Trumps border czar rips Newsom after newly released illegal migrant allegedly butchered California man
President Trump’s border czar blasted Gov.Gavin Newsom and the state California over the death of a 68-year-old Bay Area man allegedly butchered by an illegal migrant in front of his home.Tom Homan said on Fox & Friends Thursday that the elderly Martinez man’s suspected murder wouldn’t have happened if not for politics.
“It’s just politics, a sanctuary jurisdiction.Over a decade, I can’t think of the hundreds of cases like this that happened.
It’s just one case after another after another,” Homan said of California’s “sanctuary city” designation.“This person’s dead because Governor Newsom and the state of California puts politics — hatred of President Trump — over public safety,” Homan said.The alleged killer, illegal Venezuelan migrant Marcos Iriarte-Valdez, 36, who also holds Spanish citizenship, is accused of fatally stabbing retiree Todd Stewart on his front lawn last week, with surveillance footage capturing the horrifying attack.Homan went off on the fact that Iriarte-Valdez had been released the day before the attack.He had been cut loose by a Newsom-appointed judge after violating the terms of his home detention related to a residential burglary case.The border czar said he was upset over how the governor’s office portrayed the situation as a failure by the federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.“We did our job.
We located this person in their facility.We did an investigation, found out he is an illegal in the United States, has a criminal history, he is deportable, so we issued a detainer, asking them to notify us before they release him,” Homan said.“There’s nothing against a sanctuary law in California for a deputy to just pick the phone up and just say that, ‘Hey, this guy is being released in a hour,'” he added.
“You don’t have to hold him one minute longer than you would normally hold him.”The politics of violating the state’s sanctuary laws have led to a culture of California not want...