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Why We Need Transparency on Illegal Immigrant Crime – LifeZette

The best example of the dire need for an accounting of the crimes committed by illegal immigrants is right in PresidentTrumps Florida backyard just a few miles from lovely Mar-a-Lago.

Baltazar Gabriel Delgado-Ros, a citizen of Guatemala, was living in Palm Beach County, Florida, illegally from 2009-2011 when he jumped, beat, bit, choked, and viciously raped five women. One died within a few weeks of the rape, and her family has said they believe the brutal rape led directly to her death.

The willful withholding of information about this brutal rapists immigration status is evidence enough of the need for Trumps list of crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

Delgado-Ros is the worst serial rapist in the history of Palm Beach County.

Most people havent heard of this guy, because local news media hid the truth about him. In no newspaper article in the Palm Beach Post or Sun-Sentinel was the public told that the rapist was an illegal immigrant. In headlines, he was usually referred to as a Lake Worth man. A soft lie.

Lake Worth is a lovely, historic beachfront town in Palm Beach County, Florida, just south of West Palm Beach. The area has attracted many thousands of poor, mostly illiterate immigrants from Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti and other countries like Honduras. Most are here illegally. Many come here because family or friends from their home village are already here and because we have in our town a place called the Guatemala-Maya Center, originally established to help Guatemalans fleeing their countys civil war, which ended in 1996. Staff at the center help Guatemalans who are here illegally find housing and work (under-the-table work, presumably) and sign them up for government benefits, including food stamps. The centeralso provides legal services to them free of charge.

Serial rapist Delgado-Ros' first residence in Palm Beach County was in Jupiter, Florida. He was living with family members there when he committed his first violent rape.

It happened the night of April 9, 2009. A 21-year-old was walking by herself near the 200 block of Old Dixie Highway in Jupiter, talking on her cellphone with her boyfriend. Delgado-Ros attacked from behind with his shirt over his head, grabbing her by the shoulders and throwing her to the ground. She screamed. He took her cellphone and broke it, and yelled at her to "Shut the f*** up." She continued to scream. So he kicked her and punched her with his fists, and then covered her nose and mouth, until she almost passed out. Then he raped her.

He committed his second violent rape on July 24, 2009, when he broke into the home of a 26-year-old woman living in an apartment in Palm Springs, Florida, in central Palm Beach County. The woman woke up at 3 a.m. to see a man next to her bed. He told her, "Shut the f*** up bitch I kill you," pressed a knife to her neck with one hand and choked her with the other hand while he raped her. After struggling at first, the woman complied to protect her two-year-old daughter and her mother who were sleeping in the home. The DNA found inside the woman matched the DNA taken from the young woman who'd been attacked in Jupiter three months earlier.

On Aug. 8, 2009, a few minutes after midnight, a 53-year-old woman living in West Palm Beach went out on her front porch to have a cigarette. She was attacked from behind, with a paint scraper pressed to her neck. The man dragged her to the side of the house where he screamed at her to take her clothes off. When she didn't, he "beat her to the point that she was unrecognizable," to quote directly from the probable cause affidavit. Then he raped her while she drifted in and out of consciousness. During the attack, he stole two rings off her fingers, cutting one of her fingers to get the ring off. The woman was hospitalized after the attack, and rushed into surgery. She died two weeks later. Her family says she died as a result of the attack, though the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says the medical examiner's report did not find that the attack caused her death. The DNA found inside the woman was the same as in the two previous attacks. It was later confirmed to be the DNA of Baltazar Gabriel Delgado-Ros.

On Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, a 58-year-old Asian woman walking to work at McDonald's in the early morning along a major road in central Palm Beach County was approached from behind. The man told her to take her pants off or he would kill her. When she said no, he beat her face and head until she lost consciousness. The police found her that morning at 8:30 a.m. A number of bones in her face had been broken and she'd suffered head trauma and bleeding on the brain. And she'd been raped. The DNA found inside her was later found to be Delgado-Ros'.

On Sept. 23, 2011, a young woman was speed-walking along a major road while listening to her iPod at about 6 a.m. when Delgado-Ros grabbed her from behind, pulled her onto the grass next to the sidewalk, covered her nose and mouth, bit her finger, bit the side of her face and commanded her to take her pants off, speaking with a heavy Spanish accent. The woman pleaded with him in Spanish, saying: "Listen to me, please." He replied: "Shut up and take off your pants." He held his elbow on her neck and she lost consciousness. After the attack, he made off with her purse. The DNA found inside her was the same as in the other victims. It belonged to Delgado-Ros.

Detective Lori Gunn of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Officesaid the fact that the rapist was here illegally made it hard for investigators to find him. They knew who they were looking for, but couldn't locate him.

Incredibly, Delgado-Ros was able to fly out of Miami International Airport on Oct. 8, 2011, and return to Guatemala, where he then proceeded to rape a child.

While in Palm Beach County, h lived a few yards away from a commuter rail station, where high school students who attend an arts school wait for their train every morning, and a short distancefrom a Montessori preschool.

It took 2.5 years for the United States to extradite Delgado-Ros from Guatemala and even then, the media, with the exception of one television station, would not identify him as an illegal immigrant.

Delgado-Ros was finally tried for one of the rapes last year, and convicted. Did you hear about it?

I bet not.

Again, neither the Palm Beach Post, nor the Sun-Sentinel, and none of our local television stations identified him as an illegal alien, though the subject of illegal immigration was one of the top issues in this last year's campaignand the conviction came on Oct. 27 just 12 days before the Nov. 8 election.

The willful withholding of information about this brutal rapist's immigration status is evidence enough of the need for President Trump's list of crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

Margaret Menge is a professional journalist living in Palm Beach County, Florida. She has contributed to the Columbia Journalism Review, U.S. News & World Report, and the New York Observer, and edited small newspapers in Florida and New York. She's now an editor for United Press International.

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Kaine: Timing of Immigration Ban and Holocaust Statement Was ‘No Coincidence’ – Fox News Insider

Former vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) told NBC News it was "not a coincidence" that President Trump issued his executive order curtailing immigration from certain countries on the same day the White House released its Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, omitting specific reference to Jewish victims.

Kaine called Trump's order a religious test and said it puts a tougher burden on Muslims versus other immigrant groups.

Trump demonstrated complete confusion on the specifics of the executive order, Kainesaid, adding that he failed to delineate between green card holders and other non-citizens entering the United States from abroad.

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He accused Trump's chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, of influencing both the order and the White House's statement the same day memorializing victims of the Holocaust.

Kaine saidBannon'sBreitbart News "traffic[s] in white supremacy and anti-Semitism."

"The irony is not lost on me that it was issued the same day... I think all of these things are happening together," he said.

Anchor Chuck Todd asked Kaine to clarify what his accusation meant:

"You put a religious test on Muslims and you try to scrub references to Jews: this was horribly mishandled," Kaine said.

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Pirro on Illegal Immigration: 'Law & Order is Back in the West'

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Pirro on Illegal Immigration: ‘Law & Order is Back in the West’ | Fox … – Fox News Insider

In her opening statement on Saturday, Judge Jeanine Pirro slammed critics of President Trump's hard-line stance on illegal immigration, including liberal mayors of sanctuary cities.

"You can march and you can hate; you can shame and you can demonize, but... law and order is back in the West," Pirro said, referring to Trump's executive order withholding federal grant money to cities who will not enforce federal immigration law.

Pirro said such mayors, like Ed Lee (D-San Francisco) and Bill de Blasio (D-New York), will only hurt their own residents when severe budget cuts must be made.

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De Blasio said last week Trump's order "undermines public safety", and the city's comptroller Scott Stringer (D) said New York may lose as much as $7 billion because of it.

Citing her time as a district attorney and judge, Pirro dismissed some mayors' claims that illegal immigrants can greatly contribute to the community by identifying crimes without fear of apprehension.

"It doesn't work," Pirro said, explaining that as district attorney she used a "U-Visa" to allow illegal immigrants to report crimes.

She said that such an avenue makes a blanket "sanctuary city" policy unnecessary.

Watch her full commentary above and tune into "Justice," LIVE, tonight at 9pm ET!

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Trump’s Illegal Immigration Ban Threatens All of Us – Huffington Post

The focus of my work and writing is the environment. But I write today to express my personal outrage, sorrow, and embarrassment at the ban imposed by Donald Trump on entrance to the United States by people from seven countries in the Middle East - based solely on their country of origin.

This action is inhumane, immoral, and indefensible. Not only is the ban based on the unsupportable factual premise that it will prevent acts of terrorism in the United States, but it violates constitutional protections and the explicit statutory prohibition against exclusion based on national origin enacted by Congress in 1965. Contrary to its asserted purpose, Trump's action is more likely to fan the flames that feed terrorism in this country and around the civilized world.

The ban is blatantly un-American - inimical to our long-held values of equality and inclusion embodied in the Declaration of Independence and symbolized by the Statue of Liberty. All Americans should be outraged, and all of us need to oppose it.

I join in condemning this divisive, destructive, and despicable action taken in the name of our country by a dangerous President who has already demonstrated - and by this latest action once again confirmed - that he has little regard for facts, no apparent interest in the complexities of addressing the real needs of the people his office exists to serve, and a distorted understanding of the constitutional principles on which this country has been built - a foundation that for centuries has made this country unique in the world.

Each of us has a stake in collective action against the immigration ban, because the danger posed by Trump isn't limited to one religion, region, gender, or ethnic classification, one social, cultural or economic group, or one special interest or issue. The attack launched this week against immigrants from the seven banned countries betrays a sickening lack of judgment that threatens all of us whatever our demographic or concern -- from national security to environmental protection to civil rights to our constitutional system of laws. Complacency in the hope that, if given a chance, Donald Trump intends or will inevitably be compelled to moderate his behavior is a prescription for escalating, irreparable, and widespread harm -- to our families, our communities, and our future.

The responsibility to oppose the dangerous demagoguery of this President isn't dictated by political party or ideology. His reckless policies and blatant disregard for fact aren't a matter of right or left but of right or wrong - and of our personal and national interest. His illegal ban on access to this country is antithetical to basic standards of human decency that Americans fought and died to defend in opposing dictatorship and genocide in World War II.

The good news is that Trump's action is already being challenged in the streets and in court, and a stay of the ban was issued on Saturday by the federal court in Brooklyn. Other such actions - whether their focus is civil rights, environmental progress, our social fabric, or our humanity -- must be challenged as well. No matter the issue - this one or the next -- we will succeed only if each of us, together, does whatever we can.

Stand up, speak out, and be heard. Get involved. Oppose Trump's immigration ban.

Take action. Today.

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SF Archbishop: Church Will Help Illegal Aliens ‘Know Their Rights’ – Breitbart News

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Cordileone described his feelings about Trumps executive actions on immigration as nervous, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Trump recently signed two executive actions on immigration, which include direction to build the promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, hire 10,000 additional U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, and deny federal grant funds to sanctuary cities i.e. those that, to varying degrees, protect illegal aliens from enforcement of federal immigration law.

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The Archbishop stated that the church would protect those who could be deported for being present in the U.S. illegally and would make sure these foreign nationals know their rights.

Catholic Charities is among several organizations that receive federal funds to resettle refugees in the U.S. Breitbart previously reported on the $1 billion in federal funds spent on refugee resettlement in 2015 alone.

San Francisco is one of many sanctuary cities around the country that stand to lose their federal funding if they refuse to comply with federal immigration laws.

Cardileone acknowledged that Trumps actions were expected, but said, We dont know whats going to happen. The Chronicle reported the Archbishops expression that Trump appears to be focusing on criminals, so hopefully the people who are here, who are working and contributing to society, can continue to be able to do so.

The archbishop added his encouragement over Trumps support for the March for Life as he spoke at a prayer service for a 61-year-old man who had been beaten to death.

In October 2016 Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) office blastedPresident Barack Obamas administration for allowing over 180,000 foreign nationals that have committed crimes within the United States to remain in America. Sessions office added that the Obama administration had allowed approximately 1 million illegal aliens with orders for removal to remain within the country.

San Francisco was the site of the death of Kate Steinle in July 2015. Steinle was killed at the hands of five-times deported, seven-time convicted felon illegal alien Juan Franciso Lopez-Sanchez. Lopez-Sanchez made a jailhouse confession to the crime and said that he had originally chosen to travel to San Francisco because of the citys policies hindering the deportation of illegal aliens.

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