ICE arrested a member of the notorious MS-13 gang who was trafficking the deadly drug fentanyl in Providence, Rhode Island, on Sunday. Mayor Brett Smiley and the head of the city council held a press conference where they expressed concern about the possibility that the police might have assisted ICE in the arrest. They didn’t.
This is beyond crazy. Democrats increasingly look like they believe illegal aliens are their main constituency. How else are people supposed to see this?
WPRI News reports:
Providence police released body-worn camera video from one of officers that responded to a car crash involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.ICE pursued a suspect and ended up outside of a home on Alverson Avenue to try and arrest a known MS-13 gang member in Providence on Sunday. ICE spokesperson James Covington told 12 News the agency arrested Ivan Rene Mendoza Meza, 27, a Honduran national who Covington said is “a self-admitted member of MS-13” in his home country…On Tuesday, 10 members of the Providence City Council called on the Providence External Review Authority — a civilian oversight board that looks into allegations of police misconduct — to review the incident.“The presence of Providence Police officers next to ICE agents during the detainment has deeply disturbed the community,” city councilors wrote to Perez in a letter…Mayor Brett Smiley characterized the incident as “complex,” but said that the incident remains under review.“I’m interested in making sure that our community knows that Providence police are there to protect them, that they will not cooperate or sere as immigration agents, and that preliminarily, we believe that policy was followed in that instance, although it certainly was jarring video that I saw,” Smiley said at an unrelated news conference on Tuesday. “But upon closer review and understanding the full context of the circumstance, it feels like… it seems like at the initial outset, that Providence police acted in accordance with our existing policy.”
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A state lawmaker also chimed in, calling ICE agents the gestapo.
In related news, the Democrats have now dropped to a stunning 19 percent approval rating.
If Democrats want to drive that number down further, they should continue appearing to care more about criminals in the country illegally than they do about American citizens.
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