INVADER NEWS: Machete-Wielder at Capitol was Illegal Immigrant Released Despite Being ‘priority’ for Detention; House Judiciary Report: Biden-Harris DHS Twice Freed Illegal Alien Caught with Machete Outside U.S. Capitol

Machete-wielder at Capitol was illegal immigrant released despite being ‘priority’ for detention:

An illegal immigrant who was caught with a machete, a knife and a brick outside the U.S. Capitol last December was previously in the custody of federal authorities twice but was released each time, according to new data obtained by the House Judiciary Committee.

Jose Leonardo Marquez-Marquez, a Venezuelan with no legal visa to be in the U.S., was first arrested at the southern border in August 2022. He was released a day later after authorities said they didn’t have space to hold him.

He waited 14 months before showing up at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office to get his official immigration court summons. ICE officers determined he was a priority for arrest and deportation, but released him again, the Judiciary Committee said in a report provided to The Washington Times.

Two months later, he was arrested outside the Capitol last Dec. 26 after officers found his behavior suspicious. He was found with the weapons.

ICE at that time said he “posed a significant threat.”

He is currently being held in an ICE detention center in Virginia.

The Judiciary Committee said Mr. Marquez-Marquez’s case is the latest in a string of high-profile criminal cases where the central figure is an illegal immigrant caught and released under President Biden.

Committee investigators questioned both of Mr. Marquez-Marquez’s releases.

They said the 2022 release, which authorities blamed on lack of space, is curious because Homeland Security data obtained by the committee shows there was “capacity to detain” him at that time.

The 2023 release, after he checked in and collected his immigration court summons, was even more striking. —>READ MORE HERE

House Judiciary Report: Biden-Harris DHS Twice Freed Illegal Alien Caught with Machete Outside U.S. Capitol:

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) twice released an illegal alien into the United States who was later caught with a machete outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC.

An interim staff report from Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) House Judiciary Committee and Rep. Tom McClintock’s (R-CA) immigration subcommittee details the case of 23-year-old illegal alien Jose Leonardo Marquez-Marquez of Venezuela.

“For more than three-and-a-half years, President Joe Biden and ‘border czar’ Vice President Kamala Harris have orchestrated the largest mass release of illegal aliens into the country in American history,” the report begins:

Well over 7 million illegal aliens are now in the United States because of the Biden-Harris administration’s radical immigration policies. The results are all too predictable: cities overwhelmed, public services crushed, and communities shattered by the criminality of some illegal aliens. [Emphasis added]

As Breitbart News reported, Marquez-Marquez was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police the day after Christmas last year when he was caught outside the capitol “with a knife, a brick, and a machete,” according to a police report.

Marquez-Marquez was first arrested near the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, in late August 2022. The day after his apprehension by Border Patrol agents, Marquez-Marquez was released into the U.S. interior with DHS officials claiming his release was “due to detention capacity at the Eagle Pass North Station Sub: Soft-Sided Facility.” —>READ MORE HERE

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