An illegal alien who’s been arrested in the Chicago area more than a dozen times in just the past year is finally - finally - “eligible for deportation.”
And only thanks to the Republican-backed Laken Riley Act, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump last week.
Santiago Josue Baragas Rodriguez, a 20-year-old Venezuelan national living in the United States illegally and protected by the “sanctuary” city of Chicago, has been picked up no less than 13 times over the past 12 months, most recently for assaulting and attempting to rob a woman last November. The victim caught him attempting to use a rock to break the lock on her electric bike. After confronting him, Baragas Rodriguez tried to hit her with the rock before slapping her and struggling over the wheels.
According to CWB Chicago, he was already on pretrial release for three - count them, three - separate shoplifting cases at the time. He also had a slew of other arrests for things like shoplifting and trespassing, most of which were dropped despite Baragas Rodriguez not actually showing up for his court hearings.
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But it looks like his streak of committing crimes and no one giving a crap may be coming to an end. Baragas Rodriguez pled guilty this week to the attempted robbery of the woman back in November, a plea that came just a few days after President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which “mandates the federal detention of illegal immigrants who are accused of theft, burglary, assaulting a law enforcement officer, and any crime that causes death or serious bodily injury.”
Thanks to the new federal law, the judge has now declared Baragas Rodriguez “eligible for deportation,” since it apparently took an act of Congress to convince places like Chicago to boot out criminal aliens already living in violation of U.S. law and posing a threat to their own residents while sucking up taxpayer resources through the justice system.
Hey, whatever finally gets your ass in gear, I suppose.