Newly banned Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-07) ​​He took the House of Representatives to the floor on Wednesday evening and condemned the decision 2020 by the executive director of Northampton Lamont McClure Do not fully cooperate with immigration and goals (ICE).
Five years ago, McClure issued an executive ordinance of 20-28, which prohibits ICE from the arrest of the accused in Northampton, unless the order is transferred to the sheriff or prison authorities.
McClure, a democrat, said then that the federal precedent gives Northampton the right to require ICE with a qualification order.
“We respect the need for a federal government to enforce our immigration regulations, but we also respect the need for people residing in the Commonwealth to have the right trial,” said McClure.
Two weeks ago, a suspicious member of the Venezuelan gang was arrested by ice before the prison of Northampton in Easton. Luis Gualdron-Gualdron“The citizen and citizen of Venezuela, who had previously entered the United States without control,” was arrested on January 31 without an incident near the prison shortly after he was not honored. He is accused of indecent assault on a minor in Bethlehem.
According to the ice cream press message, “Gualdron is a suspicious member of the TREA de Aragua gang and has a criminal register in Pennsylvania, including arrest with indecent assault on a person under 16 years of age and harassment. He will be detained in ero detention without bond. “
“It is terrifying that Northampton’s unit refuses to fully cooperate with federal law enforcement agencies when it comes to taking a violent criminal who is illegally here in the country,” said Mackenzie. “Northampton’s county must cancel the executive ordinance, which was registered by the current director of the unit, because it has been shown that he directly set up law enforcement officers and our community to the detriment.”
A member of the American Commission for Internal Security, Mackenzie passed through the details of the Guaraldron case and outlined the lack of cooperation with Northampton.
“Five years ago, in March 2020, the executive of Northampton was a executive order prohibiting the full cooperation of law enforcement agencies,” he said. “Due to the executive order of Ice, he was forced to arrest this brutal criminal apart from prison.
“My office talked to ICE and explained that permission to this brutal criminal to leave a prison, not arrest, although already detained, significantly increases the possibility of escaping from capturing,” he continued. “It increases the danger for law enforcement agencies, which now have to arrest in an uncontrolled environment, and puts the society to greater danger, because this brutal criminal has a better chance of escaping.”
Mackenzie also cited on the floor of the house AP-GORC The probe, carried out on January 9-13, 2025, which showed that the society supports “deporting of undocumented migrants convicted of a crime for a crime using violence” based on a margin from 83 to 6.
“Society knows what Northampton did in this matter, and the overwhelming, double -sided position is that federal law enforcement agencies should be able to arrest and deport these brutal criminals without any obstacles,” said Mackenzie.
