U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 171 illegal aliens over the course of a two-week operation in March who were convicted or charged with crimes including first-degree murder and child rape.
By Jack Montgomery | The National Pulse
“We have a new category of crime, it’s called migrant crime, and it’s going to be worse than any other form of crime,” Donald Trump warned during his latest town hall.
Last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 171 illegal aliens over the course of a two-week operation, convicted or charged with crimes including first-degree murder and child rape, indicating the former president is right to suggest mass migration is increasing crime in the United States.
Often, migrant crime can fly under the radar. Sometimes, this is because it is confined to local and regional news and does not reach a broad audience; sometimes, this is because media outlets consciously choose not to report a suspect’s immigration background and will describe an illegal alien based in Columbus, Ohio, as simply a “Columbus man.”
This does not mean migrant crime is not happening, however. Here are some examples from reports published the last week:
BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS.
The most-reported migrant crime of recent days is the murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley in Georgia. The suspect in the nursing student’s killing is Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela. He crossed the border at El Paso, Texas, was briefly detained by officials, and then, like countless others, released into the country with no meaningful oversight.
Georgia’s Mike Collins (R-10) is in no doubt about who is responsible for this deadly carelessness: “The blood of Laken Riley is on the hands of Joe Biden, [Homeland Security Secretary] Alejandro Mayorkas, and the government of Athens-Clarke County.”
STABBED IN TIMES SQUARE.
Times Square, the scene of several altercations involving migrants in recent weeks, including a high-profile attack on police officers, saw another on Thursday.
During a brawl reportedly involving “dozens” of people, ending with a 17-year-old boy being stabbed in the lower back.
“I saw someone running… and there was blood coming from his back, coming from everywhere,” said one eyewitness.
An unnamed 22-year-old and three migrant teenagers were arrested following the attack.
BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS.
Still in New York City, migrants Dugleidy Gonzalez-Riera, 28, Yefferson Prieto-Galviz, 23, and Morelis Blanco-Cineros, 41, were arrested for stealing “clothing, shoes and fragrances” worth over $5,300 from a string of retail locations.
The trio, who initially gave false names to police, were also found to be in possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, and the car they were driving had bogus license plates.
The migrants carried out their crimes while living in the Roosevelt Hotel at taxpayers’ expense.
MOB MENTALITY.
Randall’s Island, which hosts a tent city shelter for migrants, almost descended into riot earlier in the week as police officers attempted to arrest a migrant vigorously resisting arrest.
Fellow migrants grew restive, first heckling the officers and then pelting them with water bottles, backpacks, and other makeshift missiles in an incident captured on video.
AN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY.
One of the saddest incidents in recent days involved the death of a 10-year-old boy, Alex Wise, in Texas.
Rogelio Ortiz, 50, who was in the United States despite having been removed from the country on six previous occasions, has been charged with mowing the boy down in a hit-and-run.
Ortiz also faces charges for driving while intoxicated.
SAFETY LAST.
An illegal alien from Guatemala, charged with molesting a child, has been released by a judge in Rhode Island despite being wanted by immigration authorities.
State Attorney General Peter Neronha expressed fury at the situation, as his office had “argued that the court should order the defendant held without bail on the grounds that he posed a danger to the community and was a flight risk.”
ICE confirmed the alleged pedophile reached the U.S. interior “without being inspected, admitted or paroled by an immigration official” — a reminder that the migrant “encounters” logged at the southern and northern borders are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of illegal entries.
THE CHICAGO STRANGLERS.
A final example, Venezuelan migrants Fernando Loyo-Rodriguez, 22, Wilker Gutierrez Sierra, 21, Carlos Carreno-Carreno, 20, and Yonnier Guasamucare Garcia, 18, were arrested in Chicago for attacking a 49-year-old man on a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train,
The attack did not take place in the very early or very late hours, but at 4:30 p.m., and saw the victim beaten, strangled to the point of unconsciousness, and robbed.
Like some of the other migrants on this list, the suspects are all confirmed to have been “staying in area shelters” on the taxpayers’ dime. ##