Just how scared are New York officials of the public finally focusing on their sanctuary policies, which harbor some of the worst criminals of other countries? Scared enough to lie about it.

On January 6, residents of the Richmond Hill neighborhood in Queens, New York, were shocked to discover Maria Fuertes, a 92-year-old well-known woman in the neighborhood, lying in the street just after midnight. It wasn’t until several days later that medical examiners realized she was actually murdered. Police also said they found a surveillance video of a man knocking her to the ground and assaulting her. On January 10, NYPD announced the arrest of Reeaz Khan and charged him with sexually assaulting and then murdering Fuertes.

ICE issued a statement on Monday revealing that Khan is an illegal alien from Guyana who should never have been in the country. The immigration agency also publicized the fact that Khan was arrested on November 27 for assault and criminal possession of a weapon, just six weeks before the murder. ICE issued a detainer request, but the NYPD, in compliance with New York’s illegal policies of restricting communication with ICE, released him without bail after the arraignment.

Local media is reporting that Khan also had a prior criminal history, which means this illegal alien was able to continue committing crimes and cycling back onto the streets. Had federal law been followed, Khan would have been in removal proceedings, and Fuertes would still be alive.

Given the 2,500 murders and 14,500 sexual offense charges among those subject to ICE’s detainers every year, rapes and murders that are 100 percent preventable undoubtedly happen every day in every sanctuary city. But this murder was so shocking and high-profile that New York officials couldn’t led it slide without a response. So, they flat-out lied and said ICE never requested a hold and they knew nothing of his immigration status. The New York Times quotes an NYPD spokeswoman claiming they “did not receive an ICE detainer in regard to this individual” after he had been arrested on Nov. 27.

The problem with that statement: ICE has a copy of the detainer request stamped 7:42 on November 27:

“It is the height of hypocrisy for NYC to blame ICE for this tragic crime. The mayor & police chief have continually celebrated that they don’t honor ICE detainers, & to deflect the criticism for this completely preventable murder is incredibly disingenuous & shameful… (1/2) pic.twitter.com/zTQIBIfoR9

— ICE (@ICEgov) January 15, 2020

…ICE could’ve wallpapered the precinct with detainers & #NYPD would still not have honored them.” –Matthew Albence, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (2/2) pic.twitter.com/EPoqsAINmH

— ICE (@ICEgov) January 15, 2020

What is self-evident from this episode is that sanctuary politicians cannot withstand a sustained debate and direct exposing of the severity of the criminal alien problem. In the abstract, when talking about immigration in general, they openly brag about the need to protect illegal immigrants and how evil ICE is, as acting ICE director Matthew Albence observed in his comment. They openly flaunt and even delegitimize the concept of a detainer, as if somehow ICE and immigration law are less legitimate than a DEA or ATF detainer request for drug or firearms violations. But when light is shed on the fact that ICE’s detainer policy applies exclusively to those arrested for crimes, and there are many of them, their public posture becomes untenable.

This is a lesson for the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress. If they had a sustained legislative and budget battle over cities harboring other countries’ murderers and rapists, it would change the landscape of politics. The Trump administration could highlight numberless cases every day and use them as rationale for cutting off funding.

The number of foreign criminals being harbored by New York is truly shocking and represents a national crisis in need of federal intervention. During fiscal year 2019, ICE only arrested 2,477 illegal aliens in the New York area of responsibility. For comparison, ICE made 5,382 administrative arrests in the Salt Lake City area of responsibility. Even the St. Paul and Detroit field offices made more arrests than the NYC field office. The New York metro area contains the most illegal aliens of any metro in the country, according to Pew. And given that ICE almost exclusively targets illegal aliens with criminal arrests and convictions, that means all those thousands of illegal alien criminals missing from the New York arrest data are out on the streets.

If the Trump administration doesn’t focus like a laser beam on stopping sanctuary states, it’s only going to get worse. Under a new policy, New York’s DMV not only notifies any illegal alien of ICE interest in their whereabouts, but they block access to DMV records by any law enforcement agency in the state that doesn’t certify that it will not share information with ICE, a direct violation of federal law. Thus far, 78 police agencies have been blocked because they have yet to submit a certification.

New York state officials are restricting a “government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual,” in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1373. They are also in violation of §1324, which prohibits them from harboring, shielding from detection, concealing, encouraging, and inducing illegal immigration, as well as engaging in a “conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts” and aiding and abetting “the commission of any of the preceding acts,” which are punishable with up to 10 years in prison. It’s time for the Justice Department to drop the hammer.

If New York is allowed to remain a state in rebellion against ironclad federal powers dealing with the foundation of public safety of the entire federal union, we truly have no federal constitutional system left. States have the same power to undermine the federal government’s power over immigration as they do to interfere with interstate commerce. In other words, they have no such power. It’s time for the federal government, which has a penchant for inserting itself where it doesn’t belong, to finally impose its will where it does belong.

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If it wasn’t scary enough being monitored by random strangers, a former Microsoft contractor reportedly claimed some private calls could have been accessed by the Chinese government! An anonymous former Microsoft contractor came forward and alleged that Microsoft’s grading program to transcribe and vet users’ audio “ran for years with no security measures.” The audio was sourced both from Skype conversations and Cortana, Microsoft’s voice assistant equivalent of Apple’s Siri. The anonymous contractor also explained how working in any territory…

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On the eve of the House Democrats’ vote to transfer their articles of impeachment against President Trump, Democrats heading up the impeachment effort released new documents of evidence they say requires further investigations. Among the materials are a series of WhatsApp messages between Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and Republican congressional candidate Robert Hyde — whose name has not previously come up in the impeachment inquiry — in which he discusses supposedly surveilling U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

Amid Democrats’ demands for an investigation into Hyde’s “disturbing” and “outrageous” messages to Parnas, the landscaper-turned-congressional candidate has responded to the “definitely laughable” allegations that he was “surveilling” a U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

The messages between Hyde and Parnas among the materials released by the Democrats Tuesday evening include the following messages from Hyde — all sent between March 23 and 29 — and interspersed with links to various articles, some related to Yovanovitch:

Wow. Can’t believe Trumo [sic] hasn’t fired this b*tch. I’ll get right in that … She under heavy protection outside Kiev … They are moving her tomorrow … The guys over they [sic] asked me what I would like to do and what is in it for them … Wake up Yankees man … She’s talked to three people. Her phone is off. Computer is off. … She’s next to the embassy. … Not in the embassy … Private security. Been there since Thursday … They know she’s a political puppet …. They will let me know when she is on the move … I mean where if they can find out … That address I sent you checks out … It’s next to the embassy … They are willing to help if we/you would like a price … Guess you can do anything in the Ukraine with money … What I was told …. Update she will not be moved special security unit upgraded force on the compound people are already aware of the situation my contacts are asking what is the next step because they cannot keep going to check people will start to ask questions … If you want her out they need to make contact with security forces … From Ukrainians … Nothing is changed she is still not moving they check today again … It’s confirmed we have a person inside … Hey brother do we stand down?? Or you still need intel be safe … She had visitors … It’s confirmed we have a person inside … Hey broski tell me what we are doing what’s the next step

To the message about paying Ukrainians, Parnas responded “LOL.” To some of the other posts, Parnas simply replied “interesting” and “perfect.”

With Democrats calling for an investigation into his alleged “surveillance” of Yovanovitch — who Giuliani reportedly wanted removed from her post because she would hamper his call for investigations into Burisma and the Bidens — Hyde posted a message on Facebook Tuesday, mocking the Democrats’ allegations.

“I was never in Kiev,” Hyde wrote, as reported by Politico. “For them to take some texts my buddy’s and I wrote back to some dweeb we were playing with that we met a few times while we had a few drinks is definitely laughable.”

Speaking with NBC News Tuesday, Hyde said that he’d been drinking when he sent some of the messages. In a phone interview with “America This Week with Eric Bolling” on Wednesday, Hyde laughed off the latest Ukraine scandal in which he was the unlikely star.

“We were playing,” Hyde said. “I thought we were playing. I didn’t know he was so serious.”

“We sent some colorful texts,” he said. “It’s kind of unfortunate the left had to get their panties in a bunch.”

Asked if he was really surveilling Yovanovitch, Hyde said, “Absolutely not. Are you kidding me? I’m a little nasty [expletive], excuse my language. Come on, you know me, Eric.”

As pointed out by The Daily Beast, Hyde also made some comments about being warned in advance about Parnas. “Listen, I was told a long time ago who Lev was by a lot of people down in communities throughout this country who would pull me aside, have meetings with me, and tell me to stay away from the guy,” he said. “Honestly, I was never a close associate with Lev Parnas. Did I like his character and did we have laughs and joke a bit? Of course. But to try to throw me under a bus somehow for joking around on WhatsApp? I’d love to see Adam Schiff’s texts on WhatsApp.”

In its report on Hyde’s “wild backstory,” NBC notes that after getting himself into “Trump’s world” in 2016 via various big donations, Hyde “ditched his landscaping company to open a ‘government and public relations’ consulting company called Finley Hyde & Associates in December 2018.” In August, he announced that he was running for Congress in Connecticut’s 5th District.

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A man who claims to be a member of the dangerous MS-13 gang was released from prison thanks to New York’s bail reform law, only to be arrested the same day for committing the same crime that landed him in jail in the first place.

Eusebio Jax-Mejia, 21, was jailed on January 1 after stealing a vehicle from Dutchess County and then giving Walton police a fake name. At the time, he was imprisoned on charges of “criminal possession of stolen property in the 3rd degree, a class D felony and false impersonation, a class B misdemeanor,” WBNG reported.

Jax-Mejia was released Tuesday thanks to New York’s bail reform law, which has allowed numerous criminals to go free after their arrest rather than sit in jail for their crimes. The law was intended to ensure that the jail system wasn’t allowing wealthy individuals more freedom than low-income criminals who couldn’t “buy” their way out of prison. But large bail amounts would be set to prohibit dangerous people from returning to the streets, but now some of those people are being let loose to commit the same crimes that landed them in prison in the first place.

Just hours after Jax-Mejia was released, he was arrested again for stealing a vehicle – this time a vehicle from outside the Delaware County Public Safety building, WBNG reported. This time Jax-Mejia was charged with “grand larceny in the 3rd degree, a class D felony,” the outlet reported.

In a statement posted on Facebook, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office addressed Jax-Mejia’s arrest and took a shot at the bail reform law.

“This is just one of many examples of the failed so-called bail reform legislation that was enacted on January 1st. Dangerous criminals throughout New York State are being released after committing violent, felony-level acts only to re-offend and continue to commit dangerous felony-level acts, creating victims and wreaking havoc in their wake,” said Sheriff Craig DuMond. “Does Governor Cuomo and our State Legislature really believe that dangerous criminals who are immediately released will not re-offend and instead show up for court? Real victims are being created by the hour and real lives are being lost. When will they come to their senses and fix the problems they created? The people of New York State are crying out and their voices are falling on deaf ears. The first duty of any public official is to provide for the safety of the people they represent and, currently, they are failing miserably. I call upon the Governor and State Legislature to put politics aside and immediately address the dangerous pieces of bail and discovery reform.”

The Daily Wire has reported previously that one person has already died due to the bail reform law. Jonathan Armand Flores-Maldonado, 27, was killed after Jordan Randolph – a man with a lengthy criminal history that includes numerous drunk driving offenses – was released from prison. Randolph had been arrested for failing to obtain the court-ordered ignition interlock device for his car. He was released on January 1 and 11 days later was involved in a crash that killed Flores-Maldonado. Randolph was charged with a DWI in connection with the crash.

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A lawsuit filed by the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands says Jeffrey Epstein used his private island there to engage in sex trafficking operations that involved multiple Epstein-run shell companies and ensured hundreds of underage girls.

“Epstein created a network of companies and individuals who participated in and conspired with him in a pattern of criminal activity related to the sex trafficking, forced labor, sexual assault, child abuse, and sexual servitude of these young women and children,” the lawsuit filed by Attorney General Denise George said.

The lawsuit said Epstein’s alleged trafficking began in 2001 and continued through 2018.

Epstein brought girls as young as 11 or 12 to Little St. James, an island he owned in the Virgin Islands, and tracked women and girls through a database, the lawsuit said.

“Epstein engaged in a pattern and practice of trafficking and sexually abusing young women and female children on this private, secluded island,” the lawsuit said.

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The lawsuit against Epstein’s estate wants the estate to forfeit Little St. James and a second private island, Great St. James, as well as dissolve what the lawsuit said were shell companies that were used in the alleged trafficking.

George said that if successful, the government of the Virgin Islands could use the proceeds of assets recovered from the estate to pay out victims of the operation.

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“The conduct of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates shocks the conscience and betrays the deepest principles and laws of the U.S. Virgin Islands,” George said in a statement. “The Virgin Islands is not, and will not, be a safe haven for human trafficking or sexual exploitation.”

Epstein died in August in a New York jail while being held on sex trafficking charges. While his death was ruled a suicide, many have raised doubts about that finding.

Since Epstein’s death, celebrities from Prince Andrew to former President Bill Clinton have come under scrutiny for their relationships with him.

“The complaint speaks for itself and lays out allegations of a pattern and practice of human trafficking, sexual abuse and forced labor of young women and female children as young as 13 years old,” George told reporters, according to The Associated Press.

The lawsuit said young women were “deceptively subjected to sexual servitude, forced to engage in sexual acts and coerced into commercial sexual activity and forced labor.”

It said that Virgin Islands airport personnel reported seeing Epstein leave his plane with girls who appeared to be as young as 11 years old.

“The Epstein Enterprise facilitated and participated in the sexual molestation and exploitation of numerous girls between the age of 12 and 17 years old,” the lawsuit said.

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It said Epstein refused to allow a Virgin Islands investigator access to his island as recently as 2018.

Because of the secluded nature of the island, the lawsuit said, “Epstein and his associates could avoid detection of their illegal activity from Virgin Islands and federal law enforcement and prevent these young women and underage girls from leaving freely and escaping the abuse.”

The lawsuit said that aspiring models from South America, among others, would be rotated in and out of his private islands, using fake modeling visas.

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Two girls tried to leave the island, according to the lawsuit. It said a 15-year-old girl tried to swim to freedom but was caught; her passport was taken from her to keep her captive. A second victim who said she was forced to have sex tried to flee but was caught and threatened with harm, the lawsuit said.

George said the case could change the image of the region as a place where the rich and powerful can evade the law.

“We will not remain complacent, and we will enforce our laws whatever way we can,” she said. “It doesn’t matter the social status of the person. It’s that the laws apply equally.”

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A forensic pathologist says that burst capillaries in Jeffrey Epstein’s eyes are consistent with strangulation, not hanging.

Pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, the pathologist hired by Epstein’s brother to investigate his death, examined photographs of Epstein’s eyes during his autopsy, according to The Daily Mail, which reviewed an exclusive clip from a Dr. Oz special set to air on Thursday. Dr. Baden was among physicians in the room when Epstein’s autopsy took place.

Dr. Baden said the burst capillaries and “the fact that the color in his lower legs was pale and not purple or blueish” are indicative that which, he says, of strangling, not suicide by hanging — which authorities claim was the manner of death for the convicted pedophile.

“In a hanging, the arteries and the blood vessels, the veins are both clogged off and the person is pale. The face is pale,” Dr. Baden said. “It suffocates you, no blood goes up there,” Dr. Oz says. “That’s right. No blood coming in or out…. with a manual strangulation, there’s a backup of a pressure and the little capillaries can rupture and they’re best seen in the eye.”

Dr. Baden also questioned the color of Epstein’s legs after his death. “The blood settles after we die. The so-called lividity, if your hanging, the lividity is on the lower part on the legs. These would be like maroon/ purple, front and back and they aren’t.”

Epstein was found dead in August in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Dozens of women have accused the Epstein, who was a billionaire, of trafficking them when they were underage girls.

Dr. Baden also says it was “very unusual” how Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide. “The initial death certificate was issued at the time of the autopsy, it’s pending further study, getting more information. Five days later it was changed to hanging suicide and one of the things the family wishes to know, the estate wishes to know is, what was that additional information that caused them to change it when five months later and the family still doesn’t know what happened to in the first encounter and what happened to him when he was found dead.

On Jan. 5, CBS News released explosive new photos showing the convicted pedophile’s jail cell, where he supposedly committed suicide, strewn with scraps of bed sheets and a supposed noose.

Baden said the photos showing injuries to Epstein’s neck convince him that the “findings are more indicative of homicide” than a suicide.

“I think there’s a lot of information that still hasn’t been revealed yet that is essential in order to arrive at a conclusion, whether this is a suicide or homicide,” Baden said on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.

“I think the closing out of the case as a suicide so quickly was premature.”

The photos show makeshift nooses Epstein supposedly made out of bedsheets at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. But his neck is deeply marked, prompting questions about whether a cotton sheet could cut so deeply.

Baden, a former New York City medical examiner, said the photo showing the marks on Epstein’s neck “doesn’t match the ligature that was found at the scene and that the medical examiner copied to show how he was hanged.”

He added that “it was too wide and too smooth. This is a rougher injury.”

And he had more.

Baden also questioned Epstein’s two fractures on the left and right sides of his larynx, specifically the thyroid cartilage or Adam’s apple, and on the left hyoid bone above the Adam’s apple.

The doctor also said there are many unanswered questions. “I think the important thing is to find out what was seen when the guards first went into the cell. Was he hanging? Was he on the ground? As some people reported when he was found,” Baden said.

And he said “the removal of the body destroyed a lot of the forensic evidence.”

“EMS is not supposed to remove dead bodies from jails,” Baden said. “They’re supposed to have a whole forensic workup, what kind of forensic evidence is on the clothing, how long the person was dead.

“We can tell from the ligature mark that he had been — there was a tight ligature around his neck for many hours, and the front of the neck, before he was found — so he was dead for a long time. But we could be more specific about that if somebody tested out the stiffness of the body, et cetera, at the scene.”

“A lot was lost when the body was removed,” he said.

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According to a forensic pathologist, photos of the late Jeffrey Epstein’s eyes after his death reveal burst capillaries, indicating that Epstein was strangled to death.

The Daily Mail obtained clips from an appearance on a Dr. Oz special by forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden that will air on Thursday. Baden, who was present during Epstein’s autopsy, suggested that the fact that the autopsy showed Epstein with burst capillaries and pale lower legs, rather than purple or blueish legs, indicated he did not hang himself.

“In a hanging, the arteries and the blood vessels, the veins are both clogged off and the person is pale. The face is pale,” Baden explained.

Dr. Oz responded, “It suffocates you, no blood goes up there.”

“That’s right,” said Baden. “No blood coming in or out…. with a manual strangulation, there’s a backup of a pressure and the little capillaries can rupture and they’re best seen in the eye.”

Speaking of Epstein’s legs, Baden opined, “The blood settles after we die. The so-called lividity, if you’re hanging, the lividity is on the lower part on the legs. These would be like maroon/purple, front and back and they aren’t.”

Baden questioned the ruling given over Epstein’s death, asserting: “The initial death certificate was issued at the time of the autopsy, it’s pending further study, getting more information. Five days later it was changed to hanging suicide and one of the things the family wishes to know, the estate wishes to know is, what was that additional information that caused them to change it when five months later and the family still doesn’t know what happened to in the first encounter and what happened to him when he was found dead.”

“Is that unusual, that you have a five-month gap?” Oz asked.

“It’s very unusual, especially in a prison situation,” replied Baden.

Baden said the supposed noose that Epstein allegedly used to kill himself didn’t fit with the facts.

“Doesn’t follow the furrow, number one. Number two, there’s no evidence that there’s any blood or tissue on any of the part of the loop. Most of all, this little area shows a pattern that wouldn’t be made by this smooth surface of the sheet that was torn to make the noose,” said Baden, adding, “The problem I think why we’re here today, five months later, is that there’s been a total lack of transparency in what happened to Epstein.”

As The Daily Wire reported last week:

Prosecutors on Thursday told a judge overseeing the trial of Epstein’s former cellmate, accused murderer Nicholas Tartaglione, that surveillance footage of the hallway during Epstein’s failed alleged suicide attempt “no longer exists” because of “technical errors,” according to the Associated Press. Last December, prosecutors believed they had found the footage after announcing only a day before that they had actually lost it, as previously reported by the Daily Wire.

According to AP, “the revelation came despite assurances that prosecutors made that jail officials were preserving the footage at the request of a defense attorney for Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer who shared a cell with Epstein in July” at the time of his first —and failed —alleged suicide attempt. The National Review  reports that prosecutors explained that the footage “captured a different tier than the one where Cell-1 was located because the preserved video did not show corrections officers responding to any of the cells seen on the video.”

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