4um: Slain Teen’s Family Begs LAPD To Ask And Deport

Weakening accusations that Judicial Watch is racist for fighting a police department’s don’t-ask-don’t tell immigration policy is a black family’s emotional plea for “ask and deport” after their teenage son was brutally murdered by an illegal alien gang banger one day after the thug completed a jail sentence for a previous felony.

This blog pointed out last month how the Los Angeles Police Department’s longtime policy (Special Order 40) of banning officers from inquiring about suspects’ immigration status essentially allowed a notorious gang member—and illegal alien—to murder a high school football star 24 hours after being released from prison for assault with a deadly weapon.

The renowned 18th Street Gang member, Pedro Espinoza, should have been deported after being released from Los Angeles County jail but local authorities didn’t bother to initiate the process by contacting federal immigration officials. That’s because police in the Golden State's largest city (nearly 4 million residents) isn’t allowed to ask an arrestee’s immigration status. This enabled a violent illegal immigrant to remain in the country and take the life of a dedicated young athlete, who was being recruited by several top colleges.

Seventeen-year-old Jamiel Shaw, the son of an Army sergeant serving in Iraq, was walking home from the mall when several members from the violent Hispanic 18th Street Gang pulled up in a car. Espinoza shot him on the sidewalk and the star prep running back died instantly. Had the cops identified the gang member as an illegal alien during his previous encounters with the law, he would have been deported and Shaw would have gone on to fulfill his dream of playing college football.

This week Shaw’s parents appeared before the Los Angeles City Council to plead for changes in the LAPD’s outrageous policy forbidding officers from obtaining information on immigration status. His father proposed that the policy be changed so officers could at least check the immigration status of known gang members. This simple move would have saved his son’s life.

Judicial Watch has sued the LAPD over Special Order 40, which violates federal law since no police officer can be ordered to ignore and flout federal laws. The illegal mandate was implemented in 1979 by the city’s former police chief and the city council to supposedly gain the cooperation of witnesses and victims afraid to call police for fear of deportation.

Black teenagers in northern and southern California have been targeted for assassination by young Mexican gang bangers. It is the beginning of a race war.

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Black teenagers in northern and southern California have been targeted for assassination by young Mexican gang bangers. It is the beginning of a race war.

'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz

Diversity Is Our Strength!!!! Americans simply must be prepared to die at the hands of illegal aliens in order to prove our tolerance for the coming multicultural revolution. Hola!

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In the San Pablo area of Northern California, on INTERSTATE 80, where tens of thousands travel everyday, people are getting targeted and shot right on the freeway. Just happened again on I-280 yesterday.

I haven't heard of any random fwy shootings recently, but in L.A., the 110 was popular for some time.

Heinous murders put spotlight on immigration

The Record (Bergen County, NJ)

08-19-2007

Heinous murders put spotlight on immigration
MIKE KELLY
Date: 08-19-2007, Sunday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions

JOSE Lachira Carranza is not your typical illegal immigrant. But the immigration problem he now symbolizes needs to be faced just the same.

Carranza, 28, from Peru, did not sneak into America just to work hard and build a better life for himself as so many illegal aliens from poor nations are trying to do. Carranza, who is not known to have ever held a job except as a day laborer, is accused of playing a role in the execution-style murders of three Newark college students earlier this month.

For a city with a high murder rate, the brutality of these killings was startling. Around midnight on a Saturday, the victims were cornered on the playground of an elementary school. After being forced to kneel, each was shot in the head.

Was this Baghdad?

It's worth knowing that the murders are not the first crimes Carranza was accused of committing. In just the last 10 months, he has been charged with beating up bar patrons and with routinely raping a girl, beginning in 2003 when she was only 5, then threatening to kill her family.

It's also worth knowing that Carranza spent only three weeks in jail after being accused of the rapes and bar fight. He was freed on bail. A state judge even cut his bail in half in the rape case to let him out.

But neither the judge nor Essex County prosecutors ever told federal immigration authorities that the guy they were charging with sexually assaulting a little girl over a period of years and beating up bar patrons and then freeing on bail was an illegal immigrant. Incredibly, Essex County authorities say they do not tell federal authorities they have charged an illegal immigrant with a crime until that immigrant is convicted.

So a man who broke the law to get into America in the first place, and then was accused of breaking even more serious laws after he was here, was given the benefit of the doubt and allowed to go free while he awaited trial. Just like any other American citizen.

Another suspect in the murders Rodolfo Godinez, 24, of Nicaragua is not an illegal immigrant. But he is not a citizen either. He's a legal resident.

He was arrested four years ago for robbery and assault. Like Carranza, he was freed on bail. And as with Carranza, Essex County authorities say they did not tell federal immigration authorities that they had apprehended a "legal resident" for a serious crime against American citizens. Godinez disappeared and never showed up for court hearings on his case. Essex County authorities say they were told he fled the country and stopped looking for him.

Are we chumps? What kind of country behaves like this? Treating Carranza and Godinez this way is not the American way. The American way is grounded in fairness and smarts. Turning these alleged thugs loose on the streets was not fair to anyone. It was stupid perhaps even criminal.

The ridiculousness of this story does not end there, however.

Indeed, the litany of facts, especially about Carranza's immigration status and criminal record, has spurred a debate that borders on the surreal.

In the days after Carranza's arrest, you could almost feel the angst among so-called immigration advocates the loose-knit lobby that has emerged in recent years to protect illegal immigrants, often with an unfortunate strategy of labeling critics as racists who want to deport Hispanics.

Playing the race card like this has crippled America's immigration debate. It has stifled serious discussion about illegal immigrants and forced politicians from both major parties to resort to politically correct games in an attempt to win favor among Hispanic voters.

That crippling reality soon found its way into the discussion of Jose Carranza. Immigration advocates feared that Carranza's story and crime spree would spur America to crack down on illegal immigrants. So the lobby resorted to an old trick: It tried to minimize Carranza's immigration status.

Here, then, was an otherwise smart man Gustavo Ramirez of Passaic's Immigration and American Citizenship Organization making a shallow statement about the Newark murders. "This was a heinous crime and these suspects have deep psychological issues," he told The Record's Elizabeth Llorente. "This crime, however, cannot be explained by immigration status, any more than terrorism can be."

Huh? Who said anything about psychology?

Memo to Ramirez: Get real. These murders would likely not have taken place if law enforcement authorities namely a judge and prosecutors dealt seriously with Jose Carranza's immigration status and Rodolfo Godinez's legal residency.

What's more, terrorism is directly linked to the holes in America's immigration policy. If you doubt this, read the Sept. 11 Commission report, especially the portion about how two hijackers who were already on a CIA terror watch list were given visas no questions asked.

America will never be safe until it knows who is crossing its borders. That's not a racist statement; that's common sense.

And it's the kind of statement that the families of the three college kids who were murdered in Newark are making now. Why were Jose Carranza and Rodolfo Godinez allowed to walk the streets?

Governor Corzine is asking that question as he should. So are many other political leaders. But if Corzine is serious, he ought to add several national security experts to his recently appointed immigration panel. That panel has far too many immigration advocates. It needs some common sense some basic street smarts.

If our borders are not secure, our streets will not be safe.

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Mike Kelly is a Record columnist. Contact him at kellym@northjersey.com. Send comments about this column to letterstotheeditor@northjersey.com.
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I will grant you that, let's say that there's 10% about Hillary Clinton that we don't know yet, I will grant you that, but I would say there's also about 50% about Barack Obama that we don't know yet," Ed Rendell said.

Yep, this is driven by the politicians for reasons totally alien to most of us. What I really despise is the feeling of helplessness I have regarding the class of people shoving this down our throats. The cops should walk. I've never heard of anything so dopey.