SEATTLE, WA – Following an election sweep carried out by Democrats across the country, immigration experts are voicing concerns that the midterm outcomes could embolden political leaders behind sanctuary city policies, with a case out of Seattle involving an illegal alien child predator’s pending release date gaining attention.
Leomar Alexander Lopez Zambrano, a convicted child predator whose prison sentence in Washington state is looming closer to completion, is an illegal alien from Venezuela who may very well be free to roam the streets of Seattle if sanctuary politicians ignore the detainer issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seeking a custodial transfer.
Earlier in November, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin issued a statement calling out Washington state officials for ignoring the detainer, which was issued this past October, asserting said politicians are willing to release a child predator into their own communities simply to cling tightly to their sanctuary agenda.
“Sanctuary politicians care so much about illegal aliens that they’d rather release a convicted child molester than cooperate with federal law enforcement. DHS is calling on Washington authorities to honor this detainer and cooperate with us so we can make sure this pedophile can never again roam our streets and harm American children,” Secretary Mullin said in the issued statement.
But speculation is looming from immigration experts that the already lacking collaboration between sanctuary states and cities and ICE is likely only going to become more riddled with obstacles following the results of the midterms.
Advancing American Freedom (AAF) immigration expert Hans von Spakovsky is among those who forecasts that the political power achieved in D.C. by Democrats this past midterm election cycle will give sanctuary jurisdictions a new boost in confidence regarding their stonewalling of the administration’s immigration agenda.
“I have no doubt that sanctuary jurisdictions will feel emboldened,” Spakovsky told Fox News Digital earlier in November, adding that with more power in D.C., Democrats may embark upon agency-destabilizing efforts.
“I also would not put it past [Democrats] to try to impeach Tom Homan for imagined wrongs because he has been the most effective czar of immigration enforcement of any administration in the past 50 years. I don’t think they would be successful, but, again, that will embolden defiance of federal immigration enforcement in sanctuary jurisdictions,” Spakovsky noted.
When asked for comment on the speculation of Democrats potentially wielding their newfound power against ICE and the administration’s immigration agenda, Secretary Mullin simply stated, “Deportations will continue.”
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