Diehl: Does Warren Believe that Illegal Immigrants Should Vote?

July 22, 2018

Diehl Critical of Warren Calling for Abolishment of ICE

Great Barrington, MA … Today, outside of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s town hall meeting, Representative Geoff Diehl, the endorsed Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, asked whether or not she believes illegal immigrants should be able to vote in elections.

“Like most Massachusetts residents I was disappointed that Senator Warren would call for the abolishment of an important law enforcement agency such as ICE. We now need to know whether or not she will push for the extreme radical idea of allowing illegal immigrants to vote in our elections,” challenged Diehl. “I strongly believe that you have to be a United States citizen to vote in elections that determine how we are governed.”

Last Monday, the City of San Francisco started allowing illegal immigrants to vote in school elections. Chicago and some communities in Maryland allow non-citizens to vote in elections. Here in Massachusetts, the Boston City Council has been considering a proposal that would allow non-residents to vote in city elections. Brookline, Amherst and Cambridge have passed measures allowing non-citizens to vote, but they still need approval at the state level to implement.

“We cannot allow people who came to our country illegally to influence our elections. Does Senator Warren agree with me?” questioned Diehl. “We cannot give the ultimate civic right to illegal immigrants because that would diminish the votes of our legal citizens and remove the incentive for becoming a legal citizen. It could ultimately lead to foreigners running our country.”

This week Diehl also expressed alarm about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s support for sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants. Diehl has obtained a report from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Boston Field office outlining arrests for a ten week period this year.

Between March 19 to May 30, 2018 ICE identified 456 illegal individuals warranting removal in Massachusetts, and issued over 200 detainers. These individuals were arrested for crimes including rape, assault, firearms possession, drug distribution & trafficking, domestic violence, DUI, among others. Due to sanctuary policies, 130 of those 456 individuals were released from state custody.

“ICE is protecting us from some very dangerous people. Senator Warren should look beyond her 2020 Presidential talking points and put the safety of Massachusetts first. I am urging our Senator to reverse her position of wanting to abolish ICE,” said Diehl. “Her pro-illegal immigrant position not only encourages more people to dangerously cross our borders, but it would also allow 200 dangerous criminals, including rapists, back on our streets.”

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement  to be replaced with an agency that reflects America’s morality and “that works,”

The field report exposes how sanctuary policies are allowing dangerous criminal illegal immigrants back on to our streets in Massachusetts. Here are a few examples:

In April, an illegal, who was previously deported and had convictions for assault & battery, was arrested for raping a Boston College student. The Newton District Court did not turn him over to ICE.
In January, two illegal heroin dealers were arrested, but Worcester’s sanctuary policies prevented ICE from detaining them, and they were released.
In February, a fugitive alien who was arrested for domestic violence was released by the Lawrence District Court.
Also, in February, an illegal, who was facing removal proceedings, was arrested for armed robbery. The Lawrence District Court released him.
In March, a previously deported illegal was arrested for possession of cocaine. He was released by Newton District Court.

The field office also reports that there were a “high number of removable aliens charged with the distribution of heroin and fentanyl released from state custody without the notification of ICE.”

In 2017 ICE made 33,000 arrests of criminal illegal immigrants and they confiscated 2,600 pounds of fentanyl at the border.

“By enacting sanctuary policies and intentionally disregarding ICE detainers, Massachusetts agencies are not only purposefully hindering federal activities, they are protecting and releasing violent criminals into our neighborhoods. The evidence is clear that ICE is protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth and Senator Warren is just plain wrong for wanting to abolish ICE. Our United States Senator should always be putting the public safety of our citizens ahead of illegal aliens,” said Diehl.

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