Posted on 04/22/2009 10:07:02 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
A year before Prince William County police say he raped an 8-year-old girl, court documents show an illegal immigrant from Honduras was released by Montgomery County police after being arrested for second-degree assault.
Marcos Banegas has been on the run since Feb. 16 when Prince William County police charged him with forcible sodomy and aggravated sexual battery of a Woodbridge girl.
But before moving to Prince William where police say he cut hair at a local salon, the 26-year-old was arrested by Montgomery County police. Banegas was accused of “violently” grabbing a stroller, causing the child inside to be shaken, police said in court documents. The incident allegedly occurred while Banegas was arguing with the child’s mother near the intersection of Muddy Branch Road and West Diamond Avenue in Gaithersburg.
The charges were later dropped, and Banegas was released. Had his name been sent to federal immigration authorities, as it was in Prince William County, Banegas would have been detained for deportation hearings.
Earlier this year, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett altered the county’s long-standing policy of not sending the names of those arrested to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Pushed by a series of high-profile killings allegedly committed by illegal immigrants, Leggett said in February the county would now send to ICE the names of people accused of violent offenses.
Leggett said the county would rely on the state’s legal list of violent offenses. But second-degree assault is not included on that list, and Banegas’ name would not have been turned over to ICE under the new policy, Leggett’s spokesman Patrick Lacefield said.
“People need to be held responsible for the crimes they commit,” Lacefield said. “Reporting every single crime would be putting county police in the position of enforcing federal immigration policy,” he added, calling on the federal government to reform immigration laws.
Jon Feere, a policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, said Banegas’ release “is a perfect example” of local governments failing to enforce immigration law.
“Legal residents are going to have their lives threatened by people who are in the country illegally if those people aren’t deported after having committed even the most minor of offenses,” Feere said. “Montgomery County and Maryland as a whole are slowly realizing sanctuary policies are bad policies.”
Why should any of us obey laws? When other do not have to.
Hmmm illegal immigrant child rapist. Pretty sure all illegal immigrant child rapists prefer Obama to McCain so where is the DHS report on Obama voters being potential illegal immigrant child rapists?
I read a lot of material about criminal activity by illegals in Prince William (and a lot of other places). Yet maddeningly, people never seem to elect anyone who will do anything about them. I never hear about some ideologue judge being recalled or impeached for thwarting enforcement of immigration laws. Instead those same judges monkeywrench their communities with impunity. Mayors, and their lapdog police chiefs routinely give citizens the finger, and the illegals continue to go about brazenly. Will this country ever get a handle on this corruption and malfeasance by our officials?
I don’t see the point.
Yes, he should have been deported.
But nothing would have prevented him from returning.
EFFECTIVE BORDER SECURITY...NOW!!!
Ping!
Can’t our government do anything right? We are tired of being threatened.
How many AMERICANS need to be killed before many of our locals decide that it might be a good idea to enforce the law?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Rapes by illegal aliens and immigrants who should never have been allowed to enter this country continue. On the same page as the Marcos Banegas case, was that of Ken Chong, a Chinese citizen who fled after being accused of armed rape in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Also on this page, MS-13 gang leader, Oscar Omar Lobo-Lopez was found guilty of murder committed in Springfield, Virginia. All these places are close to DC.
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