Illegal Immigrant Permitted To Hunt For Work While In JAIL?
October 7, 2011
First Offender Armando-Rodriguez Benitez Drove Drunk The Wrong Way On Wisconsin Interstate
It’s true. A Wisconsin judge has allowed a convicted drunk driver who was ARRESTED WHEN CAUGHT DRIVING THE WRONG WAY ON AN INTERSTATE, to hunt for a job while completing an 11 month sentence.
“Why would we let an illegal immigrant out on work release to look for a job he’s not supposed to have? He’s in the country illegally,” Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. says.
Clarke told his office staff Thursday to inform the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ask that the man be deported, the paper reported.
Follow @TKC_USOn July 21, Armando Rodriguez-Benitez, 35, was pulled over by authorities for driving with a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit while headed in the wrong direction on the I-43, the paper reported. An oncoming car was forced to intentionally crash into the median wall to avoid a head-on collision with the intoxicated man’s car, according to the report.
The paper, citing online court records, reported that a county judge sentenced him to 11 months at a county jail with so-called Huber work release privileges, under a statute that allows some inmates to leave jail to maintain their employment while serving out their sentence.
Rick D. Steinberg, Benitez’s lawyer, told FoxNews.com that his client has a “high degree” of character and education that makes the work release appropriate.
“This is not your normal criminal,” Steinberg said, adding that he has a supportive family and deep roots in the community. “Bottom line is that he made a mistake, and he apologized to the court in a better way than I could have.”
Fox News reports that Judge Steinberg didn’t dispute that Benitez is in the country illegally, though he declined to discuss Benitez’s employment status. Christine Neuman-Ortiz, from Voces de la Frontera, an immigration rights group, told a local radio station that the sheriff is stereotyping immigrants.
“I think the sheriff should know he’s not an immigration judge,” she said reported WTMJ. “The decision was in regards to driving violations and not related to immigration issues.”
Sentence Drunk Drivers To Work? Better Than Jail Time And TV
Perhaps it’s time for the U.S. criminal justice system to change it’s sentencing guidelines so that drug possession, drug dealing, drunk driving, and other such offenses are NOT served out in jail, but are served PUBLICLY in confined community service “work” sentences. How many would want to be caught for marijuana possession if it meant working for six months on a road
Obama's Illegal Alien Uncle Arrested For Same Crime
crew between Las Vegas and Barstow, California on a desert stretch of interstate? Drunk driving offenses the same.
Instead of sentencing convicts to sit, watch tv, work-out, and have access to internet and library, they could serve the state where the offense occurred.
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