President Joe Biden’s so-called “sanctuary nation” orders are helping an illegal alien, accused of killing a 19-year-old woman in Texas, avert deportation from the United States.
In November 2020, 19-year-old Adrienne Sophia Exum was presumably hit and killed by Heriberto Fuerte-Padilla, a prohibited alien from Mexico, in Harris County, Texas. According to cops, Padilla was driving drunk at the time and was consequently charged with running away the scene of the crash and driving under the influence.
Stephen Dinan with the Washington Times now reports that Biden’s sanctuary nation orders– where Migration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are banned from apprehending and deporting illegal aliens unless they fulfill narrow limits of criminality– are helping Padilla avert deportation from the U.S.
Adrienne Sophia Exum(Picture by means of GoFundMe)
Dinan reports:
The Homeland Security Department initially said it desired authorities to select him up and deport him once Texas punished him, however then it changed its mind. Under rules provided in September by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Fuerte-Padilla doesn’t certify as a concern anymore. [Emphasis added]
U.S. Migration and Customs Enforcement also told Texas that it was canceling deportation requests– referred to as “detainers”– on other unlawful immigrants, including some who pleaded guilty to felony charges of averting arrest or had convictions for intoxicated driving, drug possession or domestic attack hurting a relative. [Emphasis added]
Similarly, Biden is likewise helping prohibited aliens Jose Godoy Vasquez of Guatemala and Nay Thar of Thailand evade deportation.
Vasquez has been founded guilty of dui, domestic violence, and drug belongings while Thar has convictions for dui, drug belongings, getting away police, and privately getting contraband into prison.
The revelations come as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas boasted to chosen authorities that Biden’s sanctuary nation orders are protecting most prohibited aliens in the U.S. from arrest and deportation.
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“Unlawful existence in the United States, alone, will not be a basis for migration enforcement action … it refers justice and equity also,” Mayorkas stated.
Throughout the last year, the orders effectively released into the U.S. prohibited aliens accused and founded guilty of kid sex criminal offenses, armed robbery, drunk driving, break-in, drug trafficking, grand theft auto, heroin trafficking, credit card scams, cash laundering, and other crimes.
As Breitbart News reported, DHS has stopped workingto make public their yearly report that details the number of illegal aliens apprehended and deported by ICE representatives throughout the previous 12 months. Former ICE authorities have actually recommended that the agency is vigilantly trying to manipulate the information to make it more difficult to compare to past years of interior enforcement.
John Binder is a press reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.