GOP Liars Say Immigrants Commit Crimes: Data Say Otherwise

Republicans say Biden's America is awash in immigrant-driven crime. What do the data say?
Kevin Rector
Wed, July 17, 2024


Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times). [This idiot from Texas lies through his racist nose: In Cruz’s home state of Texas, undocumented immigrants were 26% less likely than native-born Americans to be convicted of homicide, according to the Cato Institute. Those numbers were even lower for immigrants with legal status].

One after another, Republican leaders painted a dire picture of America from the Republican National Convention stage in Milwaukee on Tuesday, suggesting the nation is awash in violent crime driven by an "invasion" of "illegal aliens" and "Chinese fentanyl" at the southern border.

Echoing many of the evening's other speakers, House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana said Republicans were the "law-and-order team," while President Biden and Democrats intent on a "borderless, lawless" future were responsible for "dramatic increases" in violence and drugs in the country.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said that "every damn day," Americans are killed and raped by illegal immigrants that Democrats let into the country. "Every damn day," the crowd chanted back in a chorus.

The crime picture in the United States is much more nuanced than suggested, according to federal and state data, which vary across the country and from city to city.

For example, Los Angeles officials in January touted a large drop in violent crime in 2023, compared with the year prior — with killings down 17% and shootings down 10%, according to Los Angeles police data.

But just last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would quadruple the number of California Highway Patrol shifts in Oakland, where city data last year showed violent crime had increased 21%, robbery by 38% and vehicle theft 43%.

The clearest recent trend in national crime data — which Democrats have cited to rebut the Republican claims and which Republicans dismiss as misleading — is that violent crime is down.

Jeff Asher, a crime analyst and co-founder of AH Datalytics, has studied national crime trends for years. In an interview with The Times, he said the Republican talking points about rising violent crime "would have been better in 2021 and 2022 than they are in 2023 and 2024."

Violent crime — including homicides — did increase, and substantially, in those earlier years [at the end of Trump's term] amid the social upheaval associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Asher said there has been a clear decline in the two most recent years [2022 and 2023 under Biden's  term], according to available federal data and state-by-state figures he has gathered.

"All of the data we have points to — especially in regards to murder — a really large decline last year [2023]," Asher said, and "so far this year [2024] an even larger decline."

The declines are "not everywhere, but across a large swath of American cities," and "to, in some places, pre-COVID levels," he said.

"Reasonable people can disagree on who's to credit for it, what's the cause, what policies are working, what policies aren't working, where is it coincidental," Asher said. "The evidence of declining gun violence and murder in the U.S. [during the Biden presidency], though, is incontrovertible."

Declines in both blue and red states are contributing to the improved picture nationwide, Asher said.

California saw 1,892 homicides reported in 2023, which was "roughly in line" with annual figures seen from 2016 to 2019 — and well below the state's historic high for homicides and its levels during the peak of the pandemic.

In 1992, the city of Los Angeles alone saw 1,092 homicides. In 2022, there were 392. In 2023, there were 327.

In 2019, there were 253 homicides in L.A., so the recent decline has still not brought the city back to its pre-COVID levels of violence.

As for crime by immigrants, Cruz and others cited a handful of specific cases to bolster the claim that such incidents are common. Again, the data suggest a more nuanced picture.

Ran Abramitzky, a Stanford University economics professor, helped lead a nationally representative study of incarceration rates for immigrants and U.S.-born citizens from 1870 to 2020. The study included all immigrants, not only those in the country illegally.

It found, Abramitzky said in an email to The Times, that "as a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years."

It also found that "relative to the US-born, immigrants' incarceration rates have declined since 1960," and "immigrants today are 60% less likely to be incarcerated" — and "30% less likely even relative to US-born whites." That was true for immigrants from all regions, he said.

Abramitzky said he has also studied political rhetoric surrounding immigration, analyzing "200,000 congressional speeches and 5,000 presidential speeches since 1880."

That research, he said, found that "attitudes towards immigrants in congressional speeches have overall improved over the last few decades, but they also become increasingly more polarized by political party.

"Democrats are increasingly more positive and pointing to immigrants' contributions to the U.S.," Abramitzky continued, "and Republicans remain negative and increasingly focus on issues of crime and legality when they talk about immigrants."

Data show fentanyl deaths in the U.S. did increase under Biden. But they also increased under then-President Trump.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in May that U.S. drug overdoses, including from fentanyl, decreased in 2023 for the first time since 2018. Deaths attributed to fentanyl specifically decreased to 74,702 in 2023 from 76,226 in 2022.

Israel to Ramp Up Wars Around it in Desperation at Gaza Fiasco

Foreword from Iznogood:

Contrary to this article's claim that "no one wants war", Hezbollah is probably the one that does not want war because it will simply sound its death knell: Not only Israel's war machine might decimate the group's capabilities for a long time, the destruction that such a war might inflict on Lebanon will only add to the hatred that the Lebanese population have for Hezbollah that has ruined the country and enslaved it to the theobarbarian regime in Tehran. By not engaging in full-scale war against Israel, Hezbollah still hopes to live another day, especially that a "moderate" president, less friendly to Hezbollah, has been elected in Iran.

It is Israel that wants war. Having repeatedly invaded Lebanon since the 1970s, Israel might just decide to not only invade the Lebanese south this time around, but to also definitively annex the territory south of the Litani river, including the ancient Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon. Israel will go to extremes to eliminate the possibility of a repeat of an October 7-like invasion by Hezbollah of the northern Galilee. Not only will an Israeli war in southern Lebanon displace the Shiite threat away from its northern border, it will also serve to prolong the life of the barbarian Netanyahu government for some time to come.

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Israel is inching toward a wider war and a nasty fight against an enemy poised to bombard it as no other foe has.

Jake Epstein
Sat, July 6, 2024



The threat of a wider war is looming for Israel, as is the potential that its cities and strategic military targets could face a massive bombardment in ways the country hasn't yet seen.

Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group operating out of Lebanon, have regularly exchanged fire since Hamas — which also enjoys significant support from Tehran — staged its cross-border massacre on Oct. 7.

These tit-for-tat engagements have so far been relatively contained to the border regions, but tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have escalated in recent weeks, raising fears that the two bitter foes may be headed for an unavoidable collision course.

United Nations officials have warned that such a fight would be catastrophic and lead to widespread death and destruction.

For Israel, a larger war with Hezbollah would look very different from the full-scale conflict it's fighting against Hamas in Gaza. The Lebanon-based militants are a much more dangerous force with a lot more weapons and combatants available to them.

Israeli security forces examine the site hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, on March 27.AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File

In a fight with Hezbollah, Israel would need a lot of munitions readily available to it because "that's a much more difficult conflict" than the one in Gaza, which has been a tough enough fight as is, Daniel Byman, a former Middle East analyst for the US intelligence community, told Business Insider in May.
Hezbollah has grown stronger

Hezbollah has spent decades building up its arsenal and military capabilities. Before the 2006 Lebanon War, a monthlong conflict fought against Israel, Hezbollah maintained some 15,000 projectiles. That figure has swelled to over 130,000 today, with some estimates putting the missile and rocket inventory as high as 150,000.

Analysts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank wrote in a 2018 report that "Hezbollah is the world's most heavily armed non-state actor, with a large and diverse stockpile of unguided artillery rockets, as well as ballistic, anti-air, anti-tank, and anti-ship missiles."

Much of Hezbollah's inventory consists of various shorter-range, unguided projectiles. The analysts said that while these weapons may not be particularly accurate, they exist in large enough quantities to cause concern. The militants also possess precision-guided weapons that could reach deeper into Israel.

"Hezbollah views its rocket and missile arsenal as its primary deterrent against Israeli military action," the CSIS analysts explained, noting they are "also useful for quick retaliatory strikes and longer military engagements."

Hamas started the ongoing Gaza war with as many as 30,000 rockets and missiles, according to the Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli think tank. It's a much smaller figure, but it has still caused issues for Israel and highlighted the value of maintaining a large stockpile, especially as it continues to expend a lot in Gaza.

That war has seen "a pretty serious rate of fire. And this would be even more so with Hezbollah," said Byman, a senior fellow with the CSIS' Transnational Threats Project. "Hezbollah has a lot more firepower. Israel would be using a lot more firepower in return."

Israel operates a sophisticated air-defense network able to engage different threats, from short-range rockets to medium-range ballistic missiles in the atmosphere. The Iron Dome, David's Sling, and Arrow systems have all been busy since Oct. 7 but, for the most part, have managed to protect the country from enemy munitions.

But a larger Hezbollah war could overwhelm some of these systems, a scenario that has caused concern in Washington.

During the 2006 war, Hezbollah fired somewhere between 100 and 200 rockets per day at Israel, according to estimates cited by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank. In a future war between the two, the militants could fire in excess of 4,000 rockets per day in the early stages of a conflict, but they would eventually have to reduce that number to 1,500. Even then, it is still a significantly higher rate of fire than in 2006 and could put immense stress on Israel's defenses.

"Hezbollah's means of attack are highly impressive," the Israeli think tank INSS said in an October 2023 assessment. In a war with Hezbollah, the group's vast weapons inventory "will require Israel to divert countermeasure systems to targeted protection of civilian and military infrastructure."

The Britain Israel Communications and Research Center, an Israel advocacy organization, wrote in an October 2019 updated briefing that "even with Israel's early warning and missile interception system, missiles fired at major population centers in large numbers can be deadly, forcing civilian populations to remain in or near shelters, closing schools and businesses, and paralyzing normal life."

'No one' wants a war

Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam on June 25, 2024 amid the ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.REUTERS/Stringer

Hezbollah put its firepower on display earlier this week, launching more than 200 rockets and attack drones into Israel in retaliation for the killing of a senior commander. It marked one of the militants' biggest barrages of the nine-month-long conflict.

Beyond the aerial threat, Hezbollah also has a personnel force of more than 50,000 combatants, according to a May 2024 report by the Congressional Research Service. Hamas, by contrast, was thought to have up to 30,000 fighters at the start of the Gaza war, and it has seen thousands of its members killed and wounded since October.

Adding to Hezbollah's potential combat force, thousands of additional fighters from Iran-backed groups across the region have offered to come fight against Israel in the event of a full-scale war.

A firefighter works near Israel's border with Lebanon after Hezbollah said it launched more than 200 rockets and a swarm of drones at Israeli military sites on July 4 2024.REUTERS/Rami Shlush

For now, the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is still relatively low intensity, but fears are growing that it may not stay that way. The militants have tied their action to a ceasefire in Gaza, saying only then will the attacks stop. And as some Western nations urge de-escalation, the two enemies continue to threaten each other, saying that they will resort to force if needed.

More than two dozen soldiers and civilians have already been killed in Israel, and in Lebanon, that figure has surpassed 450. A majority of those dead are militants, but civilians have also been killed. Additionally, tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes in both countries.

"One of our primary objectives from day one — since October — was to do everything we could to make sure that this conflict didn't spread," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a Brookings Institution event earlier this month, adding, "No one actually wants a war."

Just like in Baathist Assad's Prisons: The Banality of Jewish Zionist Evil

Hannah Arendt made a big deal about the uniqueness of Nazi evil as it pertains to the Holocaust. It is natural for a Jewish person, whose religion makes him/her believe he/she is superior to other humans, to not only elevate their suffering above the suffering of other people, but to also elevate the evil of their enemies above any other evil. That is what Zionists have been doing with the Holocaust: There is nothing like it in human history, they contend, and therefore there has never been, and will never be, anything as evil as the Nazis.

Yet, as they have been prosecuting their genocide against the indigenous Palestinian people for the past 100 years, the Zionist Jews of Israel see no problem with perpetrating against the Palestinians the same level of banal evil that Arendt says was perpetrated against German and European Jews during WWII.

One does not need to be an academic philosopher to see and understand evil when one sees it in motion. Arendt's main observation as she witnessed the trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann in 1962 is that he was a distrubingly ordinary person who wouldn't hurt a fly, but who was a "cog in the machine" (of the Nazis) who pushed papers and kept records. Arendt was conflicted about his responsibilities in the Holocaust, since he himself did not kill anyone, did not hate Jews (so he said) and did not know that the papers he was pushing through the Nazi administration aimed ultimately at killing interned Jews in the camps. Her conflicting feelings nevertheless could not compel her to relieve him of moral responsibility.

In this commentary, I will excerpt some passages from the article entitled "Hannah Arendt’s World: Bureaucracy, Documentation, and Banal Evil" by Michelle Caswell, appearing in Archivaria 70 (Fall 2010): 1–25, and ask you to abstract for a moment the references to the Nazis and their Jewish victims and think about whether they might apply to the Zionists and their Palestinian victims. Subjectivity is often the sister of blindness. 

I will also show pictures of Israeli torture methods that resemble in many ways the torture methods of the Syrian Assad regime long documented by Amnesty International and others, as they were applied to

1- Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners seized by the Syrians during their occupation of Lebanon (1975-2005) many of whom have never reappeared (an estimate of 17,000 were taken from Lebanon to Syria, some believed to be still alive), and 

2- Syrian prisoners taken by the Assad regime forces since the 2011 revolution. [See a video and transcript of how Syrian soldiers treat their prisoners: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2022/04/barbarity-of-syrian-regime.html]

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Again, please read these comments and think about the banality of Zionist Israel's optional reliance on 19th century Ottoman laws or early 20th century British mandate laws to dehumanize the Palestinian people and steal their lands and homes. Later you will see a copy of the Israeli Police form with which it interrogates suspected Palestinian "terrorists"; the fact that they have forms for everything, with names, dates, locations etc. tells much about how Zionist bureaucracy replicates Nazi bureaucracy in its "administration" of its Palestinian victims.

Excerpts:

1- Arendt’s analysis of the nature of evil continues to provide insight into the minds of seemingly ordinary individuals who commit extraordinary evil...

2- As long as ordinary people can be transformed overnight into mass murderers, we are still living in Hannah Arendt’s world.

3- Arendt’s theory of evil explains how obsessive documentation in a totalitarian bureaucracy can help facilitate mass murder by alienating decision-makers from the violence of their decisions.  

4- Arendt had difficulty coming to terms with the ordinariness of Eichmann, who did not fit commonplace notions of how a monstrous mass murderer should behave.

5- Arendt, deeply troubled with reconciling the Eichmann on trial with the Eichmann who organized the Holocaust, shifted her own prior conceptions of radical evil ... to explain how a new category of thoughtless bureaucrats can become capable of committing mass murder.

6- The thinking individual, according to Arendt, maintains moral judgment and an ethical basis for action even when society’s values [e.g. Zionist society] are skewed enough to endorse mass murder. 

7- ... otherwise ordinary humans are so dehumanized by the mechanizations of modern bureaucracy that they are made capable of committing mass murder if sanctioned by the system.

8- The more perfectly the bureaucracy is “dehumanized,” the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from official business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational and emotional elements which escape calculation.

9- Seemingly more complicated, but in reality far simpler than examining the strange interdependence of thoughtlessness and evil, is the question of what kind of crime is actually involved here – a crime, moreover, which all agree is unprecedented. For the concept of genocide, introduced explicitly to cover a crime unknown before, although applicable up to a point is not fully adequate, for the simple reason that massacres of whole peoples are not unprecedented. They were the order of the day in antiquity, and the centuries of colonization and imperialism provide plenty of examples of more or less successful attempts of that sort… [simply put, the Zionist blackmail mantra: yes there have been massacres and genocides, but the Holocaust is unique. Nothing can ever supersede Jewish suffering. Therefore, because tormenting, massacring and genociding the Palestinians is nothing compared to the Holocaust, it is acceptable].

10- ... thoughtlessness “emerges under conditions of inverted human order,” in which laws enforce evil rather than good, and the machines of bureaucracy churn out destruction rather than creation. Thus the insidious nature of evil in modernity is such that bureaucratic functions (like documentation) alienate human beings from thinking about the consequences of their actions, even when they still possess faint traces of moral knowledge.

11- Records are the media through which procedures are routinized; records enable repetition, which leads to “the nearly universal ability to make any activity into a routine that deadens the awareness of what is being done.” It is for this precise reason that both the Nazis and the Khmer Rouge were such meticulous recordkeepers. [So are the Zionists in their meticulous "administration" of their prisoners and of the occupied parts of Palestine!].

12- [In this excerpt, replace 'Jew' with 'Palestinian' and see what you get]: This is like an automatic factory, like a flour mill connected with some bakery. At one end you put in a Jew who still has some property … and he goes through the building from counter to counter, from office to office, and comes out at the other end without any money, without any rights, with only a passport on which it says: ‘You must leave the country within a fortnight. Otherwise....

The banality of evil in Israeli interrogation forms

 

(From Haaretz)

Israel's War on Hezbollah Driven Only by Netanyahu's Political Survival

Israel risking disastrous war against Hezbollah for political reasons, says former US official

Julian Borger

Tue, July 2, 2024


A motorbike drives past buildings destroyed during previous Israeli military fire on the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab, near the border with northern Israel.Photograph: --/AFP/Getty Images

Israel risks going to war against Hezbollah to ensure Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival, but it would be a miscalculation that could lead to mass civilian deaths in both Lebanon and Israel, a former US military intelligence analyst has warned.

Harrison Mann, a major in the Defence Intelligence Agency who left the military last month over US support for Israel’s war in Gaza, also told the Guardian that such a disastrous new war would pull the US into a regional conflict.

Despite an announcement in June by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that planning for a Lebanon offensive had been completed, and increasingly bellicose rhetoric from Israeli politicians, US officials have been saying privately that Netanyahu’s government is aware how dangerous a war with Hezbollah would be and is not seeking a fight.

Mann, the most senior US military officer to have quit over Gaza to date, said that assessment was optimistic and that there was a high risk of Israel going to war on its northern border for internal political reasons, led by a prime minister whose continuing hold on power and consequent insulation from corruption charges, depends largely on the nation being at war.

“We know specifically that the Israeli prime minister must continue to be a wartime leader if he wants to prolong his political career and stay out of court, so that motivation is there,” Mann said in an interview. He added that any Israeli government would be sensitive to political pressure from tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from the border area because of Hezbollah rocket and artillery attacks.

On top of that, the Israeli military establishment is convinced that the heavily armed, Iranian-backed Shia militia will have to be confronted sooner rather than later, as it grows in strength, Mann said, but he argued the Israelis have miscalculated the costs of a new war in Lebanon.

“I don’t know how realistic their assessments are of the destruction that Israel would incur, and I’m pretty sure they don’t have a realistic idea of how successful they would be against Hezbollah,” the former army officer and intelligence analyst said.

He argued Israel military was well aware it could not strike a decisive blow against Hezbollah’s fearsome armoury with pre-emptive strikes, as the rockets, missiles and artillery are dug into the mountainous Lebanese landscape.

Instead Mann said the IDF would launch decapitation strikes against Hezbollah leaders, and bomb Shia residential areas, to demoralise the movement’s support base, a tactic known as the Dahiya doctrine, after the Dahiya district of Beirut which Israel targeted in the 2006 war.

“It’s not like an actual written doctrine, but I think we can be very comfortable assessing that bombing civilian centres as a way to compel the enemy is clearly an accepted and shared belief in the IDF and Israeli leadership. We’ve just seen them do it in Gaza for the past nine months,” Mann said – but he stressed that such a plan would backfire.

Mann predicted Hezbollah would unleash a mass rocket and missile attack, if it felt it was under existential threat.

“They probably have the ability to at least partially overwhelm Israel’s air defences, strike civilian infrastructure around the country, and inflict a level of destruction on Israel that I’m not sure Israel has really ever experienced in its history – certainly not in its recent history,” Mann said.

Unable to destroy Hezbollah’s arsenal in the air, the IDF would launch a ground offensive into southern Lebanon which would come at high cost in Israeli casualties. Mann warned the shelling of Israeli cities meanwhile would make it impossible for the Biden administration, in the run-up to an election, to turn down Netanyahu’s appeals for the US to become more involved.

“Our least escalatory participation will be possibly striking supply lines or associated targets in Iraq and Syria to help cut off lines of communication and armaments flowing to Hezbollah,” Mann said. “But that on its own is risky, because if we start doing that, some of the people that we hit could be Hezbollah, but they could be IRGC [Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps].”

He said he thought that the Biden administration would seek to avoid any direct clash with Iran, but the risk of such a conflict would rise anyway.

“I trust the administration not to do that, but I think between us or the Israelis striking Iranian targets outside of Iran, the risk of escalation is also going to get much higher,” Mann said.

Mann first submitted his resignation in November and it took effect in June. In May, he published a resignation letter on the LinkedIn social media platform, saying that US support for Israel’s war in Gaza had “enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians”.

As the descendent of European Jews, Mann wrote: “I was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing.”

He said the response from his former colleagues since he resigned his commission had been mostly positive.

“A lot of people I worked with reached out to me, a lot of people I didn’t work with as well, and expressed that they felt the same way,” he said. “It’s not just a generational thing. There’s quite senior people who feel the same way.”

US Rape Stats: Citizens Rape Far More Often than Lawful Immigrants

US-born Americans commit more rape and murder than immigrants

Here are some good old homeboy baseball players from South Dakota - you can't find more white anglo-saxon protestants than them - having raped minor victims.

But then fucking racist white supremacist Fox News (second article below) keeps relating stories of rare crimes committed by lawful immigrants. Same old story: Dumb white Americans, whose own immigrant parents and grandparents were themselves blamed as scapegoats for crimes and for taking jobs ("Black and Hispanic jobs" according to the dumb jackass moron Donald Trump). The racism tatoo can never wash off.

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6 teenage baseball players charged as adults in South Dakota rape case

Associated Press

Tue, July 2, 2024

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Six white teenage players from a South Dakota American Legion baseball team who were charged as adults in a rape case last summer have reached plea deals.

Three players from the Mitchell-based team pleaded guilty last month to being an accessory to a felony, and three others entered the same plea Monday, KELO-TV reported. All six players could face up to five years in prison at sentencing next month.

Attorneys from both sides declined to discuss the case.

The players, who were 17 to 19 years old when a grand jury indicted them, were originally charged with second-degree rape and aiding and abetting second-degree rape.

South Dakota law requires minors ages 16 and older who are charged with such felonies to be tried as adults, although the minors can attempt to have their cases moved to juvenile court, prosecutors said.

According to prosecutors, the victims were 16 when they were sexually assaulted during a tournament in Rapid City last June.

Another three players were charged in juvenile court, but details of their cases are not made public.

 

Migrant accused of raping teen released on $500 bail despite ICE's calls to hand him over to the agency
Adam Shaw, Bill Melugin
Tue, July 2, 2024

A Black Haitian migrant charged with the rape of a 15-year-old girl at a Massachusetts hotel was released on $500 bail last week despite ongoing requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to transfer him to its custody.

Cory Alvarez, a 26-year-old Haitian national who was allowed into the U.S. via a program that allows up to 30,000 migrants to fly in each month, was charged with aggravated rape of a child in March.

ICE said in a statement that Boston’s branch of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) filed a detainer against Alvarez with the local sheriff's office March 14. A detainer is a request by which authorities alert ICE about an individual they believe to be subject to deportation so they can take the individual into federal custody and deport that person.

Cory B. Alvarez allegedly raped a teenage girl at a motel he lived at that housed migrants. Alvarez entered the United States lawfully in 2023 in New York City.

In this case, as in many "sanctuary" jurisdictions, the detainer was not adhered to, and Alvarez was released on bail.

"On June 27, Plymouth Superior Court refused to honor ERO Boston’s immigration detainer and released Alvarez from custody on a $500 bond," ICE Boston ERO spokesperson James Covington said.

The Boston Globe reported that prosecutors had asked bail to be set at $25,000, but the judge set bail at $500 on the condition he submit to various stipulations, including home confinement and other forms of monitoring.

Brian A. Kelley, Alvarez’s attorney, told Fox News Digital Alvarez was released after a three-part hearing that looked at medical records, surveillance and testimony.

"No injuries were found on the alleged victim. The video surveillance depicts her going into the room and coming out eight minutes later, her clothing undisturbed and walking by two members of the National Guard without comment," Kelley said, confirming that Alvarez was released on bail.


Cory B. Alvarez (in red) was arrested March 15 and has pleaded not guilty to one count of rape of a child by force. He was ordered held without bail after a hearing in Hingham District Court in Hingham, Mass., March 22, 2024.

He also said Alvarez’s bail condition included home confinement and the surrender of his passport, with which he complied. He also pointed to a Massachusetts court ruling that found no authority to hold an individual solely on the basis of an ICE detainer.

"I’m hopeful that all Karen Read supporters now find a new cause; supporting the innocence of Cory Alvarez," Kelley added.

Alvarez arrived in June under the parole process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezeualans (CHNV). The policy was first announced for Venezuelans in October 2022, which allowed a limited number to fly directly into the U.S. as long as they had not entered illegally, had a sponsor in the U.S. already and passed certain checks.

In January 2023, the administration announced the program was expanding to include Haitians, Nicaraguans and Cubans and that the program would allow up to 30,000 people per month into the U.S. It allows for migrants to receive work permits and a two-year authorization to live in the U.S. and was announced alongside an expansion of Title 42 expulsions to include those nationalities.

The Department of Homeland Security has said the process, which it describes as a "safe and orderly way to reach the United States" is a "key element" of the administration’s efforts to address high levels of migration throughout the hemisphere. Republicans have accused the administration of abusing the parole process with the program.

According to official data, the Biden administration has brought over 138,000 Haitians into the U.S. via the CHNV parole program since January 2023.