Consequences of protecting felonious illegals by sanctuary cities such as Chicago

[Derec]

Mayor Lori Lightfoot Defends Chicago’s Sanctuary City Law, After Previously Deported Convict Charged With Sexually Assaulting Toddler

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she’s committed to Chicago’s status as a “sanctuary city” for immigrants, and brushed off criticism from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after a convicted felon previously deported to Mexico was charged with sexually assaulting a toddler in the restroom of the McDonald’s restaurant in River North.

Un-fucking-believable! Why are Democrats so much in favor of illegals that they want to protect them from deportation even when they are felons which puts their own citizens in further danger?

Christopher Puente, 34, was charged last week with one count of predatory criminal sexual assault, after police say he lured a 3-year-old girl into a bathroom stall and raped her while her father was tending to her brother in the next stall.
ICE announced Friday they had lodged a detainer request with Chicago police in June 2019, after Puente was arrested for theft, but the detainer was not honored. 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, according to ICE.

This is the kind of person democrats like Lightfoot are protecting.

Chicago’s “Welcoming City Ordinance” protects undocumented immigrants from being held for immigration authorities, unless they have been convicted of a serious crime or are being sought on a criminal warrant signed by a judge.

Burglary is not a "serious crime"? How serious does it have to be?

Lightfoot accused ICE of playing politics with the Puente case as retaliation after her recent criticism of the agency’s aggressive tactics targeting undocumented immigrants. The mayor said she had a pointed conversation with the head of the agency last week, after ICE arrested another immigrant, 34-year-old Julio Torres, in front of his daughter and her classmates earlier this month as he was dropping her off at school.
“If ICE is complaining, then they should do their job better, and they shouldn’t do things that are traumatizing young children. That’s not acceptable, and I was very clear and blunt about that. How is that right?” Lightfoot said.

It's kind of ironic she says ICE should do their jobs better when she is doing everything in her power to hinder them in doing their jobs and to protect those in the US illegally, even when they are felons. Also, having had unprotected sex should not make somebody immune from being arrested by ICE!

The mayor said, as a former federal prosecutor, she is familiar with surveillance tactics, and knows ICE agents could have arrested him without his daughter and other children present.

How about you allow Chicago police to cooperate with ICE and maybe they will do that. As long as you insist in giving illegals sanctuary, and thereby hinder ICE in their duties, you have no business telling them how they should go about exercising them.
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The mayor did not directly address the circumstances of Puente’s case, but insisted, “we are doing what’s necessary to keep our residents safe all the time, 24/7.”

Obviously not, since you released somebody you knew was a dangerous felon who should have been deported a long time ago.

At the same time Lightfoot is protecting criminal illegals, she is ranting against her own police officers. Rahm Emanuel, for all his faults, wasn't as bad as this new breed of Demcoratic politicians that are openly pro open borders and anti police.

National Democrats are supporting this shit too. Even Joe Biden is now claiming that Obama should not have been deporting any illegals.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Mayor Lori Lightfoot Defends Chicago’s Sanctuary City Law, After Previously Deported Convict Charged With Sexually Assaulting Toddler


Un-fucking-believable! Why are Democrats so much in favor of illegals that they want to protect them from deportation even when they are felons which puts their own citizens in further danger?


This is the kind of person democrats like Lightfoot are protecting.

Chicago’s “Welcoming City Ordinance” protects undocumented immigrants from being held for immigration authorities, unless they have been convicted of a serious crime or are being sought on a criminal warrant signed by a judge.

Burglary is not a "serious crime"? How serious does it have to be?

Lightfoot accused ICE of playing politics with the Puente case as retaliation after her recent criticism of the agency’s aggressive tactics targeting undocumented immigrants. The mayor said she had a pointed conversation with the head of the agency last week, after ICE arrested another immigrant, 34-year-old Julio Torres, in front of his daughter and her classmates earlier this month as he was dropping her off at school.
“If ICE is complaining, then they should do their job better, and they shouldn’t do things that are traumatizing young children. That’s not acceptable, and I was very clear and blunt about that. How is that right?” Lightfoot said.

It's kind of ironic she says ICE should do their jobs better when she is doing everything in her power to hinder them in doing their jobs and to protect those in the US illegally, even when they are felons. Also, having had unprotected sex should not make somebody immune from being arrested by ICE!

The mayor said, as a former federal prosecutor, she is familiar with surveillance tactics, and knows ICE agents could have arrested him without his daughter and other children present.

How about you allow Chicago police to cooperate with ICE and maybe they will do that. As long as you insist in giving illegals sanctuary, and thereby hinder ICE in their duties, you have no business telling them how they should go about exercising them.
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The mayor did not directly address the circumstances of Puente’s case, but insisted, “we are doing what’s necessary to keep our residents safe all the time, 24/7.”

Obviously not, since you released somebody you knew was a dangerous felon who should have been deported a long time ago.

At the same time Lightfoot is protecting criminal illegals, she is ranting against her own police officers. Rahm Emanuel, for all his faults, wasn't as bad as this new breed of Demcoratic politicians that are openly pro open borders and anti police.

National Democrats are supporting this shit too. Even Joe Biden is now claiming that Obama should not have been deporting any illegals.

The problem here is that you are picking and choosing to fit your narrative. Sure, catching the bad guy described above should be a priority. But the problem is that most of the time ICE is chasing extremely minor offenders.

https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/...yor-lightfoot-spar-over-sanctuary-city-status

I'm sorry, but local police do not have the time to investigate and raid 6 part-time dasterdly pizza makers!

 

[Derec]

The problem here is that you are picking and choosing to fit your narrative.

I do not think I am. Sure, cases where sanctuary cities protect a previously deported felon who then goes and commits another heinous crime draw the sharpest contrast, but at the same time I do not think rank and file illegals deserve protection either.

Sure, catching the bad guy described above should be a priority. But the problem is that most of the time ICE is chasing extremely minor offenders.

I agree that serious criminals should be a priority. That does not mean other illegals should get a pass and be left alone.
But if you agree that felons should be ICE priority, what is your opinion of sanctuary cities protecting all illegals, including felons?

I'm sorry, but local police do not have the time to investigate and raid 6 part-time dasterdly pizza makers!

I never suggested that local police should be deputized to participate on most raids against illegals.
At the same time, local authorities should not make the ICE's job more difficult by disregarding immigration detainers. If somebody is already in jail, and there is a detainer, locals should honor it. That is not the same as participating in raids. Doing so can also make things safer, as ICE having to rearrest the illegal has risks of its own. Like in this case in Brooklyn where a criminal illegal was released by NYC (another sanctuary city) and when he was about to be rearrasted by ICE, his girlfriend's son attacked ICE officers, resulting in the son getting shot.

“The New York Police Department arrested Avendano-Hernandez Feb. 3 for possession of a forged instrument, a felony criminal charge. ICE attempted to lodge an immigration detainer after his most recent arrest, however the subject was released from local custody before ICE could lodge a detainer. This forced ICE officers to locate him on the streets of New York rather than in the safe confines of a jail," the agency said in a statement.

"This is what happens when you have a rouge organization such as ICE that is terrorizing our communities and ripping apart our families," said Carlos Calzadilla-Palacio of Young Progressives of America.

YOU are a "rouge[sic] organization," not ICE.

Left-wing, open borders politicians like Jerry Nadler and Jumaane Williams are predictably anti-ICE and pro criminal illegals and pro those who want to use violence against ICE agents.

 

[steve_bank]

Seattle as well. Expel an illegal felon and they come back, a revolving door. And that is if the feds can arrest an illegal felon. Seattle has placed multiple road blocks for the feds to get them.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The problem here is that you are picking and choosing to fit your narrative. Sure, catching the bad guy described above should be a priority. But the problem is that most of the time ICE is chasing extremely minor offenders.

https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/...yor-lightfoot-spar-over-sanctuary-city-status

I'm sorry, but local police do not have the time to investigate and raid 6 part-time dasterdly pizza makers!

Exactly. ICE doesn't have it's priorities right--they're all about numbers, not about severity. They're the ones choosing a bad course of action, they're the ones responsible for the backlash it provokes. The cities are safer when illegals have access to the legal system in the city.

 

[Toni]

Side bar: How do you feel about so called 'sanctuary counties' who are saying that they will refuse to enforce Red Flag gun measures and other similar limits and controls on gun ownership?