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New DHS Director and DACA ‘Chief Architect’ Alejandro Mayorkas Endorsed by La Raza, Other Pro-Amnesty Groups

Posted by Renee Nal

On February 3, 2021(Watch)

The White House tweeted about the Mayorkas appointment last month, which featured a list of pro-amnesty endorsers (see video below), including big unions United Farm Workers, SEIU and AFL-CIO, as well as radical groups such as the Soros-Funded UnidosUS (formerly National Council of La Raza), the Coalition for the American Dream, and Community Change.

>https://nypost.com/2020/12/08/biden-hhs-pick-had-role-in-convicted-drug-trafficker-pardon/

Biden HHS pick played key role in convicted drug trafficker’s commutation

By Mark Moore

December 8, 2020

Becerra, now California’s attorney general, also called a pardon attorney to discuss the case and reached out to then-US Attorney Alejandro Mayorkasto look into it.

Mayorkas, Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, called him back to say the conviction was justified but that the sentence was too harsh, the House report said.

Becerra then sent a letter to the White House in support of Carlos Vignali, asking “if justice has been achieved” in the case.

“In the interest of redeeming the life of a young man, I respectfully urge you to weigh a few factors in Mr. Vignali’s favor,” the letter continued.

After commutation had been granted, Becerra stood by his decision to help the Vignalis, saying he never specifically asked Clinton to take action despite writing the letter and calling the White House on Jan. 19, 2001, the House report said.

>https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-11-mn-24045-story.html

Drug Kingpin’s Release Adds to Clemency Uproar

By RICHARD A. SERRANO and STEPHEN BRAUN

Feb. 11, 2001 12 AM PT

But the 30-year-old Vignali, who had served six years of a 15-year sentence for federal narcotics violations, fit another profile entirely. No small-time offender, he was the central player in a cocaine ring that stretched from California to Minnesota. Far from disadvantaged, he owned a $240,000 condominium in Encino and made his way as the son of affluent Los Angeles entrepreneur Horacio Vignali.=The doting father became a large-scale political donor in the years after his son’s arrest, donating more than $160,000 to state and federal officeholdersincluding Govs. Pete Wilson and Gray Davisas he pressed for his son’s freedom.

The grateful father called the sudden commutation of his son’s sentence by Clinton “a Hail Mary and a miracle.”

The improbability that such a criminal would be granted presidential clemency, as well as the younger Vignali’s claim that he alone steered a pardon application that caught the president’s attention and won his approval, has sparked disbelief and outrage from nearly everyone involved in his case.

“It’s not plausible; it makes no sense at all,” said Margaret Love, the pardon attorney who oversaw all Justice Department reviews of presidential clemency applications from 1990 to 1997. “Somebody had to help him. There is no way that case could have possibly succeeded in the Department of Justice.”

Because it isa hard-edged criminal case, Vignali’s commutation adds another dimension to the wave of eleventh-hour Clinton clemencies and raises new questions about the influence of political donors and officials on different stages of the process.

As criminal justice authorities in Minnesota learned of Vignali’s sudden freedom, they reacted with the same indignationthat has greeted several other beneficiaries of the 140 pardons and 36 commutations Clinton granted in his last hours as president.