This one case underlies how horrible our immigration system has been for years. One illegal, deported 15 times, ends up almost killing a 6-yr-old boy in a wreck where he was drunk. He left the scene with the boy laying on the pavement!
This is why Sessions wants to imprison illegals for a mandatory 5 years who are caught re entering the US after being deported.
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FOX NEWS – Constantino Banda-Acosta was arrested in May on DUI charges related to a hit-and-run crash that severely injured a 6-year-old boy in California. The 38-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico had been deported 15 times since 2002, federal records show.
Yet, despite Banda-Acosta’s DUI arrest and others for domestic violence, the U.S. Attorney’s Office refused to prosecute him for “criminal re-entry” after deportation. As a low-level criminal alien, Banda-Acosta met the guidelines of President Barack Obama’s “prosecutorial discretion” policy.
That policy backfired May 6, when Banda-Acosta, allegedly driving drunk and speeding, slammed his vehicle into the Lake family — driving home from a day at Disneyland.
Banda-Acosta left the scene, but was stopped a mile away in his damaged pickup by the Border Patrol near San Diego. He left 6-year-old Lennox Lake unconscious and without a heartbeat on the pavement. With the help of his parents and paramedics, the boy survived.
Yet, based on federal court records, this is the first time U.S. prosecutors charged Banda-Acosta with a federal immigration violation, despite having multiple chances to put him behind bars for 5 years or more at various times.
“This is yet another harrowing example of why immigration enforcement is critical to the rule of law and safety of American citizens,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. “When someone is able to re-enter the country after being removed 15 times and puts the life of a child in jeopardy, it should be a wakeup call to all of us that border security and enforcement of our laws must be a priority to ensure safety and justice in America.”
The Trump administration has promised changes and Grassley hopes they follow through, beginning with Kate’s Law, which would mandate a five-year mandatory minimum jail sentence after the second expedited removal order. If that law that been in effect at the time, Bando-Acosta would have been in prison beginning in 2003. Under the bill, any subsequent arrest would have gotten him an even longer sentence.
Unlike the “prosecutorial discretion” adopted by the Obama administration, new Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” in all cases, including immigration crimes.
“People who re-enter, after being convicted of committing a crime, they get deported and come right back,” Sessions said last week in Tennessee. “So you just can’t deport them again. They have to be punished and that sends a message more and more that you shouldn’t come back. And if we build a wall, then they’re not coming back.”
This is absolutely the right direction to go and one reason I’m glad Trump appointed Sessions as AG. While we definitely must build a wall, we also must have a multifaceted approach to stopping illegal entry into this country.