LOS ANGELES, CA –In yet another baffling move, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office has announced that they will no longer hold illegal aliens for civil immigration holds.
That means, if the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has a hold on them, the LA Sheriff’s Agency will not honor it and the illegal alien will be released into the community.
Los Angeles County Sheriff confirms expansive sanctuary policy that ends all cooperation with ICE, including in cases of violent convicted criminals. https://t.co/g5am2zFboG
— John Binder ? (@JxhnBinder) August 12, 2020
Civil immigration holds are placed in order to provide ICE officials an additional 48 hours to respond and take custody of the arrested person prior to their release from jail.
This often happens because the criminal has been flagged for removal or has committed a crime which could result in deportation.
Prior to this move, which is partly blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sheriff’s Office would only make the transfers in cases of illegal aliens who had been convicted of a violent felony.
From now on, Sheriff Alex Villanueva informed the County Board of Supervisors that they would only transfer an illegal alien into ICE custody if they hold a judicial criminal warrant.
Villanueva said:
“When I took office, I promised to continuously evaluate the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s interaction with ICE and to further limit that cooperation if it became appropriate to do. I have kept that promise. The current COVID-19 moratorium has provided the opportunity to further asses the Department’s policy.”
ICE spokesman, Alexx Abascal, believes that this move will ultimately endanger the communities that Villanueva serves. He said:
“Policymakers who strive to make it more difficult to remove dangerous criminal aliens and aim to stop the cooperation of local officials and law enforcement partners harm the very communities whose welfare they have sworn to protect.”
After all, just by employing common sense, the detainers are issued, as previously said, when the person meets the criteria for deportation or has committed an offense that may warrant it, like manslaughter or rape. Merely letting those people out of jail when they post bond is reckless.
Some of those people who have been released, according to LET in a recent report, have been convicted previously or accused in crimes ranging from sex offenses, homicide, child cruelty, and assault with a deadly weapon.
Allowing them to go back out into the United States, when they were never allowed to be here in the first place and committing additional crimes should be a criminal offense in and of itself.
CHILD PREDATOR ARRESTED?#USBP agents from Calexico Station arrested an illegal alien previously convicted of Felony “Lewd or Lascivious Acts w/a Child Under 14” out of Monterey, Ca. Now, he is facing federal charges. #BorderSecurity is #NationalSecurity❗️ https://t.co/paWdzV5HRO pic.twitter.com/eG3FZlSmBF
— USBP Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino (@USBPChiefELC) August 10, 2020
Evidence of this was published in LET in July when it was reported that more than 1500 illegal aliens were released back into the local communities in California in 2019.
Of that total number, more than 400 of those aliens have been rearrested on various charges “such as: rape, assault with a deadly weapon, child sex offenses, domestic violence, identity theft, and driving under the influence.”
Every one of those crimes in which the illegal aliens could have been prevented, every single one, if the immigration laws of the United States, (which have been in effect long before President Trump) were followed. If the illegal aliens would be deported or at least not allowed out into the communities before their immigration case is heard, none of those additional crimes would have happened.
The Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC, Jessica Vaughan, has a similar opinion on the matter. She says that Villanueva’s requirement for a federal warrant for deportation is nonsense. He, “might as well say, ‘I need ICE to produce a blue unicorn on a silver platter,’ because it’s functionally the same thing.
“ICE cannot produce judicial warrants, it doesn’t need to legally, and the result is going to be that even more deportable criminal aliens are going to be released into the streets of Los Angeles, possibly to re-offend.”
We are battling over the very soul of our country. We are fighting for our families. And we’re on the brink of losing America.
This editorial is by Kyle S. Reyes, the National Spokesman for Law Enforcement Today. It’s a modern refresh of a previous editorial he wrote… and touches on the desperate tipping point America is facing right now.
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While you were fighting over who among you was more “woke” and which company to boycott … we lost our country.
While you were arguing with coworkers over who would leave the country first if Trump/Biden were elected, the “American Dream” perished.
Don’t believe me? Then perhaps ALL is lost. And I can prove it all to you through the eyes of a child.
The screens around our house in the past couple of weeks stand in stark contrast to what’s in front of them.
The television … the laptops … the iPads … the cell phones … filled with images of the riots. The violence. The hatred.
Just a few months ago, when everyone was working from home – or unemployed – signs were put up around the community thanking police. People cheered and put out Tweets and Facebook images of first responders doing “birthday parades” for little kids.
Now, angry Americans are taking over police departments, shooting cops, pelting them with bricks and bottles of urine and demanding that we abolish them. The images are on certain channels – others ensure you just see the “peaceful protestors”.
Broadcast on the same tv stations are the sounds of tone-deaf leaders. Of anger. Of hatred. Of hurt. Of fear. Of race-baiting, dividing rhetoric and alienation.
In front of those screens run our little daughters.
They are the greatest blessings a young family can have. Filled with innocence, love, joy and our hopes for the future.
What brought a lull in that media noise?
Hearing our pastor give a sermon.
He usually preaches about love. Faith. Hope. But there was a different dynamic in this message.
There was a different energy.
This time, he talked about the end of times.
He’s far from being an alarmist. Just the opposite. But this particular service, he spoke deeply and heavily about being prepared. “For we know not the hour … ”
He wasn’t trying to frighten people. But he also understood that he couldn’t be tone-deaf to the deep concerns of his flock.
It’s hard not to be afraid. It’s hard not to have an underlying anxiety. It’s hard not to wonder and pray over whether your children will have the same opportunities you did.
Growing up, I paid close attention in history class. And I’ve always felt a very deep sense of patriotism. I’ve always felt great respect for my country and believed that if, God forbid, we ever faced World War III, America would once again triumph.
Perhaps my fear, and the anxiety of so many others, is that we were wrong.
We were wrong because of one simple line that I believe may have been written wrong. It should have read, “One Nation, Divisible After All.”
Have we ever faced a time when our country was so polarized? Have we ever faced enemies so dangerous? Have we ever been on such a precipice that a frightening and painful energy radiated through each of us, tying us together in some disturbing, unifying, powerful and yet simultaneously divisive way?
I’m angered to see that we live in a country where we have gone soft. We’ve become hypocrites, and we’ve become pansies.
We forget that our grandfathers stormed beaches to protect freedom. Instead, we demand that the freedom now come in the form of a shelter from hearing words we don’t like.
Our friends and family alienate us because of who we vote for.
We try and put companies out of business because how DARE they not support the Marxist organization Black Lives Matter.
We doxx people and put their families in danger because they dare to support law enforcement.
We don’t question it when ‘leaders’ tell us to stay away from church. Stay away from family. Stay away from friends. Wear a mask. Don’t worry about not having a job. And we don’t bat an eye as the country rapidly marches – or rather sprints – towards the socialism that’s the destruction of a nation.
We give out trophies to kids who come in 8th place. Eighth freaking place. And then we let them take over part of an entire city – Seattle – and play house, allowing rapes and murders to happen in the city while police are kept out.
We dig up the graves of people who have been dead for a hundred-plus years because they had something to do with the Confederate flag, and that offends someone NOW. Then we destroy statues and give “get out of jail free” passes to the people who did it. LITERALLY get out of jail free passes. We have celebrities and politicians starting funds to bail criminals out of prison.
We allow politicians to hijack the country and spend our tax dollars chasing their personal agenda of impeaching a President simply because they don’t like him. Then we have the party that’s supposedly the same as the President who sit around silently while the country burns. It seems as if both parties forgot what they were supposed to be doing and whom they are supposed to be representing.
We pick sides and parties and teams and defend them to the ends of the Earth, ignoring the facts, pointing the fingers and hoping someone else will cover the cost of our skyrocketing and borderline pointless health insurance.
We talk about the number of homeless vets who we have to feed and clothe and house when it’s convenient for us to leverage them like pawns in a game – yet tomorrow, so many will forget to feed and clothe and house them.
We ignore the simple facts about our dangerously open borders and the lack of a vetting process for refugees, then we stand in horror as ISIS attacks and we ask our politicians how they could have let this happen. And then, of course, we put a fast lane in for more to cross the border.
We put in place more gun laws to prevent the bad guys from doing bad things. Because for some reason, we believe that bad guys give a damn about laws and that giving them an open shooting range on a military base or school campus will somehow protect our citizens. But then we completely ignore the massive problem of mental health in this country. We’re more worried about the tool than we are the person.
Hell – not only do we ignore the problem of mental health – we double down on it but crashing our economy, putting millions out of work and then confine them to their homes.
We cry out that police are our enemies … and then we beg them to protect us from the likes of ISIS.
We are talking about DEFUNDING police while telling them that they do a lousy job training. Because the solution to that is making sure they have less money, right?
We have a massive audience talking about ABOLISHING police.
Let that sink in.
We celebrate court rulings with rainbow flags that speak volumes about how far we’ve come and how inclusive we are as Americans … then we tell our neighbors to remove their American flags and stop saying “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Hanukkah” because it offends us.
We send billions of dollars overseas to help the homeless in impoverished and war-torn nations while we cut the funding for our own food banks and homeless programs.
We get into fistfights about “under-inflated balls” while gorging ourselves on beer and wings at football games … while millions of Americans wonder how they’re going to pay their mortgage and put food on the table for their families.
We fight tooth and nail over whether someone dying of stage four pancreatic cancer should be allowed to use medical marijuana while drugs like heroin are running rampant in our schools.
Schools that apparently kids will have to wear masks in, if they ever reopen.
We teach kids that there should be no boys section or girls section at the store, but our kids notice that we won’t sit down with our neighbor for a beer because they have a different skin color and we’re too busy fighting over what is and isn’t racism.
We hold massive rallies demanding $15/hour for flipping burgers … but we sit quietly on the sidelines when our men and women protecting our country who make $11/hour aren’t getting paid because Congress is debating their funding.
We’re told if you go to a protest over the government shutting down your business, you’ll be arrested because it’s a health threat. We’re told if you go to a Trump rally, you don’t care about making people sick. We’re told if you go to a violent riot and torch buildings, you’re a social justice warrior.
We’re terribly focused on what matters to us as individuals. Marriage. Cell phones. Birth control. On and on and on. We’re so worried about what matters to “me” that we forgot that in order for us to have a “me” … we have to first have an “us.” A safe “us.” A unified “us.” An “us” that can at least find some kind of middle ground.
Tomorrow is a new day. So tonight, before bed, we pray … just a little harder, perhaps, than we’ve prayed before.
We put our daughters to sleep and shut off the television. The internet. The phones. The iPads. All screens but the black and white monitor where we can see nothing but innocence.
And for a moment, just one fleeting, precious moment, we’re once again one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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We have a problem in society. Censorship has created an existential threat to democracy. But even worse is the risk we run that some of these incredible stories of patriotism, hope, faith and our Sheepdogs would be lost.
We’ve launched a series of content with Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) to share the stories of survivors. We will also be dropping a weekly law enforcement focused newscast that addresses some of the most important topics in the country… and helps bridge the gap between those who serve and those whom they serve.
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We will not be silenced. You shouldn’t be either.
God bless you all, and God bless America.
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