An illegal immigrant who stabbed a young Connecticut woman to death
after completing a 15-year sentence for murder couldn’t be deported by
the U.S. government because his homeland, which receives billions in aid
from Uncle Sam, wouldn’t take him back—three times! So federal
authorities released the violent criminal, a Haitian national, and
didn’t even bother tracking his whereabouts allowing him to commit yet
another heinous crime.
Now, a year after an innocent woman was viciously butchered to death
in her own apartment, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is
getting a bit of a spanking from its watchdog for failing to do its job.
It’s a sad old story, but this one is extra special because the DHS
agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), responsible for
deporting the murderous thug (Jean Jacques) claims Haiti simply refused
to take him—on three different occasions. In fact, Jacques was listed as
a passenger on three flights to Haiti but the Haitian government
refused to repatriate him. U.S. authorities followed the orders of a
famously corrupt, third-world country that gets billions in “humanitarian” aid from American taxpayers and Jacques was released to kill again.
As unbelievable as this may sound, it’s the somber reality of an
agency created after 9/11 to keep the nation safe. A few years after
coming to the U.S. in the early 1990s Jacques went on a crime spree and
was convicted of attempted murder and illegally possessing a gun. He was
sentenced to 20 years but got out after serving 15 and was jailed again
for violating the terms of his parole before getting released for good
in January of 2015. Six months later he stabbed 25-year-old Casey
Chadwick to death in Norwich, a city of about 40,000 residents.
Connecticut has long protected illegal immigrants with sanctuary
policies and even offers them special drivers’ licenses, but the
gruesome crime ignited fury and the state’s congressional delegation—all
Democrats and avid defenders of sanctuary measures—demanded that the
DHS Inspector General conduct an investigation.
The DHS watchdog reluctantly put it on its lengthy list of “ongoing projects” earlier this year and the findings were made public in a scathing report
issued this month. The IG blasts ICE for not doing more to remove
Jacques from the country and failing to contact the Haitian consulate in
Miami, Florida to request a travel document after Jacques’ third
repatriation rejection. “There is no record that ICE ERO (Enforcement
and Removal Operations) made this request,” the report states, adding
that “ERO officials had previously made hundreds of similar requests to
the Haitian consulates for travel documents without success and we have
no reason to believe that the Jacques matter would have been different.”
ICE didn’t bother asking the State Department for help because it
believed the agency’s involvement was typically limited to aliens
engaged in terrorism or human rights violations, the report says. Once
released Jacques supervision was “minimal and ineffective,” the DHS
watchdog found.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. In the last few years
illegal immigrants with lengthy criminal histories have been allowed to
remain in the U.S. despite being repeat offenders. Judicial Watch has
investigated several of the cases and obtained public records from the
government. For instance, back in 2008 Judicial Watch launched a
California public records request with the San Francisco Sheriff’s
Department to obtain the arrest and booking information on Edwin Ramos,
an illegal alien from El Salvador who murdered three innocent American
citizens. Ramos was a member of a renowned violent street gang and had
been convicted of two felonies as a juvenile (a gang-related assault on a
bus passenger and the attempted robbery of a pregnant woman) yet he was
allowed to remain in the country.
Judicial Watch also investigated the
2010 case of a drunken illegal alien who killed a nun in Virginia and
sued DHS to obtain records. The Bolivian national, Carlos Montano, had a
criminal history but federal authorities released him on his own
recognizance after two previous arrests. Judicial Watch’s probe
determined that Montano had a revoked license and had previously been
arrested on drunk-driving charges when his car crossed a median and
slammed into a vehicle carrying three nuns. The two survivors were
critically injured. Local police said they had turned Montano over to
ICE after at least one of his arrests, but he never got deported.
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