How sanctuary policies shield criminal aliens who prey on people

In the Daily Caller, Jason Hopkins reports,

A teenager who was brutally murdered and then chopped into pieces, allegedly by a suspected MS-13 gang member, could still be alive today if local authorities had honored an ICE detainer, the agency said.

Carlos Orlando Iraheta-Vega, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was charged for the murder of a teenage boy in King County, Washington. Officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) noted Iraheta-Vega, who has a history of arrests, would likely have been unable to allegedly commit the gruesome crime if local authorities had honored a detainer request by their agency.

“This scenario, where sanctuary policies shield criminal aliens who prey on people in the community from immigration enforcement, is becoming all too common,” ICE spokeswoman Tanya Roman said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “As Iraheta-Vega’s crimes increased in severity, local officials chose to release him, time and time again, without notification to ICE, a simple process that could have potentially prevented this crime.”

Sixteen-year-old Juan Carlos Con Guzman’s body was found in a river in King County, Washington, in September. Authorities discovered the teenager had been beaten with a bat and hacked with a machete. Parts of his body were dismembered, with detectives finding one of his legs and one of his arms laying apart from the rest of his body. Con Guzman ultimately died of blunt force trauma and cuts to his neck, the King County Medical Examiner determined.

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