Congressman Salud Carbajal voted against the Laken Riley Act, named after the college nursing student who was recently brutally murdered. The Act seeks to force the federal government to prosecute and deport illegal aliens who have committed crimes, and it would allow states to sue the federal government when their residents are harmed by illegal immigration. No Republican voted against the bill, while 37 democrats split from their party to support it.
Carbajal’s vote was no surprise. In 2015, Carbajal opposed Kate’s Law, which sought to prevent undocumented immigrants from repeatedly entering the country after deportation while imposing additional penalties on those with prior convictions. It was named after Kate Steinle who was killed by an illegal alien who admitted shooting her but claimed it was an accident and a jury agreed. Nevertheless, the perpetrator had been previously deported five times and had been convicted of seven felonies before her death.
Weeks after Kate Steinle’s death, Santa Maria resident and military veteran Marilyn Pharis, was raped, tortured, and brutally murdered by Victor Martinez, an illegal alien. Martinez had been arrested six times in 15 months, including weeks before the attack on Pharis. Santa Maria police chief Ralph Martin indicated they were forced to cite and release Martinez because of state-mandated sanctuary city policies. Chief Martin added, “I am not remiss to say that from Washington, D.C. to Sacramento, there's a blood trail leading to the bedroom of Marilyn Pharis.”
Three Illegal Aliens. Three Dead Women.
Unfortunately, that is just the tip of the iceberg. U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations officers arrested 73,822 noncitizens with criminal histories in fiscal year 2023. This group had 290,178 associated charges and convictions with an average of four per individual. These included 33,209 assaults, 4,390 sex and sex assaults, 7,520 weapons offenses, 1,713 charges or convictions for homicide, and 1,655 kidnapping offenses. However, that too is only the tip of the iceberg as ICE admitted their unit uses “inherent discretion” in determining who to arrest and remove. Why give convicted criminals additional opportunities to commit more crimes against American citizens under the guise of “inherent discretion”?
Moreover, from Feb. 5 to Feb. 16, 2024, ICE announced they arrested 36 noncitizens with prior sex offense convictions in Los Angeles and another 41 in San Francisco. In total, 275 noncitizens, all with prior sex offense convictions, were arrested nationwide. Read that: previously convicted, but not deported!
Meanwhile, the efforts by the governors of Texas and Florida to share the pain of being swamped by the invasion across our southern border seems to be working… sort of. While California continues to give as much free stuff to illegal aliens as can be imagined (health care, utility assistance, discounted college tuition, etc.) despite our $68 billion dollar deficit, other states are getting desperately stupid.
Stupid Is as Stupid Does
In response to being overwhelmed by some 40,000 illegal immigrants during the last year which resulted in a huge budget crisis, Colorado is considering the dumbest solutions in the nation. The mayor of Denver and their U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper figure the city is being buried in debt taking care of the immigrants because of their inability to work. The Senator has suggested the city disregard federal law by handing out fake “work permits” (only the federal government can hand out work permits) to the illegals. The mayor had an even worse idea, suggesting that the city itself should hire the illegals because a full-time salary funded by taxpayers was not necessarily more costly than social services, even if it required furloughing or reducing the hours of existing city employees in the process.
Don’t laugh, some California cities are paying people not to commit crimes. Maybe California should try that with illegal aliens too?
Don’t give our leaders any more stupid ideas than they already have.
I’ve always thought there should be a Border tax.
Every person who comes into our country illegally, their country needs to pay a tax on that individual and pay for their deportation. Why are we paying for them?