Inside feds stealth mission to deport California killers, rapists and child molesters
Federal authorities snared a child molester, a rapist and an accused killer in a sophisticated operation that has rid Southern California of hundreds of criminal illegal migrants.The mission, called “Operation Guardian Angel,” has so far collared 362 previously deported illegal migrants using federal law to defeat California’s controversial “sanctuary state” rule prohibiting local police from cooperating with immigration agents even if they wanted to.During a recent action, The California Post watched as federal agents rushed from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office at the Roybal Federal Building and sped across downtown Los Angeles to the infamous Twin Towers jail, where they grabbed criminal migrants from county custody.“We’re writing federal warrants in real time, so we can force jails to hand criminal aliens over to our custody before they’re released,” LA’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Essayli, told The Post.“It’s keeping bad guys from ever getting back out into the streets.” Under “Operation Guardian Angel,” the feds identify foreign nationals arrested by police for local crimes and quickly hit them with new, federal charges so ICE officers can take them in to custody before they’re released back into the public.Local jails are legally required to hand over criminal illegal migrants when presented with federal warrants.The operation is currently active in the six Southern California counties in Essayli’s jurisdiction: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura.During an operation last week, a group of seven migrants that emerged from the belly of Twin Towers had been recently arrested and charged with crimes including domestic battery, reckless driving causing injury and illegal firearms possessionAll of them had been previously convicted of entering the US illegally and subsequently deported, making them eligible for federal felony charges of illegal reentry.
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