Turns Out Liberal Politicians Helped Punk Who Ambushed Female Cop Stay in the US
“I’m gonna call it divine intervention,” Napa County, California, Undersheriff John Crawford said when one of his deputies escaped with her life after being ambushed at point-blank range by a 43-year-old man during an encounter last Sunday.
It may indeed have been divine intervention that the bullets didn’t hit Deputy Riley Jarecki.
However, were it not for the earthly interventions of politicians who seem determined to let illegal immigrants stay in the United States in as many cases as can be feasibly expected, intervention from above likely wouldn’t have been needed.
First, the particulars: According to the Napa Valley Register, Jarecki noticed a car parked on a rural road just before 11 p.m. on Sunday. She had spoken with the man in the car, Javier Hernandez Morales, for several minutes. A graphic 48-second clip from Jarecki’s dashcam showed what happened next.
“Jarecki stood next to a red, parked car, and spoke with Hernandez Morales through a slightly open front window on the passenger’s side. The man permits her to look around. She shines her flashlight into the car and walks around the rear of the vehicle, approaching the driver’s side window,” the Register reported. “The deputy then knocks on the front, driver’s side window.”
When asked to roll down the window, Hernandez Morales asked, “What’s up?” in Spanish. And that’s when things turned ugly.
“He points a gun at her and fires at least once,” the Register reported. “Jarecki radios that shots have been fired as the car’s rear lights flash. The ignition turns over and Jarecki, who appears to have retreated to the passenger side of the vehicle, fires numerous rounds toward the driver’s seat.”
Jarecki was eventually able to shoot Hernandez Morales dead.
Officials revealed that the 43-year-old had shot at the deputy with a stolen .22 revolver and that he had a .22 rifle in the back of the car.
Perhaps most disturbing, however, were two facts:
First, Hernandez Morales was an illegal immigrant.
Second, he had an extensive criminal record. “In addition to being deported three times, ICE issued detainers four separate times for Hernandez Morales following his arrests for local crimes,” a statement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement read.
“Those crimes include driving under the influence, battery on a peace officer, selling liquor to a minor and probation violations,” it said.
According to KGO-TV, ICE said Napa County ignored three separate requests to detain Hernandez Morales.
Napa supervisors want more facts before comenting in depth re: ICE revelation of undocumented status for suspect who shot at deputy. ICE claims county ignored 3 requests to detain him due to criminal history. #Napa They stand by protection for now. #abc7now
— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) February 22, 2019
County officials would only say that they followed state law regarding the matter.
“Compliance with state law is what Napa County will, in fact, follow through upon, whether there are changes in the future that change things but as of right now we do need to comply with state law and that is what our policy reflects,” Napa County Supervisor Belia Ramos said.
The operative state law at present is SB54, California’s “sanctuary state law,” which prohibits local authorities from sharing an individual’s immigration status with federal officials if the individual is deemed to have committed a minor crime.
This doesn’t necessarily explain what happened in 2014, 2015 and 2016 — the three times ICE said in a statement it issued detainers to a Napa County Jail for Hernandez Morales and were rebuffed. All of these happened before SB54 was signed into law.
ICE is grateful the deputy involved in this shooting was not harmed during this attack. This incident may have been prevented if ICE had been notified about any of the multiple times Javier Hernandez-Morales was released from local custody over the last few years. https://t.co/SEQ7cAQBHM
— ICE (@ICEgov) February 22, 2019
In the statement, ICE said the case was “an impactful, scary example of how public safety is affected by laws or policies limiting local law enforcement agencies’ ability to cooperate with ICE.”
Just as important as laws, one might argue, is climate. In California, as in many liberal locales, the object of law enforcement in relation to illegal immigrants is to stymie any attempt to deport them.
You can argue about what the reasons behind this are — political correctness, favorable demographic shifts, increasing the electoral clout of their state by adding more census-counted residents that aren’t able to vote — but most of them come out as cynical.
Perhaps most illogically, Napa County isn’t going to change its approach — just see Ramos’ statement that this won’t affect how the county deals with detainers in the slightest.
Make no mistake here: Liberal politicians helped Hernandez Morales stay in this country when he shouldn’t have been here. They’ve blocked border security measures that could have assured that he stayed out. And now they don’t see how any changes need to be made.
I’m perfectly happy with divine intervention and thankful for the fact it could very well mean Deputy Riley Jarecki is still alive. Now that we’ve established that, can we please start talking about earthly intervention of some sort? This isn’t the first time we’ve seen blood on the hands of the American left when it comes to illegal immigration. It won’t be the last.
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