Dem city bashed for policy ‘encouraging criminal illegal aliens’ as rap sheets revealed: ‘Lives on the line’

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A Democrat-dominated city council in Danbury, Connecticut, is facing backlash over new police guidance that the Department of Homeland Securit y says is "encouraging criminal illegal aliens." The City Council voted 18-2 last week to approve non-citizen legal immigrants and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients serving as police officers. One city council member, Democrat Joe Britton, remarked that the vote was "timely" considering recent ICE operations in the area and "sends a message to our immigrant community at large that you are welcome in Danbury." In response, a spokesperson for DHS fired back that the City Council "should be thanking our law enforcement for removing these dangerous criminals from Connecticut — NOT vilifying law enforcement." "An oath of office is a commitment to upholding the law, not encouraging criminal illegal aliens to break it," the spokesperson added, saying that "while these people smear ICE, law enforcement is arresting criminals and saving countless American lives." NON-CITIZEN POLICE OFFICERS APPROVED AFTER DEM SAYS ICE 'INVASION' 'SENDS A MESSAGE' Britton denied these claims, telling Fox News Digital that "DHS is attacking an argument I never made" and "I have no objection to arresting violent criminals." August ICE operations in Connecticut resulted in more than 65 arrests, according to an ICE news release. The arrests prompted public outrage in the community, including from city officials such as Britton, who called the raids "frightening" and a "federal invasion of immigration officials in Danbury." DHS, however, told Fox News Digital that ICE arrested illegal immigrants with criminal convictions including assault, sexual assault, false imprisonment and molestation of a minor. One arrestee, Eddy Ruano, from Guatemala, was convicted of molestation of a minor, according to DHS. Another Guatemalan national, Ericko Valenuela-Chua, was arrested in Connecticut after being convicted of sex assault-carnal abu…