Democrats are so devoted to keeping illegal immigrants in the country that they are enabling murderous illegal immigrants to stay in the country, and even fighting against their deportations in one notable case.
That case is in New York, where Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul pardoned Somchith Vatthanavong, a Laotian illegal immigrant who killed a man in 1988. He was convicted of first-degree manslaughter after he admitted that he shot the man while trying “to scare him” and that it “was too dark” and he couldn’t actually see where he was shooting. But Hochul now wants to ensure that his criminal record does not flag him for deportation, and so she did so quietly with no announcement, only acknowledging the pardon after the New York Times reported on it.
As Hochul lectures people about their “compassion,” she is working on pardons for multiple illegal immigrants convicted of crimes to try to prevent them from being deported.
Meanwhile, Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is dealing with the consequences of his anti-deportation laws. Raul Luna-Perez killed two people and injured another while driving drunk, and a New Jersey Superior Court judge has released him pending a trial, despite prosecutors asking for pretrial detention. Luna-Perez had three previous arrests before this fatal crash, including two for DUI, leading Murphy’s team to claim he should have been deported already.
That is the same Phil Murphy whose administration has restricted cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, and the same Phil Murphy who weirdly claimed that he was harboring an illegal immigrant above his garage and that the authorities could never find her. Luna-Perez was only free to kill two people in a DUI because he wasn’t immediately flagged to Immigration and Customs Enforcement by New Jersey police the first time he was arrested for DUI, and the blame for that lies with Murphy’s anti-deportation policies and messaging.
Meanwhile, in Florida, an illegal immigrant killed three Floridians after allegedly making an illegal U-turn in the middle of a highway. That illegal immigrant, Harjinder Singh, was driving a semi-truck and trailer because he had been granted a Commercial Driver’s License by the California DMV.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is trying to deflect by claiming this is President Donald Trump’s fault, because Singh arrived in the country in Trump’s first term. But the federal immigration system, being broken by Democrats and pro-illegal immigrant activists manipulating asylum claims, is not what gave Singh a legitimate CDL that he was able to take to Florida with a big rig while (allegedly) flouting basic rules of the road. It is California law to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
In all these cases, Democratic states have enabled illegal immigrants up until the point that they killed people. (In Hochul’s case, she is going to continue to enable them). These illegal immigrants should not have been in the country, but Democrats coddled them in an effort to keep them here. Their victims would still be alive if Democrats cared more about protecting the public than they do about people who try to jump the immigration line, and yet these Democrats remain committed to protecting the practice of illegal immigration.