|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
By Michael Bielawski
An illegal alien who has been charged with the rape of a 15-year-old disabled teen girl has been let go on a modest $500 bail despite a contrary request from the federal government.
Pundits note that the City of Boston’s sanctuary city status likely played a role. Vermont both as a state and some of its communities has similar sanctuary policies.
What happened in Massachusetts
The suspect is Cory Alvarez, he had been held without bail since March when he was initially arrested. He was freed on July 2 by the Plymouth County Superior Court.
This happened despite a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep him in custody.
The New York Post was told by the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office, “Our office moved to hold a dangerousness hearing and have Alvarez held without bail. The judge denied our motion.”
The New York Post reported, “Alvarez, 26, was released with an ankle monitor, but ICE officials can’t track him because Boston is a sanctuary city — meaning local authorities don’t have to cooperate with the feds.”
Similar to Vermont’s sanctuary status?
According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Vermont is considered one of at least 11 “illegal” sanctuary states.
“Vermont became an illegal alien sanctuary state in 2011 when Gov. Pete Shumlin (D) implemented a new policy – on the basis of State Police Rules and Regulations VSP-DIR-301 – that was prompted by the arrest of two Mexican nationals after being stopped for speeding.”
It continues that in 2017, Governor Scott signed S. 79, which added local police to those expected to follow sanctuary policies.
The FAIR report continues, “In 2020, as the result of a lawsuit filed by a pro-sanctuary special interest group, the state Department of Motor Vehicles pledged not to report illegal immigrants to the federal authorities.”
Most recently Vermont’s Fair and Impartial Policing policies have been updated in 2024.
The lengthy policy states, “The following do not on their own establish reasonable suspicion of a criminal offense and are not sufficient to warrant an investigation” On this list includes “Limited English Proficiency Citizenship or Immigration status” as well as “Presence in the United States without authorization or formal documentation” and “Proximity to the border.”
According to the USCIS Guide, which is from a private company that does immigration services, Vermont is not currently cooperating with the feds on immigration.
“Vermont is a sanctuary state, meaning that it has adopted laws and policies that protect undocumented immigrants from detention and deportation by providing them with a safe and supportive environment,” it states.
It continues to state, “However, Vermont does comply with federal laws and regulations when it comes to sharing information with federal law enforcement agencies when there is a legitimate threat to public safety.”
In Burlington, there has already been political friction between the federal government and The Queen City.
“The Justice Department is asking Burlington for documents that they believe will show if the city has been cooperating with federal immigration law as part of an escalating, nationwide crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities,” VtDigger reported in 2018.
Vermont sanctuary cities include Burlington, Winooski, and Montpelier.
The legislature’s summary notes that 20 V.S.A. § 4652 is now law via. Act No. 5 (S. 79).
According to the legislature’s summary, this means that “[The] Vermont Attorney General, is authorized to enter into, modify, or extend agreements pursuant to which State and local law enforcement can assist federal authorities in carrying out certain immigration and other functions. However, State and local law enforcement can enter into such agreements when it is necessary to address threats to the public safety or welfare of Vermont residents arising from a declared State or national emergency.”
VDC reached out to Lindsay Thivierge, the Director of Administration for the Vermont Criminal Justice Council. She is away but may update soon about whether what happened in Massachusetts should be a concern for Vermonters.
A national problem
Loose immigration enforcement in sanctuary cities is causing problems nationwide, including in America’s largest city.
The ICE website quotes Thomas Decker, their New York field office director who said, “Let us not gloss over the fact that the vast majority of the individuals arrested during this operation have criminal histories. It’s frightening that New York City politicians created laws that force local law enforcement agencies to release dangerous criminals back into the community despite the seriousness of their crimes.”
They also state the importance of sharing information with feds to mitigate threats.
“ICE relies on the exchange of information with its law enforcement agency partners to access foreign-born inmates at local, state, and federal facilities, and the use of detainers as part of its public safety mission. In many cases, these individuals pose a demonstrable threat to communities.”
The American Immigration Council offers a pro argument for sanctuary status.
It states, “These policies include offering English-language classes; issuing municipal identification documents and driver’s licenses to all residents; ensuring that immigrants have equal access to bail; establishing U-Visa policies to make it easier for victims of crime to obtain necessary documents from law enforcement agencies; and training criminal prosecutors and public defenders on the immigration consequences of convictions and plea deals.”
Questionable tactics by the feds?
The Vermont organization Migrant Justice notes they settled a lawsuit in 2020 with the feds regarding their use of an informant.
The activist organization wrote, “As part of a larger pattern of suppressing immigrant activism nationwide, federal immigration authorities infiltrated the meetings and private associations of Migrant Justice through the use of a civilian informant, invasively surveilled its members, and mined their social media pages for information.”
The writer is an author for the Vermont Daily Chronicle
Discover more from Vermont Daily Chronicle
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Categories: Crime, National/International News
Now I’m sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see what occurs when an innocent 15 years old gets raped in this state by an illegal. Between this and the taxes in this state we are looking more like California… a sinking ship.
Yes, this is what you get when you have Progressive leadership, fools in charge !!
Wake up people, this will be coming to your neighborhood…………………………..
Vote these clowns out, before its to late.
As I always say Scott is a wolf in sheep’s clothing taking direction from the United Nations via the U.S. Climate Alliance, whose agenda includes green energy and Net Zero, social equity including health equity and real DEI, and open boarders via designating Vermont as a sanctuary state. All of these are agenda items of the United Nations and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Does this surprise anyone?
What we are looking at here is likely just another cultural misunderstanding. When we invite or allow persons from other parts of our diverse world into our midst, we must understand that laws on the books here, like those regarding statutory rape and other forms of sexual assault prohibit actions that may be perfectly acceptable or commonplace in their cultures. It may be our own fault as a society for apparently failing to adequately explain to this newcomer to our land that forcing ones self on a 15-year old girl is not simply frowned upon, but actually illegal here. It may take time for some “new Americans” to fully comprehend that girls and women are not regarded as property and second-class citizens in the US, and so we must do our very best to help them accommodate and adapt to this concept that may be completely foreign to them. If this part of our culture and law was not fully explained to this man when he came here, then we all owe him an apology for the insult and inconvenience of his being treated as a common criminal. We also should hope he would accept an apology from our uncaring media for referring to him as an “illegal alien” since, as we all know, no human is illegal! Understanding, being tolerant of and accommodating the common cultural practices of newcomers to our land is part of us all celebrating diversity and our common humanity!
Do I detect sarcasm in your comment? I think some people will miss your point altogether, unfortunately.
I hope that was written sarcastically. If they legally immigrated and became naturalized they would know, respect and assimilate to our culture and laws. (Yes Americans have a culture!) When the your very first act in a country is breaking a federal law, why would you follow any other laws. This is on democrats.
He’s an illegal. He’s an alien. He’s a rapist and a criminal and waste of oxygen. Unbelievable that someone would express empathy for this animal-you liberals are as much a cancer on society as he is.
Ok, for those who didn’t figure that out, yes, it’s sarcasm. In reality, scum like that should be strung up by their peepee with piano wire.
Now that’s more like it! Unfortunately there are millions of leftist losers who actually believe the retort you wrote (however sarcastically).
This is absolutely disgusting that local and state law enforcement cannot work with federal PARTNERS, especially border patrol or ICE. Don’t we want to root out evil and get the bad guys off the streets so we don’t have rapes, burglaries, drugs, murders, smuggling, etc occurring? Who are the crazies who come up with these rules.?
No, we don’t want to root out the evil here. If we did, people would stop voting for progressives that have taken over the democrat party. So now when they see democrat and vote because their daddy did all his life, they are getting the new Dem/Progressive party that is ruining Vermont and wherever they are in power.
While these savages from other countries are dangerous, there is nothing more dangerous than politicians who support these sanctuary laws and allow these illegal aliens to prey on Americans and Vermonters. These people brought here by the likes of Shumlin and Scott are the bigger problem. Every time you read about a rape by an illegal, thank a progressive politician and those who vote to put these politicians in office. Ignorance is dangerous. Just hope that your daughter, son, husband, wife or other loved one is not the next news story!
Well a ballot is a ballot….
bring me your perverts, crooks, drug dealers, and assorted other people//// vermont waits with open arms for all the tourists////////
“”The New York Post was told by the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office, “Our office moved to hold a dangerousness hearing and have Alvarez held without bail. The judge denied our motion.””
Yeah, ‘cause there is nothing dangerous about an adult male raping a 15 year disabled girl. Let’s hope if this happens again the “sanctuary” patrol finds his ankle monitor in the woods attached to a decaying body.
The recidivism rate for dead criminals is indeed zero percent.
Insurance companies have the opportunity to raise your premiums in these nice sleepy towns of such nice sleepy states that have low claims. Look around. Third world nations are corrupt, their people impoverished, and certain politicians and traffickers are in cahoots. The USA has done quite a bit of that but through the legalities of manipulating laws here and there…
Until now. These days, we are becoming openly more like the corrupt 3rd world nations, not only through bribing them for decades on their turfs, but taking on bribes here stateside, as well. How do you suppose so much drugs, guns, and humans are moved around without a lot of it being caught? Luck?
The underground/black market system is alive and well. Mixing up the demons involved all over everyone’s towns is good insurance policy for those who will be jacking up your premiums.
I hate saying this as a woman myself, but all I needed to see was the massive moron women of all ages protesting FOR Sharia law in the USA. They actually WANT to be abused, raped, beaten, and murdered at the hands of psychopathic men who believe females are skin to a bag of garbage on trash night. Women keeping silent and electing extremists and following like lemmings deserve what they get. I’m sorry.
WelI hate to say it but, women voters generally are much more liberal and forgiving than men. And liberal voters are responsible for sanctuary laws which are unconstitutional, but no one does anything about it especially the spineless republicans here. Nothing will change until the voting changes. The schools have been dumbed down, the media is censored, and social media is not smart on your phone. Morality is gone, manners have disappeared and commonsense is no longer common. But keep voting the way you all are. Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome is the definition of crazy and the Vermonter voter is either woefully uninformed, crazy or both. And no, men aren’t perfect either, especially liberal men.
VIP1 What office will you be running for? The Republicans are not spinless, they are vastly out numbered.
Response to Karen,
For your information, I ran for office twice in Vermont. Now in my 70s I’ve paid my dues many times. The facts are that even the republicans in Vermont are now like the democrat party of old. If you are in the mood to shame or lecture perhaps you could look in the mirror. I owe society nothing and my opinion is my opinion. I want more republicans in Vermont but, not the type that vote for Joe Biden. Or the one’s who recently made a big plash for Nikkie Haley here in our primary. Our republican Gov. voted for Joe and told us he would be good for America.
Is this Soro’s “restorative justice”? I want to puke. What if that was the judge’s or DA’s daughter? We were warned about these times.
I haven’t noted anywhere that the use of a downsized guillotine isn’t appropriate resolution to such a problem. Unlike the Babbit scenario. The sex deviant criminal wouldn’t have that capacity again. Simple solution. AND others would be forewarned word spreads quickly. Hardly any taxpayer cost. Marie Antoinette in miniature.
…off with his cabeza!
It’s just astounding especially as the alleged rapist does not belong in this country at all. I don’t know Vermont’s bail situation, but in some blue states he may get let out without any bail.
Vermont has actually toughened its bail. Story for upcoming issue
One aspect of the American judiciary system is to quash vigilantism, Action such as this will justify the gruesome torture and murder of offenders. Especially if this young girl has a couple older brothers with a bad temper.
I thought phil scott said public safety was his top priority in 2024? What’s it going to take before our public safety becomes a priority with our legislature?
Progressive Wackos will argue that if this poor misunderstood Cory Alvarez had sufficient coloring books, crayons, service dog, and a fawning social worker that none of this would have happened and he would have morphed into an outstanding citizen. Vote Trump and pray that his policies will somehow overcome the weak and cowardly likes of Charity, Bernie Sanders, vacant legistlators and the rest of the Socialist (Communist) likes of the infiltrated and criminal enemy elements of our once prideful state…not the demonic sinful sexual perverse one…
OMG… liberal policies are the enemy of America. They are destroying out country…
We all ready see the results – how many dead bodies are piling up in the State? How many police blotters showing chaotic violence daily – assaults on elderly and young alike? Give a rousing round of applause to our Legislature and Administration for allowing this mayhem to ensue with impunity in our once “safe” Vermont. It is no longer “safe” and it is no longer immune to the ills of a society gone haywire. Fortify your homesteads, head on a swivel, and don’t take for granted that at any moment, you or a loved one will be the next police blotter entry courtesty of these foul beings lurking in our communities.
…and keep in mind that our democrat-majority legislature has also diminished our capacity to defend ourselves from the scum they have allowed to run wild by imposing:
-background check requirements for transfers to other than family members
-a 72 hour waiting period to receive a firearm from a dealer after purchase.
-so-called “safe storage” requirements when children or prohibited persons may have access
-restricting sales to those 21+ years of age
-magazine capacity limits
And just to add some irony to that situation…you can read the details of those restrictions on the website of the Vermont Department of “Public Safety”…
It was once the safest state in the nation. On many lists now, dependent upon criteria, it’s not even in the top ten!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember the bumper sticker “Vermont Sucks…..Tell Your Friends!” It’s not funny any longer. It’s serious.
In 2007, I was a bartender in Burlington and remember a rape that occurred on Monroe Street after the bars closed. It was stopped by four men in a passing vehicle. The attacker was some refugee from an East African country who followed her home directly from Red Square. Rather than tarnish the Refugee programs’ reputation, a Chittenden County judge plead down the charge and gave him 364 days prison to avoid deportation. That man is still a Legal Permanent Resident here (who votes locally now).
…just another “cultural misunderstanding”
But I was told that democrats are NEVER misogynists and advocate for & protect females in EVERY way including letting them murder their own babies AND allowing males to usurp their athletic scholarships and undress in front of them. So obviously, you MUST be mistaken…….