{"id":1285287,"date":"2022-02-09T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1285287"},"modified":"2022-02-09T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:53:07","slug":"biden-administration-refuses-to-deport-illegal-immigrant-who-allegedly-scrawled-swastikas-on-d-c-union-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-refuses-to-deport-illegal-immigrant-who-allegedly-scrawled-swastikas-on-d-c-union-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Refuses to Deport Illegal Immigrant Who Allegedly Scrawled Swastikas on D.C. Union Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-refuses-to-deport-illegal-immigrant-who-allegedly-scrawled-swastikas-on-d-c-union-station%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1285287&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/union-station-desecration-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An illegal immigrant who allegedly defaced Union Station in Washington, DC, with swastikas and has previously been deported four times has been spared being kicked out of the country for a fifth time because the incident occurred in a \u201csanctuary city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it will not seek to deport&nbsp;Geraldo Pando, a Mexican national, who was arrested last month for vandalism and is accused of having drawn the crude Nazi symbols two days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The incident that scarred the central hub for regional train transportation in the nation\u2019s capital is being investigated as a possible \u201chate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/illegal-immigrant-swastikas-dc-ice\">affirmed<\/a> by Fox News Digital,&nbsp;, an ICE spokesperson said Pando entered the U.S. illegally as a minor in 1990. He was arrested for the first time in 2006 in Colorado and was subsequently deported again in 2006, 2007, 2014 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/swastikas-spray-painted-on-dcs-union-station\/\">reported<\/a>, the incident occurred when the&nbsp;crude Nazi symbols marked on columns across the front of the massive building and several clustered around the escalator entrance to the underground D.C. Metro. were first found by local police.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser called the incident \u201cboth shocking and unsettling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis antisemitic and hateful symbol has no place in our city, and we stand united with the members of our Jewish community against antisemitism in all its forms,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser said Union Station used a team of experts working to remove the graffiti.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A court struck down the sanctuary policies of East Chicago, Indiana, ruling that they violated a statewide ban on sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zSPrj4YoeJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/zSPrj4YoeJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1389540753865650179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington posted a statement on Instagram, calling the timing \u201cparticularly offensive\u201d and added, \u201cThis anti-semitic and hateful symbol has no place in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/man-who-drew-union-station-swastikas-is-twice-deported-criminal\">reported<\/a> Pando\u2019s past criminal history and deportations, including a 35-page criminal history in Colorado for crimes stretching from possession of drugs to misdemeanor theft, and that ICE had not sought to take him into custody after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>ICE told Fox News Digital it has not issued a detainer \u2014 a request ICE be informed of an illegal immigrant\u2019s pending release from custody, so they can be moved into deportation proceedings. The spokesperson cited D.C.\u2019s status as a \u201cnon-cooperative jurisdiction,\u201d typically referred to as a \u201csanctuary city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanctuary cities carry out policies to&nbsp;shield illegal immigrants from federal immigration law enforcement officials resulting in most ICE detainees being ignored.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An illegal immigrant who allegedly defaced Union Station in Washington, DC, with swastikas and has previously been deported four times has been spared being kicked out of the country for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}