Topic: Dreamers in the News

[Calypso Jones]

With all the tender concern President Trump and Nancy Pelosi have been heaping on "Dreamers" of late, you'd think the media would notice and pepper us with stories about these "incredible kids," as Trump calls them. Alas, no. Our tedious media drones refuse to provide us with moving human interest stories about the Dreamers.

 Journalists and politicians love to give us archetypes: the DACA soldier, the DACA valedictorian, the DACA grandmother. But there are so many other roles they fill!

 To make up for the Fourth Estate's failure, this week, I'll highlight five Dreamers who have done noteworthy things just in the last month.

The Bounceback Child Rapist

 A few weeks ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement caught up with Dreamer Anastacio Eugenio Lopez-Fabian, 24, in a courthouse parking lot in Oregon. Police in Seaside, Oregon, had arrested Lopez-Fabian for multiple rapes of a girl "younger than 14," assault and harassment.

 Law enforcement then released Lopez-Fabian the day of his arrest, without notifying I.C.E., despite the fact that he had already been deported twice to his native Guatemala, in 2013 and 2014.

 Apart from conservative websites -- and Britain's indispensable Daily Mail! -- this story made only the local press.

The Butterfingered Gun Slinger

 Also two weeks ago, Dreamer Jaime Melchi-Sigas, 22, pleaded guilty to the federal offenses of unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of a counterfeit alien registration card. Melchi-Sigas was already serving time in a state prison for reckless homicide and tampering with physical evidence.

 His convictions stemmed from an incident last year when Melchi-Sigas was sitting in the back seat of a car, examining an illegal gun he intended to purchase, and accidentally shot and killed the man in the front seat.

 This item appeared in one small local Bowling Green, Kentucky, newspaper.

The Oppressed Rapist


 Three weeks ago, Dreamer Alejandro Perez-Cortez, 26, appealed his five-year sentence for attempting to anally rape a woman, pointing out that he was drunk at the time and barely made enough money to live on, much less send back to his wife and two children in Mexico.

 The appeal was denied, on the grounds that being drunk and poor did not constitute evidence of good character -- and also that Perez-Cortez was an illegal alien. (Until Trump has his way on Dreamers!)

 The opinion of the Indiana court turning down Perez-Cortez's appeal was published on March 19, but no media found the story interesting enough to print. What I find interesting about the case -- fascinating, in fact! -- is that we have lawyers willing to bring utterly frivolous appeals on behalf of drunk, raping illegal aliens, but not one willing to represent the president.

The Fleet-Footed Drunk Driver

 Dreamer Ivan Gerardo Zamarripa-Castaneda, 26, killed 57-year-old John Anderson in Denver at around midnight on March 3, when he smashed his pickup truck into Anderson's truck, setting off a fiery explosion and shutting down I-70 for hours. This poor Mexican who was driving drunk on an interstate -- through no fault of his own -- fled the scene.

 In another example of the day-to-day terror illegal aliens endure "living in the shadows," Zamarripa-Castaneda was captured by the police the next day, sound asleep at his home. And that wasn't the end of Zamarripa-Castaneda's nightmare. After his arrest, Denver police held him for ONE FULL WEEK, before releasing him without informing I.C.E.

 Only after Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump began denouncing the local sheriff for refusing to turn Zamarripa-Castaneda over to I.C.E. did the story appear anywhere beyond the local press. Now in I.C.E.'s clutches, Zamarripa-Castaneda waits impatiently for Trump to amnesty "incredible kids" like him.

The May-December Rapist

 Dreamer Juan Vazquez Cornelio, 38, was recently charged with raping a 10-year-old girl and sending her to the hospital. The reddest state in the Union -- Alabama -- gave Kardashian-level media coverage to the arrest: THREE local news stories. The Tuscaloosa News lavished 100 words on the child-rapist before turning to another topic: "Severe weather possible Monday in state -- Tuscaloosa County could experience severe weather beginning Monday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service."

 The illegal alien Mexican Dreamer was charged with rape in the first degree, the girl was hospitalized and it's going to rain on Monday.

[Lt. Columbo]

You're breaking forum rules again by omitting the source.  I suspect it's specious.  Of course, rules and details never interested you.  Where did you attend college, by the way? Uh, weren't the last 3 mass shooters citizens?  When were you in the U.S. military?   

http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/September-2017/DACA-Stritch-Medical-School/



DACA students and Loyola staff in 2014. The year before, Stritch became the first medical school nationwide to have a DACA program.   PHOTO: NANCY STONE/CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Estimates show that the DACA initiative alone could help introduce 5,400 previously ineligible physicians into the U.S. health care system in the coming decades to help address an ongoing American physician shortages and ensure patient access to care, according to an American Medical Association letter sent to Congress last week.

[Lt. Columbo]

The DREAMer Incarceration Rate | Cato Institute
https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research.../dreamer-incarceration-rate
by M Landgrave - ‎Cited by 1 - ‎Related articles
Aug 30, 2017 - News of individual DREAMers committing crimes contributed to the public perception that DREAMers are disproportionately crime prone and may influence President Trump's decision to cancel or continue DACA. In fact, DREAMers have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans of the same ...

MOSTLY TRUE: Undocumented immigrants less likely to commit ...
www.politifact.com/.../2017/.../mostly-true-undocumented-immigrants-less-likely-co/
Claim: "Undocumented immigrants commit less crimes than the native born."
Claimed by: Antonio Villaraigosa
Fact check by PolitiFact: Mostly True

The right-wing effort to paint DREAMers as a nightmare - Vox
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/.../immigration-crime-dreamers-daca-gangs
Mar 1, 2018 - But anecdotes were all the hawks had to go on. Research consistently shows that immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizens do; while there's less research specifically on unauthorized immigrants, what information there is suggests they, too, are less likely to commit crimes than their US-citizen peers.

[hurricanehook]

MOSTLY TRUE: Undocumented immigrants less likely to commit ...

illegal aliens would commit zero
crimes if the were not here illegally:
100% TRUE

[vlad]

illegal aliens would commit zero
crimes if the were not here illegally:
100% TRUE

Goods vork comrade HOOks!!! No pardons fors aliens!!!!!

[Lt. Columbo]

illegal aliens would commit zero
crimes if the were not here illegally:
100% TRUE

Pretty weak and stupid response.  Another forum fart.  I post links and sources and evidence.  You post 14 words and misspell "they."   

US citizens would commit zero crimes ....No, wait a minute.  Their crime rate is higher than undocumented aliens.  Never mind.....

[Calypso Jones]

No country in the world allows illegals to just cross the border and set up residency. NO COUNTRY.   And no country with any regard for its own citizens and its culture.

so why are we supposed to do it?

so the left can destroy the country from the inside.

[hurricanehook]

Pretty weak and stupid response.  Another forum fart.  I post links and sources and evidence.  You post 14 words and misspell "they."   

US citizens would commit zero crimes ....No, wait a minute.  Their crime rate is higher than undocumented aliens.  Never mind.....

flyboy
show all of us American citizens how "illegal aliens"
are allowed in this country.
period.
good luck bozo!

[Lt. Columbo]

flyboy
show all of us American citizens how "illegal aliens"
are allowed in this country.
period.
good luck bozo!

I've just posted articles completely refuting the unsourced nonsense in the first post, and you haven't acknowledged it.  It only makes sense that those illegally here commit fewer crimes to avoid deportations.  Those without that fear, citizens, can take more risks with the law.  Common sense was never your forte. 

[hurricanehook]

I've just posted articles completely refuting the unsourced nonsense in the first post, and you haven't acknowledged it.  It only makes sense that those illegally here commit fewer crimes to avoid deportations.  Those without that fear, citizens, can take more risks with the law.  Common sense was never your forte.

so flyboy you can not
dispute this fact:
if illegal aliens were not here in the U.S. ILLEGALLY
they could not cause any crimes at all.
deductive reasoning is definitely not your forte.

[vlad]

Is also deductives reasonings thats onlys 100 percents ameriKan citizen cans be traitor. Comrade Malanija ands Anchors baby Barron is only trumps nots guiltys of beings traitor!!! Is funnys as hells for alls good comrades!!! Is kompete constitishonal chaoses!!! Is nots enoughs popcorns ins Kremlin!!!!

[Lt. Columbo]

so flyboy you can not
dispute this fact:
if illegal aliens were not here in the U.S. ILLEGALLY
they could not cause any crimes at all.
deductive reasoning is definitely not your forte.

LOL!  I just shot Clitso's story to pieces which you refuse to acknowledge, and you expect me to engage in your asinine challenge?  You really are starved for stimulation.  41 years of marriage.  Yeah, right.   

OK, let's use your logic.  You cannot dispute this fact.  Since CITIZENS commit crimes at a higher rate than ILLEGALS, then this country would be safer if we DEPORTED the CITIZENS and imported more ILLEGALS. 

We need more of these people, and less of people like you. 

[Hollybaere]

LOL!  I just shot Clitso's story to pieces which you refuse to acknowledge, and you expect me to engage in your asinine challenge?  You really are starved for stimulation.  41 years of marriage.  Yeah, right.   

OK, let's use your logic.  You cannot dispute this fact.  Since CITIZENS commit crimes at a higher rate than ILLEGALS, then this country would be safer if we DEPORTED the CITIZENS and imported more ILLEGALS. 

We need more of these people, and less of people like you. 

Listen Einstein, the very fact that they are here ILLEGALLY, makes them LAW BREAKERS. They are already committing a CRIME in this country!!

Which part of the words Illegal Alien are you having trouble understanding? 

[vlad]

Good vorks HOLLYs!!! Evens mexicans babys is crimes commiters!!! Locks thems UPs!!!!

[hurricanehook]

OK, let's use your logic.  You cannot dispute this fact.  Since CITIZENS commit crimes at a higher rate than ILLEGALS, then this country would be safer if we DEPORTED the CITIZENS and imported more ILLEGALS. 

flyboy you forgot the main point
which makes your premise moot.
illegals are not suppose to be here.
at all.
you lose again.