Friday, March 29, AD 2024 4:12am

Murderer Gustavo Garcia and His Enablers

 

Paul Mirengoff at Powerline explains how California, a sanctuary state for illegal aliens, helped Gustavo Garcia embark on a murderous rampage:

 

Earlier this week, Gustavo Garcia, an illegal immigrant with a criminal record, celebrated his release from prison by going on a shooting spree. He killed two people and injured six others before dying as the result of crash at the end of a harrowing car chase in a stolen vehicle.

Garcia had been deported twice — first in 2004 and then 2014. Before his second deportation, he had spent 27 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the country. Previously, he had been convicted of armed robbery.

Last week, he was arrested after a caller reported that he was behaving erratically. He tested positive for a controlled substance and spent 10 hours in custody. Then, he was released because the offense only carried a misdemeanor charge.

While Garcia was in jail, ICE officials learned of his arrest and issued an immigration hold. Absent California’s sanctuary state law, federal authorities would have been notified of Garcia’s release and been present to pick up him.

Unfortunately, California is now a sanctuary state. This means that local law enforcement agencies are prohibited from honoring ICE’s detainer requests unless the agency obtains an arrest warrant signed by a federal judge, and, indeed, from communicating with ICE in cases like these. As Mike Boudreaux, the sheriff of Tulare County where Garcia briefly was held, explained:

Before SB 54 [the sanctuary city law], Gustavo Garcia would have been turned over to ICE officials. That’s how we’ve always done it, day in and day out. After SB 54, we no longer have the power to do that.

Thus, Garcia was free to indulge in his murderous rampage. It consisted of:

The drive-by shooting of a farm worker in an orchard,
robbing a gas station where he fired shots at the ceiling,
shooting a woman in a parked car near a Motel 6,
firing a volley of bullets into another gas station,
killing a man standing outside yet another gas station,
firing shots while on his ex-girlfriend’s property (with her kids present),
shooting at a police patrol car,
stealing a vehicle at gunpoint,
smashing into several cars while driving at 100 mph to escape the police.

Expect this to be put down the Memory Hole as soon as the media has made a few perfunctory reports.  It doesn’t fit their agenda, and it doesn’t fit the agenda of virtue signaling Leftists, the Bishops of our Church or any of the others who embrace illegal aliens for political reasons, the well being of American citizens be damned.  Those who point this out will be called racists and worse by those who profit, politically and otherwise, by treating American immigration laws as so much tissue paper.

 

 

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T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Friday, December 21, AD 2018 7:27am

The narrative: the NRA is a terrorist organization. Attack the innocent. Absolve the guilty.

Exhibit #6,879,375 of the Democrats and RINO’s war against ordinary Americans. Wake up, America. The oligarchy wants you dead.

father of seven
father of seven
Friday, December 21, AD 2018 8:32am

There is more than ample data to draw the following conclusions. Our bishops, and certainly Pope Francis, have blood on their hands. To them, we are all no more than pawns in their political, not religious, agenda. They seek the destruction of our nation as a sovereign entity.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Friday, December 21, AD 2018 11:10am

I have a suspicion if you carefully questioned a random sample of each, you’d discover that the populations of clergymen, social workers, and Democratic legislators are each chock-a-block with the sort of person who is cruel to the kind and kind to the cruel, because it’s easier that way.

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