ICE Defends Arrest Outside Baltimore Elementary: Won't Let Illegals Hide in Schools

There appears to be a school of thought on the left that certain places, such as schools, should be safe zones for illegal immigrants, even if Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are actually in pursuit of an illegal alien. That won't fly with ICE, as a pair of illegal aliens in southeast Baltimore, Maryland, has discovered to their sorrow. Still, given the area, local officials wasted no time complaining about the arrest.

Video captured the arrests of two people Thursday by federal immigration agents outside a school in southeast Baltimore.
The arrests were recorded by bystanders on video that some may consider disturbing. The video shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents trying to put a man in handcuffs in the parking lot of a building on Fait Avenue that's currently being used as a temporary home for Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School.
WBAL-TV 11 News reached out to ICE for comment about this incident and received a response shortly after 9 p.m. from acting Assistant ICE Secretary Lauren Bis, who said the man is identified as Jesus Acevedo-Sanchez, who the agency said was involved in a crash with an ICE vehicle in April.
In Thursday's encounter, ICE said Acevedo-Sanchez "violently resisted arrest and used his vehicle to evade law enforcement, dragging an ICE officer in the process."

Good. ICE was doing their job, which includes finding and detaining people who are in the country illegally. These illegal aliens can't just dodge onto school grounds and claim immunity, but that appears to be what some local officials thought should happen.

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In a statement released before the ICE response, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott responded to the ICE encounter, saying, in part: "This type of enforcement is not welcome in Baltimore. The presence of ICE has not made our city any safer, and in fact has led to greater fear and anxiety, especially for our immigrant neighbors." Read the mayor's full statement below.

Tough noogies, Mayor Scott. These ICE agents were doing what the taxpayers pay them to do. They were carrying out legal policy under the legal direction of a duly elected President of the United States, and the City of Baltimore has no say in it. They captured two illegal aliens, both of whom reports say had resisted violently, one even dragging an ICE officer with a vehicle. No law enforcement officer at any level- city, county, state, or federal- should take any chances when apprehending someone like this, nor should they just wave their hands and walk away when a violent illegal alien walks onto school grounds.

Look, Baltimore is a city that is out of control. The city routinely comes in as one of the top five cities in the country for homicide. It is home to one of the world's premier research and teaching hospitals in Johns Hopkins, but that hospital is located in a notorious high-crime area. This is a place where the mayor and all the other local officials have utterly failed to protect the liberty and property of the citizens, but they have time to complain about ICE nabbing a couple of violent illegal aliens?

ICE was, in these arrests, doing their jobs. Baltimore lefties need to tend to their own yards; this is a city in the midst of a meltdown, and the inept city government has plenty of problems of its own to worry about.

Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.

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