"Murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even the mentally insane will make their home in our country, wreaking havoc like we have never seen before.”
“It is not possible to have trials for millions and millions of people. We know who the criminals are, and we must get them out of the U.S.A. and fast!”
Our president’s version of Roy Bean’s ‘Law West of the Pecos.’
Suspects in violent assaults and sex crimes are escaping American justice because they're being deported before they can stand trial.
In one Denver county, the DA has tallied at least six criminal cases he's had to shelve or drop because ICE agents detained or deported suspects before he could prosecute them.
In another case in Denver, a man suspected of attempted murder was released because ICE had deported the witnesses against him, forcing prosecutors to drop the charges. That suspect then tackled an ICE agent trying to detain him outside the jail.
In Boston, a judge was forced to drop charges against a man accused of using a fake name on a driver's license after ICE took him into custody mid-trial and refused to return him. The DA said actions by ICE agents prevented him from prosecuting the detainee.
Across the country, prosecutors, defense attorneys and legal observers say they've seen an uptick in ICE agents choosing to deport criminal suspects, instead of keeping them in custody and producing them for local court proceedings
These rapid deportations mean some innocent people are being denied the chance to clear their name in a US courtroom.
For crime victims, it means they never see the satisfaction of their assailant behind bars.
And it could be making all Americans less safe when people with criminal backgrounds and no respect for the law cross back into the US and commit more crimes.
People who should have been convicted in our courts will get deported, avoiding criminal prosecution, will sneak back into the country, live under the radar and never be held accountable and suffer no consequences whatsoever for their actions, and potentially perpetrate more crimes.
The increase appears to being driven in part by the new federal Laken Riley Act which requires ICE to detain people living illegally in the US once they have been accused or charged with certain crimes, including theft.
This deportations-before-prosecution policy is cresting a two-tiered justice system: American citizens are imprisoned if convicted, but someone who commits the same crime while living illegally in the US could be released with no punishment other than a free trip home.
ICE becomes a "getaway driver.” The US citizen has to face trial and serious prison time while the non-citizen could just ask ICE to give him a ride to Mexico and get off free.
This is what happens when knee-jerk legislation is passed. And we have a king instead of a president.
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