ICE Helps Illegal Immigrant Escape Justice In Colorado

Last Updated: Thu, 11/04/2010 - 11:30am

The Homeland Security agency that freed the illegal immigrant felon who recently killed a Virginia nun has helped an undocumented alien escape justice for robbing an elderly man in Colorado.

It marks the second time in a few months that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) makes headlines for failing to do its principle job of protecting the border and removing illegal foreigners, especially violent ones who have served time for crimes.

In the Colorado case, ICE shielded a Mexican felony defendant by flying him to Texas and escorting him south of the border after he jumped bail. The illegal immigrant had been charged with stealing a trailer from an 81-year-old man in Jefferson County, which is located on the western edge of Denver in the scenic Rocky Mountains. He faced up to a dozen years in prison.

Outraged Jefferson County prosecutors say that ICE was “complicitâ€