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Two and Counting

Well it’s happened again!  Last week before Christmas, Gustavo Garcia, an illegal, who could have been/should have been turned over to ICE, was released from custody because of our sanctuary state policy (SB54). He killed at least one and injured four more within 24 hours of his release. The sheriff of Tulare County blamed California’s sanctuary state policy for this senseless tragedy. Now within days following Christmas another illegal, Gustavo Perez Arriaga, has killed another person in Newman, a small town of about 10,000 in Stanislaus County, California. What makes this tragic is that the victim, Cpl. Ronil Singh, was a police officer with a five month old son. What makes this ironic is that Ronil Singh, a legal immigrant from Fiji, was fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a police officer.

Sheriff Adam Christianson said Perez Arriaga publicized his gang affiliation and had been arrested twice for driving under the influence, but because of California’s sanctuary law, local authorities were prevented from reporting Perez Arriaga to U.S. immigration officials. “Law enforcement was prohibited because of sanctuary laws, and that led to the encounter with Officer Singh,” Christianson said. “I’m suggesting that the outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn’t restricted, prohibited or had their hands tied because of political interference.” 

Predictably, former state Sen. Kevin de Leon, the Democrat who wrote the sanctuary state legislation, said it’s “highly irresponsible” to blame the law for the officer’s death. Kevin, we are at two and counting! I think that it was “highly irresponsible” to pass that sanctuary state legislation, as anybody with half-a-brain could have predicted that there would be multiple senseless tragedies as a result. The aforementioned two examples are merely the beginning. These are not unforeseen consequences, but rather foreseen, predictable consequences. Now lest anyone be offended by my “half-a-brain” comment, let me go on record that I meant exactly what I said! 

Now I am not a lawyer (although I once did stay at a Holiday Inn Express), but it seems to me that in the last two weeks there are two dead individuals as a consequence of California’s sanctuary state legislation. I have always thought that immigration was under the purview of the federal government, and California’s sanctuary state laws seem to be direct opposition to federal laws on this issue. The two families of the murdered individuals now have “legal standing,” as they have suffered as a result of these two illegals having been released when they should have been turned over to I.C.E. Who is responsible for the deaths of these two people? . . . two and counting! It seems to me that all of those legislators who voted for AB54, the sanctuary state law in California, are at least partially responsible! Yes, yes, I know that legislators are not supposed to be legally responsible for the bad consequences of their laws . . . but, here, is SB54 actually an illegal law because it is in opposition to Federal law? If so, I would love to see the families of these two murdered individuals bring suit against the State of California, all of the individual legislators who voted for AB54, and Governor Jerry Brown who signed the “death warrant” into law.

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