Migrant criminals are abetted by liberal courts, law enforcement and politicians via inappropriate bail, soft sentencing and refusal to cooperate with ICE officers.
By Jack Montgomery | The National Pulse
Migrant crime, described as a dangerous “new category of crime” by former President Donald J. Trump, is under scrutiny as Vice President Harris, her corporate media allies, and conservatives spar over the extent of her responsibility for the illegal immigration crisis as Joe Biden’s border czar.
Many reports of migrants responsible or allegedly responsible for serious crimes have emerged over the past several days, highlighting the threat foreign criminals pose to Americans and the burden it places on public resources.
DRUG LORDS.
On Thursday, Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, son of the infamous drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, were arrested in Texas.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray says the pair are responsible for trafficking “tens of thousands of pounds of drugs into the United States,” particularly fentanyl, along with much “related violence.”
The synthetic opioid is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. annually. It is often spliced into other products without the overdose victims’ knowledge or taken accidentally by children.
HUMAN SMUGGLERS.
On Wednesday, the Justice Department reported the charging of 19 alleged human smugglers responsible for “coordinating the smuggling of dozens of unauthorized migrants into the United States from Mexico, mostly aboard personal watercraft via the Pacific Ocean.”
However, only nine of the 19 are actually in custody, with the other ten remaining at large as fugitives.
The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation that secured the charges also uncovered two boxes of ammunition and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
LEFT AT LARGE.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported the capture of 18 criminal illegals from Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, China, Jamaica, and Colombia in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday.
Many were beneficiaries of the so-called Alternatives to Detention program, meaning they had been encountered by border officials but released into the U.S. on feeble supervision conditions rather than permanently detained prior to deportation or a successful asylum claim.
Some had been charged with serious crimes, including assault, child abuse, and burglary.
DALLAS PEDOPHILES.
Fourteen illegal aliens in Dallas County, Texas, ranging from their teens to their late seventies, were identified as child sexual abuse suspects over just one month, according to a report published by local media last Friday.
Several have charges for other crimes, including drunk driving, drug possession, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. One has an arrest record dating to 2017, including charges for interfering with an electronic monitoring device—but he was never deported.
FAIRFAX COUNTY KILLER.
Authorities confirmed on Friday that Maldin Anibal Guzman-Videz, a 27-year-old accused of murdering a man in Fairfax County, Virginia, is an illegal alien from Honduras.
Honduras is one of the so-called “Northern Triangle” of countries where Vice President Kamala Harris was given special responsibility for tackling the “root causes” of illegal immigration, along with El Salvador and Guatemala.
FEMICIDE FUGITIVE.
On Wednesday, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Baltimore, Maryland, reported they had detained an illegal from another Northern Triangle convicted of a serious crime.
The unnamed 57-year-old is supposed to be serving a sentence for “attempted aggravated femicide” in his native El Salvador and handed a 21-year prison sentence. He crossed the U.S. border illegally in July 2023 but was released by ICE in August before a thorough criminal background check was completed, and was at large among the American public until his arrest this year.
ENABLERS.
Last Wednesday, a disturbing local news report focusing on sentencing in Baltimore County, Maryland, found Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Robert Cahill and Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Keith Truffer appear to be treating illegal alien pedophiles with disproportionate lenience.
Judge Cahill slashed a 25-year-old sentence for Luis Portillo-Henriquez, who raped a 14-year-old, to just 18 months. He gave Arles Efrain Avila, “repeatedly arrested by ICE and deported to Honduras over 18 years,” just five years’ probation for multiple child sex crimes. He gave the same sentence to Jose Mejia for numerous child sex crimes and dismissed several counts against him.
Meanwhile, Judge Truffer slashed a 25-year sentence for Miguel Flores-Avalos to just 18 months by suspending the bulk of the term.
Illegal alien criminals are often abetted by liberal courts, law enforcement, and politicians through inappropriate grants of bail, soft sentencing, and especially refusal to cooperate with ICE deportation officers. ##