ICE Releases List of Murders and Rapists Protected Under Sanctuary City Policies
Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a scathing list of criminal illegal aliens who were released from jail thanks to sanctuary city policies, many of whom went on to commit heinous crimes.
Washington and Oregon, two states under Democratic Party control, have enacted some of the strongest sanctuary laws in the country that protect illegal immigrants from federal apprehension.
Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation in May that prohibits local jails and state prisons from honoring ICE detainers and bars them from notifying ICE when a suspected illegal immigrant is about to be released from their custody.
The newly minted law puts Washington on par with Oregon and California with the level of restriction placed against federal immigration authorities.
“There is an inherent increase in risk to personnel and bystanders when ICE officers and agents must go out into the community to proactively locate these previously detained criminal aliens,” read a press release from the agency. “ICE commends our local law enforcement colleagues who work to minimize that risk by cooperating with ICE to apprehend criminal aliens at the time of their release from local custody.”
In a bid to show the horrific consequences of sanctuary laws, on Monday ICE released details of some of the criminals in Washington and Oregon custody who went on to evade ICE apprehension.
Rosalio Ramos-Romas, a Honduran national, had been deported from the U.S. four times before his arrest in Washington in October 2017.
After local authorities failed to hand him over to ICE, he was charged in January 2018 of stabbing his cousin to death, decapitating the body, and attempting to hide the remains in a dumpster.
A county jail in Kent, Washington did not honor a January 2014 retainer placed on Jorge Luis Romero-Arriaga, a Honduran living illegally in the U.S., despite being held on a charge of child rape. Local authorities instead allowed him to be released into the community pending the results of his case.
Romero-Arriaga was subsequently convicted in August 2015 and deported from the country, according to ICE.
The list continued to describe other examples of illegal immigrants in Washington and Oregon committing murder after local jails ignored an ICE detainer and released them into the public.
In another instance, a Washington county jail refused to honor an ICE request, despite that individual having been convicted of rape in the state.
The agency argues that not cooperating with their agents puts the community at a greater risk of danger and makes their jobs more difficult.
“When local law enforcement decides to uphold sanctuary policies and release illegal criminal aliens without notifying ICE, it is a decision to protect and release criminals who are preying on victims in our communities. By allowing criminal aliens, particularly those with egregious criminal records, to be released it places everyone in potential danger,” said Bryan Wilcox, an acting field operations director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations.
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