WHY WE NEED KATE'S LAW
The families of four Kansas City, Kan. men, Mike Capps, Jake Waters, Clint Harter and his brother, Austin Harter, along with Randy Nordman of Montgomery County, Mo, are still trying to put their lives back together after all five men were brutally murdered by a Mexican illegal alien, Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino earlier this month.
The Kansas City men were all in their thirties. Nordman was 49 years of age. Clint Harter was the father of two children, with another on the way. All the victims appeared to have been at the wrong place at the wrong time when Serrano-Vitarino went on his crime spree.
Vitarino was captured by officers of the Missouri Highway Patrol trying to hide in a ditch alongside I-70 in central Missouri. He had a rifle with him, although he was barred by federal law from legally owning a gun because he is in the country illegally.
He was charged in Montgomery County in Nordman’s death, and was charged with four counts of first-degree murder in Kansas.
Justin Wm. Moyer writing for the Washington Post: gives us a timeline of a portion of Vitarino’s criminal record in the U.S.
In 2002 a federal immigration judge had ordered that Serrano-Vitorino, a Mexican national, be deported in absentia, but in 2003 he was convicted of a felony in California and sentenced to prison.
In 2004 he was deported to Mexico but at some point illegally re-entered the country.
In 2014 he was convicted of a DUI in Kansas, but apparently ICE was not notified at that time.
In June 2015 he was arrested in Kansas City, Kan. for domestic assault. ICE was notified but he was released from police custody after being processed and ICE agents weren’t able to interview him.
In September 2015, he was fingerprinted at Overland Park Municipal Court. The fingerprinting generated an ICE detainer, but the paperwork was “erroneously issued…to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, instead of the Overland Park Municipal Court.”
The Department of Homeland Security said that Serrano-Vitorino was released from custody without ICE being notified, though they did not elaborate on why.
It’s a long way from a California prison to Mexico and back and finally to the small rural community of New Florence, Missouri where Nordman was murdered while walking outside on his property, but the laxity of our laws and continuous “errors” and foul-ups by government agencies have caused a breakdown of communication between ICE officials and our court systems and as a result five innocent men lost their lives and their families were disrupted forever.
We saw the same loss of innocent life and disruption of family in San Francisco just last year, and as a result, a bill named “Kate’s Law”, was introduced.. The bill would have amended existing federal law to impose a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for any illegal reentry offense. The bill is named for Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who tragically died in the arms of her father on a San Francisco pier after being shot by an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had been deported from the United States five times.
The legislation was blocked in November last year by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Reid objected to the bill, saying it “represents an attack on the immigrant community.”
In my research for this column, I found some recent statistics from the state of Texas which reflect that state’s illegal immigrant problem and also serve as a microcosm for all states.
According to the Texas DHS, over 181,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and January 31, 2016. During their criminal careers, these criminal aliens were charged with more than 485,000 criminal offenses.
Those arrests include 976 homicide charges; 57,426 assault charges; 14,475 burglary charges; 56,836 drug charges; 597 kidnapping charges; 35,399 theft charges; 38,334 obstructing police charges; 3,228 robbery charges; 5,059 sexual assault charges; and 7,278 weapons charges. Of the total criminal aliens arrested in that timeframe, over 120,000 or 66% were identified by DHS status as being in the US illegally at the time of their last arrest.
According to DPS criminal history records, those criminal charges have thus far resulted in over 217,000 convictions including 397 homicide convictions; 21,316 assault convictions; 6,997 burglary convictions; 28,347 drug convictions; 199 kidnapping convictions; 15,924 theft convictions; 18,901 obstructing police convictions; 1,612 robbery convictions; 2,281 sexual assault convictions; and 3,064 weapons convictions. Of the convictions associated with criminal alien arrests, over 144,000 or 66% are associated with aliens who were identified by DHS status as being in the US illegally at the time of their last arrest.
Now, since there are less than 2 million illegals in Texas, you can see that the rate of criminality among illegals is simply staggering. They account for a Tsunami of crime in every state that has a population of illegals.
The cost of illegal immigration in the U.S. just in terms of crimes is tremendous. About half the federal prisoners are criminal aliens. In Texas alone illegals murder about two hundred American citizens a year. 40% of murder convictions in Florida between 2008 and 2014 were criminal aliens. In the same period 38% of all murder convictions in Florida, New York, California, Texas and Arizona were criminal aliens and they make up but 5% of the population.
The families of four Kansas City, Kan. men, Mike Capps, Jake Waters, Clint Harter and his brother, Austin Harter, along with Randy Nordman of Montgomery County, Mo, are still trying to put their lives back together after all five men were brutally murdered by a Mexican illegal alien, Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino earlier this month.
The Kansas City men were all in their thirties. Nordman was 49 years of age. Clint Harter was the father of two children, with another on the way. All the victims appeared to have been at the wrong place at the wrong time when Serrano-Vitarino went on his crime spree.
Vitarino was captured by officers of the Missouri Highway Patrol trying to hide in a ditch alongside I-70 in central Missouri. He had a rifle with him, although he was barred by federal law from legally owning a gun because he is in the country illegally.
He was charged in Montgomery County in Nordman’s death, and was charged with four counts of first-degree murder in Kansas.
Justin Wm. Moyer writing for the Washington Post: gives us a timeline of a portion of Vitarino’s criminal record in the U.S.
In 2002 a federal immigration judge had ordered that Serrano-Vitorino, a Mexican national, be deported in absentia, but in 2003 he was convicted of a felony in California and sentenced to prison.
In 2004 he was deported to Mexico but at some point illegally re-entered the country.
In 2014 he was convicted of a DUI in Kansas, but apparently ICE was not notified at that time.
In June 2015 he was arrested in Kansas City, Kan. for domestic assault. ICE was notified but he was released from police custody after being processed and ICE agents weren’t able to interview him.
In September 2015, he was fingerprinted at Overland Park Municipal Court. The fingerprinting generated an ICE detainer, but the paperwork was “erroneously issued…to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, instead of the Overland Park Municipal Court.”
The Department of Homeland Security said that Serrano-Vitorino was released from custody without ICE being notified, though they did not elaborate on why.
It’s a long way from a California prison to Mexico and back and finally to the small rural community of New Florence, Missouri where Nordman was murdered while walking outside on his property, but the laxity of our laws and continuous “errors” and foul-ups by government agencies have caused a breakdown of communication between ICE officials and our court systems and as a result five innocent men lost their lives and their families were disrupted forever.
We saw the same loss of innocent life and disruption of family in San Francisco just last year, and as a result, a bill named “Kate’s Law”, was introduced.. The bill would have amended existing federal law to impose a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for any illegal reentry offense. The bill is named for Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who tragically died in the arms of her father on a San Francisco pier after being shot by an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had been deported from the United States five times.
The legislation was blocked in November last year by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Reid objected to the bill, saying it “represents an attack on the immigrant community.”
In my research for this column, I found some recent statistics from the state of Texas which reflect that state’s illegal immigrant problem and also serve as a microcosm for all states.
According to the Texas DHS, over 181,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails between June 1, 2011 and January 31, 2016. During their criminal careers, these criminal aliens were charged with more than 485,000 criminal offenses.
Those arrests include 976 homicide charges; 57,426 assault charges; 14,475 burglary charges; 56,836 drug charges; 597 kidnapping charges; 35,399 theft charges; 38,334 obstructing police charges; 3,228 robbery charges; 5,059 sexual assault charges; and 7,278 weapons charges. Of the total criminal aliens arrested in that timeframe, over 120,000 or 66% were identified by DHS status as being in the US illegally at the time of their last arrest.
According to DPS criminal history records, those criminal charges have thus far resulted in over 217,000 convictions including 397 homicide convictions; 21,316 assault convictions; 6,997 burglary convictions; 28,347 drug convictions; 199 kidnapping convictions; 15,924 theft convictions; 18,901 obstructing police convictions; 1,612 robbery convictions; 2,281 sexual assault convictions; and 3,064 weapons convictions. Of the convictions associated with criminal alien arrests, over 144,000 or 66% are associated with aliens who were identified by DHS status as being in the US illegally at the time of their last arrest.
Now, since there are less than 2 million illegals in Texas, you can see that the rate of criminality among illegals is simply staggering. They account for a Tsunami of crime in every state that has a population of illegals.
The cost of illegal immigration in the U.S. just in terms of crimes is tremendous. About half the federal prisoners are criminal aliens. In Texas alone illegals murder about two hundred American citizens a year. 40% of murder convictions in Florida between 2008 and 2014 were criminal aliens. In the same period 38% of all murder convictions in Florida, New York, California, Texas and Arizona were criminal aliens and they make up but 5% of the population.
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