ICE Chief Refuses Senator’s Request for Criminal Illegal’s Case File
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials refuse to share the case file of a convicted criminal and illegal alien suspected of murdering five men, including one of Sen. Claire McCaskill’s constituents, the Missouri Democrat said Wednesday.
An exasperated McCaskill said to the Senate Committee On Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) hearing on border security that the file that may provide answers to how ICE failures allowed convicted felon Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino to escape. He skirted multiple encounters with police, re-entered the country illegally after deportation, and allegedly murdered four men in Kansas and 49-year-old Randy Nordman in Missouri in March 2016.
“If we want to stop future tragedies, we have to see that file,” said McCaskill, who is the panel’s ranking minority member, as she faced Nordman’s widow, Julie, who testified Wednesday. “We have to understand the mistakes that were made. And we have to have our questions answered.”
ICE officials cited privacy concerns for refusing to disclose the file, a claim that “flies in the face” of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order declaring non-citizens have no privacy rights, McCaskill said.
McCaskill said ICE Director Thomas Homan also refused to appear at Wednesday’s hearing, or send a representative. President Donald Trump named Homan acting director of the agency in January. (Read more from “ICE Chief Refuses Senator’s Request for Criminal Illegal’s Case File” HERE)
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