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Good news out of Philadelphia! A Philly cop turned an illegal immigrant over to ICE despite city's 'sanctuary city' status

Deportation machines abound at local convenience stores! 🙂

Philadelphia is like a lot of major cities, declaring itself to be a ‘sanctuary’ city for all immigrants, by which they meant illegal immigrants. The city government was not going to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Well, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported some good news on that front.

Charges against a man were dismissed. Then a Philly police officer escorted him into ICE custody.

A judge had dismissed charges against the Dominican National when, according to his lawyer, court and sheriff staff said he was wanted by ICE officers. A Philly police officer then stepped in.

by Samantha Melamed and Max Marin | Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 12.01 PM EDT | Updated: 5:47 PM EDT

A Philadelphia police officer escorted a Dominican national out of Philadelphia’s criminal courthouse and into the custody of U.S. immigration authorities last week, shortly after a judge had dismissed all criminal charges against the defendant.

The Defender Association of Philadelphia and other advocates questioned what the apparent cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) meant for Philadelphia’s so-called sanctuary city policies.

Jean Carlos Brito-Munoz, 30, was arrested on April 2 for allegedly carrying a concealed firearm without a license in the city’s Juniata section, according to police and court records. But Municipal Court Judge Bradley K. Moss dismissed the felony charge on April 17 for lack of evidence.

Lack of evidence? How, exactly, is there a “lack of evidence” against someone arrested for carrying a concealed firearm without a license? Was a firearm actually recovered and confiscated?

At that time, Brito-Munoz would have been free to go.

Instead, a Philadelphia police officer in the courtroom informed court staff and sheriff’s deputies that Brito-Munoz was wanted on another arrest warrant, said Brendan Kenney, spokesperson for the First Judicial District.

According to Brito-Munoz’s public defender, a sheriff and a court staffer instructed Brito-Munoz to remain in the courtroom. The defender instructed her client to leave. The police officer then stepped in and escorted Brito-Munoz outside, to awaiting federal authorities. He remains in immigration detention at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia.

Wait, what? Informed that Mr Brito-Munoz was wanted on another arrest warrant, his public defender instructed her client to leave? Can an attorney advise her client to elude arrest?

A police department spokesperson, Eric Gripp, said that the Spanish-speaking officer “offered to walk with Brito-Munoz downstairs for translation purposes” but did not detain him.

Brito-Munoz, Gripp said, surrendered on his own. The department did not immediately explain where the officer was assigned, what he was doing in the courtroom that day, or why he alerted other officials in the courtroom. A person with knowledge of the situation said the officer was detailed to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, which has been working with ICE in other jurisdictions. That source was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The article continues to tell both of the newspaper’s remaining readers that while Philly is supposed to be a ‘sanctuary city,’ ICE has been able to detain illegal immigrants — the newspaper used the term ‘someone’ — outside the courthouse, though such did not involve any action by the police. The city’s inept former Mayor, Jim Kenney, who spent eight years in office letting crime rise and the drug problems fester and grow, issued an edict instructing city law enforcement officers not to honor immigration detainment orders, and ICE (supposedly) has no access to the Police Department’s arrests database or records.

Mayor Cherelle Parker Mullins has not reaffirmed the city’s sanctuary status since taking office, but she has not rescinded her predecessor’s orders.

Regardless of what happened in the Brito-Munoz case, it is clear that information has been flowing between local police and federal law enforcement.

Scores of deportation cases filed in the U.S. Eastern District of Pennsylvania in recent years followed a pattern: First, a person is arrested by the Philadelphia Police Department or another local department for offenses ranging from drunken driving to drug dealing to assault. Then, police run the defendant’s fingerprints through a federal database. If the person has previously been deported, that automatically pings ICE, according to court paperwork.

In other cases, ICE agents made arrests in the field while serving on a joint drug task force in collaboration with Philadelphia police or the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office — using portable fingerprint scanners to immediately identify those who had previously been deported, according to court records.

Heh! You can run, but you cannot hide!

Thus far, the newspaper has not told us that the unnamed police officer in question acted alone or violated department orders. I’m waiting for columnists Jenice Armstrong, Helen Ubiñas, and Will Bunch to demand that he be identified and fired, but, as of Thursday morning, I haven’t seen their spittle-flecked wrath in print. Miss Armstrong’s latest is “It’s time for a Black pope for the Catholic Church. Actually, it’s way past time,” but I’m pretty sure that she’d eat those words if that black pope turned out to be Robert Cardinal Sarah! 🙂

I’m old enough to remember when our friends on the left cheered the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of Lozano v City of Hazleton, in which the appellate court invalidated Hazleton, Pennsylvania’s, ordinance seeking to keep illegal immigrants out of the city. The court said that immigration was the exclusive authority of the federal government, and lower government levels had no authority to intercede. Yet those same people on the left want to use state and local ordinances to interfere with the federal government’s exclusive authority over immigration when it comes to protecting illegal immigrants.

I definitely hope that this Philadelphia Police officer doesn’t get in any trouble for doing his duty.

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Requiescat in Pace, Pope Francis

My Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — feed was full of chortling posts claiming that the Vatican denied Vice President J D Vance a meeting with Pope Francis, sending the Vatican’s second-ranking official instead, in what the left loudly proclaimed was a deliberate snub to Mr Vance.

That’s not quite what it was.

The story behind JD Vance’s unlikely visit with Pope Francis

Vance and Francis had publicly disagreed in recent months on immigration policies and other aspects of church teaching.

by Natalie Allison | Monday, April 21, 2025 | 3:19 PM EDT

VATICAN CITY — On JD Vance’s final morning in Rome, the headlines that the pope had snubbed him were already a day old. Donald Trump’s vice president had come on the busiest weekend of the church’s Jubilee year, expecting a meeting with a sickly pope who had already condemned his policies. Of course the head of the church hadn’t granted it, his critics gloated.

Then, on Easter morning, the streets of Rome shut down.

A motorcade whizzed by with a Vatican flag billowing opposite the Stars and Stripes on Vance’s Chevrolet Suburban. The vice president had been called for an audience with Pope Francis.

Vance and Francis have publicly disagreed in recent months on immigration policies and other aspects of church teaching, so an Easter Sunday meeting with the pope was notable. But for Vance, a 40-year-old Catholic convert, to become one of the few individuals to meet Francis on the last full day of his life, when the pope was visibly lacking strength to speak or express emotion, was historic.

Can we tell the truth here? Yes, the Vatican was hugely busy during the Easter weekend, and His Holiness the Pope also knew what no one in any authority in the Vatican wanted to admit publicly: the Pope was dying.

Yes, Pope Francis was very opposed to President Donald Trump’s policies of rounding up and deporting illegal immigrants. But, as USA Today noted:

Barack Obama was moved by Pope Francis’ moral perspective on world problems. Donald Trump said the pontiff made him more determined than ever to pursue peace. And Joe Biden said Francis was happy he was a good Catholic.

Presidents Obama and Biden fully support prenatal infanticide, something which the Catholic Church holds as a very grave mortal sin, and Mr Biden, a Mass-every-Sunday Catholic, went even further than Mr Obama, pushing for taxpayer-funded abortion nationwide in 2025 budget plan and other proposals, along with a federal fund for people who need to take time off work and pay for childcare to obtain an abortion. I’m not exactly certain how that makes Mr Biden a “good Catholic.”

Mr Trump, during his first term when he met with the Holy Father, has always been kind of wishy-washy on abortion, though he did appoint three of the Supreme Court Justices who overturned the repugnant Roe v Wade, but his immigration policies during that term were very much oppose to the Vatican’s view.

Yet the Holy Father met with all of them.

Back to The Washington Post:

“Hello, so good to see you,” Vance said as he approached Francis in his wheelchair. The pope was about to speak a few words to a crowd of tens of thousands in St. Peter’s Square before an archbishop read Francis’s final Easter homily. The message decried “how much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants.” The address also warned against elected officials who “yield to the logic of fear, which only leads to isolation from others.”

Vance, in the days leading up to the visit, had vehemently defended the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation agenda, slamming both the “illegal migrant invasion” under President Joe Biden and the “smug, self-assured bullshit” coming from critics of Trump’s deportation policies. The vice president has relished the role of attack dog in an administration that prizes dominance and retribution.

Yet in a plain and starkly lit room in Casa Santa Marta, the pope’s residence[1]Pope Francis chose not to live in the Papal Apartment, preferring a much simpler two-room suite in Casa Santa Marta. within the Vatican, the two men offered only kindness to each other. Vance had sprinted to the pope’s home for a meeting that lasted mere minutes. And he did most of the talking, offering a show of deference not commonly seen since he joined Trump’s ticket and got an office in his White House.

“I know you’ve not been feeling great, but it’s good to see you in better health,” Vance said.

I guess that last was a bit premature!

The position of the Catholic Church on social and political subjects is not something which can be easily categorized as conservative or liberal, right or left wing. The Church is opposed to homosexual marriage, declared homosexual activity to be mortally sinful, homosexual inclinations to be “intrinsically disordered,”[2]From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: §2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the … Continue reading and is opposed to ‘transgenderism’ in any form.

Yet the Church is fully committed to open immigration, and is wholly opposed to war, whether the war in Ukraine, which Mr Biden supported and Mr Trump wants to end, or in Gaza, in which our 46th half-heartedly supported Israel, while our 47th is sending Israel even more powerful weaponry. The Church is opposed to capital punishment.

John F Kennedy, our first Catholic President, had to make clear during his campaign that he would not be ‘taking orders’ from the Vatican. President Biden appeared to be devoutly Catholic, but differed from the Church on many issues. And now, Vice President Vance, a Catholic convert at age 35 who also attends Mass almost every Sunday, has his political differences with the Church, but has apparently no religious differences.

It is a common failing of political liberals and political conservatives alike to try to pigeonhole the late Pontiff specifically, or Catholic Church in general, as liberal or conservative, because our faith is not based on politics. While I would not claim to know the Vice President’s reasons for disagreeing with the Church on immigration, I can tell you mine: the unregulated influx of immigrants, some good people and some very bad, are an attack on Western civilization, the foundation which the Church both built and upon which it depends for its survival. We need a society that is internally peaceful for Christianity, whether Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox, to survive.

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↑1 Pope Francis chose not to live in the Papal Apartment, preferring a much simpler two-room suite in Casa Santa Marta.
↑2 From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

§2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

§2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

§2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
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Another Philly illegal immigration sob story

There were so many interesting headlines in today’s news that it has been difficult for me to choose just one on which to write.

But, as always, there is the newspaper that I frequently refer to as The Philadelphia Enquirer, which is not actually spelled that way. RedState writer Mike Miller called it the Enquirer, probably by mistake, so I didn’t originate it, but, reminiscent of the National Enquirer as it is, I think it very apt. And this morning, it was opinion columnist Jenice Armstrong, one of the Usual Suspects:

Her husband was outside, yelling for her when ICE grabbed him. She hasn’t seen him in person since.

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This is what winning looks like President Trump was right all along: we didn't have to accept some illegal immigration to reduce illegal immigration in total; we could fight illegal immigration without compromise.

American military on border gate between California and Mexico at San Ysidro. Photo by Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times. Click to enlarge.

One of President Trump’s main campaign promises was to close the border to illegal immigration. It’s easier to intercept and interrupt illegal border crossing than it is to round up illegal immigrants already in the United States, and that policy is absolutely working. Not only are the Border Patrol undertaking stronger efforts to stop the illegals from crossing, but the President’s policies have discouraged many more from even trying.

The Los Angeles Times is one of America’s (formerly) great newspapers, and of an extremely liberal editorial slant. But even that newspaper has to tell the truth sometimes:

California-Mexico border, once overwhelmed, now nearly empty

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That thing that never happens has happened again

The murder of Laken Riley by José Antonio Ibarra, an illegal immigrant released into the US by Customs and Border Patrol during the Biden Administration because the surge in apprehended border crossers had worsened to a point where they did not have enough space at a detention facility to hold him, was a rare, rare event, certainly nothing over which to criticize our 46th President’s compassionate immigration policies. Such criticism was inflamed by the evil reich-wing former President Donald Trump, for political gain, don’t you know.

Detectives arrest a subject who sexually assaulted children.

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Hold them accountable! When will we hold those who have enabled illegal immigration accountable for the violent crimes some illegals have committed?

Joel Quintana-Dominguez

That thing that never happens happened again! Another poor, hard-working, only-wanted-to-better-himself-and-his-family, illegal immigrant has been charged with serious crimes.

‘Disgusted and sickened’: Man accused of trying to flee country after sexually assaulting child in Shelby Twp.

By Jessica Dupnack | July 30, 2024 | 9:26 AM EDT

SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (FOX 2) – After allegedly sexually assaulting a family member numerous times, Shelby Township police say the suspect started packing up to flee the country.

Officers began investigating 32-year-old Joel Quintana-Dominguez on July 15 after learning that he may have sexually assaulted a minor who was not even a teenager yet. Continue reading →

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The left are aghast that President Trump is keeping his campaign promises They don't like the results of the people's democratic choice

I cannot truthfully say that I have noticed everything that the newspaper I sometimes call The Philadelphia Enquirer[1]RedState writer Mike Miller called it the Enquirer, probably by mistake, so I didn’t originate it, but, reminiscent of the National Enquirer as it is, I thought it very apt. has published on immigration, but I can truthfully state that if our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, the winner of twenty Pulitzer Prizes, the newspaper of record for the six million plus metropolitan area, and the first newspaper I check in the morning, has ever published anything trying to help illegal immigrants get legal, I have missed it.

Also read: William Teach, “Cool: Leaked ICE Memo Shows Los Angeles Is Next Crack-down City“

Instead, the newspaper has spent the last few years doing everything it could to paint Donald Trump as an irredeemable fascist and wannabe authoritarian dictator. Columnists like Helen Ubiñas and Will Bunch have hammered continually on Mr Trump, Mr Bunch especially consumed by #TrumpDerangementSyndrome, and we noted how he, a journolist[2]The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their … Continue reading who claims to support freedom of speech and of the press — hint: he really doesn’t — launched a tirade against MSNBC’s (supposed) journalists, Joe and Mike Scarborough for having gone to Mar-a-Lago and meeting with former and then-future President Trump, and conflated the President trying to keep his promise to the voters to the Nazis sending Jews to the gas chambers. The Inquirer itself reported that three percent of the residents in the city are illegal immigrants! Continue reading →

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↑1 RedState writer Mike Miller called it the Enquirer, probably by mistake, so I didn’t originate it, but, reminiscent of the National Enquirer as it is, I thought it very apt.
↑2 The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. I use the term ‘journolism’ frequently when writing about media bias.
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Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right "Collateral arrests" are good arrests!

The old-line newspapers only rarely publish outright lies. Rather, their bias — and they all have an editorial bias! — shows not in actual reporting, but in what they choose to report, and choose not to cover.

And so it is with The Philadelphia Enquirer. No, that’s not how it’s actually spelled, but RedState writer Mike Miller called it the Enquirer, probably by mistake, so I didn’t originate it. However, reminiscent of the National Enquirer as it is, I thought it very apt.

Well, the Inquirer, to use the proper spelling, loves them some illegal immigration, and naturally the newspaper’s website main page was filled with such stories on Sunday morning: Continue reading →

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President Trump is doing what the American people want him to do A clear majority want the illegal immigrants kicked out!

If illegal immigrants are now staying away from work, because they are afraid that ICE will show up, nab them, and deport them, doesn’t that mean:

  • The illegal immigrants will quickly run out of money;
  • When the illegals run out of money, they’ll quickly run out of food and shelter; which means
  • The illegals will realize that they have to leave the United States on their own, and self-deport.

How would this not be a good thing?

Philly migrants skip work, school, and shopping amid fears of ICE enforcement

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