On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton gave a press briefing to tout the agency’s latest efforts in the wake of Agent Jaime Zapata’s murder by cartel gunmen in Mexico two weeks ago.
When a CNS News reporter asked Morton if it was possible to combat the drug gangs now operating in this country without securing the border, he answered: “Are we going to be able to eliminate every instance of crime in the United States? No. That’s why we have police departments. That’s why we have prosecutors. That’s why we have federal law enforcement agencies like ICE. Crime is a part of life here in the United States and other countries. The beauty of our country is we have a very strong system of the rule of law. We have a wonderful country.”
Morton added: “I challenge you to find another country in which the sense of law and order is greater.”
So, it appears that the federal government is willing to accept the crimes committed by illegal aliens and drug smugglers as simply another “part of life,” just as we have been conditioned in this country to accept most crimes as we go about our daily, understandably anxious lives.
However, unlike most crimes, those carried out by illegal aliens are 100 percent…preventable.
What follows are a few of those recent crimes which our federal government claims are simply now a “part of life:”
On February 18, 2011, the body of 15-year-old Katherine Sanchez was recovered in an apple orchard in Orleans County, New York. The girl had been missing for over a month.
Her brother-in-law, Carlos Cardenas, 21, has been charged with her murder. He once worked in the orchard where the girl’s remains were unearthed.
According to Albion Police Chief Dean London, the Mexican national admitted to strangling the girl to death back on January 15. He was reportedly worried that she would tell her sister that he had raped her.
An autopsy confirmed the victim was suffocated.
Though police said that they viewed Cardenas as a suspect from the day Sanchez disappeared, they did not announce it because of his illegal status, fearing that he would flee to Mexico.
Chief London told reporters: “I want to emphasize the news of her disappearance was not circulated by law enforcement because the defendant, who has been the suspect since the matter was reported to us, was not in custody and our concern was that news of the victim’s disappearance would hinder our investigation.”
Sanchez was on her school’s volleyball and track teams, and was a member of the broadcasting club.
- On February 17, 2011, Broward County Sheriff's deputies arrested Tomas Bautista, 40, who reportedly came home drunk and sexually assaulted a Chihuahua in his backyard.
The dog, Mimi, belongs to Bautista’s roommate, who reportedly found her bleeding and Bautista passed out with his pants around his ankles.
Bautista admitted to sexually abusing the tiny dog.
Mimi was taken to Coral Springs Animal Hospital for treatment and is back home recovering now.
Bautista is charged with cruelty to animals, a felony. He is currently being held in the Broward County Jail on an immigration hold.
- On February 11, 2011, Prince William County police arrested Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, 37, after he allegedly went on a shooting and stabbing spree which left three people dead and three others wounded.
The two separate attacks occurred a few blocks apart.
Manassas police released the names of the victims:
The Hood Road attack:
-Brenda Ashcraft, 56, pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds
-William Ashbey Ashcroft, 37, died in route to the hospital
-34-year-old woman, gunshot wound, survived
-15-year-old girl, gunshot wound, treated and released
The Brent Street location
-Julio Cesar Ulloa, 48, pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wound
-77-year-old unidentified woman, suffered stab wounds, severe lacerations to the head, survived
In recent years, the Georgetown South neighborhood where the attacks took place has seen a large increase in crime due to illegal alien gang activity.
According to Manassas Police Chief Doug Keen, the Salvadoran national was ordered deported in 2002, but was never detained by federal immigration authorities and never left.
Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder.
-On January 26, 2011, Norma Paola Vera-Nolasco, 31, was arrested at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, as she attempted to flee to Mexico. In fact, her U.S. Airways flight had already pulled away from the gate when police ordered it to return.
According to the Denver's District Attorney's office, Vera-Nolasko was driving the truck that hit and killed valet, Jose Medina outside a Denver nightclub on Saturday night.
She faces two counts of vehicular homicide, criminal impersonation, and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Prosecutors say that the illegal alien was drunk at the time of the accident.
In 2008, Vera-Nolasco was arrested in Aurora, Colorado, for driving without a license, but due to Aurora’s sanctuary policy, was released without being reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
On Tuesday, Denver police arrested Eliu Montes-Garcia, 28, who was in the vehicle with Vera-Nolasco. He has been charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident, vehicular homicide, and two counts of accessory to crime.
Montes-Garcia has a history of arrests for various traffic and drug violations and was deported in 2008.
In May 2007, he was arrested in Alamosa County for felony distribution of dangerous drugs, driving without a license, improper license plates and driving under restraint.
He spent nine months in a Colorado state prison for felony drug possession and was deported back to Mexico on March 27, 2008.
Two others have also been arrested as accessories to the crime.
Yolanda Bastida-Nolasco, 42, and Guadalupe Bastida, 48, allegedly helped hide the vehicle that hit Medina and also assisted Vera-Nolasco in her attempted escape from the country. Both are in the country illegally.
According to witnesses, 21-year-old Jose Medina was helping a woman exit her car when a white GMC pickup truck hit him with so much force that he was thrown 50 feet into the street.
It was Medina’s first night on the job at the Rock Star Lounge on Lincoln Street.
A taxi driver saw the Medina hit and followed Vera-Nolasco, reporting the license plate number to police. The truck was soon found nearby
-On January 26, 2011, David Luna Sanchez, 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Waynesboro, Va. courtroom. Judge Humes J. Franklin sentenced the illegal alien to 30 years in prison but suspended 17 of those years.
Judge Franklin told Sanchez that he will be deported upon completion of his sentence, and informed him that if he is caught re-entering the country that he would receive the remainder of the full sentence.
Judge Franklin said: “If you attempt to return … your 17 years will be imposed.”
His crime was bloody and brutal.
On June 27, 2010, Sanchez stabbed Eduardo Herrera once in the leg and once in the heart.
According to Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Camblos, Herrera cried out in pain, grabbed his chest and ran down an alley, towards his girlfriend. He died in her arms, in a pool of blood.
Sanchez fled to Florida and was pulled over for speeding a few days later in Putnam County.
He quickly confessed to the stabbing.
-On January 25, 2011, Inocente Monroy Alcantara, 26, was sentenced to one year in federal prison for using a stolen identity to work at a Kansas meat packing plant. The victim in this case was a U.S. Marine, serving overseas.
When the Marine returned to San Diego in 2009, he was inundated with overdue notices and calls from bill collectors for credit accounts he never opened.
The Social Security Administration Office and the San Diego Police Department traced the accounts to back Alcantara, who was working at the Creekstone Farms meat packing plant in Arkansas City, Kansas.
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said: “Identity theft in employment situations is a growing problem in Kansas and across the country.”
Alcantara, who pleaded guilty in November to document fraud, will be deported upon completion of his sentence.
While rapes, murder, child molestation, identity theft, and even bestiality may be acceptable to the Obama administration, in exchange for cheap labor and potential votes—the crime wave as a result of an undefended border with Mexico and anemic enforcement of our immigration laws is not acceptable for the American people.
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