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Watch: Christian University Speaker Tells Students to Hide Illegal Aliens in Churches

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A guest speaker at Andrews University, a Seventh-day Adventist school in Michigan, urged students to harbor illegal aliens in their churches because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not usually raid churches, Campus Reform reported.

“People are being hurt right now across this country,” James Standish, the event’s speaker, said. “Many of them are our brothers and they’re our sisters. And we stand by with our churches empty when they could be sanctuary sanctuaries.” . . .

Standish was speaking at a semi-required “University Forum” event that is part of the co-curricular requirements for students at the school. While the specific event was not mandatory, it was part of a series of events that count towards fulfilling the requirement. . .

During the speech, Standish claimed that a church entity asked him to research ICE policy after some of their members were deported, and in his research, he discovered that that “except in unusual circumstances, ICE will not raid a church.”

The policy he is referring to was a created in 2011 under the Obama administration — and still remains under the Trump administration — that classifies certain areas, such as schools and churches, as “sensitive locations.” In these locations, barring exigent circumstances, ICE will not conduct “arrests, interviews, searches, or surveillance.” (Read more from “Watch: Christian University Speaker Tells Students to Hide Illegal Aliens in Churches” HERE)

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ICE Blasts New York Authorities for Releasing Illegal Alien Accused of Manslaughter

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents apprehended an illegal alien accused of manslaughter and other crimes after local police, refusing cooperation with federal immigration authorities, released him back into the public, the agency revealed Monday.

Feliciano Perez-Bautista, an Mexican national living illegally in the U.S., was arrested by the Yonkers Police Department (YPD) on July 8 for gang assault in the first degree, according to a press release from ICE. However, after Perez-Baustina’s victim succumbed to his injuries, he was additionally charged with manslaughter of the first degree.

ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations lodged a detainer request with the YPD on July 12 and lodged a request with the Westchester Department of Corrections on July 30. However, neither detainer was honored, and Perez-Bautista was ultimately released back into the community without the local officials notifying ICE. . .

A spokesperson for the agency blasted local law enforcement for refusing to honor their immigration detainer and allowing Perez-Bautista to be released, allowing him to potentially harm others.

“When law enforcement agencies decide to not honor ICE detainers and release violent criminals back onto the streets, they are putting their city at serious risk,” ICE New York Field Office Director Thomas Decker said in a statement released Monday. “We want nothing more than to cooperate and work together with local law enforcement authorities in order to protect our communities and keep this nation secure.” (Read more from “ICE Blasts New York Authorities for Releasing Illegal Alien Accused of Manslaughter” HERE)

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WATCH: Pete Buttigieg Agrees When Leftist Pastor Says Illegal Aliens Are ‘Coming Back to Land We Stole’

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg nodded in agreement with a leftist pastor who said Mexican illegal immigrants are “coming back to land we stole.”

The Rev. William Barber hosted Buttigieg at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, where a Q&A session followed Sunday services, the Associated Press said. . .

“Let me ask you a couple quick rapid-fire [questions],” Barber began. “Do you think we need to also stop allowing forces to demonize ‘people who are trying to get their immigration status,’ and we start lifting up all the ways they benefit this country? The money in Social Security, the taxes they pay—” . . .

“And we need to talk about that,” Barber noted before saying, “We call people ‘illegal aliens’ and all these things that are not human and certainly not Christian. Why can’t we just own in America that some of the people that are trying to come from Mexico here are coming back to land we stole?”

With that, Buttigieg sat up in his seat, made an expression as if he was given a shot of truth, then nodded his head as the audience applauded. (Read more from “Pete Buttigieg Agrees When Leftist Pastor Says Illegal Aliens Are ‘Coming Back to Land We Stole'” HERE)

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Sanctuary State Freed Illegal Alien Accused of Attempted Murder

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An illegal alien in the sanctuary state of Colorado has been re-arrested for attempted murder less than a month after he was freed from prison.

Osmani Garces-Ortiz, a 37-year-old illegal alien from Cuba, was released by the sanctuary jurisdiction of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on October 28, despite the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency requesting he be held so they could take over custody.

Garces-Ortiz had originally been arrested for drug crimes and trespassing. Less than a month later, on November 21, the illegal alien was arrested in Arapahoe County for attempted murder — an incident that would have never occurred had he be turned over to ICE, federal officials said.

“As ICE has repeatedly made clear, when local jurisdictions refuse to support immigration enforcement, they betray their duty to protect public safety,” an ICE spokesperson told the Sentinel.

Garces-Ortiz is being held on a $202,000 bond and ICE has once again placed a detainer on him, requesting that should he be released at any time that he be turned over to their custody. (Read more from “Sanctuary State Freed Illegal Alien Accused of Attempted Murder” HERE)

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ICE Arrests 90 Foreign Students at Fake University

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has arrested 90 additional foreign-born students in recent months in a sting operation at a fake Michigan university designed to draw in students who are trying to stay in the U.S. illegally, according to a new report.

The University of Farmington advertised a “dynamic business administration and STEM curriculum” program, but the students, mostly from India, “knew that they would not attend any actual classes, earn credits or make academic progress towards an actual degree,” according to a January indictment.

A total of about 250 students have been arrested since the school opened in January on immigration violations by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Immigration lawyers said in March — after 161 students were arrested — that the students did not know it was a fake university at the time. . .

The U.S. “trapped vulnerable people who just wanted to maintain (legal immigration) status,” Rahul Reddy, a Texas attorney who represented some of the students who were arrested, told the Detroit Free Press on Wednesday.

Many of the arrested students have been deported, but some are contesting their removals. (Read more from “ICE Arrests 90 Foreign Students at Fake University” HERE)

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Illegal Alien Deported After Killing Four Children in 2008 School Bus Crash Is Caught Again in the U.S.

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An illegal immigrant from Guatemala was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Minneapolis more than ten years after she killed four children and was deported.

35-year-old Olga Franco del Cid caused a horrific school bus crash in 2008 that killed four children and injured 17 others. She ran a red light and hit the bus with her minivan, then crashed into a pickup truck. . .

She attempted to blame the crash on her boyfriend, lied to investigators about her identity and said she was from Puerto Rico. They determined that she was in fact an illegal immigrant from Guatemala.

She was convicted of 4 counts of criminal vehicular homicide, and 20 other charges in the crash. She was sentenced to more than twelve years in prison, but only served before being released and deported in 2016. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Deported After Killing Four Children in 2008 School Bus Crash Is Caught Again in the U.S.” HERE)

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Raid of U.S. ‘Stash House’ Finds Dozens of Illegal Aliens and ‘Several Weapons,’ Feds Say

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Federal immigration authorities say that they discovered dozens of illegal immigrants and some weapons in an alleged “stash house” in Laredo, Texas.

According to a news release from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the discovery was the result of joint efforts between the U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the Webb County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO).

Over the weekend, WCSO provided the feds with information about a possible stash house. That was followed up with joint surveillance conducted by Border Patrol, HSI, and WCSO, along with a “knock and talk” at the address.

In total, authorities found 43 illegal aliens from the countries of Guatemala, Ecuador, Mexico, and Honduras along with “several weapons,” CBP says. The 43 were found to be in good health before being arrested, and the case was then turned over to HSI.

Stash houses are where traffickers hide and hold smuggled people and drugs. In the context of America’s ongoing immigration crisis, they’ve been known for terrible conditions and ransom situations.

“Quite often what will happen is somebody may have a cellphone and because the conditions are so bad they will call 911, and that’s how we are able to uncover some of these ‘stash houses,’” Border Patrol Deputy Chief Raul Ortiz told CBS during a June 2018 ride-along.

Earlier this year, authorities in Houston arrested five men in connection with a stash house where 18 migrants were held for ransom. “Our investigation determined that women were held captive and sexually assaulted for 25 days,” Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said at the time of the arrests. (For more from the author of “Raid of U.S. ‘Stash House’ Finds Dozens of Illegal Aliens and ‘Several Weapons,’ Feds Say” please click HERE)

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Illegal Alien with Prior Criminal History Allegedly Kills Motorist While Illegally Driving Forklift

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On November 17, Ulises Mondragon Umanzor, 30, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was arrested for allegedly running a stop sign while driving a forklift and fatally striking James Zakos, a 70-year-old Floridian, whose car had the right of way. Mondragon Umanzor reportedly failed to stop and return to the scene of the accident.

There are two important points in this case that should spawn a robust public policy debate on immigration enforcement: Mondragon Umanzor did not have either a valid driver’s license or a license to operate heavy machinery, and he had a history of trouble with the law on the roads. Had our laws been enforced, he shouldn’t have been able to get a job here, and he should have been deported on numerous occasions. He had been caught at least three times since 2011 driving without a license.

Earlier this year, Florida passed a law barring any potential “sanctuary” jurisdictions from ignoring ICE detainers on criminal aliens who pass through local jails. However, even jurisdictions that don’t thwart ICE could still do a lot more to prevent crime by illegal aliens if they would actively notify ICE upon the first infraction of an illegal alien they contact. As demonstrated by this case, illegal aliens are often caught for relatively minor driving infractions. Yet they are able to cycle in and out of the local court system without ever being turned over to ICE. That appears to be what happened in this case. Had the system been working the way it should, Zakos would still be alive.

Here is Mondragon Umanzor’s criminal history just from Palm Beach County:

On Sept. 12, 2011, Mondragon Umanzor was arrested in Palm Beach County for driving without a license and for driving with an open container of alcohol.

Just a few months later, in February 2012, he was caught again driving without a license.

On Nov. 4, 2012, he was arrested for possession of cocaine.

In Sept. 2016, he was caught driving without a license.

In May 2018, he was caught driving around a barricade, of course without a license. He accrued over $1,000 in outstanding debt to the court.

Why was someone like this never deported? In 2012, he was even pre-emptively suspended from having a license by the court, despite never having had one, all without anybody ever giving a thought to deporting him. While these seem like minor charges for which we wouldn’t lock up Americans too long, they can portend serious public danger and are all habitual crimes. As such, there’s no reason we should be taking chances with people who should be removed from the country anyway at the first sign of trouble.

It should be standard procedure that any time a resident interacts with police or with a court, he is asked a simple question: “Of which country are you a citizen?” Then, local cops should be required to notify ICE about anyone who does not answer, “The United States.” That way, we can ensure that this is the last act of reckless driving committed by this individual in the U.S.

In fact, police are already required to find out citizenship, ironically, for the good of the alien, pursuant to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR). Florida, like every state requires police to ascertain the country of citizenship in order to notify consular officials that a national of their country has been detained. Why doesn’t every every arrest or detention by police therefore preclude any situation where a foreign national is released without the federal government knowing about it?

So much crime could be prevented by following this simple international protocol. If it’s good enough for the sake of the alien to discover his citizenship status upon any arrest, it should be good enough for the security of our communities.

In September, another illegal alien in Palm Beach County was arrested for numerous child sex charges. As I noted at the time, given this man’s three arrests for driving without a license, the abuse of these children could have been avoided.

In addition to proactively requiring documentation of citizenship for any traffic citation or arrest, Florida officials have a golden opportunity to stop illegal alien crime by implementing mandatory E-Verify, a top agenda item pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in the upcoming legislative session. The other obvious question in the case of Mondragon Umanzor is how in the world was he working as a forklift driver when he had no driver’s license or license to operate machinery? The Miami Herald reports that he worked for a subcontractor of Skansa USA, listed as “Cast One” on the police report. While there are unanswered questions about how any individual with this man’s background could have a job driving heavy machinery, this is another example of how E-Verify would ensure dangerous individuals are not able to obtain jobs in this country at all.

As Florida prepares to debate mandatory E-Verify and the effect of illegal aliens on the wages of Floridian workers, one thing that ought not to be overlooked is the system’s effect on demagnetizing Florida as a destination for dangerous criminals. It’s not just a labor issue; it’s a public safety issue. (For more from the author of “Illegal Alien with Prior Criminal History Allegedly Kills Motorist While Illegally Driving Forklift” please click HERE)

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Agents Rescue Migrant from Drowning in Border River

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Laredo Sector Border Patrol riverine agents rescued a migrant from possibly drowning in a creek near the Rio Grande. The migrant struggled to stay afloat after illegally entering the river to cross into the U.S.

A Laredo Sector Border Patrol patrolling the Chacon Creek area near the Rio Grande encountered a migrant who had difficulty staying afloat on the morning of November 20. The agent quickly called for assistance from a nearby marine unit boat crew, according to information obtained from Laredo Sector Border Patrol officials.

Laredo Sector Marine agents quickly responded and found the migrant having difficulty keeping his head above the swiftly moving current. The agents maneuvered their boat into position and pulled the man on board to keep him from drowning, officials stated.

Agents identified the migrant as a Mexican national. They said the man said he was attempting to return to Mexico when he had difficulty navigating the currents. Agents checked the man for medical distress and turned him over to land-based agents for processing. Officials said the Mexican national will be processed under U.S. Customs and Border Protection guidelines.

Later that day, agents assigned to the Highway 83 immigration checkpoint observed a blue tractor-trailer approaching for inspection. Agents questioned the driver and subsequently referred him to a secondary inspection station. As the driver moved forward, he failed to stop and drove approximately 100 yards beyond the checkpoint before stopping, officials reported. He jumped out of the tractor and fled on foot. (Read more from “Agents Rescue Migrant from Drowning in Border River” HERE)

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Border and Sanctuary Crises Continue as Congress Leaves Town

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It’s a pretty big deal when local governments announce their version of secession from federal immigration enforcement. Yet not a single Senate Republican has made a peep about the issue, as both parties quickly passed a budget continuing resolution to fund government without addressing the crisis. If the entire conservative movement won’t stand up now to fight sanctuary cities and the border crisis in the budget, when and how will Trump’s immigration promises ever be fulfilled?

The Senate passed the stopgap spending bill just before leaving town on Thursday, locking in record high spending across the board and offering an extra half a billion for the census. The census will now receive a record $7.3 billion. That was the one emergency issue senators felt compelled to address in the budget before leaving town for Thanksgiving. But what is the purpose of taking a census if not only are illegal aliens being harbored by sanctuary cities, but they are counted in the census as if they are Americans? Sanctuaries harbor even the most dangerous murderers and child rapists while using the presence of these aliens in their districts to juice up their representation. That is the exact opposite of what our Founders had in mind for the census and the very impetus for giving the feds control over immigration policy.

Earlier this week, the Prince George’s County, Maryland, council voted unanimously to bar local officials from communicating with ICE. This is a direct challenge to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, as 8 U.S.C. §1373 explicitly bars localities from restricting communication with ICE and §1324 bars them from shielding illegal aliens.

It’s truly difficult to overstate the danger of this rebellion to the safety and stability of our republic. Prince George’s County has now attracted scores of MS-13 gang members from Central America, and while they are being counted in our own census, they are committing murders. In May, two illegal aliens charged with a gruesome MS-13 murder were released by county police in defiance of federal law. They had previously been charged with murder exactly one year before and were also released in defiance of an ICE detainer.

PG County lies just northeast of the nation’s capital and is in full rebellion against the law. Yet there is no effort by congressional Republicans to defund it. The county has become a hub of MS-13 activity ever since the arrival of more Central American teens in 2014. In March, PG County officials arrested five MS-13 members for stabbing a gang rival 100 times and setting the body on fire. Three of them were resettled as UACs.

Last year, the Washington Post reported on an “overwhelmingly Hispanic school in Prince George’s County,” Maryland, where MS-13 would “sell drugs, draw gang graffiti and aggressively recruit students recently arrived from Central America, according to more than two dozen teachers, parents and students.” It was so bad that “most of those interviewed asked not to be identified for fear of losing their jobs or being targeted by MS-13.”

What good is a GOP Senate if it refuses to address local governments harboring transnational illegal alien gangs?

Then there is the border itself. While the numbers have finally gone down, the increased deterrent is all the result of finally turning back bogus asylum-seekers at the border. But now the same California courts that spawned the crisis in 2018 are trying to legislate open borders again. On Tuesday, a San Diego judge said the Trump administration must allow bogus asylees who could have claimed asylum in Mexico to be processed here if they came to the border prior to July 16, the day DHS announced the clampdown. The Supreme Court itself already blocked the injunction from the lower courts, but now the same courts are trying to impose their injunction on those selective “asylum-seekers” who conveniently ignored seeking asylum in Mexico, as long as they came before July 16.

How can the GOP-controlled Senate sit back and watch the lower courts engage in the same degree of civil disobedience against national sovereignty as sanctuary cities without adding a rider to strip their power over these cases? Unless the courts are checked or ignored, the border crisis will continue.

Then there is the issue of deportations. Unlike border security, which is all a policy problem, not so much a resource problem, interior enforcement absolutely needs more funding. Deportations are already down this year, yet detention space is completely full. There are over two million illegal aliens with final or “pending final” deportation orders. There are several million illegal aliens with criminal records. Yet, there are, at most, just 7,000 deportation officers and support staff. If we are going to solve this issue, we need a fight over ICE funding. A majority of Americans want stepped-up deportations across the board, and definitely for criminal aliens.

Conservatives have a choice to make: They can spend the next month focused solely on impeachment and allow Democrats to quietly get Trump to sign a budget bill before Christmas cosigning his first term to a weaker outcome on illegal immigration than Obama’s first term. Or, they could actually try putting some points on the board and improving Trump’s chances of overcoming impeachment by picking a fight on popular policies that have grave consequences for our civilization. (For more from the author of “Border and Sanctuary Crises Continue as Congress Leaves Town” please click HERE)

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