Letter: Remember Trump said some illegal immigrants are rapists?

Remember Trump said some

illegal immigrants are rapists?

Re: “Serial rape suspect who posed as ride-share driver arrested” (Page B3, July 14):

Remember when candidate Trump said some Illegal immigrants were rapists? Orlando Vilchez Lazo is an Illegal (he’s a Peruvian citizen) and a former Lyft driver arrested last week under suspicion of raping four women. Lazo is accused of cruising San Francisco bar areas, picking up women waiting for Uber or Lyft rides, and forcibly raping them with a knife when they passed out drunk.

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One victim woke up with blood on her hands afterward. Imagine your wife or daughter forcibly raped with a knife after Uber or Lyft was called to safely take her home but the driver who picked her up was instead a rapist — and then discover he was here illegally.

ICE placed a detainer or hold on Lazo ,which San Francisco refuses to honor because it is a sanctuary city. This means sanctuary cities (and California as sanctuary state) care more for Illegal immigrants accused of rape than U.S. citizens.

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Mike Brown

Burlingame

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