Gov. Brown Pardons Criminal Aliens to Prevent Deportation
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BY CHRISS STREET, NEWPORT BEACH, CA
California Gov. Brown celebrated a Sanctuary State Christmas by pardoning two convicted criminal aliens to prevent their deportation next week by the Trump Administration.
Gov. Jerry Brown Christmas giving this year included granting 132 pardons and commuting 19 prison sentences. According to the on-line application, pardons are reserved for those individuals that completed their sentence, and then received a court-issued certificate of rehabilitation for living crime-free in California for over a decade.
But Brown dispensed with the supposed patina of humanitarian forgiveness, and pardoned Mony Neth of Modesto of Modesto and Rottanak Kong of Davis. Both convicted criminals were arrested in October task force sweeps by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (ICE) and were subject to deportation orders signed by federal judges effective beginning Dec. 25.
Neth and Rottanak’s immigrated to the United States in 1995 as children of families that received refugee status from supposedly escaping the Cambodia’s Marxist Khmer Rouge regime. According to the Sacramento Bee, “neither has engaged in criminal activity since being released from prison”, but their crimes resulted in the loss of legal U.S. residency.
Gov. Brown stated on October 7 when he signed the California Sanctuary State bill, ‘SB 54, California Values Act,’ that the legislation only “bans unconstitutional detainer requests.” Brown emphasized that Sanctuary State protections do not “prevent cooperation in deportation proceedings.” Brown added that Sanctuary State does not “prevent cooperation in deportation proceedings for anyone in state prison or for those in local jails for any of the hundreds of serious offences listed in the TRUST ACT.”
Progressive Democrats that control the California Legislature demanded that gun control violations be incorporated into the 2014 TRUST ACT to make it a mandatory denial of all so-called Sanctuary State protections against criminals being turned over to ICE for deportation for any aliens that had engaged in the “Unlawful possession or use of a weapon, firearm, explosive device, or weapon of mass destruction.”
Due to his 1995 conviction on felony weapons charge with a gang enhancement and misdemeanor charges for receiving stolen property, Mony Neth was not shielded from ICE under the Sanctuary State law while sitting in the Sacramento County Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove.
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If a person enters the nation illegally, they need to be deported as soon as the slight is discovered. When they commit a crime while here, it is even more important that they are shown the door. However, a crime need not be committed in order for federal law to still demand that the illegal alien be removed from the country and told to apply legally, as they should have from the start.
Breitbart News has confirmed that California Governor Jerry Brown enjoyed “a Sanctuary State Christmas by pardoning two convicted criminal aliens to prevent their deportation next week by the Trump administration.” It seems quite unfair that many other people who were committing felonies on Christmas likely got arrested for it while Brown is as free as the winter chill.
The foul leader granted 132 pardons and commuted 19 prison sentences. Just the same, this should in no way hinder their deportation, according to the Constitution. Since they have been unwisely pardoned they may legally apply, but beyond that, nothing should change regardless of Brown’s actions.
But Brown used his gubernatorial right to prevent Neth and Kong’s deportation by issuing a California State pardon on December 23, defying the Trump Administration’s initiative to expel any legal alien that violates the terms of their visa by engaging in criminal activity.
The Bee reported that Neth was released with an ankle tracking bracelet. His attorney stated that Brown’s pardon only eliminates any felony charge against Neth, but the U.S. immigration law does not eliminate the risk of being rearrested and deported on a federal firearms count.
But Neth’s attorney believes that the 2014 voter-approved Proposition 47, ‘The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act’ that allowed some felony crimes to be reclassified as misdemeanors, can be used to restate Neth’s firearm count to a lesser charge.
