back into the community and our officers were forced to exhaust more time and resources relocating and re-arresting him.”
Californians who encountered the murderer were lucky. They lived. In November, two others who ran into another illegal-alien thug didn’t, as TNA reported.
Church Stabbing
On November 22, Fernando Jesus Lopez-Garcia murdered two people during a rampage at a church in San Jose, police allege.
The homeless bum went to the Grace Baptist Church to escape the weather. At about 8 p.m., the knife-wielding illegal went on a rampage and stabbed five people. Two died.
Local authorities had freed Lopez-Garcia on a separate charge, but rescinded that release after he didn’t show for a hearing.
But that wasn’t the worst of it, ICE reported.
He was “is a repeat immigration offender with a significant criminal history spanning back nearly 15 years that includes convictions for battery of a spouse, assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting corporal injury on a spouse, battery of an officer, and vandalism.”
ICE had filed three detainers on Lopez-Garcia in 2019 after multiple arrests for violent crimes, two of them for domestic violence, all to no avail.
And so two people are dead thanks to California’s sanctuary law.
Last year just before dawn on February 28, police allege, Carlos Eduardo Arevalo Carranzaos cudgeled and stabbed to death Bambi Larson in her San Jose home.
ICE had lodged nine detainers, the city’s Mercury News reported. That didn’t matter to the Santa Clara County Jail.
After the Larson murder, authorities in Santa Clara decided the sanctuary law that loosed Carranzaos was good public policy and voted not to change it.
October Amnesty
In October, ICE reported, a federal court effectively amnestied more than 200 illegal-alien criminals when it ordered ICE to release them.
Almost immediately, local authorities were arresting them for crimes ranging from those involving sex and guns to others for drugs and alcohol.
Frighteningly, federal legislators are pushing for the incoming Biden administration to keep illegal-alien criminals in the country.
Leading them is Representative Pramilla Jayapal (D-Wash.), an Indian immigrant who helps illegal aliens file what are most likely bogus asylum claims.
As for Biden, he vows to introduce amnesty legislation in his first 100 days.
