Kamala Harris keeps insisting the failed “bipartisan immigration bill” is the fix for the border crisis, but it sure looks like what the nation actually needs would look more like the “Be Gone Act” that Sen. Jodi Ernst introduced this week.
By expanding the definition of “aggravated felony” to include sexual assault and aggravated sexual violence, it would make migrant sex offenders eligible for deportation.
And that’d be just the start: Per data that Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently coughed up after months of delay to Rep. Tony Gonzales, a jaw-dropping 662,566 migrants with known criminal backgrounds are wandering around the country.
That includes 13,099 murderers, another 1,845 accused murderers and some 15,000 convicted of sexual assault, either in the United States or in their home countries.
And these are just the criminals that ICE knows about.
With more than 1.7 million “gotaways” — illegal border-crossers spotted by Border Patrol but not caught — in the Biden years, plus the unknowable amount who avoided even getting spotted, the actual number is bound to be far higher.
It’s not clear how many of these violent lawbreakers entered the country under the Harris-Biden administration (the data has been collected over decades), but it is plain that progresives’ “sanctuary” laws have been protecting them.
When local cops aren’t allowed to communicate with the feds, known degenerates are allowed to commit crime after crime and still remain in the United States, terrorizing Americans and fellow migrants alike.
In July, an illegal migrant who was accused of raping a pre-teen child in Massachusetts was set free on bail by local authorities, who didn’t even alert the feds about his arrest.
He was finally re-arrested in September after ICE tracked him down.
All this argues for Ernst’s “don’t let known threats in” approach; we expect she’d be fine with adding the good bits from the “bipartisan” bill, including more resources for the Border Patrol and ICE.
And any answer needs to tighten the rules for winning “asylum seeker” status (whereas the bill Harris wants would loosen them.
We need to stop the mass movement to get a handle on who’s getting let in.
As the number of incoming illegal migrants has reached record highs under the Harris-Biden administration, the number of criminal migrants arrested has dropped 57% drop, the the number of criminals deported, 67%, per former ICE Chief of Staff Jon Feere’s comparison of Biden’s first three years vs. Trump’s.
Harris, Biden and Tim Walz claim it’s cruel to enforce on-the-books immigration laws, but unleashing rapists and murderers into American communities is somehow “compassionate.”
At least some Democrats in Congress have to know better: Line them up for a new bipartisan bill that will actually ensure we admit only legal migrants who can contribute to the nation from the day they arrive.
