{"id":12302,"date":"2019-04-26T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2019-04-26T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:00:34","slug":"sanctuary-city-ma-judge-charged-w-obstruction-for-aiding-illegal-aliens-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/sanctuary-city-ma-judge-charged-w-obstruction-for-aiding-illegal-aliens-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary City MA Judge Charged w\/Obstruction for Aiding Illegal Alien&#8217;s Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/welles_champagne_frame_ad_wikipedia-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/welles_champagne_frame_ad_wikipedia-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/welles_champagne_frame_ad_wikipedia-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/welles_champagne_frame_ad_wikipedia-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/welles_champagne_frame_ad_wikipedia.png 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>FrontPage Mag<\/strong>, by Daniel Greenfield &#8212; April 25, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This may be the acid test of the sanctuary city movement.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>States and cities have taken votes on becoming sanctuaries for illegal  alien criminals. Some, like California, have even threatened law  enforcement if officers cooperate with ICE. One judge in Newton,  Massachusets, a sanctuary city, went even further by helping an illegal  alien escape.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Now, after a federal grand jury was convened, she&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2019\/04\/25\/feds-charge-judge-court-officer-with-helping-suspect-escape-ice\/\"><em>facing the consequences<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>A state judge is expected to self-surrender to federal authorities  later today on charges she helped a Dominican national in the country  illegally for a third time and facing drug charges give a U.S.  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent the slip.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>U.S.  Attorney Andrew Lelling announced a federal grand jury was indicting  Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, 51, of Natick on charges of obstruction of  justice and aiding and abetting for interfering with a federal  investigation.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u201cFrom certain quarters I\u2019ve heard the occasional gasp of dismay or  outrage at the notion of holding a judge accountable for violating  federal law. But if the law is not applied equally, it cannot credibly  be applied to anyone,\u201d Lelling said. \u201cAre judges special? Sure. But not  because of the privileges they have enjoyed. They\u2019re special because  they\u2019re entrusted with enormous power. They explicitly swear to uphold  the law and they are given life tenure under the state constitution.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u201cThe idea of anyone interfering with federal law enforcement is  troubling,\u201d he said, \u201cbut if a judge did it, then it\u2019s far, far worse.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Expect Joseph to quickly become a martyr as this becomes a battle over  whether federal law on immigration is still valid, or can be suppressed  by the pro-illegal alien Left. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/273590\/sanctuary-city-ma-judge-charged-wobstruction-daniel-greenfield\">https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/273590\/sanctuary-city-ma-judge-charged-wobstruction-daniel-greenfield<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FrontPage Mag, by Daniel Greenfield &#8212; April 25, 2019 Excerpt: This may be the acid test of the sanctuary city movement.\u00a0 States and cities have taken votes on becoming sanctuaries for illegal alien criminals. Some, like California, have even threatened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/sanctuary-city-ma-judge-charged-w-obstruction-for-aiding-illegal-aliens-escape\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12304,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions\/12304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}