Thread: N.J.: Illegal immigrant gets probation for vandalizing cemet

Illegal immigrant gets probation for vandalizing cemetery
Saturday, January 19, 2008
By MATT DUNN

BRIDGETON -- A man described by a Superior Court judge as an "undocumented alien" has been sentenced to 40 hours of community service in connection with a 2007 act of vandalism at a city cemetery.

Eliseo Diaz, 22, of Washington Street, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Richard Geiger on Friday to two years of probation and community service after pleading guilty to third-degree criminal mischief.

According to Diaz's plea agreement, his community service will take place at Broad Street Cemetery, where he and another man knocked over a number of tombstones in an Aug. 28, 2007, incident, causing more than $2,000 worth of damage.

Diaz, who was drunk when he caused the damage to the cemetery, gave police the alias of Juan Diaz when he was arrested.

Claudio Perez, of Church Street, the other man charged in connection with the incident, disappeared shortly after he was released from Cumberland County Jail in 2007 and was never found.

"If the judge wants me to pay," Diaz said in court Friday, through a Spanish-speaking interpreter, "I just want to know the amount."

Diaz will pay no fines for the damage he caused to the historic pre-Revolutionary War city cemetery, where about 160 Civil War veterans are buried.

Geiger said Diaz's community service will take the place of fines.

Diaz must remain sober for two years and undergo substance abuse counseling, he added.

Whether Diaz, who has no prior criminal record, has the opportunity to serve his sentence depends on how federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement authorities handle his case.

Diaz, who allegedly entered the United States from Mexico illegally at the age of 17, has an immigration detainer placed on him by the federal government and could be subject to deportation.

www.nj.com

judge should be charged with neglecting his duty by not handing him over to ice

Eliseo Diaz's crimes we know of:
1. Illegally entered our country.
2. Public intoxication.
3. Gave false information/name to police.
4. Has proably worked illegally in this country with false idenity.
5. Desecrated a cemetary.
6. Desecrated graves of Civil War Veterans.

DEPORT

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since the talking heads in DC and government keep arguing that immigration is a Federal issue, I hereby declare as an American citizen in Georgia that the judge in NJ is violating my rights and failing to perfform his duty by not deporting the illegal immigrant. This makes the judge a felon. We cannot have judges with felony convictions sitting in the courts of America. Hey Judicial Watch , hey Mr. Sekulow--anyone want to run with this????