Forty six year old Melissa Powell and her sixteen-year-old son Riordan were driving in Broomfield Colorado just before Christmas when their car was struck another being driven by Jose Menjivar. Menjivar’s car was estimated to be traveling at 100 mph when he struck the Powell vehicle. Powell and her son were both killed. Menjivar was found unconscious and claimed not to remember the accident. Menjivar was later determined to have a blood alcohol of .249 – more than three times the limit.
Menjivar is an illegal alien who had been deported four times. He had no valid license and I’ll bet a million dollars he had no insurance.
Democrats do not want these dirtbags deported. In fact, 150 democrats voted against deporting illegal aliens who have been convicted of drunk driving.
Over two-thirds of House Democrats voted Thursday in opposition to a bipartisan measure that was passed and if enacted could result in immigrants living in the U.S. illegally being deported for a DUI conviction.
Under the Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act, “driving while intoxicated or impaired” would be grounds for “barring a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) from admission into the United States” or deporting the individual.
The vote tally was 215 Republicans and 59 Democrats in favor of the bill and 150 Democrats, including House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, voting against it. The bill passed 274-150.
Then there’s House Bill HR 6678
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed Social Security fraud are inadmissible and deportable.
155 democrats voted against that, including Minority Hakeem Jeffries. Here’s the list
The Biden attitude toward illegal alien crime is the more the merrier.
Three Years of Biden Immigration Policies Have Benefitted Criminal Aliens
Comparing ICE criminal data from fiscal years 2017-2019 to 2021-2023
For three years the Biden administration has claimed that its policies are designed to focus on criminal aliens to a greater degree than the policies under the Trump administration. As DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas put it in a September 2021 memo, “By exercising our discretionary authority in a targeted way, we can focus our efforts on those who pose a threat to national security, public safety, and border security and thus threaten America’s well-being.”
It is now clear that the promised outcome has not been met and that the Biden administration’s policies have gutted the nation’s immigration enforcement system, with no concern about the number of criminal aliens that are being released into our communities.
Official data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reveals that the Biden administration has arrested and removed significantly fewer criminal aliens than the Trump administration. (This data comes from both ICE public releases as well as a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the Center for Immigration Studies.) Contrary to Secretary Mayorkas’s claim, public safety and national security have been significantly undermined by the Biden administration’s reckless policies, and the threats the administration has created will continue to inflict damage on American society for many years to come.
This analysis compares the first three years of ICE criminal alien data under the Trump administration (FYs 2017, 2018, and 2019) to the first three years of ICE criminal alien data under the Biden administration (FYs 2021, 2022, and 2023), and finds that criminal aliens have been top beneficiaries of the Biden administration’s immigration agenda. A criminal alien is one who has a criminal conviction or pending criminal charges.
The data shows the Biden administration is responsible for the following when comparing FYs 2017, 2018, and 2019 to FYs 2021, 2022, and 2023:
- 57 percent decrease in arrests of criminal aliens
- 68 percent decrease in at-large arrests of criminal aliens
- 44 percent decrease in detainer requests issued on criminal aliens
- 67 percent decrease in deportations of criminal aliens
- 55 percent decrease in immigration-related criminal convictions
- The combined number of crimes on the rap sheets of aliens arrested by ICE during these years has dropped by 56 percent under the Biden administration. Comparing these two time periods shows a decline in every crime category reported by ICE, including, for example:
- 63 percent decrease in larceny records
- 57 percent decrease in stolen vehicle records
- 55 percent decrease in burglary records
- 48 percent decrease in assault records
- 47 percent decrease in robbery records
- 34 percent decrease in kidnapping records
democrats are the party representing illegal aliens and not Americans. How many Americans have to die for their largesse? What is the acceptable amount of collateral American deaths?
It’s bad enough to flood the country with this trash, but to insist they remain and force Americans to support them is nothing short of reprehensible.
BTW, Joe Biden doesn’t want them deported either, as he doesn’t consider drunk driving to be a felony.
Tell it to the remaining Powell family.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.