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Illegal Immigrant Accused of Killing Rusk County Father of Three

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Jorge Sanchez-Tzanahua admitted that he was in the country illegally. He is accused of causing an accident that resulted in the death of a father of three, Steven Nasholm. Sanchez-Tzanahua’s driver’s license status was revoked due to a prior OWI-related conviction on 02/28/2023.

“A lot of lives were changed in an instant when my brother-in-law was involved in an accident on his way to work, his last-minute decision saved the other driver’s life but unfortunately cost him his,” a GoFundMe page set up to help Nasholm’s heartbroken family says. “That being said my sister and her 3 daughters, 13,10, and 7 are now facing a life-changing experience and I am wanting to help as much as I can to ease what pain I can.”

Each day, from Sept. 25 through the presidential election, we tell you about a non-citizen currently in a Wisconsin jail who is accused of committing a horrific crime. ICE placed immigration detainers on each of them. We are highlighting a range of serious crimes.

Real victims, communities, and taxpayers are paying the price of weak Biden/Harris border policies, which are abetted by politicians like U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Every state is a border state.

FILE #8

The Defendant: Jorge Sanchez-Tzanahua

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The Jail: Rusk County, Wisconsin

Country of Origin: Mexico

Date of Offense: 1/30/2024

The Charges: Homicide by Intoxicated Use of a Vehicle While Having a Prior Intoxicant Related Conviction; Knowingly Operate Motor Vehicle While Revoked – Cause Death of Another; Misdemeanor Violating a Court Order Restricting Operating Privilege Ignition Interlock Device.

Past Cases in Wisconsin: OWI conviction on 02/28/2023 in Rice Lake, WI

ICE detainer: According to Breibart.com, ICE agents have placed a detainer on him. He is currently in the Rusk County Jail. Sanchez-Tzanahua “allegedly admitted he is not legally in the United States and that he has been in the U.S. for approximately three years,” DrydenWire reported.

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) told Breitbart News “Day in and day out, we see the tragic consequences of illegal immigration in America, and the Biden administration’s open border policies have only made it worse, ‘How many more Americans have to die before Democrats secure the border?’”

The Details:

The following details are reprinted by WRN courtesy of DrydenWire:

On Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at approximately 3:30 p.m., a Rusk County Sheriff’s Office Deputy was dispatched to a motor vehicle accident on Highway 8 near the intersection of Olesiak Road, in Strickland Township, Rusk County.

Fire personnel were tending to the driver and lone occupant of the semi, identified as Steven Nasholm in a press release from the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office. Nasholm was unresponsive, but breathing, however, his breathing was labored and almost sounded as if he was gargling. Nasholm’s condition appeared to be critical due to his injuries.

A helicopter and an Advanced Life Support ambulance were requested to respond to the crash scene to assist with patient care.

During his initial contact with Sanchez-Tzanahua, the Deputy allegedly observed Sanchez-Tzanahua swaying while standing in place, his eyes were bloodshot and glossy, and his face and eyelids appeared droopy. The Deputy also allegedly detected a strong odor of intoxicants emitting from the area where Sanchez-Tzanahua was standing. The Deputy determined that Sanchez-Tzanahua was likely intoxicated.

The Deputy walked by Sanchez-Tzanahua’s vehicle, a green 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee, and observed that the driver’s door was missing as a result of the accident. The Deputy also detected a strong odor of intoxicants emitting from Sanchez-Tzanahua’s vehicle and observed both airbags had deployed. The driver’s seat belt was also found to be retracted into position indicating the Defendant was not wearing his seat belt.

The Deputy learned that Sanchez-Tzanahua’s driver’s license status was revoked due to a prior OWI-related conviction on 02/28/2023 in Rice Lake City Municipal Court, that he held a .02 PAC restriction, and was required to operate a vehicle with an ignition interlock device (IID). The criminal complaint filed against Tzanahua states that in March 2023, a notice of his revocation was mailed to him.

While examining the crash scene, the Deputy was able to determine that Sanchez-Tzanahua’s green Jeep Grand Cherokee had been traveling west on Highway 8. The Victim had been operating a 2018 Kenworth semi that had been traveling east on Highway 8.

The Jeep was located approximately 100 yards west of the semi and there was a large debris field between the vehicles indicating the initial point of contact was likely between the two vehicles. The Deputy observed the primary damage to both vehicles was on the front driver quarter panels indicating that one of the vehicles likely crossed the center line into opposing traffic, causing the accident.

The Jeep had sustained a substantial amount of damage to the front of the vehicle primarily near the front driver-side tire. The damage continued down the entire driver-side of the vehicle. There was also minor damage to the rear passenger bumper, likely from striking the guard rail.

The semi’s front driver-side bumper was slightly bent. The front driver-side steer tire was missing and there appeared to be damage to areas of the engine bay behind where the steer tire was. Inside the cab, the Deputy observed the passenger window was broken out and the windshield on the passenger side of the vehicle was smashed.

Further examination of the crash scene, including tire marks on the road, indicated that the semi had been traveling east approaching a slight left curve. The Jeep had been traveling west after completing a slight right curve. The Jeep crossed the center line traveling into the eastbound, opposite lane of travel causing a collision with the semi.

After the collision, the semi continued traveling east for approximately 50 yards before losing control due to the driver-side steer tire being compromised from the accident. This appeared to cause the semi to enter the north ditch and go through an embankment before coming to rest in a driveway coming off Highway 8 to the north. After the collision, the jeep appeared to have somehow struck the guardrail located on the south shoulder of Highway 8 before rolling backward onto the north shoulder of Highway 8 where it came to rest.

Sanchez-Tzanahua was taken into custody for operating while intoxicated. During a search of his vehicle, several beer bottle caps were found spread throughout the vehicle. An empty Corona box was also found.

Sanchez-Tzanahua agreed to take a Preliminary Breath Test and the results of that test indicated a breath alcohol content of 0.176.

Sanchez-Tzanahua was transported to a medical facility for a legal blood draw. During transport, the Deputy learned that Nasholm had passed away while en route to the hospital. The Deputy allegedly heard Sanchez-Tzanahua utter “sorry” and burp from the rear passenger area.

Sanchez-Tzanahua allegedly admitted he is not legally in the United States.

Nasholm’s family has set up a GoFundMe page to support his wife and daughters.


ICE Detainers Plunge Under Biden-Harris

Illegal immigrants committing crimes is not a story that the corporate media and Vice President Kamala Harris want to tell, especially as border crossings have surged.

Under Biden/Harris, the number of U.S Border Patrol “encounters with migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico in December 2023” hit “the highest monthly total on record,” according to Pew Research Center.

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The Biden administration issued just under 300,000 detainers from 2021 through the first quarter of 2024, a rising number, according to Trac Immigration, a project of Syracuse University. However, “overall 50 percent more ICE detainers were issued during the Trump presidency (FY 2017 – FY 2020),” Trac says.  

Detainers “are critical for ICE to be able to identify and ultimately remove criminal aliens who are currently in federal, state or local custody,” ICE says.  ICE detainers ask local law enforcement to hold a non-citizen inmate for 48 hours before release into the community so ICE can pick them up.

Inmates with detainers are only the people that ICE discovers and where ICE decides to act. Some jails, such as Dane County’s, don’t honor all ICE detainers and don’t give ICE 48 hours to pick up the inmates before release. At the other end of the spectrum stands a jail like Waukesha County, where the sheriff received federal immigration authority through a program called 287g.

ICE detainers “are often used as one indicator of the intensity of what is called ‘interior enforcement’ in contrast to ‘border enforcement,’ Trac writes.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “has long claimed that detainers, often called ‘immigration holds,’ are an essential tool needed to apprehend and deport individuals not authorized to remain in the U.S.,” the site says. “Detainers are supposed to be targeted at noncitizens who have committed crimes here in the U.S.”

In addition, the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested more than 15,000 criminal non-citizens in 2024 alone, including 27 murderers and 202 people for sexual offenses. But those are just the people they catch.

From 2006 to 2023, ICE placed detainers on more than 14,000 non-citizens living in Wisconsin, Trac says.

The first year of Biden-Harris saw the lowest numbers of ICE detainers issued since at least 2006. The Milwaukee and Dane County Jails had the most ICE detainers issued of any jurisdictions in Wisconsin during the time frame below, according to Trac.

The corporate media tend to focus on studies that show illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than non-citizens or they focus mostly on the other side of the coin – say, illegal immigrants whose labor helps keep dairy farms alive. The citizens who committed crimes had a right to be here; illegal immigrants did not. A tougher border policy might have prevented illegal immigrant crimes from occurring in the first place. The stories are worth telling.

“Although no federal law requires cooperation with ICE, many state and local laws, and sometimes court rulings, regulate compliance with ICE detainers,” The Immigrant Legal Resource Center says. Some states have made compliance mandatory, but Wisconsin is not one of them.

“Legally, the requirement of probable cause means ICE can only issue a detainer against (a) a noncitizen, who (b) is already ‘removable.’ A removable noncitizen is someone who can be put in removal proceedings for possible deportation,” the center says.

“ICE describes a detainer as a request to a ‘law enforcement agency to notify ICE before a removable individual is released from custody and to maintain custody of the noncitizen for a brief period so that ICE can take custody of that person,'” Trac says.

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Voter turnout, in fact, has slightly increased since the law went into effect. Wisconsin voters will vote on making voter ID a constitutional amendment April 1.

Democrats in the state have argued the amendment will disenfranchise voters.

The state’s current law, however, has had no negative impact on minority groups voting or Dane and Milwaukee counties.

The report found that socioeconomic factors such as poverty rates and education levels have a larger impact on voter turnout than voter ID laws.

“By analyzing decades of election data both before and after Wisconsin implemented Voter ID, we found a general rise in voter turnout, rather than the widespread disenfranchisement that critics often suggest,” said WILL Research Director Will Flanders. “Any claims suggesting Voter ID is ‘voter suppression’ are merely political scare tactics aimed at undermining faith in Wisconsin’s elections. Furthermore, it’s worth exploring whether Voter ID can actually increase turnout by strengthening confidence in Wisconsin’s election system.”

The research cited several studies that backed its conclusion across the country, with data showing that states with voter ID laws don’t have significantly different turnout than those without the law.

It also cited a Wisconsin study after the 2016 election where 1.7% said they didn’t vote because they didn’t have adequate ID while 1.4% said they were told at the polls that their ID was not adequate.

“It is well known among political scientists that individuals have a tendency to lie to pollsters regarding whether they voted or not,” the report said. “One key explanation for this is what is known as social desirability bias. In general, people do not want to ‘look bad’ to pollsters. As such, they may lie to the pollster about things that are perceived as socially undesirable, such as refraining from voting.”

Instead, WILL’s report looked at aggregate data of turnout change in the state and in key counties such as Dane and Milwaukee.

The study found that voter turnout has increased by 1.5%, on average, in the state since the law was implemented.

“This is an interesting result,” the report said. “While it is likely too large of a leap to say voter ID has increased turnout due to the correlational nature of our analysis, it seems that there is no negative relationship.”

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Assembly Republicans Move Public Safety slate

(The Center Square) – Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol continue to move through their to-do list. The latest was a slate of bills focusing on public safety.

The Assembly on recently approved:

● K9 Riggs Act – Increases penalties for causing injury to law enforcement animals. The bill is named after Kenosha County Sheriff Department K9 Riggs, who was shot by a criminal. Riggs survived and is now in retirement.

● Prosecution Reform – Requires approval from the court before prosecutors can dismiss serious charges.

● Parental Notification – Ensures parents are promptly notified of sexual misconduct in school.

● Criminal Case Database – Creates a new database of crimes in Wisconsin.

● Reckless Driving Crackdown – Allows for the impoundment of vehicles used in reckless driving offenses.

● Parole Revocation – Revokes extended supervision, parole, or probation if a person is charged with a new crime.

● Child Trafficking Penalties – Imposes life imprisonment for the crime of trafficking multiple children and requires restitution be paid to the victims.

● Theft Crimes – Increases the penalties for certain retail theft crimes.

● School Resource Officers – Ensures officers are put back into Milwaukee Schools.

“Cracking down on crime shouldn’t be a partisan issue, but in Madison, it has increasingly become so,” Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August said after Thursday’s votes.

Rep. Amanda Nedweski, R-Pleasant Prairie, authored the K9 Riggs Act, which was named after a Kenoha police dog who was shot and wounded by a suspect back in 2021.

“Riggs’s heroism united the community, galvanizing support for local law enforcement just a year after rioters in Kenosha protested against them,” Nedweski added. “These dogs are not only invaluable members of the department; they are also family to their partners.”

But not every lawmaker was on board with the Republicans' public safety slate.

Milwaukee Rep. Ryan Clancy, D-Milwaukee, called the legislation "misleading and misguided."

“Once again, the Wisconsin legislature was forced to spend our time and resources considering badly written, badly conceived bills that will harm people and waste public resources," Clancy said in a statement. "It’s wildly irresponsible to even consider increasing penalties and interfering with the very few tools of leniency we have with a prison system holding 5,000 more people than intended. But here we are."

The slate of legislation will head to the Senate.

Bill Introduced to Ban Student Visas to Chinese Nationals

U.S. Rep. Riley Moore, R-WV, filed a bill on Friday to ban Chinese nationals from receiving student visas.

“Every year we allow nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals to come to the U.S. on student visas. We’ve literally invited the CCP to spy on our military, steal our intellectual property, and threaten national security. Just last year, the FBI charged five Chinese nationals here on student visas after they were caught photographing joint US-Taiwan live fire military exercises. This cannot continue,” he said.

Moore’s Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act (Stop CCP VISAs Act) has several cosponsors. The bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the admission of Chinese nationals as nonimmigrant students, according to the bill language.

He points to the FBI last year charging five Chinese nationals who were in the U.S. on student visas at the University of Michigan after they were caught photographing joint US-Taiwan live fire military exercises at Camp Grayling in August 2023 claiming they were members of the media.

He also points to a Chinese student attending the University of Minnesota who was sentenced to six months in prison last October for taking drone photographs of naval shipbuilding operations at Newport News Shipbuilding in Norfolk, Virginia. Moore also points to a former Illinois Institute of Technology graduate who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2023 for spying for the Chinese government, acting as an agent of China’s Ministry of State Security and making a material false statement to the U.S. Army when he enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve.

“Congress needs to end China’s exploitation of our student visa program. It’s time we turn off the spigot and immediately ban all student visas going to Chinese nationals,” he said.

These are but a handful of examples. More than 60 Chinese Communist Party-related cases of espionage and acts of transnational repression were reported in 20 states under the Biden administration, according to a U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security report, The Center Square reported. That’s in addition to 224 reported incidents of Chinese espionage directed at the U.S. between 2000 and 2023, according to the report. Examples include transmission of sensitive military information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), theft of U.S. trade secrets to benefit the PRC, transnational repression schemes to target PRC dissidents and obstruction of justice.

Other examples include a Department of Justice case from last December involving a Chinese national and lawful permanent resident of California who was arrested for flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base and taking photographs. He was arrested for violating national defense airspace prior to boarding a flight to China.

Another DOJ case related to a Chinese national illegally living in the U.S. who was arrested for allegedly shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea, The Center Square reported.

Another involved a PRC spy arrested in California who worked for a state lawmaker and Chinese operatives arrested in Guam near a U.S. military installation on the same day as a live ballistic missile interception test, The Center Square reported.

Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray’s parting warning to Americans was that China remains one of the greatest threats to U.S. national security, a warning he consistently issued.

“The greatest long-term threat facing our country, in my view, is represented by the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese government, which I consider to be the defining threat of our generation,” he said, The Center Square reported.

The DOJ says it opens new cases to counter PRC intelligence operations roughly every 12 hours. Of the espionage cases it's prosecuted since 2018, it says 80% allege the PRC would benefit; 60% of trade secret theft cases are linked to China.

It also lists examples of indictments of Chinese nationals conspiring to and committing economic espionage and theft of trade secrets going back to 2018 under the Trump administration.

PRC threats increased as the greatest number of Chinese nationals illegally entered the U.S. in recorded history under the Biden administration – more than 176,000 nationwide, The Center Square first reported.