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ICE Arrests Illegal Alien in New Jersey with Extensive Criminal History

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Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with assistance from law enforcement partners, apprehended Richard Alfanso Smith, 48, an illegally present Jamaican national subject to a final order of removal, Feb. 19. Smith tried to abscond and evade arrest during a routine enforcement operation in Basking Ridge, New Jersey and remains in ICE custody pending removal from the United States.

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NJ State Police Arrest International Fugitive Wanted for Murder

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West New York NJ, The New Jersey State Police have arrested Felix Peguero-Mendez, 62, of West New York, N.J., for allegedly fatally shooting a woman in the Dominican Republic on February 15, 2012.

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DHS cancels Obama policies, orders agents to expand deportations

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By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times – Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly officially ordered federal agents this week to begin arresting and deporting more illegal immigrants, releasing them from the handcuffs the Obama administration had imposed, and making headway on one of President Trump’s chief campaign promises.

While young adult illegal immigrant “Dreamers” are still exempted, agents were told there are no longer any other special classes of people that should be considered off limits for deportation.

Those caught at the border are to be swiftly shipped back, Mr. Kelly said, and he freed agents to target a broader universe of illegal immigrants for deportation from within the interior of the U.S. The secretary said agents are still to give priority to those with criminal rap sheets, but are free to use discretion — taken away from them in the Obama years — to detain anyone they believe to be in the country illegally.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/21/dhs-cancels-obama-policies-released-agents-to-expa/

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Authorities: Hoboken Man at Vegas Rally Said He Wanted to Kill Trump

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June 21,2016
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Las Vegas NV, A man arrested over the weekend trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer at a Las Vegas rally held by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told an investigator he wanted to kill the candidate, in court papers showed on Monday.

Michael Steven Sandford, who prosecutors described as a 19-year-old British national,who had lived for a time in Hoboken and was currently living out of his car was arrested on Saturday at the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas after trying to disarm the officer, according to Las Vegas police.

Sandford told authorities that he had been in the United States for a year and a half,and had lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, after coming to the country. Stanford had overstayed his visa from the United Kingdom and was now living in the USA illegally.

According to court papers filed on Monday in federal court in Nevada, Sandford told a Secret Service agent he had driven to Las Vegas from California with the goal of shooting Trump.

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Rep. Luis Gutiérrez Calls Murder of Kate Steinle a ‘Little Thing’ on Telemundo

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By Yuri Perez | July 16, 2015 | 8:24 PM EDT

Reporting on a recently released survey by Rasmussen Reports that indicates that 62% of Americans oppose sanctuary city policies, Telemundo, the nation’s second largest Spanish-language network, slanted its coverage in favor of maintaining the controversial policy. Reporting from the sanctuary city of Chicago, Telemundo correspondent Janet Rodríguez cited an unauthorized immigrant in favor of the policy, along with two quotes from Congressman Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL), who had the gall to minimize Kate Steinle’s murder, at the hands of a hardened criminal and five-time deportee, in the sanctuary city of San Francisco.

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San Francisco Shooting Suspect Says He Kept Coming Back to the City to Avoid Deportation

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Jul 6, 2015, 5:34 PM ET
By EMILY SHAPIRO via GOOD MORNING AMERICA

An undocumented immigrant suspected of killing a woman at a San Francisco pier said he chose the city for its sanctuary policies — that is, he knew San Francisco was a good place to avoid deportation, he told ABC station KGO-TV.

In an exclusive jailhouse interview, a KGO-TV reporter asked Francisco Sanchez, the alleged gunman, “Did you keep coming back to San Francisco because you knew that they wouldn’t actively look for you to deport you?” and Sanchez responded, “Yes.”

Sanchez, who has been deported five times, told KGO-TV he started wandering on Pier 14 on Wednesday after taking sleeping pills he found in a dumpster. He said he then picked up a gun that he found and it went off.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/san-francisco-shooting-suspect-coming-back-city-avoid/story?id=32247731