Weakening accusations that Judicial Watch is racist for fighting a police department’s don’t-ask-don’t tell immigration policy is a black family’s emotional plea for “ask and deport” after their teenage son was brutally murdered by an illegal alien gang banger one day after the thug completed a jail sentence for a previous felony.
This blog pointed out last month how the Los Angeles Police Department’s longtime policy (Special Order 40) of banning officers from inquiring about suspects’ immigration status essentially allowed a notorious gang member—and illegal alien—to murder a high school football star 24 hours after being released from prison for assault with a deadly weapon.
The renowned 18th Street Gang member, Pedro Espinoza, should have been deported after being released from Los Angeles County jail but local authorities didn’t bother to initiate the process by contacting federal immigration officials. That’s because police in the Golden State's largest city (nearly 4 million residents) isn’t allowed to ask an arrestee’s immigration status. This enabled a violent illegal immigrant to remain in the country and take the life of a dedicated young athlete, who was being recruited by several top colleges.
Seventeen-year-old Jamiel Shaw, the son of an Army sergeant serving in Iraq, was walking home from the mall when several members from the violent Hispanic 18th Street Gang pulled up in a car. Espinoza shot him on the sidewalk and the star prep running back died instantly. Had the cops identified the gang member as an illegal alien during his previous encounters with the law, he would have been deported and Shaw would have gone on to fulfill his dream of playing college football.
This week Shaw’s parents appeared before the Los Angeles City Council to plead for changes in the LAPD’s outrageous policy forbidding officers from obtaining information on immigration status. His father proposed that the policy be changed so officers could at least check the immigration status of known gang members. This simple move would have saved his son’s life.
Judicial Watch has sued the LAPD over Special Order 40, which violates federal law since no police officer can be ordered to ignore and flout federal laws. The illegal mandate was implemented in 1979 by the city’s former police chief and the city council to supposedly gain the cooperation of witnesses and victims afraid to call police for fear of deportation.
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Americans have 280 million guns
It's time to line up along the border and start using them.
Chief William (Special Order 40) Bratton should be fired!
Chief Bratton, you're an embarrassment. This young man would be alive hadn't it been for your department's ridiculous immigration enforcement policies -- that you've more than condoned. If Walter Moore is elected Mayor, his second task, after getting rid of Special Order 40, hopefully will be to show you the door! And if you don't like it, please leave the state!
Special Order 40
In a nutshell Special Order 40 allows illegal aliens to operate with impunity. I think it's disgusting this so-called mayor as well as the cowardly Chief of Police and those cowards on the city council place a premium on political correctness instead of doing what's in the best interest of the "legal" residents of L.A.. The mayor and the city council essentially told the parents of Jamiel Shaw "we don't give a damn about your son losing his life" and by extension they're saying the same thing to all the residents of L.A.. It was the Shaw's son today maybe your child tomorrow. If the residents of L.A. don't vote this mayor and council members out of office then you get the government you deserve.
Spec.Order 40
Watch City Hall worm their way out of this one! I am so pleased Kevin James, KRLA, stood up and told that that bunch of clowns what they are. It makes me furious!
Special Order 40
Explaining Special Order 40
All sides of the immigration debate must reject the folklore about Special Order 40 and get real about removing violent criminals who can and should be deported.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-gangs9apr09,0,7691871.story
Ask and deport, family urges
Jamiel Shaw Sr. weeps while standing with his wife Anita Shaw before the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday. Their son's alleged killer, in the U.S. illegally, had been let out of jail onto streets.
The attack on the Los Angeles Police Department's Special Order 40 -- which limits when officers can ask about the citizenship status of suspects -- has come largely but not exclusively from anti-illegal-immigration forces.
But now the order has a new and potentially potent foe: the family of Jamiel Shaw Jr., the Los Angeles High football star who was killed last month. Police have charged a gang member who was in the country illegally with Shaw's slaying.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-specialorder9a...
From: buzzm1
To: mayor@lacity.org, councilmember.reyes@lacity.org; councilmember.greuel@lacity.org; councilmember.zine@lacity.org; councilmember.labonge@lacity.org; councilmember.weiss@lacity.org; councilmember.cardenas@lacity.org; councilmember.Alarcon@lacity.org; councilmember.Parks@lacity.org; councilmember.Perry@lacity.org; councilmember.Wesson@lacity.org; councilmember.Rosendahl@lacity.org; councilmember.Smith@lacity.org; councilmember.Garcetti@lacity.org; councilmember.Huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.Hahn@lacity.org
Subject: Special Order 40
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 6:16 pm
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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
District 1 - Ed Reyes
District 2 - Wendy Greuel
District 3 - Dennis P. Zine
District 4 - Tom LaBonge
District 5 - Jack Weiss
District 6 - Tony Cardenas
District 7 - Richard Alarcón
District 8 - Bernard Parks
District 9 - Jan Perry
District 10 - Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
District 11 - Bill Rosendahl
District 12 - Greig Smith
District 13 - Eric Garcetti
District 14 - José Huizar
District 15 - Janice Hahn
Dear Council Members:
All sides of the immigration debate must reject Special Order 40 and get very sertious about removing violent criminals, who can, and should be, deported, and do it NOW!!
Sincerely,
name deleted
A very concerned citizen
how sad....I hope the family
how sad....I hope the family get a good lawyer and sues.....and part of the settlement should include rescinding SO 40..hasta luego paisanos!!
they should start w/ those central americans....i heard many have deportation orders from when the old "catch and release" was in effect. They were caught along the border then set free with a piece of paper ordering them to appear before a judge.....the majority never showed up which led a deportation order being issued!!!
Treachury of the L.A. City Council
Beg, all you want. The L.A. city council is imprevious to the suffering of hundreds of people every year who have someone they love, slaughtered. Shame on this council and the Mayor Villaraigossa.
The law suit should also,
The law suit should also, include. The U S Government, the City of San Francisco. All special interest groups that support illegal aliens rights over our leagal citizans.
Villar
this Mayor of Los Angeles is a disgrace to our city. he's out there doing his job - protecting his backers - the Hispanics, illegals and gangs.
Shame on you! !
Slain Teen’s Family Begs LAPD To Ask And Deport
Why can't JW offer to initiate a class action law suit against the city of Los Angeles for all of the victims of murder by illegal immigrants?
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