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October 12, 2006
Illegal Immigrant House In San Antonio
This one was all over the local news last night and was on Drudge this morning. This took place about a mile or two from where I live. WOAI reports:
More than fifty immigrants were taken into custody Wednesday after a raid at a west side home. Police were called to the home on Senisa Street after they received a tip about stolen cars. When they arrived, they saw four people running from the house. They looked inside the 'stash house' and found 51 illegal immigrants 38 men, 12 women and a teenage girl all crammed into three bedrooms.'This is a case where we obviously just can't walk away,' Sgt. Gabe Trevino with San Antonio Police said. 'We called the federal government to come out here and do their job.'
Although I am disturbed by the notion that SAPD thinks it can sometimes just walk away from crimes like this, Sgt. Trevino expresses what many of us have been feeling. The Federal Government needs to do its job. While this WOAI story mentions the stolen cars, last night one of the local news stations said there were stolen guns as well. Immagine that.
Related to police looking the other way, Bill Ritter is the Democrat nominee for governor in Colorado and is also the DA for Denver. If an immigrant (legal or illegal) is convicted of a felony they are deported. In Denver however, Ritter would intentionally allow them to plead guilty to 'aggricultural trespass' so that they would not be deported. This includes some pretty dangerous criminals. The Denver Post reports:
The Denver district attorney's office under gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter approved plea bargains that prevented the deportation of illegal and legal immigrants charged with drug, assault and other crimes.The office allowed defendants to plead guilty to trespassing on agricultural land instead of the crimes they actually were accused of 152 times from 1998 through 2004. Other counties Jefferson, Adams and Arapahoe had only 75 convictions combined for the crime, according to court records.
One case involved an illegal immigrant named Emmanuel Acosta-Martinez who repeatedly rammed his car into the car his pregnant girlfriend was riding in. Ritter let him plead to aggricultural trespass so he could stay in the country. Acosta-Martinez was latter arrested again for burglary. Another immigrant named Alfredo Gamboa-Torres was already on probation for DUI when arrested for drug possession. Ritter let him plead to agricultural trespass. Another immigrant was charged with theft and then plead guilty to agricultural trespass thanks to Ritter. He later took part in a drive by shooting and was charged with attempted murder. In Denver at least it is not just the Federal Government that is falling down on the job.
Posted by Pete at October 12, 2006 09:49 AM
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