Forget It Jake, It's Baltimore

Mia Cathell at TownHall, 'Sanctuary City' Swallows Massive Red Pill After Illegal Alien Child Sex Offender Was Freed

An illegal alien from Guatemala was convicted of heinous sex crimes against a minor in Maryland, but a Baltimore County judge suspended the pedophile's six-year prison sentence, and the so-called "sanctuary city" jailing the Guatemalan freed him in disregard of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment request.

Now, the deep-blue county is walking back its "sanctuary" policy following widespread backlash.

Last year, 25-year-old Raul Calderon-Interiano, a Guatemalan national living in the U.S. illegally, was arrested by the Baltimore County Police Department on January 23, 2023, and charged with sexual abuse of a minor (as a household/family member), attempted sexual abuse of a minor (as a household/family member), attempted sex offense in the third degree, sex offense in the third degree, and two counts of second-degree assault. The charging documents specified that Calderon-Interiano sexually abused a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old.

That day, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore lodged an immigration detainer against Calderon-Interiano with the Baltimore County Detention Center.

ICE issues immigration detainers to temporarily hold illegal aliens who have been arrested for committing crimes. Federal detainers ask local law enforcement agencies to notify ICE in advance before "removable" suspects are released and request that they be detained until ICE can assume custody. Detainers allow for an arrest to be made in a secure, controlled custodial setting — i.e. a direct transfer of custody — as opposed to hunting down an at-large illegal alien freely roaming the streets. The latter also expends "scarce" government resources, ICE explains.

On April 10, 2024, Calderon-Interiano was convicted of a fourth-degree sex offense (sexual contact) and assault in the second degree. He was sentenced to a total of six years in prison followed by five years of probation.

According to county records reviewed by Townhall, that same day, Judge Jan Marshall Alexander of the county's Circuit Court decided to suspend all of the convicted child sex offender's prison time, and the county jail was ordered to release him. However, the court order directed the Baltimore County Detention Center to "check for detainers" first. He was let out anyways, in spite of ICE's active detainer against him.

They still vote poorly.