SLO County murder suspect on the run, brother charged with accessory

I take exception to sezlittle1 who thinks it’s “Good News” that a prime murder suspect has escaped justice by fleeing south across the border to Mexico. It really isn’t good news for the victim’s family as he likely was sadistically executed and they are denied justice and closure in coming to terms with his brutal murder. It also isn’t good news for the unsuspecting and innocent Mexican citizens that may unfortunately cross paths with Franciso Santiago when he decides to murder again, but this time in Mexico. Not to worry for Franciso, though, he now has the proper credentials and job experience to seek employment with the drug cartels.

Why, exactly, would the capture, trial, and incarceration of an accomplice to murder be a “Bad Thing”? Yes, he is going to cost us $$ for trial and prison, but what would sezlittle1 prefer? Execution for being an accessory to murder? Somehow, I don’t think so.

Prisons don’t have to be expensive to operate, it’s just that liberal judges, lawyers & legislatures have mandated that they do so. In the face of lobbying by the public sector employee unions, politicians and dem judges aren’t about to let California utilize low-cost contractor prisons, minimal amenity, tent-style facilities, or recoup some economic return from prisoners via road gangs or mandatory labor projects. In fact, many idealogues on the Left want to minimize incarceration of criminals altogether. The new darling of the Democrat Socialists of America Party, NYC mayor elect, Zohran Mamdani, espouses that “violence is a social construct” and he aims to release prisoners and close prisons. Democrats are on the wrong side of the crime issue and rarely get it right because they are mostly interested in “Criminal Justice System” when the majority of Americans are far more interested in a “Victims Justice System”.

Failure??? ICE and “failure” only go hand-in-hand in describing the 4 failed years of misery known as the Biden Administration. Now, however, it’s just the opposite with ICE setting exemplary performance as the new standard. Despite the harassment and violence directed at ICE officers by the Left, ICE is performing its mission with admirable professionalism & effectiveness. They have accomplished a great number of removals and repatriations of illegal aliens in just the first 10 months of the Trump Administration. This includes thousands of thugs including gang members, murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers, firearms violators and human traffickers. The majority of voters support ICE and are looking forward to the future removal of millions of sovereignty-violating, law-breaking International Criminal Trespassers. ICE is anything but a “Failure”.

Lastly, who really believes that sezlittle1 would actually cheer a massive dragnet operation in Santa Maria & Lompoc targeting his hyperbolic & imaginary “thousands of gang members”. He likely would respond to such an operation by being among the first to stand arm-in arm with all the other virtue-signaling 805 ICE Rapid Response outrage goblins as they collectively scream, light their hair on fire, and interfere with lawful arrests.