ICE Detainer Issued for Suspected Wine Country Arsonist in Sonoma Jail
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BY CHRISS STREET
BREITBART
The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency issued a detainer request on the Sonoma County Jail for Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, who was arrested on suspicion of arson in Wine Country fires that have killed at least 40 residents.
Breitbart News reported Sonoma County Sheriffs arrested Jesus Fabian Gonzalez (29) at Maxwell Regional Park in Sonoma County after a series of reports of ongoing fires in the region. Mr. Gonzalez was observed around 3 pm wearing a jacket and walking “out of the creek area and a plume of smoke behind him.”
Mr. Gonzalez, who is homeless and known by law enforcement to have been living under a nearby bridge, claimed he was cold and had lit the fire to stay warm. But it was a balmy 78 degrees when he and the plume of smoke were first observed. Mr. Gonzalez was booked into the Sonoma County Jail for suspicion of felony arson. His bail is set at a steep $110,000, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff Public Information Officer.
Sargent Spencer Crum told Breitbart that Mr. Gonzalez is also on a U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) detainer request, despite Sonoma County declaring itself as a Sanctuary County in May 2014.
The American Civil Liberties Union that argues detainers a violation of “unreasonable searches and seizures” under the U.S. Constitutions’ Fourth Amendment states:
“An ICE detainer—or “immigration hold”—is one of the key tools U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses to apprehend individuals who come in contact with local and state law enforcement agencies and put them into the federal deportation system. An ICE detainer is a written request that a local jail or other law enforcement agency detain an individual for an additional 48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays) after his or her release date in order to provide ICE agents extra time to decide whether to take the individual into federal custody for removal purposes.”
According to the Sonoma County Sheriff Department’s “1.0 Policy Statement”: No person shall be held solely on the basis of their immigration status.” The policy adds that, “the immigration status of a person, and the lack of immigration documentation, should have no bearing on the manner in which Sheriff’s Office personnel execute their duties.”
According to ICE Documents, Sonoma County declined 491 detainer requests in 2014 following and 2015. During the 2017 period from January 28 through February 3, when President Trump issued his immigration Executive Order 13768 require all federal, state and local government to comply with ICE detainers, Sonoma County denied detainers.
Sonoma County fires have caused a catastrophic 22 dead, 172 still missing and 102,000 residents dislocated; or about one-fifth of the entire population. The latest financial losses include 3,819 unincorporated parcels with 100 structures valued at $2,016,962,239 and 2,907 homes and 86 commercial units lost in the city of Santa Rosa valued at $1.18 billion.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone… we have a governor that has claimed the state of California as a Sanctuary State…protecting all illegal immigrants from being arrested, being deported, and keeping the criminal factor active while on the same hand not protecting the citizens of the state of California protection from harm from these criminal groups. Did we the citizens of California have a vote on this???? Did Gov. Brown count the many acts of outright pain suffering and mass murders keeping regular citizens hostage in our own State by establishing it Sanctuary State. Our Gov. Brown cares more about the lives of “illegal” people living in our country illegally, than he does for the legal citizens that put him in office in the first place. Is it time to consider the impeachment of Governor Jerry Brown??