Selective Compassion

From the “End of Day” Report Newsletter: Sent by Janet Levy



As we are experiencing a massive surge in illegal immigration at our southern border, I want to revisit a critical element that is often overlooked in this debate. The media and many on the left speak of illegal immigration as a humanitarian issue or they couch it in terms of compassion.

But where is the left’s compassion for taxpayers and for the innocent American victims of criminal illegal aliens?

Whenever President Trump talks about illegal immigration, he frequently says that open borders means more crime. Predictably, left-wing pundits accuse the president of being “xenophobic,” even though he often praises legal immigration.

But the president is absolutely correct. Not every illegal immigrant coming across the border is looking for work and a better life.

According to government statistics, illegal aliens make up 21% of the federal prison population. The 730,000 criminal aliens in state and federal prisons were responsible for 7.5 million offenses. They committed:

1 million drug crimes

500,000 assaults

133,800 sex offenses

33,300 homicide-related offenses

24,200 kidnappings and

1,500 terrorism-related crimes.

It cost taxpayers $2.5 billion a year to incarcerate them. Texas bears the brunt of this burden. In the past eight years, it has incarcerated nearly 200,000criminal aliens.

None of these crimes should have happened. The only reason they did happen is because of the gross malfeasance of liberal politicians who refuse to secure the border.

President Trump wants a border wall to stop illegal immigration, drugs and crime. But Democrats are fighting him every step of the way. Democrats refused to adequately fund Trump’s border wall, and every Democrat in Congress voted against his emergency declaration.

Meanwhile, progressive presidential candidates are all in on open borders. They are talking about tearing down what few border walls we currently have, granting a massive amnesty and decriminalizing illegal border crossings.

Trump is right when he says Democrats are the party of illegal immigration and crime.

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