Wanted: More Child Predators in Buncombe County, N.C.?
When preposterous policy meets irresponsible reality, you get bunk
By Andrew R. Arthur on November 4, 2019
I've learned two things in 27 years of work in immigration: (1) Some ideas are so dumb only smart people can think them up; and (2) A lot of things may sound righteous in the abstract, but can lead to tragic consequences in the concrete. Buncombe County, N.C., reinforced both of these ideas when on October 29, 2019, it released a criminal alien child sex offender instead of handing him over to ICE.
The criminal alien in question is Marvin Ramirez Torres, a Salvadoran national who is illegally present in the United States. On that basis alone, he is subject to removal. And, in case you are curious about the charges he faced, the Asheville Citizen Times lays them out: "Torres was initially charged with four felony counts of statutory sex offense with a child. The victim was an 11-year-old girl; Torres was 23."
According to ICE, Ramirez Torres was caught in April 2017 in Jefferson Parish, La., on an outstanding warrant, ostensibly for those charges. The agency lodged an immigration detainer with Buncombe County the next month, and included an administrative arrest warrant.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Wanted-More-Child-Predators-Buncombe-County-NC
