Illegal immigrant killed 3 after 'sanctuary' release from custody, ICE says

Luis Rodrigo Perez, 23, a Mexican national, is accused of killing three people in Missouri, authorities say. (Associated Press)

 

 

 

 

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An illegal immigrant accused of a triple murder in Missouri was previously jailed and released in New Jersey on domestic violence charges, authorities said, putting the spotlight on the conflict between local and immigration authorities nationwide.
Luis Rodrigo Perez, 23, a native of Mexico, is charged with fatally shooting two men and wounding two others on Nov. 1 and fatally shooting a woman the next day.
He was being held on domestic violence charges at the Middlesex County Jail in New Jersey in December 2017 and was released in February, NJ.com reported.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said they placed a detainer on Perez while he was in custody, but the request was not honored nor was the agency notified when he was let go, said Corey Price, acting executive director of ICE.
“Yet again, an ICE detainer was ignored and a dangerous criminal alien was released to the streets and is now charged with killing three people,” Price said. “Had ICE’s detainer request in December 2017 been honored by Middlesex County Jail, Luis Rodrigo Perez would have been placed in deportation proceedings and likely sent home to his country – and three innocent people might be alive today.
"It is past time that localities realize the perils of dangerous sanctuary policies and resume their primary goal of protecting their residents," Price added.

“Yet again, an ICE detainer was ignored and a dangerous criminal alien was released to the streets and is now charged with killing three people.”
— Corey Price, acting executive director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

In an email to the Associated Press, Middlesex County officials said the detainer wasn't honored because it didn’t meet the necessary criteria.
“This order would have authorized Middlesex County to turn over custody of Mr. Perez prior to, or upon completion of his sentence,” they wrote. “Instead ICE officials chose to do nothing, which places all responsibility of Mr. Perez’s actions squarely upon ICE.”
The county said it adopted a policy last year of honoring detainer requests from ICE if the inmate has convictions for first- or second-degree offenses or is ordered deported by a federal judge.

"It is past time that localities realize the perils of dangerous sanctuary policies and resume their primary goal of protecting their residents."
— Corey Price, acting executive director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

During Perez’s stint in jail, ICE never requested an order of deportation against Perez, county officials wrote.
Missouri law enforcement officials believe Perez and Aaron Anderson, 19, killed their ex-roommates Steven Marler, 38, and Aaron Hampton, 23, after they were kicked out of their Springfield home.
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Perez is also accused of killing a 21-year-old Sabrina Starr the next day at her house. He is charged with eight felony counts in the shootings.
Anderson told investigators he was waiting with Starr in an SUV outside Hampton and Marler’s home when Perez shot them, adding that he could hear the victims begging for their lives while on the phone with Perez.
He was charged as an accomplice to first-degree murder and three other felonies.
Perez’s girlfriend, Dalia Garcia, 23, is charged with tampering with evidence after she allegedly rode a bus from New Jersey to help burn evidence.

Dalia Garcia, 23, is charged with tampering with evidence in connection with three deaths in Missouri, authorities say. (Greene County, Mo., Jail)

President Trump has consistently bashed municipalities that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities. The U.S. Border Patrol officials said Friday that its agents detained more than 50,000 people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in October.
The news came on the same day Trump issued an executive order declaring that anyone entering the U.S. illegally from Mexico outside of established ports would be ineligible for asylum.

Florida's secretary of state orders recounts in Senate, gubernatorial races; Trump 'watching closely' Last Update 3 hours ago

Florida’s secretary of state announced Saturday that there will be recounts in the Senate and gubernatorial races after the races became tight enough to trigger them -- amid controversy over the handling of the counts, with President Trump warning that he will be "watching closely."
Secretary Ken Detzner issued the order after the unofficial results in both races fell within the margin that by law triggers a recount. The results of the machine recount will be due by 3 p.m. ET this coming Thursday. The votes in the Senate race between Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott, and the gubernatorial race between Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis and Democratic mayor of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum, will be recounted. There will also be a recount for the race for agriculture commissioner.
Election officials in Miami-Dade County said they launched a "machine recount" Saturday evening, meaning they were loading paper ballots into scanning machines. The processing of some 800,000 ballots could take several days, the Associated Press reported.
Earlier Saturday, 266 stray ballots from a mail sorting facility in Opa-locka arrived at Miami-Dade's Elections Department, a spokeswoman for the department told the Miami Herald on Saturday evening. But the Opa-locka ballots won't be counted because Florida law says that mail-in ballots can be counted only if they arrive by the time that polls close on Election Day, the newspaper reported.
Miami-Dade had received some 15,000 mail ballots Tuesday while conventional voters were at the polls, the report said.
On Saturday morning, a group of protesters outside the Miami-Dade agency's offices demanded that all ballots be counted, regardless of when they were received, the Herald reported.
In Florida, a mandatory recount occurs if the winning candidate’s margin is less than 0.5 percent. If the margin is less than 0.25 percent, the recount must be done by hand.
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Both Scott and DeSantis led their races after the midterms on Tuesday, with Gillum conceding to DeSantis. But as the days went on, and more votes were counted, those leads have all but disappeared.
Scott’s lead by Saturday afternoon was reduced to 0.15 percent and DeSantis’ was 0.41 percent.
The shrinking leads quickly led to suspicions from Republicans that foul play was afoot in Democratic strongholds of Broward and Palm Beach counties. Democrats, meanwhile, have accused Republicans of trying to stop all votes from being counted. President Trump on Saturday told reporters that “they are finding votes out of nowhere.”
"What's going on in Florida is a disgrace," he said.
He reacted within moments to the announcement of the recounts by accusing Democrats of "trying to steal two big elections in Florida!"
"We are watching closely!" he added.
Scott had asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the counties’ election departments, but a spokeswoman told the Associated Press there would be no investigation as there was no credible allegation of fraud.
Gillum welcomed the recount in a news conference on Saturday.
"I am replacing my words of concessions with an uncompromising and unapologetic call that we count every single vote," he told reporters. He also called for calm, and said he was prepared to accept "whatever the outcome of this election so far as every single vote...is counted."
Scott took to Twitter on Saturday evening, revealing that "7,500 volunteer recount representatives" were at the ready in Florida.
"Reps will be deployed all over FL to make sure any potential issues are reported so they can be quickly reviewed and resolved," he tweeted. "We won't allow unethical liberals to steal this election!"
In a sign of the turmoil that could ensue, protesters gathered outside the Broward elections office ahead of the announcement. Broward in particular has long been the source of election controversies. In 2016, Republican poll watchers complained that staff was opening absentee ballots in private, thereby making it impossible for groups to question whether ballots were cast, according to Politico. The GOP sued in 2017 to make sure Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes followed the law.
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On Friday, the Miami Herald reported that there were invalid ballots mixed in with about 200 valid ones, but not solution was immediately found for the problem.
The announcement was likely to bring back memories for Floridians of the tempestuous 2000 presidential election, where a chaotic recount decided the result of the election -- with Republican George W. Bush eventually nudging out Democratic candidate Al Gore.

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Democrat governor mulling 2020 presidential run grants clemency to criminals

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper granted 23 people clemency, reports said Friday.  (Gov. John Hickenlooper via Facebook)

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper issued pardons to 23 people with criminal records on Friday, bringing his total while in office to 89, according to reports.
The Democrat's pardon letters were granted to people who finished their sentences and became "contributing members of their communities," the governor's office announced, according to the Denver Post.
Hundreds of people have applied for a pardon from the governor, the report said.
Hickenlooper, 66, has been Colorado's governor since January 2011. He will be leaving office in January because state term limits prevented him from seeking a third term.
Another Democrat -- Jared Polis, 43, who was elected Tuesday and will be the state's first openly gay governor -- will succeed Hickenlooper.
The governor's review of petitions for clemency takes into consideration input from various sources, including crime victims, victim advocates, judges and prosecutors, Denver's Fox 31 reported.
Drugs, theft and fraud were the most common criminal offenses among the people pardoned Friday, the Post reported.
“The chance of getting a pardon largely depends on individual circumstances,” criminal defense attorney H. Michael Steinberg of Greenwood Village writes on his website. “The older and less serious the conviction, and the more compelling the life story is, the higher the chance of getting a pardon.”
Hickenlooper has said he plans to review about 475 clemency petitions before he leaves office, according to Fox 31.
The pardons allow those convicted of felonies to apply to restore their right to possess firearms, the paper reported.
In October, while he was at a New Hampshire cafe, Hickenlooper said he was "leaning strongly" toward a presidential run.
“To be honest, I haven’t made the final decision. And if I say I’m absolutely going to, there are all kind of legal ramifications,” Hickenlooper said.
So far, he’s already traveled to Iowa and started a political action committee, according to media reports.

Arizona Senate vote count settlement reached; counties given extension to cure ballots

Republicans and Democrats in Arizona reached an agreement in court Friday that gives all counties in the state until this coming Wednesday to address problems with ballots, as vote tallying for the state's tight Senate race continues.
As of 8:15 p.m. ET Friday, Democratic candidate Kyrsten Sinema led Republican candidate Martha McSally by roughly 20,000 votes statewide, according to the Arizona Secretary of State's Office. Sinema has received 991,189 votes and McSally 970,986, the office said.
As the ballot count continued, Sinema for Arizona campaign manager Andrew Piatt issued a statement saying: “Once again, today’s data confirmed our expectation that as the ballots are counted, Kyrsten will steadily build her advantage and be elected to the U.S. Senate. Nine counties reported today - five of which are counties where McSally is favored and where she needed to perform very well in order to regain even a narrow path to victory. That didn’t happen and since election night, Kyrsten netted 38,258 votes and now is leading by 20,203 votes - or 1 percent. She will win this race.”
The settlement comes after Republicans filed a lawsuit Wednesday in a bid to prevent Maricopa and Pima counties – the two biggest counties in the state – from using procedures that permit mail-in ballot fixes to occur beyond Election Day, arguing that the practice was improper.
Four local Republican parties filed the lawsuit.
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If the signature on the voter registration doesn't match that on the sealed envelope, both Maricopa and Pima County allow voters to help them fix, or "cure" it, up to five days after Election Day.
Many other counties allow voters to cure only until polls close on Election Day.
However, now all counties may cure ballots until Wednesday.
Roughly 272,000 votes remained uncounted, the Arizona Secretary of State's Office reported Friday.
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“We know there's urgency out there, but we want to get it right, not quick,” Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes said, according to the Associated Press.
President Trump tweeted about the Arizona election ahead of Friday’s settlement.
“Just out — in Arizona, SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. Electoral corruption - Call for a new Election? We must protect our Democracy!”
The agreement would affect only a few thousand votes, the AP reported.

Trump threatens to withhold California fire aid, citing state's 'gross mismanagement' of forests

Just hours after President Trump issued an emergency declaration to provide funds to help firefighters in California as they battle at least three major wildfires across the state, the president threatened to withhold the federal payments -- citing the state's "gross mismanagement" of its forests.
Tweeting from Paris early Saturday, Trump wrote that “there is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly fires in California.” He added that “billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”
His comments were his first regarding the wildfires that ravaged the state. They include the Camp Fire in Northern California, which has destroyed nearly 6,500 homes and killed at least nine people, and the Woolsey Fire in Southern California, which has killed at least two people.

French President Emmanuel Macron greets U.S. President Donald Trump at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 13, 2017. Trump has returned to Paris for ceremonies commemorating the end of World War I. (Reuters)

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E), the utility company that provides much of the state with natural gas and electricity, told state regulators Friday that it would cooperate with investigators into the cause of wildfire - dubbed the Camp Fire - in the northern part of the state.
The company said one of its electrical transmission lines in Butte County experienced a problem at 6:15 a.m. Thursday, where Cal Fire (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) officials said the blaze began several minutes later.
The president's declaration of an emergency in the state would allow the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate disaster relief efforts with state officials, the Los Angeles Times reported.
“This action will help alleviate the hardship and suffering that the emergency may inflict on the local population,” a White House release said.

The Woolsey Fire burns a home near Malibu Lake in Malibu, Calif. (Associated Press)

The help will attempt to “avert the threat of a catastrophe” across six California counties -- Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Butte.
FEMA installed Mark Armstrong as the coordinator for federal assistance for the fires.
The announcement came as Trump arrived in Paris on Friday for events marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I.
The fierce wildfires have raged throughout the state this week. In the southern part of the state, Santa Ana winds were fanning two major wildfires.
The Woolsey Fire had grown to more than 35,000 acres and at least 75,000 homes were under evacuation orders, including the entire city of Malibu, which is home to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
The Hill Fire near Thousand Oaks began Thursday, the day after a gunman killed 12 people at a local bar.
In total, around 250,000 people in Southern California were forced from their homes.

Ballot mixup puts more heat on Broward elections official as key Florida races remain unresolved

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A Florida election supervisor mixed some invalid ballots along with about 200 valid ones, according to a report, in the latest example of what Republicans say has been the incompetent handling of votes as the state braces for a possible recount.
The error was found after Brenda Snipes, a Broward County official who has a long history of controversies involving vote counting, agreed to present 205 provisional ballots to the county’s canvassing board for inspection, the Miami Herald reported.
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The canvassing board declared Friday that 20 of the 205 provisional ballots were illegal due to mismatched signatures. The 205 ballots had been set aside then counted in a voting machine, though the results weren’t added to the election's final total vote count, the report said.
As of Friday night, no solution to the mistake had been found.
Snipes agreed to present the ballots for inspection to the board after Republican attorneys objected to Snipes’ initial plan to handle the ballots administratively.
“We have found no clear authority controlling the situation faced by the board,” said Broward County Attorney Andrew Meyers, according to the newspaper.
Broward County collected more than 600 provisional ballots on the Election Day, but the vast majority were declared invalid by the board for reasons such as the voter had registered too late or had voted at the wrong precinct.
Just over 200 ballots were also deemed neither valid nor invalid due to an issue related to the system that looks up voter registrations. Some voters apparently swiped their ID, but the precinct system couldn’t confirm whether they were registered voters, prompting staffers to ask such voters to fill out provisional ballots.
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Republican lawyers pressed Snipes, using the latest case to argue that she has been mismanaging the voting procedure, and asked whether the 205 votes will be counted. She reportedly declined to answer.
Broward County is mandated to provide its unofficial vote total from the midterm elections to the state by midday Saturday.
The county and Snipes have come under heavy scrutiny because Broward -- Florida's No. 2 most populous county, with more than 1.9 million residents -- could be the area that decides two key races: the U.S. Senate election between Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson and Republican challenger Gov. Rick Scott, and the Florida governor race between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis.

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