- I didn’t think I had any reason to be afraid
- Vermont’s Fair and Impartial Policing Policy
- The lie they tell illegals
- An example of two-tiered justice and the psychology behind it
- It’s why drug and human traffickers use states like Vermont
A County Sheriff pulled a vehicle over. According to reports, it was unregistered. A perfectly legitimate reason for a traffic stop, especially along a national border. In this case, Canada, and in this instance, one of the occupants was here illegally.
The 22-year-old Mexican farmworker was in the United States illegally, but he knew police officers in Vermont are strictly limited in enforcing federal immigration law. …
“I thought he would just stop us, do what he needed to do, and then we’d be on our way,” Jimenez said through an interpreter. “I didn’t think I had any reason to be afraid.”
VT Digger, which has a few stories on the stop and apprehension, calls it a “deportation and a test of Vermont’s Fair and Impartial Policing Policy.”
Records show a sheriff’s deputy used his personal phone to summon federal agents — then offered to buy them Subway.
The Migrant rights groups are quoted heavily and very displeased.
How dare you offer to buy your backup lunch? And we thought we had a deal. “Vermont’s Fair and Impartial Policing Policy.” That’d be the one where they ignore some criminal behavior to appease “migrant” groups, and progressives pining for a new electorate to keep them ensconced in power.
7 Days Vermont’s headline reads, “Officer Who Called Border Patrol to Traffic Stop Was Working for the Feds at the Time.”
Costella was participating in an obscure federal program called Operation Stonegarden, which pays local officers to work overtime shifts assisting the feds with border enforcement. Despite Vermont’s strict policies meant to prohibit state and local officers from enforcing federal immigration law, such arrangements are common across northern Vermont.
Migrant Justice doesn’t much care about the law; they care about their loophole.
“We’ve always said the existence of Stonegarden agreements are antithetical to the purpose, concept and goals of the Fair and Impartial Policing Policy and would inevitably lead to violations,” said Will Lambek, a spokesperson for Migrant Justice, “and that is exactly what has happened in this instance.”
Lambek needs to take a breather and think back to a time when President Obama, who deported a lot more illegals, thought I think Mr. Trump will eventually surpass him, ” took Arizona to court. The result was what you’d expect. Arizona was doing the Feds’ job without the Feds’ direction, and that had to stop. The feds are responsible for the capture and detention of anyone here illegally, and they can conscript willing volunteers to this purpose at their discretion and have a budget to do exactly that.
Vermont’s fake empathy is a lie. The process for changing the law is federal, and immigrants who think that will stop enforcement or anyone who tells illegals it will are lying to them.
You know you are. And you know it’s illegal. And your expectations that law officers will ignore lawbreakers say a lot, but not just about you. This isn’t a great look for the State of Vermont. Where the law doesn’t have to apply to one group because they just feel like it, it can most certainly be twisted to not apply to whoever it chooses.
Sanctuary status or related agreements are an example of two-tiered justice and the psychology behind it. It’s all Team Blue, and we’ve seen it at the border, in State Capitols, and inside the DC Beltway. Democrats ignore or apply laws for political advantage. The very definition of a problem they insist doesn’t exist. But it does, in Vermont, and elsewhere.
Alex Jimenez is back in Mexico because Vermont politicians and Migrant advocacy groups convinced him he had no reason to be afraid. And you have to wonder what the response would have been if the driver of the unregistered car saw Border Patrol instead of a county sheriff.
And if the car was registered, it may never have been stopped.
None of these stories seem to ask why it’s okay to drive an unregistered vehicle in violation of state law, or why the driver didn’t tell the unregistered illegal in it.
The only protection a state or advocacy group can offer to anyone who is breaking federal law is to make a case that the law violates an actual right protected by the Constitution. Sadly, not all states will do even that, and most states are the ones getting sued.
Vermont made a promise it can’t keep, and that’s not the fault of sworn officers whose oaths require them to enforce the law.
Law enforcement and elected leaders have defended Stonegarden as permissible, saying deputies on the shifts focus on crimes such as drug or human smuggling — not civil immigration violations. But Costella’s traffic stop shows how easily the line between the two can blur.
When you ignore the law, drug and human traffickers use states like Vermont to move product, sex traffic women and children, and let predators walk the streets of your neighborhoods.
Equally sad is the opinion of “management,” which believes that officers whose time is paid for by border enforcement can look for evidence of drugs or human trafficking, but if there isn’t any, illegals present are not to be detained because of Vermont’s “Fair and Impartial Policing Policy.”
Sgt. Scott Costella should consider the superior pay and bonuses offered by Border Patrol, and they are hiring. He can keep working the Canadian border looking for Mexicans, which should sound weird but isn’t, and Sheriff Gamelin can find himself a new Deputy.
It shouldn’t be too much of an issue. I mean, sure, the City of Burlington and the Vermont State Police are having a hell of a time recruiting, but that’s because they announced they didn’t have officers’ backs, especially when it came to equal enforcement or protection under the law. Kind of like you just did.
