Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy, the Nutmeg State’s senators, and Connecticut Congressman Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) had urged the inspector general to determine why ICE released Jacques, a 41-year-old illegal immigrant from Haiti, even though his prison file was marked “Detainer: Immigration.”
Jacques was released on parole into ICE custody in January of 2015 after serving a 17-year sentence for attempted murder. In fact, he was remanded to ICE twice. Instead of deporting him, though, ICE simply released him back into the public. Unfortunately, by June he had been arrested by local police again for the stabbing death of 25-year-old Casey Chadwick of Norwich, CT.
Jacques is being held in lieu of $1 million and is charged with the woman’s murder.
The elected officials banded together to ask the IG how Jacques was free to be in a position to allegedly commit the murder. With the IG’s announcement, the three officials released a statement celebrating the investigation.
Murphy, Blumenthal, and Courtney said:
This death is on the CT liberals who passed the law that put him back on the street. It looks like you needed to look closer at the details of what you were doing.
ReplyDeleteState laws regarding immigrants must be at least as strict as federal laws. Watering them down at the state level is a mistake, one glaring example of which can be seen here. This woman would be alive today if...
ReplyDeleteAnd someone should go to jail.
ReplyDeleteGive them a set of clothes, a sandwich and send them back to the hell hole they came from.
ReplyDeletebecause he used a knife and not a gun?
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