At least someone’s doing something about this disgraceful travesty.

Councilman Ron Rice is trying to get legislation passed that will make it tougher for the Jose Carranzas of the world to perpetrate their atrocities on an unsuspecting public. From Asbury Park Press:

As police continued to search for additional suspects in the
execution-style killings of three young people in Newark, the debate over the immigration status of one of those already arrested picked up political steam.

A city councilman announced Monday that he was introducing a bill to require Newark police to contact federal immigration authorities whenever they arrest someone living in the country illegally who is charged with committing a felony.

The bill is the first piece of legislation that has resulted from the horrifying shooting of four Newark college students, which left three dead and one wounded.

One suspect, 28-year-old Jose Carranza, was an illegal immigrant from Peru who was granted bail earlier this year when he was charged with assault and child rape. On Monday, a judge revoked his $200,000 bail at the request of prosecutors. Carranza’s attorney did not object.

Carranza attended the 5-minute hearing but did not speak. His listened to the discussions, which were translated, through headphones.

“He clearly should not have been out on the street,” said City Councilman Ron C. Rice, who is sponsoring the new immigration measure in City Hall.

The guidelines Rice is calling for would change policy for law enforcement in the city.

Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, told The Star-Ledger of Newark that the office generally refers cases of illegal aliens to federal immigration authorities only after the defendant is convicted and sentenced. Notifying authorities earlier might result in having suspects deported before they could be punished for their crimes.

The Newark massacre shows the danger of sanctuary cities, a danger Fred Thompson illustrates in detail on his blog:

If you listen to folks who oppose immigration and border enforcement, you get the feeling they think we put locks on our doors to keep everybody out. The truth is we have locks so we can choose who comes in.

An example of what happens when we don’t make the choice took place August 4th when three Newark, New Jersey, college students with great promise were executed, gangland style. The killers’ ringleader was apparently an illegal alien indicted twice in 2007 for felonies, including the rape of a kindergarten-aged girl.

Why would such a person be set free instead of being handed over to authorities for deportation? The answer is that Newark is a “sanctuary city” which bans cooperation between local officials and federal immigration officials. More than 60 sanctuary zones, including 30 of America’s largest cities, provide a national networked haven for foreign and organized criminals who recruit and operate outside those areas as well. These sanctuaries include Cambridge, Massachusetts; Los Angeles, California; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Austin and Houston, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and New York City.

The consequences of “sanctuary cities” may be most obvious in the city that became the first in 1979 — Los Angeles. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, a confidential California Department of Justice study from the mid-1990’s showed then that at least 60 percent of the members of L.A.’s most violent gangs, with membership in the tens of thousands, were illegal aliens. Of all outstanding murder warrants in Los Angeles, 95 percent are for illegal aliens. Frustrated police say they are powerless to pick up even well-known, previously deported felons.

Blacks are especially vulnerable to violent hate crimes committed by Latino gangs, and in this disturbing case it is suspected that the murderers were part of MS-13 which has been establishing its presence in Newark for the last few years. Knowgangs.com has a concise profile of this dangerous organization, and as of 2005 MS-13 was thought to have 6000 members in Northern Virginia alone. Even back then authorities were alarmed by their over the top violence. From American Intelligence:

The signs of a new threat in northern Virginia emerged ominously in blood-spattered urban streets and rural scrub. Two summers ago the body of a young woman who had informed against her former gang associates was found on the banks of the Shenandoah River, repeatedly stabbed and her head nearly severed. Last May in Alexandria, gang members armed with machetes hacked away at a member of the South Side Locos, slicing off some of his fingers and leaving others dangling by a shred of skin. Only a week later in Herndon, a member of the 18th Street gang was pumped full of .38-caliber bullets, while his female companion, who tried to flee, was shot in the back. The assailant, according to a witness, had a large tattoo emblazoned on his forehead. It read MS, for Mara Salvatrucha, the gang allegedly responsible for all these attacks.

At the nearby headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, agents—many of whom live in these communities—fielded the reports with mounting alarm. But Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, wasn’t terrifying just northern Virginia. “They were popping up everywhere,” says Chris Swecker, assistant director of the FBI’s criminal investigative division. “It seemed like we were hearing more and more about MS-13.” Then one day last fall, FBI Director Robert Mueller called Swecker into his office. “You have a mandate to go out and address this gang,” Mueller told him. Mueller declared MS-13 the top priority of the bureau’s criminal-enterprise branch—which targets organized crime—and authorized the creation of a new national task force to combat it. The task force, which includes agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), aims to take on MS-13 much as the FBI once tackled the Mafia.

MS-13 spreading into Newark, a transportation hub not just to the New York City environs but deep into the heart of suburban New Jersey, is troubling. It is especially troubling for inner city Blacks, as MS-13 has been involved in prison race riots some of the worst gang violence in the last ten years:

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Ron Rice is on the right track, but he and all of Newark are in for a long few years if the MS-13 infestation is allowed to take hold. It’s time for all sides to put aside their petty political differences and deal with this threat decisively and before more innocent lives are lost.

h/t No More Spin via Banks of the Potomac