Murdering Americans
U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D–MA) claims that “anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans.”
IN FACT, DHS and ICE prevent the murder of Americans by deporting criminal aliens, who have committed roughly 611 homicides per year in the U.S. for decades. Under Obama, ICE was forced to release at least 124 criminal aliens who were later charged with murder-related crimes committed in the U.S.
Moreover, ICE’s killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti may not constitute murder under the Supreme Court’s 1989 ruling in Graham v. Connor, which states:
The “reasonableness” of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight. …
The calculus of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments — in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving — about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.
