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Immigration and Customs Enforcement hit New York City’s Department of Corrections with subpoenas on Friday to get information about illegal aliens who were arrested in the city but released after the city refused to honor detainers from ICE.
The agency reported that the city recently freed two murder suspects and one rape suspect.
Last week, the agency also released a list of more than two dozen illegals released in Franklin County, Ohio — again, after the county refused to honor detainers from ICE.
Sanctuary cities and counties are in open insurrection against the federal government and harboring illegal aliens, both federal crimes, which raises the question of whether state and local officials could be arrested.
ICE vs. New York
As for New York, ICE served four subpoenas “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,” the agency reported.
“Issuance of these immigration subpoenas was necessary because the NYDOC has continued to ignore ICE’s requests for information and cooperation.”
Unlike New York, “most law enforcement agencies throughout the country willingly provide ICE with information regarding aliens arrested for crimes in the interest of public safety,” the agency stated.
Among the thugs for whom ICE sought information was a 21-year-old Guyanese illegal. City cops bagged him January 10 and charged him with the “murder, sexual abuse, contact by forcible compulsion, and sexual abuse of a 92-year old woman.”
Despite a detainer from ICE, the city freed him.
ICE also wants the 411 on a Salvadoran illegal. Cops arrested him in September for assault, and he is wanted in El Salvador for a homicide.
“He was moved to Rikers Island, and ICE lodged a detainer against him,” the agency reported. The city ignored it and released him last month.
The city also ignored detainers on two 38-year-old Mexican illegals. One was a rape suspect with two prior arrests, the other a previously deported drug dealer.
ICE vs. Ohio
Franklin County, Ohio, has freed 29 thugs since November despite detainers, the agency reported.
Among those still at large are two 25-year-old Mexican illegals. One was arrested for “felony firearm charges, drugs, among other charges,” but, again, released in defiance of a detainer. The other is a twice-deported illegal arrested for “for domestic violence, assault, falsification and menacing.”
ICE is also searching for a twice-deported 28-year-old Mexican, arrested for “DUI and domestic violence,” and a 24-year-old Salvadoran arrested for “domestic violence and assault.”
Another freed illegal, ICE reported, is a previously deported 31-year-old Mexican wanted for drunk driving and possessing a loaded firearm.
Franklin County also ignored a detainer and released a 59-year-old Somali illegal on December 27, ICE reported, for “failure to register as a Tier 1 sex offender. He is a convicted sex offender for crimes involving children.”
ICE caught the sex fiend on January 6.
Arrest Sanctuary Officials
The question is why the U.S. attorney general hasn’t ordered the arrest of sanctuary officials for violating at least two federal laws: one on insurrection and rebellion, the other for harboring an illegal-alien fugitive.
Federal laws says “Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
Sanctuaries are also aiding and abetting and concealing federal fugitives.
Sanctuary officials are also harboring illegal aliens by refusing to cooperate with ICE, divulge information about the illegals, and freeing them after ignoring detainers.
Harboring includes the following:
• knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;
• knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation….
• engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts.
The penalty for harboring an illegal can reach 20 years in federal prison if the illegal commits a violent crime. The sentence if the illegal murders someone could be life.
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R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
