The head of ICE slammed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot over her continued support for the city’s sanctuary policy, which he has said allowed an illegal alien to sexually assault a toddler. During an interview this week, Director Matthew Albence called out Lightfoot for demonizing ICE officials and refusing to cooperate with its procedures.
The Democrat mayor recently blamed the agency for politicizing the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl by convicted felon Christopher Puente just last month. Puente was arrested for theft in June of 2019, but instead of being turned over to ICE officials, he was released due to Chicago’s sanctuary city policy.
Albence called Lightfoot's remarks the height of hypocrisy. He has constantly condemned sanctuary cities for hurting Americans that he and the agency are trying to protect.
“As a law enforcement officer, we work every day to ensure the safety of those in the communities we serve,” he said. “There’s no worse feeling than when those innocent citizens you’ve sworn to protect are needlessly harmed.”
Missing in any discussion of President Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold federal funding to the nation’s 300 “sanctuary cities” like Chicago is this question:
Why has a nation of laws allowed itself to deteriorate to the point where people who have deliberately violated our immigration laws are able to arrogantly say to sovereign Americans, “We are here illegally and there is nothing you can do about it.”
Authorities arrested a total of 44 convicted criminals, immigration fugitives and immigration violators this week, including many in area suburbs. The arrests were part of a five-day operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in the greater Chicago area.
Weapons possession, domestic battery, aggravated drunken driving, arson, drugs and burglary were part of the criminal history for 34 of the arrested offenders. About half of those arrested in the this week’s bust had previously been ordered to leave the county. Eleven of the arrests involved people who had been deported but re-entered the United States illegally. That action alone is a felony.
