Americans have been struggling with the issue of immigration for some time now.
With most of us being descendants of immigrants to some degree or another (with the obvious
exception of the American Indians who beat us all here) we understand the importance
of accepting outsiders.
We also understand how impartiality it is to our future of our children that we retain
order in our immigration policies.
Not only would opening up the floodgates cause socioeconomic problems for the country, but
allowing known criminals to reside here is an unwise decision on every possible level,
but that's just what's happening.
Obama's free passes and handouts to anyone clever enough to jump, swim walk here has
allowed those who make it here to have almost unfettered access to unlimited resources to
support them while they do whatever they want.
In the case of Mexican national Jose Martinez, even his repeated one-way bus passes back
to Mexico wasn't enough to deter him from making the trip over and over; 20 times in
fact.
The ICE frequent flier must have had a good reason for coming, you're probably thinking.
Maybe he was determined to make a good living for his family, or he just loved freedom so
much that he couldn't be kept away.
The last one was kind of true since that freedom allowed him to kidnap, rape and sodomize innocent
Americans.
According to the Daily Mail, even though he was caught, tried and sentenced for his crimes,
he doesn't show the slightest remorse for his crimes.
In fact, he showed up for his sentencing with a sadistic smile, threatening the families
of his victims about when he would be seeing them again:
"A Mexican man who was deported from the US 20 times has been convicted of 10 counts
including sexual assault in Oregon.
On Friday, Sergio Jose Martinez, 31, was sentenced to 35 years in prison in a Portland courtroom
after pleading guilty to kidnapping, sexual assault, sodomy and several other counts,
KOIN reported.
Martinez smiled throughout the trial, and as he left, he gave one grim parting shot
to his two victims' relatives: 'See all you guys in Hell.'"
If this doesn't make your skin crawl, I don't know what will.
It's also proof positive that even though America's history has been built by our
acceptance of immigrants, they're not all coming here for the purpose of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
Some come to cause pain and suffering, no matter the consequences.
It stands to reason that if a person is willing to repeatedly break the law to enter this
country, they might just be willing to break it when they get here too.
In this case, the bloody consequences of an inadequate border wall will be being felt
by Martinez's victims for the rest of their lives.
More from our source about the detials of Martenez's crimes.
WARNING: These descriptions are not for the faint of heart.
The first attack occurred early on the morning of July 24, when Martinez entered the Northeast
Portland home of a 65-year-old woman through a window she had left open to cool the house.
Wielding a metal rod, Martinez told the woman to get down on the ground, where he bound
and blindfolded her, threatened to murder her, and then sexually assaulted her, KGW
reported.
He stole the woman's purse and car; she called the police from a neighbor's home,
and they located the vehicle and put it under surveillance.
While they kept an eye on the car, however, Martinez was stalking his second victim in
a parking garage on the corner of Northeast 21st Avenue and Northeast Halsey Street.
He approached her carrying a knife and made her get into her car; as he got in after her
she attempted to escape, but he was able to grab her and start slamming her head into
the ground.
The woman called out for help and as passersby approached, Martinez attempted to steal her
car, then fled on foot when it failed to start.
Police caught him minutes later.
Two relatives of one of the victims, and one of the victims herself, spoke during the sentencing
phase Friday, in which Martinez often grinned.
A brother of one victim told Martinez: 'Sergio, no sentencing is enough.
I rather you rot in Hell.'
Deputy District Attorney Amity Girt, the prosecutor on the case, said: 'We had some very powerful
victim impact statements that said it all.
'It was really breathtaking to hear the far-reaching consequences of violent crime,
the emotional injury.'
Under the agreement that spared Martinez a possibly longer sentence if he had been found
guilty at trial, he pleaded guilty to 10 counts, including first-degree burglary, sodomy, sex
abuse, kidnapping, robbery, and second-degree assault.
Martinez's lawyer, Jonathan Sarre, said his client 'suffers from some mental illnesses;
often such people may do inappropriate things in these situations.'
However, he acknowledged that a doctor had declared Martinez competent to stand trial.
Martinez had been freed from jail in Portland a week before the attacks; he was in there
for interfering with police and providing a false birth date.
He was released despite a request from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the
Multnomah County Sheriff's Office to hold him so the agency could take him into custody.
Oregon became America's first sanctuary state when it adopted a law in 1987 preventing
law enforcement from detaining people who are in the United States illegally but have
not broken other laws.
Sheriff Michael Reese said he could not legally continue to hold Martinez on the federal agency's
'immigration detainer' request, but if ICE had sent a criminal detention warrant
signed by a judge, he could have been held longer.
'He was released consistent with the orders of the court.
No federal or state criminal warrants were present at the time he left our custody,'
he said at the time.
However, he noted that Martinez had been deported before 'and has returned to commit additional
crimes.'
'It would help our community to understand how he was held accountable by federal authorities
for multiple, illegal re-entries' Reese said.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions highlighted Martinez's case when he visited Oregon in
September and urged local jurisdictions that don't cooperate with federal immigration
agents to reconsider those policies.
Martinez is not eligible for early release due to a 1994 ballot initiative passed by
Oregon voters that establishes mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes.
After 35 years, ICE would be able to take him into custody if they monitor his release
date, the attorney said.
By then, Martinez will be 66 years old.
ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley said that the agency will want Martinez transferred to its custody
when he completes his sentence, so it can deport him.
Just a day prior to Martinez's conviction, another man who had also been deported multiple
times for being in America illegally, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, was found not guilty by
a jury in San Francisco in the shooting death of a woman.
That case touched off a national immigration debate.
'Unfortunately, after Zarate got acquitted, Martinez is now the boogeyman of the face
of immigration,' Sarre said.
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