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Refugees charged with carjackings after fleeing Des Plaines (IL)
This story has been hyped by the typical trashy right wing sources like Daily Mail, Breitbart, Bizpac Review, etc. as "evidence" that Obama's policy towards the Central American migrants is screwing up American because OPENBORDERSCRIMINALALIENSGANGS. Luckily, a more neutral source, the Chicago Daily Herald, is covering it:
Two teenage Guatemalan refugees being housed on the campus of Maryville Academy are facing charges of vehicular hijacking after taking cars from people in Des Plaines and the Quad Cities, then leading police on a chase that ended Wednesday in Iowa, authorities said.
The suspects, who are 16 and 17 years old, were due to be extradited to Cook County after being detained in an Iowa jail. They are expected to be charged as adults, authorities said.
Both juveniles were being housed on Maryville's Des Plaines campus as part of a program run by Heartland Alliance, a social service agency that contracts with the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The pair were awaiting immigration proceedings.
The suspects, who are 16 and 17 years old, were due to be extradited to Cook County after being detained in an Iowa jail. They are expected to be charged as adults, authorities said.
Both juveniles were being housed on Maryville's Des Plaines campus as part of a program run by Heartland Alliance, a social service agency that contracts with the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The pair were awaiting immigration proceedings.
And now this incident has caused the Academy no longer to house migrants:
Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said Friday federal officials will stop placing youth at the Des Plaines facility "until a safety assessment is conducted and actions are taken to improve security measures."