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In California, public safety loses to open-border theater

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A triple homicide is committed, allegedly by someone the system had multiple opportunities to remove but chose not to, due to deliberate noncooperation by California. Families are shattered. The community is mourning. We have every right to call this simply outrageous.

This isn’t misfortune. It’s policy malpractice with a body count. 

And it perfectly embodies the indefensible standoff between California’s feel-good sanctuary model and actual federal immigration law.

As of early this year, DHS reported that sanctuary jurisdictions in California had released over 4,500 individuals with active ICE detainers since Jan. 20, 2025 –– including people with convictions or charges for homicide, sexual offenses, assault, drug trafficking, and weapons crimes.

Joaquin Escoto, accused of slaying an infant and two women in Modesto, fits the profile of a repeat offender the federal government sought to remove.

California’s excuse for defying the feds? “Building trust” and “not turning cops into immigration agents.” 

The practical result? Shielding repeat offenders like Escoto, who had already been thrown out of the country three times. 

The law in California makes enforcement harder by design, when applied to repeat deportees with criminal records. 

Honoring a simple ICE notification request after a DUI arrest for someone already removed from this country three times is not “mass deportation” or family separation theater.

It is basic coordination of public safety between sovereign levels of government on........

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