“Unlike the Philadelphia government, we are not on your side.”
United States Attorney William McSwain used a recent case of an undocumented immigrant who raped a 5-year-old girl as evidence that Philadelphia’s sanctuary city policy threatens its residents’ safety.
In 2009, Ramon-Vasquez was deported and sent back to his home country of Honduras, according to the Department of Justice. However, he once again entered the United States and in 2014, the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement discovered he was in the country. At the time of the realization, Ramon-Vasquez was in the custody of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, but he was released despite ICE issuing a detainer.
McSwain, who was nominated by President Donald Trump, claimed that had the ICE detainer been honored by law enforcement, Ramon-Vasquez would not have been able to rape the child. Without the crime being committed, the attorney said the victim would not have suffered physical and mental trauma. Before his sentencing, the 50-year-old swore to Quiñones Alejandro that he would never return to the United States once he was deported for the second time.
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