Last week, a Los Angeles County husband and father, Juan Miguel Sanchez, tried to stop two men from stealing the catalytic converter off of a neighbor’s car. The would-be thieves shot the Good Samaritan in the chest, killing him. Now the perps have been caught, and in a scenario we have seen play out entirely too often in recent years, both were found to have rap sheets a mile long. And, despite a long string of arrests on serious charges, both were on the streets, and both were still in the United States. Illegally.

Wilber Alberto Rabanales and Jose Christian Saravia Sanchez were arrested by police in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood Thursday for the Feb. 25 murder of Juan Miguel Sanchez.

The incident was caught on surveillance video.

Rabanales, a Guatemalan national, has been arrested at least 15 times in the last few years in the county, predominantly on gun charges, grand theft, burglary and drug charges, police sources told Fox News.

He has multiple grand theft arrests, mostly for stealing catalytic converters, and past charges for multiple DUIs, conspiracy, felon in possession of a gun, possession of burglary tools, possession of meth, possession of stolen property and felony hit-and-run during a police pursuit.

Sanchez has been arrested at least a dozen times, mostly for grand theft, gun charges, drugs, burglary, kidnapping, possession of meth and possession of burglary tools, the sources said.

Los Angeles, of course, is a “sanctuary” city, located in a “sanctuary” state. While that designation confers sanctuary on illegal aliens, it appears to confer no such sanctuary to the innocent citizens of that city or that state.

Note the records of these two men. Rabanales: 15 arrests in the “last few years,” mostly on gun charges, grand theft, burglary, and drugs. Jose Sanchez: “At least” 12 arrests, for grand theft, gun charges, drugs, burglary, kidnapping, and possession of meth and burglary tools.

These goblins were allowed to remain in the country illegally. They were, despite a wealth of serious charges, somehow still out roaming the streets. Rabanales and Jose Sanchez did not come here to find jobs, to find a better life for their families, to join and enrich the tapestry that is the United States. They are career criminals; they came to the United States to prey on Americans; and thanks to lax border policies, weak blue-state justice systems, and fuzzy-headed “sanctuary” policies, they found the United States held some pretty rich pickings.

Pickings they took advantage of over and over, as the revolving-door justice system kept setting them loose, and as the “sanctuary” jurisdictions shielded them from being detained and repatriated.

It gets worse.

The (victim’s) family told FOX 11 the victim had told his wife she should leave her job while she underwent chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer.

Juan Sanchez’s wife and children are now without a husband and father – without a provider – because of these policies.

Kamala Harris, the Biden administration’s “border czar” up until a few weeks ago, is sure to remain silent on the incident. So will the impeccably coiffed Governor Newsom. Bet on it.

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