Abarca Torres Alvaro and illegal alien and a convicted statutory rapist benefits was able to benefit from Obama’s DACA and avoid deportation.
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In yet another instance of the Obama administration granting executive amnesty to a criminal, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is pressing the Department of Homeland Security on whistleblower charges that a convicted statutory rapist was able to benefit from Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Thursday Grassley revealed that whistleblowers say Abarca Torres Alvaro — arrested in February 2013 and convicted of statutory rape that October — received DACA in April 2013.
“He retained DACA even after he was convicted of the crime and served prison time,” Grassley wrote in a letter to DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson dated Wednesday.
“According to whistleblowers, Mr. Abarca Torres Alvaro was arrested on the charge of statutory rape in February of 2013,” the Iowa lawmaker elaborated. “Two months later in April of 2013, Torres was granted DACA. In October of 2013, Mr. Torres was convicted of statutory rape, and sentenced to two years in prison. While in prison, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allegedly served Mr. Torres with an I-851 Form, a Notice of Intent to Issue a Final Administrative Deportation Order.”
Alvaro is the latest in a string of DACA recipients Grassley has highlighted as individuals undeserving of immigration benefits. On other occasions Grassley has pressed the administration on illegal immigrants granted DACA who have been charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder, suspicion of second-degree murder, possession of child pornography, and child molestation.