Newark murder suspects “fell through immigration cracks”
Jose Carranza, an illegal immigrant from Peru,
was indicted twice this year.
Jose Carranza, an illegal immigrant from Peru, was indicted twice this year: 31 counts surrounding the alleged sexual assault of a child, and nine stemming from a bar fight.
But federal immigration officials hadn’t heard of him until Thursday, when he was charged in the execution-style shooting deaths of three Newark college students.
“We certainly would have been inclined to place him in a removal proceeding, how ever we came across him,” said Marc Raimondi, spokesman for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Given that he is alleged to have committed a very serious offense against a child, that would have put him at the top of our list.”
New Jersey is among the places where local authorities aren’t required to check the immigration status of someone arrested, and some critics want that changed.
I live in a county in New Mexico where illegal immigrants are 15% of the population. Local politicians made it illegal - for the Police Department to check on the immigration status of anyone arrested!
Posted: Tue - August 14, 2007 at 10:55 AM