An illegal alien convicted of sexually abusing children under 14 walked free for years because Oregon sanctuary officials refused to honor ICE detainers — and it took a federal court order to force the state to reveal where he was living.
This is sanctuary policy in practice: a convicted sex offender from Micronesia, shielded by Marion County bureaucrats while federal agents spent three years hunting a man the state should have handed over the moment he was convicted.
Victor Soseia Hachipan was convicted of two counts of second-degree sex abuse involving a victim under the age of 14, two counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine, two counts of second-degree burglary, and failure to report as a sex offender, according to a Department of Homeland Security release. ICE agents first tried to detain Hachipan in 2021 while he was in Marion County custody. The county refused to honor the detainer and released him into the community. In 2023, it happened again.
Federal officials then filed an administrative subpoena to force Marion County to provide Hachipan's address. The county refused that, too. It took HSI and the U.S. Attorney's Office going to federal court to compel Marion County to reveal where the convicted child predator was living. He was finally arrested on October 7 in Keizer, Oregon.
The Gateway Pundit noted that the 2022 burglary charges involved incidents in which Salem churches were burglarized before fires were set inside.
"After sanctuary politicians in the state of Oregon refused to honor an ICE detainer, as well as a subpoena, we finally arrested this illegal alien from Micronesia, a convicted sex offender, after obtaining a court order from a Federal Judge to enforce the subpoena," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said.
The pattern repeats in Massachusetts. ICE Boston arrested 82 illegal immigrants in a September raid across New Bedford and Fall River, and the state's Democratic establishment rushed to claim those arrested had "no criminal records." ICE says many had serious criminal histories — indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, possession of child sexual abuse material, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, strangulation, extortion, and DUI. Several had already been released by local jurisdictions that refused to honor ICE detainers.
Gov. Maura Healey visited New Bedford claiming she "sat with the children of those apprehended in the raid." Sen. Ed Markey renewed his call to abolish ICE. New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell claimed at least eight arrested had no criminal records beyond "minor motor vehicle violations."
Acting ICE Boston Field Office Director Joseph Sher pushed back: "Time and time again, sanctuary politicians in Massachusetts have made the dumbfounding choice to prioritize dangerous criminal illegal aliens rather than their law-abiding American citizens."
Neither source identifies the specific Marion County judges or prosecutors who decided to release Hachipan rather than honor the ICE detainer. The officials who chose to shield a convicted child sex offender from federal authorities — and then stonewalled a subpoena — remain unnamed.
Meanwhile, Oregon rioters have attacked ICE facilities, blocking roads so agents couldn't reach criminal suspects and striking government vehicles with baseball bats and rocks, according to the Chronicle as cited by the Gateway Pundit. An ICE representative said violence against officers "will not be tolerated."
The question isn't whether sanctuary laws protect illegal aliens with criminal records. They demonstrably do. The question is why the officials who deploy those laws to release convicted child predators into American communities face no consequences for the choice — and why the public still doesn't know their names.
