If he were elected president, Joe Biden says he would not deport illegal immigrants who are arrested for drunk driving.
Immigration agents should “only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed [in the United States], and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony,” Biden told Vice News on Jan. 20.
Many Americans have been killed by drunk-driving illegals.
“We’re not going to deport anybody who has not — in this country — committed a felony in this country. In this country, committed a felony,” the Democrat candidate said.
Biden said his administration would fire ICE agents who arrest and deport illegal immigrants for drunk driving.
Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan told Fox News on Wednesday that Biden “has lost his mind.”
“I oversaw [the] removal of one million illegal aliens,” Homan said. “Over 100,000 of them were DUI convictions and many didn’t have any convictions at all, they were just here illegally. So his tune has totally changed. We didn’t hear a peep from him back when he was vice president on this issue.”
Homan said “the bottom line is law enforcement officers are going to enforce laws they took an oath to enforce and laws are clear and we’re going to arrest and remove illegal aliens whether they have a conviction or not. If they’ve had their due process, an immigration judge says they got to leave, they’re going to be arrested and leave. What other law enforcement agency ignores a judge’s order? None, and neither does ICE.”
In fiscal 2019, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported 49,106 drunk driving convictions for illegals, along with 39,717 traffic violations, 47,453 “dangerous drugs” convictions, and 26,156 assault charges.
Of the roughly 800,000 younger illegals who got DACA work permits from President Barack Obama, 4,210 had drunk driving arrests, Breitbart News reported.
“Sanctuary state officials release many drunk driving illegals in California and other states, and immigration lawyers argue that DUIs are insufficient to justify the deportation of illegals,” the Breitbart report said.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving issued a statement in response to Biden’s comments:
Drunk driving is the Number 1 killer on America’s roads and a violent crime that MADD believes should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, regardless of the offender’s immigration status.Breitbart News has reported numerous examples of Americans who were killed or injured when federal officials did not deport drunk-driving illegals:
Drunk driving laws differ by state, and the fact that only four states charge a felony for a non-injury second drunk driving offense illustrates the enormous challenge MADD faces in helping to pass laws that will eliminate the horrible tragedies caused by drunk driving. In all drunk driving cases, MADD supports the victims and their wishes in the prosecution and sentencing of offenders who kill or injure someone.
- In July 2017, Nemias Garcia-Velasco, a 32-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was reportedly arrested and charged with vehicular homicide after Silvano Torres, a 58-year-old father of three, was killed in a car wreck where Velasco was allegedly driving drunk, according to a report by the Omaha World-Herald.
- In February 2016, Omaha police reportedly charged illegal alien Eswin Mejia with killing 21-year-old Sarah Root while driving drunk and street-racing the night of Jan. 31. But Mejia vanished after posting a small bond. The day before the crash, Root graduated from Bellvue University with a 4.0 GPA and a B.S. in crime investigation.
- A six-year-old boy in San Diego was severely injured when a drunk-driving illegal alien allegedly slammed into the family’s car on their way home from the Disneyland theme park, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
- Carlos Edilberto Flores-Benitez, 27, allegedly ran over a man while he was drinking and driving, police and eyewitnesses say, according to WNCN. Police reports claim the illegal immigrant hit the man at an intersection and then immediately sped off from the scene.
An illegal alien in the sanctuary state of Illinois is accused of killing two legal immigrants in a deadly drunk driving crash last week, law enforcement officials say.In February 2018, Breitbart News reported:
Juan Rodea-Cruz, a 25-year-old illegal alien, is accused of killing 26-year-old Marko Boskovic, a legal immigrant from Serbia, and 25-year-old Laura Uribe, a legal immigrant from Colombia, in a drunk driving crash on October 20 while driving the wrong way down a highway in Clarendon Hills, Illinois. Rodea-Cruz — whom the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has requested custody of — was found with multiple open, unopened, and broken liquor bottles in his vehicle, according to the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office.
Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his rideshare driver were allegedly killed by a drunk-driving, previously deported illegal alien Sunday morning near Indianapolis. The suspect fled the scene on foot after crashing into their vehicle. Indiana State Police officers arrested the reported driver later that morning.Free Press International
Police arrested a man who identified himself as Alex Cabrera Gonsales, a 37-year-old Mexican national, after he allegedly crashed his black Ford F-150 into a car parked along Interstate 70 near Indianapolis, according to a statement obtained from the Indiana State Police. The driver of the car, 54-year-old Jeffrey Monroe, and his passenger, 26-year-old Jackson, were both killed in the crash.
