‘Truly wicked’: Trump administration blasts Obama judge over praise of illegal alien who raped disabled American woman
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According to the sentencing transcript highlighted by the Detroit News, Levy said that while Díaz’s sex crimes were “horrible,” he has “taken responsibility for that, expressed remorse,” and is serving “a lengthy state sentence as punishment for that conduct.”
The Obama judge proceeded to paint the rapist as something of a victim of circumstance and a praiseworthy figure, going so far as to celebrate his efforts to displace U.S. citizen labor for the benefit of foreigners outside the country.
“You have lost two siblings to violence in Honduras, and your mother expresses her dependence on you in her need for the resources and love that you have provided to her,” said Levy. “So I commend you for supporting your family, for expressing your devotion to them, and for working here in the United States in jobs that Americans apparently do not want to work in.”
Díaz has recently indicated that he now wants to go home to Honduras, and Levy suggested further that the rapist’s vows not to enter into the U.S. illegally an eighth time and to dissuade his fellow Hondurans from jumping the border together signaled that he was “promoting respect for the law.”
The Obama judge decided to let the rapist off on his immigration crimes with time allegedly served and a special assessment fine of $100.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Fairchild told Levy that the sentence imposed constituted an “unreasonable departure from the guideline range.” The government subsequently appealed Levy’s decision.
In the appeal, assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan Sweeney Bean noted, “Despite six prior removals from the United States, Membrano Diaz returned and raped and sodomized a disabled American citizen. A non-custodial sentence here was an abuse of discretion.”
In addition to noting that Levy “unreasonably discounted the serious nature of the offense and Membrano Diaz’s disturbing history and characteristics,” Bean pointed out that the Obama judge’s “time served” sentence was preposterous, as “the defendant cannot receive credit against his federal sentence for that period of prior detention, because it has already been credited against the state sentence.”
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in response to Levy’s decision, “Unspeakable Depravity.”
“U.S. District Judge Judith Levy refused to sentence him to 2 more years for immigration crimes and called this monster a future ‘ambassador for living up to our immigration restrictions,'” McLaughlin noted in a X post on Saturday. “This Obama appointed judge went on to praise him for ‘family devotion and willingness to perform work that it claimed Americans find undesirable.’ Truly wicked.”
Kevin Kijewski, a Republican who is running to become attorney general of Michigan, wrote, “This isn’t justice; it’s judicial activism prioritizing criminals over citizens and spitting on federal law enforcement’s work to secure our borders under President Trump’s leadership.”
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