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    Report: Oregon judge may have helped undocumented immigrant avoid ICE agents

    Report: Oregon judge may have helped undocumented immigrant avoid ICE agents
    by Keaton Thomas, KATU News
    Tuesday, February 28th 2017


    PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Portland says someone in a courtroom at the Multnomah County Justice Center helped an undocumented immigrant avoid capture by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

    Diddier Pacheco-Salazar was in a court hearing on Jan. 27 at the Justice Center for DUII and reckless driving, according to his defense attorney John Schlosser. Schlosser said he was waiting for his client to get out of the courtroom, along with four ICE agents.

    Billy Williams, the U.S. attorney in the District of Oregon, said those agents targeted Pacheco-Salazar for his criminal history. They had his identity, date of birth, photo, and knew he was in the country illegally.

    Pacheco-Salazar never came out of the courtroom.

    “There are two doors, one that a judge exits through and one that individual inmates are led through. So, obviously he was allowed to exit the courtroom and facility through one of those doors without being detected by the ICE agents,” Williams said.

    Schlosser would not comment on what happened inside the courtroom. Williams said he does not know exactly what happened inside.

    KATU’s news partners at Willamette Week are reporting a circuit court judicial referee named Monica Herranz allegedly helped Pacheco-Salazar elude agents by letting him exit a private entrance used by judges.

    “Obviously, someone let him out knowing ICE was there, because there was a courtroom staffer who had originally saw the agents in the hallway before the proceedings started who made the comment something to the effect, ‘You guys are evil,'" Williams said. “So, it was clear that someone associated with the court knew they were there.”

    Judge Nan Waller and Trial Court Administrator Barbara Marcille spoke briefly on the phone with KATU on Tuesday. They would not comment on what happened inside the courtroom. Waller said the incident is under internal investigation.

    Just two days before this, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements. Judge Waller said, at that time, they had not been able to instruct judges or staff on what to do in scenarios like this. Since then, court staff and judges have been told not to provide assistance to ICE that would not be publicly available, but they cannot impede ICE agents from operating in the courthouse.

    Williams met with Judge Waller and the parties involved last week. He says ICE decided against a criminal investigation. He said there was no referral to the Oregon State Bar either.

    “I told them that upon first hearing about the incident that I was very concerned and troubled by it, that I thought it was inappropriate, I thought it was unprofessional. I strongly believe that it cannot happen again,” Williams said.

    If it happens again, Williams added that the outcome may be different. Next time there may be a criminal investigation.

    “I felt that it was inappropriate and delegitimizes the work of ICE agents who are out there doing their jobs,” Williams said.

    Schlosser told KATU Pacheco-Salazar was picked up by ICE agents on Feb. 10 outside the courthouse. He is currently being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Washington.

    Judge Waller said the Multnomah County Circuit Court asked ICE to consider the courthouse a sensitive location in order to limit ICE enforcement action there. She said they do not want people to fear coming to the courthouse.

    “Judicial officials shouldn't be put into this position by immigration in the first place,” said Mat dos Santos, legal director of the ACLU of Oregon.

    Similar to the court, dos Santos says the judicial system suffers if ICE agents can detain people at the courthouse. He says ICE should not be allowed to show up at the courthouse.

    Williams said it was unlikely ICE would consider a courthouse to be a sensitive location, but that decision is up to it.
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    circuit court judicial referee named Monica Herranz allegedly helped Pacheco-Salazar elude agents by letting him exit a private entrance used by judges.
    She still have a job and if so WHY!

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    I HOPE NO JOB FOR LONG. TRACK THEM DOWN AND RELIEVE THEM OF THEIR DUTIES!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    This court house and judges have a long history of being corrupt. Some even called them unconstitutional judges. Same court house that the Bundy's and protesters were held for a very long time before trial. They were protesting the Hammond's that were forced to sign their land over to the government upon their death in a double jeopardy trial. There is Uranium on the Hammond ranch, Hillary was involved up to her neck and with her Russian uranium deal. Foreign militia showed up in the town near where Bundy's were protesting along with BLM land management and killed Levoy Fincum. All the trials took place in this court house. A big difference from how the paid protesters are handled now.
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    Republican files complaint about judicial officer helping man escape immigration agen

    Republican files complaint about judicial officer helping man escape immigration agents

    By Aimee Green
    on April 13, 2017 at 9:59 AM, updated April 13, 2017 at 3:21 PM

    The chairman of the Oregon Republican Party sent a complaint this week to the state judicial fitness commission calling for consequences for a Multnomah County Circuit Court judicial official who allegedly helped a criminal defendant elude capture by federal immigration agents.

    Chairman Bill Currier announced Thursday that he wants the judicial fitness commission to investigate whether Monica Herranz committed a "severe ethical breach" by allowing a man who had just pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants to exit through a door of her chambers instead of through the courtroom doors. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were reportedly waiting for him in the hall by those doors.

    The alleged incident happened Jan. 27 -- one week after President Donald Trump took office and as a rift over the nation's immigration policies widened.

    Herranz has been licensed as a lawyer in Oregon for 29 years. Under her official title of "referee," she carries out the duties of judge in order to lighten the heavy load of criminal cases flowing through Multnomah County Circuit Court.

    She has worked as a referee since August 2015, when she was hired for the job as an Oregon Judicial Department employee. She is not in an elected position.

    Herranz declined to comment for this story.

    Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Justice declined to pursue criminal charges or a complaint to the Oregon State Bar about Herranz.

    Currier's complaint to the judicial fitness commission calls for consequences -- as grave as possible disbarment -- for what Currier describes as a "heinous abuse of judicial powers."

    Currier is basing his complaint, in part, off of an audio recording of the plea hearing of Diddier Pacheco-Salazar, a 22-year-old who was born in Mexico and who had no criminal history before being arrested for DUII in Multnomah County on Dec. 31. He pleaded guilty before Herranz to DUII and reckless driving on Jan. 27, and Herranz ordered him to a diversion program that would require substance-abuse treatment.

    At the end of the hearing, Herranz can be heard stating, "We don't want him to go back out there," according a news release by the Oregon Republican Party.

    Currier's complaint says Herranz's staff alerted her to the presence of immigration agents outside the courtroom, and Herranz allowed Pacheco-Salazar to leave through her chambers and to elude capture by the immigration agents in the hall.

    "This looks like another example of the rampant lawlessness we've come to expect from sanctuary cities," Currier said in a written statement. "But this is a bridge too far for a member of our judicial system to appear to aid and abet criminal illegal aliens and to openly attempt to subvert or obstruct federal law enforcement."

    Currier wrote in his complaint: "Now, of course the excuse will probably be that a public official in Oregon may not assist with Immigration Enforcement. However, it must be clearly noted that this was not assisting, this was the exact opposite -- facilitating the escape of an illegal alien (as noted above)."

    ohn Schlosser, the defense attorney for Pacheco-Salazar, said he didn't have any conversations with Herranz that day about his client leaving the courtroom through an alternate route. Schlosser also said he didn't see how his client left the courtroom.

    But Schlosser notes that Pacheco-Salazar was ultimately detained by immigration agents two weeks later.

    "Even after that scare at the courthouse that day, he still contacted me, he still came to the courthouse for his next hearing," Schlosser said.

    Schlosser said he and Pacheco-Salazar were followed out of the courthouse by immigration agents after a Feb. 10 hearing. The agents trailed the pair across the street, and Schlosser said he told his client that the agents might try to arrest him. According to Schlosser, Pacheco-Salazar said he wanted to get it over with, stopped and cried as the agents walked up to him and took him into custody.

    Thursday, Schlosser said his client is no longer in immigration custody. Schlosser isn't certain what happened to him, but he strongly suspects that Pacheco-Salazar has been deported.

    http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i...laint_abo.html
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    Thursday, Schlosser said his client is no longer in immigration custody. Schlosser isn't certain what happened to him, but he strongly suspects that Pacheco-Salazar has been deported.
    Oh I hope so.

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