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Stopping Attempts To Keep Americans Safe

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On Wednesday, Yahoo News reported on a bill in the Senate that would have required all illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, attempted to bring the bill to the Senate floor, but the bill was blocked by Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who objected to the request.

The article reports:

Ernst requested unanimous consent from her colleagues in order to advance Sarah’s Law to the floor for a vote. During her speech, she pleaded with colleagues to pass her bill, recalling the death of Sarah Root and also referencing the recent death of Laken Riley, both allegedly at the hands of illegal immigrants.

The bill would require ICE to take into custody illegal immigrants who are arrested and charged with causing the death or serious injury of another. This was reiterated by Ernst during her speech: “It would merely require ICE to detain, just to detain, otherwise deportable illegal immigrants charged with killing or seriously injuring another person,” she said.

Durbin said the bill would detain victims of trafficking or domestic abuse who were charged with crimes. According to him, the bill would “deprive immigrants of the due process that everyone is afforded.”

The due process happened when it was established that they were here illegally. At that point it should be legal to detain and deport them. Why are we harboring criminals that don’t even have the right to be here?

The article concludes:

The senator pointed to the immigration practice known as “catch and release” in which illegal immigrants seeking entry on the basis of asylum are released during the processing period.

“Instead of being detained while he was processed, he was released into our country — never to be heard from again,” she said.

While Ibarra may have been prevented from allegedly killing Riley had he been detained upon entry to the country, Sarah’s Law would not have stopped the attack because Ibarra’s criminal record doesn’t include crimes in which others were killed or injured.

Our laws are supposed to protect us–not endanger us.

Keeping America Safe

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Yesterday The Attleboro Sun Chronicle posted an article about a recent Massachusetts court case involving the detaining of illegal aliens who had committed crimes.

The article reports:

A federal appeals court has handed Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson a victory in his effort to keep criminal immigration detainees behind bars.

The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston last week denied a release petition filed by immigration activists on behalf of five inmates.

The inmates are U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees being held at the Bristol County House of Corrections in Dartmouth.

The article reports some of the history of the case:

Last year, U.S. District Court Judge William Young granted release to about 50 ICE detainees held at the Dartmouth facility and denied bail to 19 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Young also ordered that no new detainees be transferred to the ICE center, which is part of the jail complex in Dartmouth.

The order came almost a week after an uprising by detainees at the facility.

Prisoner and immigration activists have criticized Hodgson’s agreement with the federal government to keep ICE detainees at his facility.

Five individuals who were denied release due to serious criminal histories appealed to the First Circuit through the Harvard Law School Immigration Clinic.

“Each of the petitioners here, as the district court knew, had committed serious, violent crimes, many of which were felonies,” Judge Sandra L. Lynch wrote in the decision.

“Based on their criminal histories, it was reasonable to deny bail to these petitioners because they each posed dangers to the community and/or were flight risks,” Lynch said.

I don’t claim to be a legal scholar, but it seems to me that if they were American citizens who committed violent crimes they probably would not be let out on bail. Why are we giving rights to people who are not citizens that American citizens do not have?