Walter Ismael Garcia Lazo, a Nicaraguan citizen with an ICE detainer, repeatedly raped a 6-year-old girl in Adams County, carrying her into her mother’s bed, according to a criminal complaint. Be forewarned that the complaint is extremely graphic and disturbing.
From Sept. 25 through the presidential election, we are telling you about non-citizens currently in a Wisconsin jail who are 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 #15
The Defendant: Walter Ismael Garcia Lazo
The Jail: Adams County, Wisconsin
The Charges: 1ST DEGREE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD UNDER AGE 12 (TWO COUNTS) – the victim is 6
Date of Offense: July 1, 2024
National Origin: Nicaragua
ICE detainer: Adams County Sheriff York said in a Facebook post that the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office (ICE) placed an immigration detainer on Garcia Lazo.
Past Cases in Wisconsin: None
Criminal Complaint:
On July 2, Adams County deputies responded to a report of a sexual assault of a child that occurred in the Town of Springville, in Adams County, Wisconsin, the complaint says.
The criminal complaint also alleges that:
A deputy met the mother of the child and then saw Garcia Lazo drive away from the property. He conducted a traffic stop because Garcia Lazo had no license issued. He was identified via Nicaragua photo ID and indicated he did not speak English. The deputy used Google Translate.
Garcia Lazo admitted he had no insurance for the vehicle either. He said he was going to a friend’s residence in the Wisconsin Dells.
The child, who was only 6 years old, had disclosed to her mother that he had twice vaginally and anally penetrated her.
The mother said her daughter had disclosed two separate incidents involving her boyfriend. She said he had come into her bed and touched her. He had put her hand on his genitals. She also said he had inserted his genitals into her vagina and butt, the complaint says.
The children called Walter dad.
The girl repeated the story to investigators saying that the suspect “goes on top of her and touches her privates” and that she had told him to stop but he wouldn’t do it. At one point, she put her hand behind her back.
The child told investigators the attacks happened “every weekend when her mother went to work.”
She said she thought he was a “bad person,” the complaint alleges.
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.
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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