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    Family of DUI homicide victim: Feds failed to deport illegal-immigrant killer

    Family of DUI homicide victim: Feds failed to deport illegal-immigrant killer

    The Daily Caller
    By Michael Volpe




    Family members of a Chicago man killed in 2011 by a drunk driver are steaming mad at city officials for failing to bring the driver’s illegal immigration status to the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when they first learned about it, four years ago.

    A 2008 police report shows local authorities learned Saul Chavez was an illegal immigrant following an unrelated arrest that year, but did nothing about it.

    On June 8, 2011, Chavez was driving drunk in the Logan Square Neighborhood of Chicago when his car hit and killed long-time insurance agent Denny McCann, 66.

    Chavez’s blood-alcohol content was 0.29 percent, more than three times the legal limit.

    Witnesses said that on impact McCann cracked the windshield of Chavez’s 2002 Dodge Neon and then tumbled forward. But the driver tried to flee, running him over and dragging him 200 feet with the car. McCann died that night.

    Chavez was already a convicted drunk driver when he ran down McCann, and a police report obtained by the Daily Caller shows that he told police during a Sept. 20, 2008 DUI arrest that he was in the United States illegally.
    The report also reveals that when Chicago Police asked Chavez for his license and vehicle registration that night, Chavez responded, “I live in Chicago on Kedzie [Street]. I don’t have a driver’s license because I don’t have papers.”

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    McCann’s family members say police should have turned Chavez over to ICE, the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration law. Had ICE been called, they argue, Denny McCann would be alive today.

    Instead, Denny is dead and Chavez is on the run. He fled after posting bail last year and law enforcement agencies have not located him.

    In addition to his Chicago residence, Chavez has an address near Mexico City.

    TheDC spoke exclusively with family spokesman Brian McCann, Denny’s brother.

    “I can think of at least twenty people that knew that Chavez was illegal and didn’t say anything to ICE,” said Brian McCann. “We as a family want those responsible to take responsibility for failing to report him to ICE, but we don’t expect that to happen.”

    McCann said he hopes public officials who failed to notify ICE of Chavez’s illegal immigration status will issue a public apology and acknowledge their role in his brother’s death.

    That group, he said, includes everyone who saw the arrest report: the arresting officer, his superiors, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Cook County Probation Department, and probation Judge William T. O’Brien. They all, McCann told TheDC, had a responsibility to report Chavez to ICE.

    Chavez spent 17 months going in and out of Judge O’Brien’s court room between his 2008 conviction and February 8, 2011, when O’Brien signed off on Chavez’s successful probation completion. During that time, the police report documenting Chavez’s confession that he was undocumented was available to the judge, state’s attorney and the Department of Probation.

    But an ICE representative told The Daily Caller last month that the agency wasn’t made aware of Chavez’s existence until 2011, after he killed Denny McCann.

    Reached for comment, the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez refused to accept any responsibility.
    In an email statement, a spokesperson wrote that “Notifying ICE is not the responsibility of the State’s Attorney’s office; you need to contact the Chicago Police Department or the Cook County Sheriff’s office regarding this issue.”
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    Reached for comment, the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez refused to accept any responsibility.
    In an email statement, a spokesperson wrote that “Notifying ICE is not the responsibility of the State’s Attorney’s office; you need to contact the Chicago Police Department or the Cook County Sheriff’s office regarding this issue.”
    What a ludicrous thing to say .......... of course the State's Attorney's office has a responsibility to ensure laws are properly enforced, including federal laws when necessary to protect the states citizens.

    Why isn't the family filing a lawsuit against the state, county, city, or whoever was responsible for this fiasco?

    "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**

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    This is a good place to start the suits.




    Chicago: Sanctuary city? What does that mean for Chicago’s illegal
    population?




    By Alex Keefe | June
    10th, 2009


    In 1985, Mayor Harold Washington issued an executive order declaring Chicago a “sanctuary city” for undocumented immigrants. The city council reinforced the order with an ordinance in 2006. The next year, the Cook County Board followed suit with a resolution of its own.

    The local sanctuary measures create a sort of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on illegal immigration: City and county workers are forbidden from enforcing immigration laws or aiding in investigations, and residents can’t be denied government benefits or services based on their legal status.
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    Chicago is a sanctuary city, plain and simple. Illegals matter more than citizens.

    Activists: City wrong for turning woman over to immigration agents - Chicago Sun-Times

    Immigrant rights groups on Friday accused Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Police Department of violating the city’s Safe Sanctuary ordinance in the arrest of a 54-year-old Cameroonian mother who was stopped on a traffic violation this week and turned over to U.S. immigration officials.

    Rose Tchakounte, who with her son legally entered the country in 2001 seeking asylum, then missed a court date — allegedly because a lawyer she hired failed to tell her about it — was pulled over by police on the South Side Wednesday for failure to use her turn signal, said activists.

    Police then checked her immigration status — in violation of the 2006 ordinance and preceding executive orders dating back to 1985 — and arrested her, jailing her for two days before delivering her to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Friday, activists said.
    “We call upon Mayor Emanuel and Supt. Garry McCarthy to uphold the spirit and letter of this city’s longstanding immigration policy to protect our entire community and all Chicago families,” said Lawrence Benito, CEO of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

    The ordinance was intended to prevent racial profiling and other such instances of overzealous policing, and the unwarranted arrest of Tchakounte and a second case involving two young Mexican men present a disturbing image to the world as the G8 and NATO summits approach, activists said.
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