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Democrat-Appointed Philadelphia Official Charged with Fraudulently Obtaining American Citizenship

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A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, official appointed by Democrat Mayor Jim Kenney was charged with fraudulently obtaining American citizenship via marriage fraud and stealing $15,000 through bank embezzlement, federal prosecutors allege.

Liberian-born Christian Dunbar, 40-years-old, was appointed as Philadelphia City Treasurer last year by Kenney after spending years as a top financial adviser at Wells Fargo. In charging documents, United States Attorney William McSwain accused Dunbar of fraudulently obtaining American citizenship and committing bank embezzlement while at Wells Fargo.

According to prosecutors, Dunbar and his Senegal-born wife each entered into sham marriages with American citizens to obtain green cards, and eventually American citizenship, for themselves and their family.

In December 2006, Dunbar and his wife each married American citizens in separate ceremonies. The two individuals who married Dunbar and his wife were classmates of theirs at Temple University and the officiant of the marriages was a Temple University professor.

Dunbar, prosecutors allege, applied for a green card in February 2012. Months later, in October, he was granted a green card by the United States Citizenship and Immigration (USCIS) before applying to become an American citizen in 2015.

Prosecutors allege that Dunbar and his wife married each other in her native country of Senegal in June 2013 while Dunbar was still legally married to an American citizen in the U.S. Dunbar and his wife are listed as the married parents of their child, born in 2014.

Then, in January 2016, Dunbar was able to secure American citizenship. Two months later, Dunbar filed for divorce with the American citizen he originally married in 2006.

Before becoming Philadelphia City Treasurer, a job he has since been fired from, Dunbar allegedly stole $15,000 from two of his Wells Fargo clients by embezzling the money into his own personal bank account in December 2015 and January 2016.

Dunbar, prosecutors allege, got both clients to sign documents, including blank withdrawal slips, that he later used to withdraw cash from their bank accounts in order to redirect the money into his account.

Dunbar faces up to 45 years in federal prison and $1.5 million in fines if convicted.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.


As Breitbart News reported, up to 80 percent of criminal illegal aliens freed back into American communities by sanctuary jurisdictions go on to commit more crimes, an ICE official confirmed in congressional testimony.


llegal Alien Charged with Raping Child in North Carolina

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An illegal alien has been charged with raping a child in Cherokee County, North Carolina, local law enforcement officials confirm.

Benito Morales Mendez, a 39-year-old illegal alien, was arrested by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office on statutory rape charges after allegedly fleeing to Texas in an attempt to evade arrest.

In January, a complaint was filed alleging that Mendez had sexually assaulted a child. Officials also alleged he violated a domestic violence protective order before issuing a warrant for his arrest.

Mendez, officials allege, fled North Carolina for Texas. In cooperation with the United States Marshals Service and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), officials were able to locate Mendez in Texas months after the arrest warrant was issued.

Since locating Mendez, law enforcement secured his extradition back to North Carolina where he is now in local custody on $500,000 bail. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has placed a detainer on Mendez so that if he is released at any time, he will be turned over to their custody for arrest and deportation.

North Carolina’s illegal alien population has ballooned in recent years thanks to its multiple sanctuary jurisdictions that shield illegal aliens from arrest and deportation. In 2019, more than 500 illegal aliens were released in the state by sanctuary jurisdictions.

As Breitbart News reported, up to 80 percent of criminal illegal aliens freed back into American communities by sanctuary jurisdictions go on to commit more crimes, an ICE official confirmed in congressional testimony.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.


IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW BAD IT WILL BE JUST COME TO MEXIFORNIA. DRIVE FROM THE NARCOMEX BORDER TO OREGON AND COUNTY HOW MANY MEXICANS HAVE INVADED, OCCUPIED AND ARE LOOTING THE GOLDEN LA RAZA WELFARE STATE.

Answer: endless legal and illegal immigration of third world people and their cultures and religions.  Few understand the long-term ramifications of making America a quagmire of dozens of foreign cultures, languages, violent religions and world views.

 

The End of America As We Knew Her


By Frosty Wooldridge


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The End of America As We Knew Her

By Frosty Wooldridge

By Frosty Wooldridge

While we keep our social distance, and, while we watch Covid 19 rage across America, few appreciate a greater ‘virus’ that’s creating the ‘death’ of America as we knew her in 1965.

As quickly as the Coronavirus races across the American landscape killing thousands of people, another virus, self-imposed by our own elected representatives in Washington DC, races across our country at a rate of over 100,000 new additions every 30 days.  What constitutes this modern disease creating the ‘death’ of America as we knew her?

The disease more dangerous and deadly than Covid 19?  Answer: endless legal and illegal immigration of third world people and their cultures and religions.  Few understand the long-term ramifications of making America a quagmire of dozens of foreign cultures, languages, violent religions and world views.

Can Western Civilization Survive Another 100,000,000 Legal Immigrants predicted by 2050?  Why or why not?  What are you doing about it?

If you take time to read Mark Steyn’s book, America Alone, he sensibly and rationally dissects what’s happening to Europe.  They commit demographic suicide at blinding speed. He predated Douglas Murray’s, The Strange Death of Europe: Identity, Immigration, Islam.  Another book shows Canada’s demise, Canadistan: How Multiculturalism is Destroying Canada by Sarah Yasini.

Within 20 years, another astute author will write his or her book: The Self-Chosen Death of America by ******* ************.  If I’m still alive at that time, I will write that book, if the new immigrant majority will allow me.

Steyn says that Western Civilizations suffer from “civilizational despair.”  In other words, western countries have become SO complacent about freedom, free speech, women’s rights, children’s rights, religious choice and loyalty to their specific countries—that they simply sit on their butts to watch their cultures fade.  And, we seem to think that it won’t happen to us.

Except, it IS happening to us at blinding speed when you look at the four border states with Mexico.  Spanish dominates businesses, schools and workplace conversations.  It IS happening in Miami where a White American cannot secure a job or enjoy anyone resembling an American who speaks English.  It IS happening with parallel societies exploding in New York, Minneapolis, Detroit, San Francisco, LA and Houston.

It IS happening where Muslims dominate and are imbedding themselves into key political positions across America. Whether it’s the Council on American Immigration Relations or The Muslim Brotherhood—they follow one prime directive: install Sharia Law. Or, as their numbers grow, they de facto practice it against American Constitutional Law.

So many Americans point to Europe and Canada for allowing their cultures and languages to be immigrated to death.  Most Americans have heard of “no go zones” where the immigrants do not allow anyone other than their own people to trod.  Guess what?  We’ve already seen honor killings and FGM in America, and now, “no  go zones” in the aforementioned  cities.

Second Aspect Of The Death Of America As We Knew Her

If that doesn’t sober you as to the death of America, this second aspect cannot be denied or escaped.  We remain on course to add in excess of 110 million foreigners to America by 2050—a scant 30 years from now. That’s not “if” but a fact that will manifest by 2050 when our population jumps from 330 million to 440 million—unless we, the citizens of America—force Congress to rescind the 1965 Immigration Reform Act.

Do you know what it takes to sustain another 100,000,000 people beyond the 330 million already here?  Do you understand how much water must be available as the average American uses 166 gallons daily?  What about gasoline?  What about natural gas?   The horrific amount of resources?  Any idea as to the amount of food that must be generated to feed THAT many people?

Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck

This 10-minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a few words, “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

All the while, THAT much population gain will completely destroys our quality of life and standard of living.  It means a doubling of populations of our 35 most populated cities.  How will we sustain that?

Do you remember the Titanic steamship in April 15, 1912? Captain Smith pushed it too fast through iceberg-filled waters.  Result: he sunk his own ship and all its passengers.  Do you remember  the movie “Thelma and Louise”?  They committed so many crimes that consequences drove them toward that cliff in their 1966 Thunderbird. They couldn’t fix their problems, so they chose suicide by driving over the cliff.

What’s happening to America?  Within 30 years we will be 440 million people and a hodgepodge of minority races, incompatible religions, linguistic confusion and virtually everybody will think on a different cultural page. We’ll suffer from too many people, too little resources and gasoline will be exhausted.

Coronavirus will be solved at some point, but unless we change course, nothing will solve the “immigration virus” that will permanently cripple the United States of America and all Western Civilizations.

Would you like a reasonable national discussion-debate on what kind of a civilization you’re handing over to your kids?  Or, would you like to see your children repeat the mistakes of the Titanic and Thelma and Louise?

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them

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Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them

By George W. Grayson 

WILLIAMSBURG, VA. — At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato.

Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with "understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility."

Such rhetoric would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad.

Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and the workplace.

What are some examples of this failure of responsibility?

• When oil revenues are excluded, Mexico raises the equivalent of only 9 percent of its gross domestic product in taxes - a figure roughly equivalent to that of Haiti and far below the level of major Latin American nations. Not only is Mexico's collection rate ridiculously low, its fiscal regime is riddled with loopholes and exemptions, giving rise to widespread evasion. Congress has rebuffed efforts to reform the system.

• Insufficient revenues mean that Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility: Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10 percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study.

• A venal, "come-back-tomorrow" bureaucracy explains the 58 days it takes to open a business in Mexico compared with three days in Canada, five days in the US, nine days in Jamaica, and 27 days in Chile. Mexico's private sector estimates that 34 percent of the firms in the country made "extra official" payments to functionaries and legislators in 2004. These bribes totaled $11.2 billion and equaled 12 percent of GDP.

• Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for corruption.

• Economic competition is constrained by the presence of inefficient, overstaffed state oil and electricity monopolies, as well as a small number of private corporations - closely linked to government big shots - that control telecommunications, television, food processing, transportation, construction, and cement. Politicians who talk about, much less propose, trust-busting measures are as rare as a snowfall in the Sonoran Desert.

Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration. However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.

• George W. Grayson, who teaches government at the College of William & Mary, is the author of "Mesías Mexicano," forthcoming, a book about Mexican presidential front-runner Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

 

Billionaire Mexicans tell their poor to JUMP U.S. OPEN BORDERS and LOOT THE STUPID GRINGO… and loot they do!

 

Billions of dollars are sucked out of America from Mexico’s looting!

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/narcomex-biggest-exports-to-us-are.html

 

1) Mexico ended legal immigration 100 years ago, except for Spanish blood.

2) Mexico is the 17th richest nation but pays the 220th lowest minimum wage to force their subjects to invade the USA. The expands territory for Mexicans, spreads the Spanish language, and culture and genotypes, while earning 17% of Mexico's gross GDP as Foreign Remittance Income.

 

 

 

 

Jorge Ramos: Mexico Should Help Migrants Get to the United States

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The Mexican government must stop helping to enforce Americans’ immigration laws and must instead help poor migrants travel to the U.S. border, says Mexican immigrant and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos.

“The country itself has become the wall,” Ramos complained in an October 7th op-ed. “This has to change.”

Ramos objects to the anti-migration cooperation between the two trading partners, including Mexico’s success in reducing the transit of Central Americans up to the U.S. border. But instead of talking money, migration, and trade between two independent nations, Ramos writes about pride, status, and respect, saying:

We are talking about sovereignty, about dignity and basic respect for human rights, under circumstances where the safety of people fleeing gangs, violence and extreme poverty is at stake. Mexico should never forget that for decades it was an “immigrant exporter.” Now it must treat Central Americans with the same care and respect it has always demanded for Mexicans living in the United States.

It’s true: President Trump is using Mexico. And, against all logic, Mexico is letting him get away with it. This has to change.

 

 

Neil Munro

@NeilMunroDC

 

Mexican officials are protesting in public, but the evidence suggests that Donald Trump is getting Mexico to expand the 'Remain in Mexico' & other security programs to block migration & labor-trafficking into US job market. Good news for working Americans. http://bit.ly/2lLxVky 

 

Mexico, U.S. Set to Continue Migration Crackdown

Mexican officials suggested Tuesday's migration talks in the White House were acrimonious, but U.S. leaders portrayed the talks as a success.

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Ramos came to the United States on a temporary student visa in 1983 and parlayed that into a news anchor job at a Spanish-language TV station in Los Angeles. He won a green card but only decided to become a citizen 25 years later, in 2008.

But Mexico has changed since Ramos left. A July 2019 poll, for example, shows that Mexicans’ view towards migration has turned hostile amid the conflict and turmoil of the cartel-managed migration:

More than 6 in 10 Mexicans say migrants are a burden on their country because they take jobs and benefits that should belong to Mexicans. A 55 percent majority supports deporting migrants who travel through Mexico to reach the United States.

Those findings defy the perception that Mexico — a country that has sent millions of its own migrants to the United States, sending billions of dollars in remittances — is sympathetic to the surge of Central Americans. Instead, the data suggests Mexicans have turned against the migrants transiting through their own country, expressing antipathy that would be familiar to many supporters of President Trump north of the border.

Yet Ramos says the relationship between his homeland Mexico and the United States is unequal, so Mexico must again help migrants reach the United States, regardless of the impact on his fellow nationals in the United States:

A salient feature of Mexico’s current foreign policy is precisely AMLO’s reluctance to confront anyone outside of the country. In short, American officials say what they want, and Mexico — almost always — goes along with it. The relationship between the two nations is by no means an egalitarian one.

What can Mexico do? It must refuse to be Mr. Trump’s wall, to be the United States’ waiting room and safety valve. Mexico must re-embrace its honorable tradition of protecting the persecuted and most vulnerable, whether they’re fleeing civil war in Spain or crime and hunger in Central America.

 

 

Neil Munro

@NeilMunroDC

 

NYTimes tells tales of alligator-filled moats to shift the readers' attention from the reality that Donald Trump successfully fought his advisors, business lobbies, and family to partway fulfill his campaign promise to shrink illegal migration. Civics 101 http://bit.ly/2pguofN 

 

NY Times: Donald Trump Revived Idea of 'Alligator-Filled Moat'

President Donald Trump angrily revived the fanciful proposal to build a border moat filled with alligators, according to the New York Times.

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Immigration Numbers:

Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or a university. This total includes about 800,000 Americans who graduate with skilled degrees in business or health care, engineering or science, software, or statistics.

But the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population of about 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including approximately one million H-1B workers and spouses — and about 500,000 blue-collar visa workers. The government also prints more than one million work permits for new foreigners and rarely punishes companies for employing illegal migrants.

This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth and stock values for investors. The stimulus happens because the extra labor ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions.

The federal policy of flooding the market with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor shifts wealth from young employees toward older investors. It also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, reduces marriage rates, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.

The cheap-labor economic strategy also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and it sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with drug addiction.

The labor policy also moves business investment and wealth from the Heartland to the coastal citiesexplodes rents and housing costs, undermines suburbiashrivels real estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.

But President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” policy is boosting wages by capping immigration within a growing economy. The Census Bureau said September 10 that men who work full-time and year-round got an average earnings increase of 3.4 percent in 2018, pushing their median salaries up to $55,291. Women gained 3.3 percent in wages, to bring their median wages to $45,097 for full time, year-round work.


If a Girl Dies in the Forest, Does Anyone Other than Me Care?

Gabriela Alejandra Gonzalez Ardon, MS-13, and the odd lack of coverage — and outrage

By Andrew R. Arthur on September 24, 2020

On September 4, I wrote about the May 29 killing of 16-year-old Gabriela Alejandra Gonzalez Ardon in a rural area in northern Baltimore County, Md. According to the Baltimore County Police Department, that killing was carried out by five men it believes "to be affiliated with the MS-13 gang". The circumstances of that killing and a separate associated assault, as well as the subsequent lack of public interest in the case, raise the question: If a girl dies in the forest, does anyone other than me care, and if not, why not?

There is a lot of back story, both haunting and tragic.

Ardon was a "Jane Doe", an unknown victim, after she was found on Merrymans Trail in northern Baltimore County on the morning of May 29 by a hiker. BCoPD took the unusual step of posting photos of distinctive tattoos on the body, and of the shirt that she was wearing, to give her a name.

She was identified by family members just over a week later. It appears that she had led a troubled life. She had first gone missing, according to police in Nassau County, N.Y. (where she had lived), in July 2019, then again in February, and a third time in March. On March 26, police there stated she could be headed to Baltimore.

Baltimore County surrounds Baltimore City (a separate jurisdiction) on three sides, but Merrymans Trail is nowhere near the city line — 13 miles (and a world) away. After writing about the case the first time, I went and walked the main trail, where the killing occurred. It is not more than a mile-and-a-half long and ends high above Loch Raven, a manmade lake that serves as a local reservoir.

The trail starts in a well-to-do residential neighborhood, but it becomes isolated quickly. There was a handmade sign asking hikers to carry out their bottles and cans on one side of the entrance:

 

 

And a makeshift memorial to Ardon (complete with the remnants of police tape) on the other:

 

 

I will get back to the memorial below, but the juxtapositioning of the two signs — one promoting civic virtue and the other detailing a horrendous killing — was jarring.

Large houses sit above and well back from the trail on its southern side for the first quarter mile, but thereafter it becomes heavily wooded. Massive residences and a barn sit on the northern side, in a fenced-off area that is marked as dedicated to forestry.

A stream runs along most of the main trail that empties into Loch Raven, and Ardon's body was found near the edge of the stream at the bottom of a slope.

The trail evidences criminality of a (frankly innocent) sort, but nothing like the murder of Ardon. Generations of lovers had carved hundreds of initials into the trees, and there were clearings where it appeared that local youth had held nighttime parties in the past. Most hikers appeared to heed the clean-up sign, as I only saw a couple of water bottles and some ancient beer cans along the way.

Based on the description in the police notice, I believe that this was the most likely spot where the killing occurred:

 

 

There are no houses anywhere nearby, and the slope runs down a hill to an isolated spot near the stream. At night, no one would have any idea that anyone was down there unless they were right on top of them.

The suspects in that case are Wilson Art Constanza-Galdomez, Edys O. Valenzuella-Rodriguez, Wualter Hernandez-Orellana, Jonathan Pesquera, and Asael Ezequie Gonzalez-Merlos. Each was charged by a grand jury with two counts of murder in the first degree (one as part of a conspiracy), assault in the first degree, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit first degree assault, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

As my colleague Marguerite Telford reported last Tuesday, ICE has lodged detainers on three of them: Salvadoran nationals Hernandez-Orellana (identified by the agency as "Wualter Orellana-Hernandez") and Constanza-Galdomez, and Honduran national Pesquera (identified by ICE as "Jonathan J. Pesquera-Puerto"). Each was unlawfully present, and entered the United States as minors.

Telford noted: "Two of the gang members flagged by ICE were previously in the custody of authorities after local arrests, but were released, and in one case this was due to a local sanctuary policy."

ICE explains that "Orellana-Hernandez" had previously been arrested on charges by the Prince George's County (Md.) Police Department in January, but while it had "lodged a detainer with Prince George's County Detention Center the same day, ... the detainer was not honored, and he was released."

I wrote about the failure of Prince George's County (a sanctuary jurisdiction since October 2014) to honor ICE detainers in a May 2019 post captioned "Maryland Officials Failed to Honor ICE Detainers for Two Subsequently Charged in Gang Killing", and its problems with MS-13 in a December 2017 post captioned "No Sanctuary for MS-13: 'They are preying on the communities that they are living in'". Prescient.

ICE had even more extensive experience with Constanza-Galdomez. He was arrested on local charges in Suffolk County, N.Y., in February 2018, and was taken into ICE custody the next month. An immigration judge set bond, and he was released in May 2018. In December of that year, he ended up back in Suffolk County custody, and ICE lodged a detainer. It was not honored, and he was released in April 2019. Not terribly surprisingly, he failed to appear at his next removal hearing, and was ordered removed to El Salvador in October 2019. He apparently did not leave.

In December, my colleague Dan Cadman described a "major sweep" in that county of "nearly 100 suspects affiliated with MS-13, who were charged with various violent crimes, drug trafficking crimes, and weapons crimes". While Suffolk County is not listed as a "sanctuary jurisdiction" on the Center's list, as ICE noted in November: "New York State policy severely limits state and local law enforcement cooperation with ICE and requires a judicial warrant to honor most ICE detainers." Such judicial warrants do not exist in the immigration context.

Ardon's murder was not the only criminal activity that Baltimore County Police claim the five were involved in. In my September 4 post, I noted (based on local reporting) that three of the five (Pesquera, Valenzuella-Rodriguez, and Hernandez-Orellana) had been arrested in June in connection with a stabbing in the Turner Station neighborhood of eastern Baltimore County of a 17-year-old male, in an incident with links to another slain woman (an 18-year-old) and an assault on that victim's 17-year-old sister. The Baltimore Sun reported that the male victim "said his attackers had been trying to recruit him into the MS-13 gang since December."

Having retrieved the charging documents in those cases, the alleged attack on that male occurred on the night of June 6 — eight days after Ardon's killing. And, also charged in that attack are Constanza-Galdomez and Gonzalez-Merlos.

Those two are charged with attempted first degree murder in connection with that crime, while the other three are charged with attempted second degree murder, and each is charged with assault in the first and second degree (separate charges), and kidnapping relating to the Turner Station attack. Again, that occurred eight days after Ardon's murder, and each was in Baltimore County Police custody as a result of their purported involvement in that later incident when they were indicted by the grand jury.

The statements of probable cause in the June 6 attack are mostly identical, but the ones relating to Constanza-Galdomez and Gonzalez-Merlos are more detailed. The victim alleged that he and his girlfriend were approached by a group of the suspects at the public library branch in the Patterson Park section of the city, and forced to get on a bus to eastern Baltimore County, exiting at Turner Station. It is about a 45-minute ride.

The victim "advised that he knew the males to be MS-13 members and he knew these subjects to carry weapons." Once at Turner Station, he stated, he was taken to a wooded area near the water. There, his cell phone was taken, and he was "beaten and stabbed multiple times" by five masked males he knew. At some point during this encounter, he alleged, his girlfriend "was taken to a separate location by 2 other known subjects."

She was found later in the area "suffering from multiple stab wounds to the body", and was taken to the Pediatric Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she received surgery for "life threatening injuries". I will not name her to protect her identity, but she was almost definitely the 17-year-old female described in initial local reporting.

Police obtained video footage from the library, where the male victim (I am not naming him, for the same reasons) identified three of the suspects, describing them as members of MS-13. He knew them as "Marco Saravia", "Ezequiel Gonzalez", and "Jonathan Josue". He must have known "Marco Saravia" pretty well, because he described the rose tattoo on his arm, and the "El Salvador" tattoo on his back.

"Marco Saravia" was arrested on June 11, and denied any involvement, telling the officers: "If you have evidence, why are you talking to me"? He had healing lacerations on his right hand, and the aforementioned tattoos.

That suspect was later identified (with the assistance of ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)) as then-20-year-old Wilson Arturo Constanza-Galdomez (he has since turned 21).

"Ezequiel Gonzalez" was arrested the same day, and later identified (again, with HSI assistance) as 16-year-old Asael Ezequiel Gonzalez-Merlos. He admitted to punching the male victim in or near the library, and riding with "Jonathan Josue", "Marco Saravia", and the victim to Turner Station, where they met another male. He denied participating in the Turner Station assault, however.

When executing a search warrant at his residence, police found (among other things) a "Texas Defender Bond Arms" handgun and 42 rounds of Winchester .380 ammunition. Oddly, although HSI assisted in making the identification, ICE has apparently not placed a detainer on him, so his immigration status (if any) is unclear — although the HSI assistance is curious.

The victim was able to escape the assault, according to charging documents, and ran to a nearby convenience store where he asked for police and medical assistance.

The police began a search of the area and, according to the court records, found Pesquera thereafter. He allegedly told police that he was there "trying to meet up with his girlfriend", but could not find her and stopped looking. After the victim provided police Pesquera's name, he was arrested. When searched, police found a "Green knife with black blade" in his waistband.

Police kept looking, and found Valenzuella-Rodriguez (who had a laceration on his left leg), Hernandez-Orellana, and a third male sitting in front of a residence. The victim identified the two named suspects as responsible for beating and stabbing him, and they were arrested.

The charging documents state that police found "2 zip ties" in the front pocket of Valenzuella-Rodriguez, as well as one "blue knife" in Hernandez-Orellana's front right pocket. The third male was not identified. Pesquera, Valenzuella-Rodriguez, and Hernandez-Orellana agreed to speak to detectives, but "provided conflicting information as far as what they were doing in Turner Station and who they were with while" there, again according to the charging documents.

HSI assistance was not necessary in these cases — they were "identified positively through FBI fingerprints".

As for the 17-year-old female victim, Baltimore City Police have arrested 17-year-old Carlos Diaz for that crime, and charged him with attempted first-degree murder and other offenses. I will be following up with the city courts to obtain the charges in that case.

If all of the charges are correct, Baltimore seems to have a (rather significant) MS-13 problem. That does not even count the murder of 18-year-old Michelle Tenezaca, the same night in the city. No one has been charged in that case, although the cops "say the notorious MS-13 gang could be responsible" that crime, as well. Or, Daniel Cuellar, killed in Towson (the county seat) last year, in a case that I wrote about last September, where the assailants charged (all here illegally) were identified as MS-13 members.

Both Baltimore City and County claim to be interested in the welfare of its immigrant population, but as Greg Navano with DHS has noted, "the gang preys on members of their own community" — that is, other immigrants. So why not more reporting, why not more outrage?

The Baltimore Sun reported on Ardon's case when the suspects were charged, but since then — nothing. The paper has not reported on "MS-13" since that event, or at least not that I can find.

A year ago, the paper did a video interview with Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski (D). He was extremely evasive when asked whether MS-13 was active in Baltimore County, and asserted that he did not have "current data" on whether MS-13 presence was "new or whether they were expanding activity" (the former hardly a question on which the county executive would need "current data").

He may want to ask for some "current data" on MS-13 — quickly. He claimed that the county takes gang activity in general "very seriously", and asserted that overall crime in the county is "down" — a non sequitur in this context.

I could not find any statement made by the county executive about the 16-year-old Ardon, found dead in his jurisdiction. Nothing on his Facebook page on the day the then-Jane Doe was found, nothing on the day she was identified, and nothing on the day his prosecutors charged her alleged killers.

On Capitol Hill, we call this "weak sauce". Seriously — watch the video yourself, and you see a man terrified of making any potentially dispositive statement. The question is: Why? Because President Trump doesn't like MS-13 and has vowed to go after it, and he does not want to give credence to a political opponent's complaints — even at the cost of public safety? Because he does not care about someone from New York who went missing three times before she was found dead? Or is he as clueless as he appears?

It is not just "Johnny O", as the county executive likes to be called. I first found out that a dead girl had been found on Merrymans Trail from posts on Facebook from people who like to hike there, and who were concerned that crime had come to a previously safe place. Since then? Nothing.

Contrast this coverage with what would have followed had it been a local 16-year-old high school student who was found dead, from the upscale neighborhood where the killing took place. There would be wall-to-wall coverage. Daily updates. JonBenet Ramsey and Elizabeth Smart still haunt parents' nightmares, and routinely pop up in national news — years after their respective murder and abduction. "The Black Dahlia", Elizabeth Short, was found and identified in a similar manner to Ardon. She has her own FBI webpage, 73 years after her death.

A 16-year-old from Glen Cove, N.Y., who died in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the dark, far from her family, and purportedly at the hands of violent gang members (who would, police charge, turn around and try to kill another teenager eight days later)? A one-day story. But not to me.

Which brings me back to the makeshift memorial. It is still there, but the ink has started to run, and most of it is illegible. Still legible, however, is the following: "CriME is NOT ABOUT RACE—it's about hurting people. Can HappeN anywhere + anytime."

The first statement is true, but ambiguous. The race of the victim, or the perpetrators? Again, in either case, it is true. MS-13 largely preys on immigrant communities, but no one is safe. Imagine if someone had come upon the assault on Ardon as it was transpiring? I seriously doubt the offenders would have fled, or hesitated to "eliminate" a witness.

The second statement is true, to a degree. It is common knowledge that crime is more likely to occur in certain areas than in others. But that not only doesn't make it right — in fact, it makes it wrong. All residents of Baltimore — city and county — deserve to live in safety and dignity. That will not happen until leaders recognize that there are problems, and honestly address them. Maybe "current data" will help.

On his Facebook page on August 7 — 19 days before the grand jury handed down the charges in Ardon's case — Olszewski posted: "WE'RE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET ... COVID-19 IS STILL WIDESPREAD". The irony is both sad and rich.

Gabriela Alejandra Gonzalez Ardon never left the woods, at least not alive. As for the rest of us? Until our leaders realize they are in the woods with her, we won't get out, either.

Baltimore County could start with the 287(g) program that Olszewski's predecessor and a bipartisan number of county councilmen managed to thwart. If they are really serious about stopping gangs, there is nowhere better to start than the place you find criminal aliens — in jail.

In that vein, Maryland's jurisdictions with sanctuary programs (Baltimore City, and Prince George's and Montgomery Counties by the Center's count, but jejune politicos like Olszewski aren't much help) could scrap them. Again, ICE wants alien criminals out of all communities — upscale, transitional, struggling, and immigrant. Sanctuary programs only protect criminals. Why? God knows, and if you ever push them on it (as I have), you will find a pool of ignorance (as deep as the ocean, and as wide as the heavens) about the harm sanctuary policies cause and the havoc they wreak on the communities those unctuous and sanctimonious officials claim to protect.

If a girl dies in the forest, does anyone care? I do, and I am not letting up.