In 2009, Barack Obama issued a new regulation at DHS that granted all illegal aliens the same rights to privacy that Americans enjoy. If an illegal alien is arrested for a serious crime, the public is not allowed to know their immigration status because of this rule. The only exception to this is if ICE tells you they arrested so-and-so.
The purpose of Obama’s DHS rule was to prevent the public from knowing the true number of crimes that illegals commit in the US, while lecturing us that American citizens commit more crimes than illegals. Can President Trump finally rescind this ridiculous rule and do away with it?
There is no law on the books that Congress has ever passed to grant illegal aliens a right to privacy. In fact, Congress specifically excluded illegal aliens from the 1974 Privacy Act. The law only applied to Americans and lawful permanent residents (green card holders). The law says the government can’t publicly disclose certain information about us.
Obama changed DHS rules so that law enforcement was not allowed to disclose the immigration status of people being arrested. Hence, we can’t know how much crime illegal aliens are actually committing.
The Trump administration is in an information war with the media right now. While the ICE raids are making a definite impact on the country, public sentiment could turn against the administration if they’re viewed as being too heavy-handed or unfair. Stripping away the nonexistent privacy rights of illegal aliens could go a long way toward keeping the public on Trump’s side.
We’ll give you an example. Let’s check the crime blotter for San Bernardino County, California, for the past week. None of these results were cherry-picked. These are all the major crimes in which arrests were made in one week, in a confined geographic area, in August.
In the town of Apple Valley, two men were off-roading at 9:45 p.m. on a weeknight when their ATV got stuck in the Deep Creek Spillway out in the desert. 22-year-old Tinoco Luna appeared out of nowhere. He shot and wounded both men for unknown reasons. Police caught Luna fleeing the scene with multiple firearms in his car. Is Luna in the country legally? No idea.
In Victorville, right next to Apple Valley, 50-year-old Armando Felix was arrested (again). He used to coach a girls’ junior high softball team. Victims keep coming forward stating that they were repeatedly raped by Felix when they were 13, and he was their coach. It would be nice to know Armando Felix’s immigration status, but he has a “right to privacy” that was bestowed upon him by Barack Obama.
Also in Victorville, a 36-year-old man named Jose Vasquez allegedly punched the crap out of his girlfriend and stole something from her. When she leaned in the passenger side window of his car to retrieve the stolen item, he grabbed her by the hair and drove off at high speed. He’s been arrested on charges of kidnapping and domestic violence. Is Jose Vasquez an American, a green card holder, or an illegal alien? No one is allowed to know!
This last one is a doozy. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department conducted raids and took 56 men and 3,500 roosters into custody in 11 towns across the High Desert region. They’re accused of participating in the cherished American pastime of running an illegal gambling, cockfighting, and drug trafficking ring.
In addition to the 3,500 roosters, sheriff’s deputies seized a mountain of trophies and awards (all printed in Spanish) that the rooster owners were vying for. Oh, and they seized $259,000 in cash, stacks of fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine, and a bunch of guns.
That sure sounds like an operation being run by a Mexican drug cartel, doesn’t it? Are they in the country legally? No idea!
That’s it. Those were all the major crimes reported in San Bernardino County in the past week. We don’t know how many of these 59 total arrested individuals are illegal aliens. But we’re guessing the number isn’t zero.
These are serious crimes. Shooting people. Raping kids. Kidnapping. Pagan blood sports involving roosters, drug trafficking, and illegal gambling. If these people are foreigners who are in the country illegally, don’t Americans have a right to know?
Mr. President, tear down this privacy wall!