Remember the hispanic thug who killed three people and injured one a couple of weeks ago? I told you last week that Jose Carranza was an illegal alien with a rap sheet.
Check out this blood pressure-raising revelation: local law enforcement didn’t report Carranza to Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they first arrested his sorry ***, despite pending charges on aggravated sexual assault of a child. The feds had never heard of him. From the AP (emphases added):
Mr. Carranza [Mr. Get a load of that…] had been free after posting a bond of $5,000 when the shootings occurred, but immigration officials say he may never have returned to the streets had local authorities contacted them after his first felony arrest in October 2006.
“We certainly would have been inclined to place him in a removal proceeding, however we came across him,†said Marc Raimondi, spokesman for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Given that he is alleged to have committed a very serious offense against a child, that would have put him at the top of our list.â€
New Jersey is among the places where local authorities aren’t required to check the immigration status of someone arrested, and some critics want that changed.
And George Bush wants to give millions of these people a free ride to citizenship. It’s a good thing states and locals are empowering their law enforcement officers to take up the federal government’s slack. Perhaps this high-profile Newark death-by-illegal-alien tragedy will turn up the heat under the cauldron of the so-called crackdown on illegal “immigration.” Won’t believe it until I see it, though.
More from Michelle Malkin here and here.
Update (8/15): I don’t like Newt Gingrich. He’s a man of low character. But right now, he and Tom Tancredo are among the only Republicans saying things I want to hear, so I’m linking to “Enough is Enough.” An excerpt:
There is a war here at home, and it is even more deadly than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Far more Americans are being killed by violent, evil people here in America than in our official military “combat zones” overseas.
The truth is, all too many Americans are being killed. But what is so completely senseless is having the lives of three young, achieving students cut brutally short by someone who not only should not have been in the United States in the first place but also, after two previous arrests for violence, should not have been on the streets. Instead, the suspected killer should have been in jail awaiting trial, sentencing, prison and eventual deportation.
Another case in point: Authorities are now seeking an additional suspect in the Newark killings — yet another suspected illegal alien.
Thanks to the U.S.’s immigration non-enforcement policy as it relates to Central Americans, not to mention its abdication of the duty to protect us from invasion at home, my support for the war in Iraq has waned considerably.
Also see “Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation: It’s your choice.”
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