Thread: White House blames Md. school rape on lax border, sanctuary policies

White House blames Md. school rape on lax border, sanctuary policies

By Malia Zimmerman and Christopher Wallace
Published March 21, 2017 FoxNews.com

Critics - including the White House - blamed the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in a high school restroom by two much older illegal immigrants students on failed federal policies.

The horrific attack Thursday, in a Rockville, Md., high school was allegedly carried out by two illegal immigrants, ages 17 and 18, who were enrolled in the ninth grade.

"This is a tragic event," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Tuesday. "It is horrendous and horrible and disgusting what the girl in Rockville went through.

"From an immigration standpoint, there are so many questions," Spicer said. "[One of the suspects] was 18. How does that person get put into 9th grade?"

“Some have severe mental health problems resulting from broken families or parental neglect, exposure to violence in their home country, and a traumatic experience coming here illegally.”

- Jessica Vaughan, Center for Immigration Studies

Critics say the attack grimly underscores the challenge of enrolling upper-teen illegal immigrants with poor language skills in public schools. One suspect, identified by police as Henry E. Sanchez-Milian, had been caught crossing the Mexican border just months ago.

“The surge of Central American kids has become a significant problem in many of the school districts where they are allowed to re-settle,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies. “It’s not uncommon for older kids to be placed in the lower high school grades with much younger kids, because they usually have had only a few years of schooling in their home country.”

Sanchez-Milian, a native of Guatemala, and Jose O. Montano, 17, from El Salvador, were charged with first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree sexual offense.

Court records say they dragged the girl into a men’s bathroom, where they allegedly violently raped, sodomized and forced her to perform oral sex in a stall.

It is common for that school system to have adults with limited English speaking skills enrolled as freshman, Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Smith told Fox 5 DC.

"We have a lot of 18-year-olds in our schools,” Smith said. “Our student was actually in a METS [Multidisciplinary Educational Training and Support] Program for English learners and that is a program we have across the system, and so, it is not a matter of what grade they were in, but the student was in a program for English learners.”

Vaughan said other students and their parents have no way of knowing which classmates are illegal immigrants – in some cases adults – or what dangers they may pose.

“Some have severe mental health problems resulting from broken families or parental neglect, exposure to violence in their home country, and a traumatic experience coming here illegally,” Vaughan said.

Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department Special Victims Investigations Division arrested Montano and Sanchez after school officials reported the incident. A forensic team recovered blood and male fluids from the bathroom, court records show.

“It’s a terrible situation. It’s a horrible situation,” the school superintendent told Fox5DC. “We looked at all the information from Thursday and we handed it over to the police immediately. At this point, it is their investigation.”

U.S. Department of Homeland Security databases show a Border Patrol agent stopped Sanchez in August 2016 in Rio Valley Grande, Texas, and determined he’d entered the country illegally from Mexico.

“We do have 550,001 cases through the end of January pending before our courts, and our priorities are cases where the individual is still in detention,” said Kathryn Mattingly, of the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the Department of Justice. “Detained cases are our highest priority.”

Since Sanchez-Milian was released, he did not fall into that priority category. Still, the Border Patrol agent could have detained Sanchez-Milian and then sent him back across the border – but did not.

“If the Border Patrol intercepts somebody within 200 miles of the border, they have the ability to return the individual,” an official from Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Fox News. “But these individuals often claim fear of returning to their home country or desire some sort of judicial review for special reasons like asylum, or a special visa, so they ask for a right to see a border judge.”

Sanchez was ordered to appear before an immigration judge, but the hearing had not yet been scheduled.

ICE has since lodged an immigration detainer against Sanchez-Milian, so ICE can take him when he is released from local custody.

ICE did not release information on Montano. Both Montano and Sanchez will be tried as adults and could receive a life sentence. The judge who oversaw their bond hearing refused to release them on bail, because the students are “dangerous and flight risks.”

The Trump administration has made slashing the backlog of cases in immigration court a top priority. In some parts of the country, there is a three-year waiting list.

“We recognize that in order to reduce our immigration caseload we need to increase our hiring of immigration judges,” Mattingly said.

Officials in Montgomery County have been pushing to make the area a sanctuary for immigrants, and, according to Vaughan, is already uncooperative with ICE when it comes to illegal immigrants like Sanchez-Milian.
“Montgomery County is not the worst, but it’s pretty bad,” Vaughan said. “When Northern Virginia cracked down around 2005 from 2011, many illegals moved to Montgomery County, where they knew they would be treated more leniently.”

Montgomery County does not track crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

“This is not a statistic we track,” Maj. Michael England of the Rockville Police Department told Fox News.

Meanwhile, Maryland’s Republican governor, Larry Hogan, encouraged the county to cooperate with federal immigration agents.

“The State of Maryland is calling on Montgomery County to immediately and fully cooperate with all federal authorities during the investigation of this [alleged] heinous crime,” Hogan tweeted on Tuesday. “The public has a right to know how something this tragic and unacceptable was allowed to transpire in a public school.”

While most illegal immigrant kids enrolled at public schools do not pose a threat to their classmates, gang activity in school districts around the country has been linked to illegal immigration. On Long Island earlier this month, more than a dozen members of the El Salvadoran gang MS-13 were indicted in connection with seven murders in three years, including the deaths of several high school students last year.

Local communities’ refusal to cooperate with ICE, Vaughan said, means “many gang members and other thugs and miscreants are allowed to remain in the county in defiance of immigration laws and causing problems like this.”

Kids from Central America who cross the border illegally, without being vetted, may not have a criminal history here, but can in their country, said Claude Arnold, a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations.

“These two could have gang ties in El Salvador and Guatemala or have an otherwise violent criminal history,” Arnold said. “Just like the thousands of other unaccompanied minors that have been released in the U.S. for the past several years, we know nothing about them.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/21...s-schools.html

So the White House is pointing fingers at Maryland and Montgomery County sanctuary policies which is a justified concern. But what about the White House DACA Amnesty program these two illegals may have been enticed into America by, enrolled in, or qualified for?

William Gheen
www.alipac.us

These 2 just arrived 7 months ago so they aren't eligible for DACA.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security databases show a Border Patrol agent stopped Sanchez in August 2016 in Rio Valley Grande, Texas, and determined he’d entered the country illegally from Mexico.

“We do have 550,001 cases through the end of January pending before our courts, and our priorities are cases where the individual is still in detention,” said Kathryn Mattingly, of the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the Department of Justice. “Detained cases are our highest priority.”

Since Sanchez-Milian was released, he did not fall into that priority category. Still, the Border Patrol agent could have detained Sanchez-Milian and then sent him back across the border – but did not.

“If the Border Patrol intercepts somebody within 200 miles of the border, they have the ability to return the individual,” an official from Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Fox News. “But these individuals often claim fear of returning to their home country or desire some sort of judicial review for special reasons like asylum, or a special visa, so they ask for a right to see a border judge.”

Sanchez was ordered to appear before an immigration judge, but the hearing had not yet been scheduled.

Just as I thought, part of the Wiberforce Act to take in central american "children" at the border YELLING "FEAR'" and bused all @ our nation pending years away court dates and possible refugee statues which means they can petition for their entire family to be on the dole here in USA WITH REFUGEE BENEFITS OF HOW MUCH MONTHLY - ssi is @ $750 plus healthcare, obama stated they will get $1700 monthly, healthcare and a smart phone.

This influx, tens of thousands, over the last 4 yrs from central america, majority will not be deported; we are assuming monetary existence to all these potential rapists, murderers with outlandishly unacceptable 3rd world mores' -try and visit their countries if you are on a death mission because they will kill and rape you outside of set tourist resorts - now they're HERE BY THE HUNDRED THOUSANDS - this is NOT ACCEPTABLE TO AMERICAN CITIZENS - get them out now - to hell with your humanitarian con job AND OUR $$$$BILLIONS CONGRESS OK'D FOR THEM TO BE HERE.

The Wilberforce Act needs to be repealed as much as the DACA memo does.

Turkey does NOT SCHOOL the "REFUGEES" CHILDREN - they won't assume financial responsibility nor the health risks, nor the different mores' mingling. It is temporary to allow safe haven from war zones or till/if they can con Eu to taking in more. In essence "don't stick @", promoting they're return asap.

Absolutely, artist. This is the result of foreign drug cartel lobbying. If our government was as concerned about foreign cartel lobbyists on our own continent as it seems to be with political lobbyists on others, we wouldn't be in as big a mess as we are today.

Originally Posted by Judy

These 2 just arrived 7 months ago so they aren't eligible for DACA.

Even if they dont qualify for DACA they may have been enticed here by DACA among the wave of unaccompanied illegal alien minors that Obama has welcomed into America at taxpayer expense.

W

High school rape gets drawn into immigration debate



KASEY JONES

Associated PressMarch 21, 2017
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As officials reported that one of two students charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in a Maryland high school bathroom entered the United States illegally, the crime became part of a national debate on immigration.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer, in response to a reporter's question at Tuesday's press briefing, called the crime "shocking, disturbing, horrific."

"I think part of the reason that the president has made illegal immigration and crackdown such a big deal is because of tragedies like this," he said.

Henry Sanchez, 18, and Jose Montano, 17, were charged in the Thursday assault at Rockville High School. The Washington Post reports that Sanchez lived in Guatemala until he was 17.

Matthew Bourke, spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a statement that a border patrol agent encountered Sanchez in Texas in August.

Sanchez was ordered to appear before an immigration judge, Bourke said, but that appearance has not been scheduled. ICE has since lodged an immigration detainer against Sanchez

According to court records, Montano, who was charged as an adult, was born in El Salvador, where he lived for 16 years. ICE officials would not discuss Montano's immigration status because he is a juvenile.

Jack Smith, superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools, pushed back against the focus on the immigration status of the accused students.

"Some try to make this into an issue of immigration," Smith said at a news conference Tuesday. "We would like to change the conversation."

While expressing horror at the crime and repeatedly assuring parents that their children are safe at school, Smith said, "We serve every student who walks in the door. It is not only the right thing to do, it is the law."

On Monday, Maryland's House of Delegates approved a measure to prevent authorities from detaining immigrants to ask about their immigration status.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said on WBAL radio that the crime represents a "worst-case scenario." He said the bill would prevent Maryland from cooperating with immigration authorities.

He vowed to veto the bill if it reaches his desk.

Preliminary hearings are set for Montano on March 31 and April 14 for Sanchez.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/officials...205309324.html

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Even if they dont qualify for DACA they may have been enticed here by DACA among the wave of unaccompanied illegal alien minors that Obama has welcomed into America at taxpayer expense.

W

Yes, that could be true! I think they're gang members and drug runners. I think that's why they're here.

I have been watching Fox News today as everyone is outraged and questioning how this happened. Where have they all been hiding. How many times have females of all ages, babies to grandmothers, been raped by these animals from south of our border? How many times have we posted these stories? No, they did not want any of these stories to go viral. They did not want the truth out there. They just wanted the sob stories. They want everyone to believe that all illegal immigrants are such good people.

In 2002 I went in front of the City Council in Morgan Hill, CA to complain about the Day laborers that were across from the school bus stop and were sexually harassing the girls waiting for their bus. These animals would even drop their pants and urinate and make sick comments to any and all females. One of the teenage girls was kidnapped, raped and killed. I was told that the city could not do anything because the Catholic Church was using their resources to protect these poor illegal immigrants. I was so upset that we moved and live in the country behind a big fence and locked gates.

It is time for the truth to come out. Way to many illegal immigrants are animals.

Public schools can not ask students about their immigration status