Sentenced: Denver Released Guatemalan Assault Suspect Despite Immigration Detainer After Seriously Injuring Woman

[Sugar Cookie]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says an illegal immigrant for whom it had issued a detainer allegedly attacked a woman shortly after he was released from custody in another assault.

Julio Andres Gonzalez-Palacios, a 23-year-old Guatemalan national, was arrested July 9 in Denver for assault and burglary. On July 10, the Denver Justice Center released Gonzalez-Palacio back into the community, ignoring an immigration detainer issued by ICE, the agency alleges.

That same day, according to police, Gonzalez-Palacios allegedly assaulted a woman on the High Line Canal Trail in Aurora – about 16 miles west of Denver. The woman, whose identity was not released, was seriously injured and remains in the hospital, KCNC-TV reported.

Gonzalez-Palacios is now back in the custody of the Arapahoe County Jail facing a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The Denver Justice Center could not be reached for comment.

“This was a completely preventable crime,” said John Fabbricatore, field office director, ERO Denver. “Gonzalez-Palacios could have been safely transferred to ICE custody and he may have been removed from the country, but due to Colorado’s misguided sanctuary law, law enforcement agencies are no longer able to work with us to keep repeat offenders off the streets.”

ICE says Gonzalez-Palacios entered the U.S. through Florida as a nonimmigrant visitor. He allegedly failed to honor the terms of admission, staying past June 3, 2017 – the date of his agreed-upon departure.

Since then he has been convicted of multiple crimes in the Denver area, including theft, assault, failure to appear and trespassing, ICE says

ICE: Denver released Guatemalan assault suspect despite immigration detainer

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says an illegal immigrant for whom it had issued a detainer, allegedly attacked a woman shortly after he was released from custody in another assault.

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[Sejanus]

Looks like a dirty Jeff Goldblum.

 

[Symmachus]

Whether the assault (or other crime) is committed by a domestic citizen or a foreign national, it is not worse from a moral standpoint regardless of who performs said crime. However, it is far more awkward, thorny, and perhaps serious when someone commits a crime, even if petty, when they are visiting or living in a nation other than their own original or current nation; this is applicable anywhere in the world.

It is a uniquely poor decision to willfully commit a crime or malfeasance foreign soil because of the legal bureaucracy and wrangling that follows the act: something that is inflated in comparison to a citizen committing a crime in his or her own nation or locality. A citizen committing a crime, for example, does not have to worry about any possibility of being extradited or deported, or answering to a strange nation(-state)'s even stranger legal authority, who may or may not be able to articulate or care about the alleged criminal's native language.

Not only that, but it can also add to biases against foreign visitors or nationals, and can indirectly contribute to discrimination against future similar nationals (who may easily be innocent and honest). At worst, an international incident can be created (i.e. LiAngelo Ball and co. shoplifting in China while on a foreign assignment to play basketball; Otto Warmbier being (perhaps falsely) accused of tearing down a North Korean propaganda poster, then being crippled by North Korea's government and dying on American soil; the entire years-long Amanda Knox saga.)

All then there are the prisons themselves, which may be a fine enough place to stay...

...but they're prisons. So most likely not (including America's prisons).

 

[Keepalowprofile]

All then there are the prisons themselves, which may be a fine enough place to stay...

...but they're prisons. So most likely not (including America's prisons).

I did have someone from mexico straight up tell me prison here in the US is better than mexico.

He was a nopolito (spelling) his whole family were nopolitos that is a cactus cutter the edible kind.
the work is hard and miserable and the pay is extremely low. Like so low its hard to comprehend.
Its been years since we had this conversation.
I paid him to do some yard work for me.
He worked for a couple of hours and i paid him $30
He said he would have to cut cactus for more than a week from sun up to sun down and still not make that much money.

 

[Exodus]

I'm going to laugh my ass off if it turns out the victim happened to be one of those in the Sanctuary Cities, Down with ICE, Not My president Protest/Riots! Oh gawd the Irony it would be.. regardless she probably now has legal grounds to go after Denver for those medical expenses.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

GONZALEZ, JULIO C

Est. Parole Date: 11/16/2036

Est. Mandatory Release Date: 09/06/2046

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His actual sentence is 25 years.

He will face deportation after he completes his sentence.