Sanctuary Cities Forced To Comply With Federal Immigration Rules Due To Innovative Program

Sanctuary cities’ runaround of nan rule whitethorn person yet travel to an end, acknowledgment to a imaginative programme called Operation Guardian Angel.

Launched by Bill Essayli, nan caller U.S. lawyer for nan Central District of California, this commonsense attack to unit scofflaw sanctuary cities to cooperate with—and extremity obstructing—federal migration authorities should beryllium copied by U.S. attorneys astir nan federation to thief free nan state of criminal forbidden aliens being detained by section authorities.  

It's a no-brainer. 

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Sanctuary Cities 101

California has been a sanctuary authorities since 2018, erstwhile erstwhile Gov. Jerry Brown signed a rule turning it into a sanctuary for criminal forbidden aliens. But California’s move to create a safe haven for criminals started moreover earlier, astatine nan section level.    

In 1979, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates implemented "Special Order 40," which prohibited his constabulary officers some from making interaction pinch anyone for nan sole intent of learning their migration position and from making arrests for violations of U.S. migration law.

In 1985, San Francisco’s then-mayor Dianne Feinstein signed authorities designating nan metropolis arsenic a sanctuary for aliens whose asylum claims had been rejected by nan national government.

In 1989, San Francisco voters passed an ordinance extending that protection to each forbidden aliens, prohibiting nan city’s constabulary unit from aiding federal migration officers.

In 2013, San Franciscans passed nan "Due Process for All" ordinance, which constricted erstwhile section rule enforcement officers could springiness Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) beforehand announcement of an forbidden alien’s merchandise from a section jailhouse and prohibited practice pinch ICE detainer warrants aliases requests.

In 2016, San Franciscans amended the rule again to enforce moreover further restrictions connected metropolis labor that, successful essence, prohibition immoderate and each inquiries into nan migration position of immoderate resident and prohibit immoderate practice pinch national officers. 

Sanctuary City Crime Hell Holes

Is it immoderate astonishment that California arsenic a full and peculiarly its cities person go a magnet for illegal aliens? It shouldn’t be. 

And is it immoderate astonishment erstwhile immoderate of those forbidden aliens perpetrate further crimes, including rape and murder? Sadly, no. 

But lawmakers and elected politicians location deliberation it's amended to endanger nan information of their constituents by releasing these criminals backmost into section communities alternatively than turning them complete to nan feds truthful they tin beryllium deported and returned to their autochthonal countries.

This has consequences.

Take Kate Steinle. She was murdered connected Pier 14 successful San Francisco by José Inez García Zárate, a profession criminal pinch 7 felony convictions and who had been deported 5 times.  He had precocious been released from section custody backmost retired connected nan streets aft San Francisco dropped supplier charges that were pending against him and refused to cooperate pinch nan migration detainer ICE had revenge against him.

California’s marque of egregious sanctuary authorities explains really it’s imaginable for 250,000 forbidden aliens to person a mixed full of astir 1.7 cardinal arrests for 3 million offenses committed connected U.S. soil, arsenic 1 2011 study showed. Of course, those numbers person apt expanded exponentially aft 4 years of Biden’s unfastened separator policies pinch virtually nary vetting.

Just this week, nan Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a database of sanctuary jurisdictions crossed nan country, including full states, counties, and cities. That database includes a full of over 560 sanctuaries that release thousands of deportable criminal aliens each year.

Between 2021 and 2024 alone, 22,000 illegal aliens were released from sanctuary metropolis jails without notification to ICE.  

One of these released forbidden aliens was Jose Antonio Ibarra, nan Venezuelan man who brutally murdered Laken Riley successful February of 2024. The 22-year-old nursing student was jogging connected nan University of Georgia field erstwhile she was attacked by Ibarra.

DNA grounds showed Riley fought back against Ibarra, who was trying to rape her. After a struggle, Ibarra bashed her caput successful pinch a stone aggregate times.

Her cause of death was blunt unit trauma and asphyxiation. But it was New York’s sanctuary argumentation that allowed it to happen. 

Shortly earlier Laken’s murder, Ibarra had been released from New York custody aft being arrested connected section charges, but ICE was not informed.

Tragically, Laken and Kate’s stories are not unique. Every day, thousands of Americans are victimized by convulsive forbidden aliens, who are escorted correct past ICE and into our communities by nan territory attorneys of sanctuary cities.  

Flouting Federal Law

Local and authorities laws that declare sanctuary status straight break national law— specifically, 8 U.S.C. §1373, which bans section governments from preventing rule enforcement from sharing accusation astir nan "citizen aliases migration status, lawful aliases unlawful, of immoderate individual."

Laken Riley would beryllium live coming had New York’s rogue prosecutor Alvin Bragg waited until nan DHS issued a detainer for Ibarra and past cooperated pinch DHS nan measurement nan rule requires.

Kate Steinle’s life would person been spared if San Francisco hadn’t enacted a argumentation banning section constabulary officers from notifying DHS erstwhile they apprehension an forbidden alien.

A New Way Forward

Fortunately, 1 U.S. lawyer is yet fed up pinch his chap Californians being slaughtered, assaulted, raped, and different victimized by criminal illegals benefitting from nan Golden State’s irresponsible policies.

Operation Guardian Angel closes nan loophole successful sanctuary cities’ blatantly lawless schemes that let them to simply disregard administrative ICE detainer warrants.   

How? Two words: judicial warrants.

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U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli pulled together an all-star federal taskforce comprising agents from 5 national rule enforcement agencies—including ICE and nan FBI—all moving retired of an agency successful Los Angeles. When an forbidden alien pinch a anterior deportation is inevitably arrested, upon recognition and booking into nan section jail, nan taskforce seeks a federal criminal warrant—signed by a national judge—for felony re-entry under 8 USC §1326.

By utilizing disposable criminal databases to find forbidden aliens who were arrested and jailed nan time before, nan squad quickly learns of each caller offender. Then, a national warrant is served connected section officials, who evidently won’t subordinate a national judge’s warrant. That warrant requires section officials to manus complete nan forbidden criminal alien to ICE.  

As Essayli said successful one interview, "They person nary choice; they will comply." 

And it’s already working. Operation Guardian Angel started May 10th, and by nan 15th, ICE agents had made 13 arrests. Once afloat underway, nan taskforce expects to make 40-50 arrests weekly, moreover contempt nan obstructionist sanctuary policies of nan metropolis and nan state.

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There is nary logic why each 1 of nan 93 U.S. Attorney’s offices shouldn’t beryllium copying Essayli’s playbook. His simple, effective strategy returns to migration rule enforcement nan powerfulness that his sanctuary authorities wrongfully stole.

Operation Guardian Angel is simply a measurement successful nan correct guidance of recovering nan Central District of California from nan unfastened separator crisis, removing criminal forbidden aliens, and restoring sanity successful a authorities that has mislaid its way.