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Chicago mayor: ‘If ICE is complaining, then they should do their job better’ after 3-year-old sexually assaulted

An illegal immigrant wanted by ICE is accused of the brazen sexual assault of a child

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (Wikipedia Commons)

March 14, 2020
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CHICAGO – Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was harshly criticized by the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the mayor’s flippant response to the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl in a public bathroom. The child was reportedly victimized at the hands of an illegal immigrant who had been released from custody, courtesy of the city’s sanctuary policies. The Democrat mayor attempted to shift the blame to ICE in the aftermath of the shocking news, which has become routine in sanctuary jurisdictions.

ICE lodged detainer

ICE had lodged a detainer in June against Christopher Puente, who has several felony convictions and a prior removal, after he was arrested for theft. However, due to their sanctuary policy, Chicago ignored the request and released him.

Brazen crime

A brazen crime that should make people furious was facilitated by sanctuary policies.

Puente was rearrested last month for the unconscionable pedophilia inclinations, which were acted out against a little girl. According to ABC 7 Chicago, prosecutors said the attack happened after the child’s father took his son and daughter to the men’s bathroom at a fast-food restaurant, taking the boy into a stall but leaving the girl outside.

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Christopher Puente (Chicago Police Department)

Prosecutors say Puente then motioned for the girl to enter his stall, locked it, held the victim by the back of her head and covered her mouth. They say the girl’s father heard her cries and frantically tried to open the stall door as he was able to see her feet dangling off the ground. He eventually grabbed her legs and pulled her out from beneath the stall. As a result of the heinous act, the girl was later hospitalized.

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Ambivalent mayor

Lightfoot was asked about the policies that prevented the man from being removed from the country long ago. Regardless of the circumstances, she stood by the policies and shifted the blame to ICE, Fox News reported.

“If ICE is complaining, then they should do their job better.”

– Mayor Lori Lightfoot

 

“They’re critical because we have said very clearly we are a welcoming city, a sanctuary city. Chicago Police Department will not cooperate with ICE on any immigration-related business,” she said when asked about the case.

“And that’s affected their ability to conduct immigration raids across the city. But that’s exactly our intention. We have to make sure that our police department is seen as a legitimate force in all our communities,” she said, before saying she is open to federal partnerships but only “in a way that is consistent with our values as a city.”

“If ICE is complaining, then they should do their job better,” she said.

ICE director responds

“I think it’s the height of hypocrisy,” acting ICE Director Matthew Albence told Fox News. “I can tell you, I’ve been firsthand trying to work with the city of Chicago for the better part of a decade to get them to cooperate with us so we can get criminals off the streets.”

Albence responded to the remarks by laying out exactly how Chicago was hindering ICE: “They’ve cut out our information sharing ability, they’ve cut off our ability to get individuals they have in custody turned over to us, they’ve cut us out of the gang database.”

“So for the mayor to sit there and say ICE should do its job better — we’d love to do our job better but we depend on the cooperation of other law enforcement agencies, just like Chicago Police Department does,” he said. “When they are working a case, they rely on the cooperation of other law enforcement agencies as well, that’s how law enforcement works — information sharing, intelligence sharing, and the sharing and pooling of resources.”

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Sting of violent crimes

Moreover, the acting director went on to note that it is the latest in a string of violent crimes reportedly committed by illegal immigrants who were released from custody despite ICE detainers. The Trump administration has sought to bring attention to other cases too, including the sexual assault and murder of a 92-year-old woman in New York City earlier this year. The granddaughter of the victim blamed the sanctuary policies specifically for her death.

“We have seen time and time again, unfortunately, way too many tragic circumstances like this poor 3-year-old kid who is going to suffer trauma for the rest of her life as a result of Chicago not turning this criminal over to us when we asked for him last year,” Albence told Fox News.

He also rejected the claim that such policies are in place because local politicians simply don’t want to get involved in immigration enforcement and it isn’t their responsibility to do so. He said that ICE doesn’t want them to, requesting only a call that a criminal is being released. That shouldn’t be too much to ask, especially since most victim’s of these heinous crimes reside in sanctuary jurisdictions. How about protecting them from the predators in their midst?

“When they make policies that prevent ICE from doing its job, they have gotten involved in immigration law enforcement, they’ve gotten involved in impeding immigration law enforcement,” he said. “They’ve made a determination that their political aspirations are more important than the safety of their constituents.”

Most noteworthy, sanctuary policies endanger immigrant communities. Simply ask the father of this 3-year-old child.

 


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