Thursday, June 2, 2022

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AT WORK - DESTROYING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AND AMERICA'S BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX - THAT IS THE BIDEN DOCTRINE WRITTEN BY CRONIES ON WALL STREET

  In the state of Texas, 68% of those booked from June 1, 2011, and November 30, 2021, were criminal aliens. Their offenses included 742 murders, 47,737 assaults, 7,524 burglaries and over 11,000 sexual assaults and other sex crimes and numerous kidnappings and robberies. Not only are they killing Americans, we then pay for their incarceration....IF THEY EVER GET CAUGHT!


How the Democrats Defraud Black America

Almost everything in this world can be divided into two spheres: the image the public sees, and the underlying reality. Sometimes they’re the same. Mother Teresa was a great humanitarian, a Godly woman free of any scandal.  

Sometimes they’re not the same at all.

Bernie Madoff, contrary to his early reputation which he shamelessly exploited, was not an honorable, highly successful investment manager worthy of respect. In actual fact he was a fraudster and a scoundrel who was sentenced to ten years in prison for embezzlement. 

When the Democratic Party is examined from this perspective, especially in relation to the Black community, it comes out much closer to the inky slime of Bernie Madoff than it does the sanctity of Mother Teresa. 

The Democratic Party was associated with the Ku Klux Klan and segregation for most of the 20th Century. But in the 1960s it made a hard turn to the left. It currently claims to act in the best interests of the Black community in a noble battle against racism and White Supremacy.  But in example after example the Democratic party instead causes great damage and permanent harm to these same people that it claims to represent. The case against the Democratic Party is overwhelming. 

Defund the Police may have been the most counterproductive campaign in American political history. Its stated purpose was to save and protect Black lives from violent suppression in the United States. Yet Defund the Police is soaked in the blood of Black Americans. Murder rates have shot up over 30 percent since 2020 when Defund took hold in our cities. Many experts believe the movement has directly and undeniably caused the unnecessary deaths of thousands of young people of color.

New York Mayor Eric Adams has said it best: “If Black lives matter, then the thousands of people I saw on the street when [George] Floyd was murdered should be on the streets right now stating that the lives of these Black children that are dying every night matter,” Adams said. “We can’t be hypocrites.”

The increase in the murder rate has been especially alarming in large metropolitan areas. Los Angeles provides a stinging example.  In that politically liberal city, the murder rate increased 44.9 percent between 2019 and 2021. Chicago has seen a 37 percent increase in the murder rate over the same period of time.   

The Wall Street Journal editorial board concluded, “No one factor explains this criminal surge. But it’s no coincidence that the bloodshed increased as cities slashed police budgets, progressive prosecutors demanded leniency and eliminated bail for criminals, and jails and prisons released thousands of lawbreakers amid the Covid-19 outbreak.”

Education provides another example of woke, liberal programs causing great harm to those they claim to want to help.

Many public schools, especially in Democratic Party-controlled cities are badly failing their students. One prime example out of many is Patterson High School in Baltimore where 77 percent of the students read at an elementary school level. 

The voucher program proposed by Republicans offers one possible solution. It would allow students to pick any school within a city area that they wished to attend. It would allow all students to choose the very best schools in the city rather than being forced to attend failing schools, which is so often the case. 

Teachers unions oppose school choice because many students would then leave failing institutions and enroll in far better schools. This would cause many teachers in the forsaken schools to lose their jobs. The Democratic Party has long since sold out to the teachers unions. The welfare of Black students’ education and the ability of those students to compete for jobs and careers is therefore sacrificed for teacher’s job security. Democrats have made a devil’s bargain with the unions, with student welfare sacrificed for the sake of campaign donations.  

Another example of a covenant with the Devil can be found on our southern border. A record of 100,306 people died from drug overdoses in the twelve months ending in April 2021.  The majority of these deaths came from opioids, primarily fentanyl. This deadly drug is produced in China then shipped to Mexico, where cartels bring it across our wide-open border. It is cheap, extremely powerful, and easily available. It is making the drug cartels even richer and more powerful than they already were. Guess which community is being disproportionately killed.

All of this has led to a crime surge beyond the ones plaguing our unprotected cities, with Mexican drug gang members entering America unchecked and killing citizens who get in their way. The Democratic Party is in favor of the massively open border so that undocumented workers can be put on a fast-track program to citizenship and then be persuaded -- so they think -- to vote for Democrats. Never mind the people dying of drug overdoses, murdered by drug gangs, or having their lives ruined from opioid addiction. The murder rate in Houston, Texas -- the largest city in border-state Texas – is up 51% this year alone.  

In the state of Texas, 68% of those booked from June 1, 2011, and November 30, 2021, were criminal aliens. Their offenses included 742 murders, 47,737 assaults, 7,524 burglaries and over 11,000 sexual assaults and other sex crimes and numerous kidnappings and robberies. Not only are they killing Americans, we then pay for their incarceration.

This crime wave is harmful to all U.S. citizens regardless of race. Once again the welfare of our citizens is being sacrificed for the Democratic Party’s political gain.  

Eighty-eight to 90 percent of Black voters vote for Democrats in both national and local elections. Simply put, the Democratic Party has betrayed Black voters over and over again.  What should you do when someone betrays you? Should you ever put your trust in them again? Today’s Democrats are in favor of everything that is killing the Black community, and oppose everything that would help us. They want us trapped in violent cities with exploding crime, demoralized police, and failing schools. Their policies create a vortex of death for Black America. The only solution is to leave the Democrats behind, for good

Jared Knott, author of Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever. Knott was a decorated combat infantry officer in Vietnam in the First Air Cavalry Division.


Poll: Majority of New Hampshire Voters Disapprove of Joe Biden, Say Border Security Is Important Issue

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A majority of New Hampshire voters disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance, an NHJ survey found.

The survey, taken May 25-26, 2022, among 526 registered voters, found a majority, 57 percent, disapproving on Biden’s job performance. Just 39.3 percent approve. This is significant, as New Hampshire voters supported Biden over Trump in the 2020 election 52.9 percent to Trump’s 45.5 percent. 

Perhaps what is more, 59.5 of independent voters — a key demographic —  in the Granite State disapprove of Biden’s job performance. 

Further, the survey focused on the current  border crisis under President Biden’s leadership. Three-quarters of New Hampshire voters say border security and illegal immigration is an important issue.

A plurality across the board, 37.3 percent, say terrorists or criminals coming into the country is the most concerning problem when it comes to border security. Another 27.4 percent say the biggest concern is illegal drugs coming into America, followed by 16.4 percent who said that the biggest concern is the “strain on schools and public welfare system” and 4.8 percent who said “foreign workers taking American jobs.”

All the while, Republicans are pressing Biden to use Title 42 — the public health authority used during the Chinese coronavirus, which Democrats are trying to end —  to fight the fentanyl crisis gripping the nation:

In April, Trump-appointed Judge Robert R. Summerhays announced he would block the administration from ending Title 42, and this month, he issued a preliminary injunction — blocking Title 42 from being eliminated.

Since then, the Biden administration has vowed to appeal Summerhays’s decision. A growing consensus among Senate Republicans, though, is calling on Biden to transfer the use of Title 42 from COVID-19 to fentanyl.

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[Sen.] Hagerty introduced legislation that would have added drug smuggling as an additional basis for Title 42 at the border. A motion to secure unanimous consent to pass the bill was blocked by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI).

“We desperately need Title 42 to fight this drug epidemic,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) stated. “It’s a tool that would quite literally save American lives in every state in the union immediately.”

He continued, blasting Democrats for opposing “commonsense border security tools to prevent drug trafficking into America.”

“How much longer will it take to change course from the Biden immigration policies that have created this national security crisis?” he asked.


ICE: 70 Children Rescued From Abuse and Sex Trafficking in Texas

By Janey Olohan | June 1, 2022 | 12:20pm EDT

  

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(CNS News) -- “Operation Lost Souls” successfully recovered 70 missing children, ages 10 to 17,  over the course of several weeks in West Texas, minors who were victims of physical and sexual abuse as well as trafficking, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) press release.

The three-week operation involved multiple agencies from the federal, state and local government.

As ICE reported on May 25, “‘Operation Lost Souls’ ran from the end of April through mid-May in El Paso, Midland and Ector and Tom Green counties. The missing youth, many of them runaways, ranged in age from 10 to 17. The children recovered included victims of sex trafficking and physical and sexual abuse.”

“The majority of the children were located in West Texas, but some were located in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex as well as the state of Colorado and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,” said ICE. “The agencies provided victim services and counseling to the recovered children and their families.”

Many of these minors had been lured from online sources, according to Fox 5 News. However, others were runaways from foster families or difficult home backgrounds. 

“Operation Lost Souls exemplifies Homeland Security Investigations’ commitment to protecting the public from crimes of victimization,” said Homeland Security Investigations Deputy Special Agent in Charge Taekuk Cho. “In this case, we are looking out for our children -- our community’s most precious resource.”

“HSI is committed to continue working with our law enforcement partners to locate, recover and help missing children heal, while ensuring that perpetrators are held responsible for these heinous crimes and brought to justice,” he said.

Though no arrests have occurred from this operation, “Operation Lost Souls” has uncovered leads that investigators are currently exploring.

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ICE reported that counseling was provided to the children and their families.

“At the Department of Public Safety, teamwork is one of our core values,” said Texas DPS Major Matthew Mull in the ICE release.  “We are grateful for all of our law enforcement partners who participated in this operation and who work around-the-clock every day to protect our communities, including our youth.”


Two Deported Sex Criminals Nabbed in Less Than 24 Hours on Southern Border

A U.S. Border Patrol agent monitors immigrants after they crossed the border with Mexico on May 18, 2022, in Yuma, Arizona. / Getty Images
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Border Patrol agents arrested two illegal aliens in less than 24 hours who have been convicted of sex crimes in the United States, Customs and Border Protection announced on Friday.

The two men, who had been deported, attempted to cross into the country as part of larger groups of migrants in the Del Rio, Texas, sector of the southern border on the mornings of May 24 and May 25.

The first man, a Mexican national, was convicted of sexual assault in 1998 and sentenced to 17 months in prison. The second, who hails from El Salvador, was sentenced to a year in prison in 2012 after a statutory rape conviction.

CBP has arrested in the 2022 fiscal year nearly 6,000 migrants who have been convicted of one or more crimes in the United States or abroad, according to agency data. Of those arrests, 177 have been convicted sex offenders.

The number of illegal aliens attempting to enter the United States, including those with criminal backgrounds, has skyrocketed since President Joe Biden took office. In the 2021 fiscal year, 488 illegal aliens with sex crime convictions were arrested at the southern border compared with just 156 in the 2020 fiscal year and 58 in the 2019 fiscal year.

Border Patrol has arrested 5,985 migrants with criminal convictions in the 2022 fiscal year. Should that rate of arrests continue, Border Patrol will arrest more criminal migrants this fiscal year than in the previous five.

The Washington Free Beacon has reported on plummeting deportations of illegal immigrants under the Biden administration. In 2021, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 55,590 illegals, the fewest number in five years.

Former ICE Chief: Biden’s Newest Border Rule to ‘Help Illegal Aliens Get Into’ U.S.

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President Joe Biden’s latest rule at the United States-Mexico border will “help illegal aliens get into” American communities more quickly and easily, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Jonathan Fahey warns.

The rule, first reported by the Washington Post, allows asylum officers to determine a border crosser’s claim for asylum at the southern border. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) started using the rule on Tuesday at two Texas detention centers where hundreds of asylum cases will be reviewed every month.

Most notably, even if an asylum officer rejects an asylum claim made by a border crosser, the rule allows the claim to be reviewed by a federal immigration judge, and if the claim is rejected again, the border crosser is allowed to appeal the decisions.

Fahey, who served as ICE director in former President Donald Trump’s last month in office, told Fox News the rule will make it even easier for border crossers and illegal aliens to enter the U.S. interior.

“I think it’s going to help and it’s going to help illegal aliens get into the country and stay in the country,” Fahey said. “It will encourage more, so in terms of helping, it will help in that respect.”

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Immigrants walk from Mexico into the United States on their way to await processing by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 23, 2022, in Yuma, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

“Pretty much everything this administration has done … is either designed to increase illegal immigration or to pretend like they’re doing something about the problem when in fact they’re not. This will actually do both,” Fahey said of the rule.

Specifically, Fahey said the rule will make it easier for border crossers to secure asylum without going before a federal immigration judge, and even when border crossers are denied asylum, they will be allowed to remain in the U.S. while their case is heard.

“They’re going to make it easier for people to be granted asylum and once they’re granted asylum, they’re here, permanently with legal status,” Fahey said. “But granted, people that are not granted asylum will also, in effect, be granted asylum because they won’t be removed under any circumstances whatsoever and that’s one of the tricks with this administration.”

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent checks identification as immigrants await processing after crossing the border from Mexico on May 23, 2022, in Yuma, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

“The purpose of this is to … encourage more people to come … and the administration now will control what that number is because they can train people to let in as many people as they want, they can loosen the standards as much as they want … they want as many illegal aliens to come into the country as possible … their plan is being executed as well as anything they’re doing in this administration which is open borders and amnesty,” Fahey continued.

Already, Biden’s expansive Catch and Release network is releasing hundreds of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities every few months. In April alone, nearly 118,000 border crossers and illegal aliens were released into the U.S. interior — a foreign population larger than Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

From February 2021 to April 2022, Biden has released about 954,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities — not including Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) and illegal aliens who successfully crossed the border undetected. This is a foreign population twice the size of Miami, Florida, and larger than five states.

“This administration knows, by and large, all of these massive migration patterns that have happened over the past year and a half are not people fleeing persecution, they’re people fleeing to the United States because they know they have Joe Biden as the president and he’s going to welcome them with open arms and give them every right, privilege, and benefit that American citizens receive,” Fahey said.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here



DOJ: 56% of Federal Arrests in 2020 Took Place in 5 Judicial Districts Along U.S.-Mexico Border

By Terence P. Jeffrey | May 26, 2022 | 3:41pm EDT

  
The U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, Ariz., on May 20, 2022. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, Ariz., on May 20, 2022. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - Fifty-six percent of all federal criminal arrests in fiscal 2020 took place in the five federal judicial districts that sit along the U.S.-Mexico border, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice.

There are 94 federal judicial districts in the United States, five of which cover the U.S.-Mexico border. These include California Southern, which encompasses the California border with Mexico, Arizona, which encompasses the Arizona border with Mexico; New Mexico, which encompasses the New Mexico border with Mexico; and Texas Western and Texas Southern, which cover the Texas border with Mexico.

“More than half (56%) of arrests in FY 2020 were in the five federal judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border,” says “Federal Justice Statistics, 2020,” published this month by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the Department of Justice.

Map published in "Federal Justice Statistics, 2020," Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.
Map published in "Federal Justice Statistics, 2020," Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.

In fiscal 2020, which ran from October 2019 through September 2020, U.S. marshals processed a total of 120,112 arrests. Of these, 67,361—or 56.08 percent—were in the five judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Among those five border districts, the greatest number of arrests took place in the Texas Southern district, where marshals processed 25,270 arrests. That equaled 21.0 percent of the national total of 120,112.

The second greatest number of arrests was in Arizona, where marshals processed 15,852 arrests, which equaled 13.2 percent of the national total of 120,112.

The third greatest number of arrests was in the Texas Western district, where marshals processed 11,901 arrests, which equaled 9.9 percent of the national total of 120,112.

The fourth greatest number of arrests was in California Southern (9,123 or 7.6 percent); and the fifth greatest number was in New Mexico (5,215 or 4.3 percent).

Table 2 published in "Federal Justice Statistics, 2020," Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.
Table 2 published in "Federal Justice Statistics, 2020," Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.

“Defendants adjudicated in U.S.-Mexico border districts had a higher conviction rate (97%) than defendants nonborder districts,” said the report.

Defendants convicted of federal offenses in the districts along the U.S.-Mexico border tended to serve shorter sentences than defendants convicted elsewhere in the country because more of them were convicted of immigration offenses, the report explained.

“Defendants convicted of violent offenses received a median sentence of 85 months in prison, while drug defendants received a median of 70 months and other public order defendants received a median of 60 months,” said the report. “The median prison term for immigration defendants convicted of a felony was 10 months. Defendants convicted and sentenced to prison in the five U.S.-Mexico border districts received a median sentence of 13 months, compared to a median of 57 months in other districts. This was due to the higher percentage of immigration cases in the border districts.”

Males charged with federal crimes were more likely to be foreign nationals (43 percent) than females charged with federal crimes (18 percent).

“Eighty-two percent of charged females were U.S. citizens,” said the report.

“Males who were charged were also more likely to be U.S. citizens (57%) than non-U.S. citizens (43%),” it said. “Other than the United States, the most common countries or regions of citizenship among male defendants were Mexico (31%), Central America (8%), and the Caribbean Islands (2%).”

Ninety-seven percent of the defendants adjudicated in the five districts along the border were convicted.

“Of the 71,126 defendants adjudicated in FY 2020, about 93% were convicted,” said the Bureau of Justice Statistics report.

“Nearly all defendants charge with immigration (98%), weapons (93%), or drug (93%) offenses were convicted,” it said.

“About 91% of adjudicated defendants pled guilty,” it said. “Two percent of defendants were adjudicated through a bench or jury trial. Defendants adjudicated in U.S.-Mexico border districts had a higher conviction rate (97%) than defendants in nonborder districts (90%).”

The Bureau of Justice Statistics report noted that the COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant decrease in arrests, charges and convictions in 2020.

“The coronavirus pandemic drove an 81% decline in arrests and 77% decline in cases charged from March to April 2020,” said the report.

“The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant effect on all stages of the federal criminal justice process, from arrest to imprisonment,” it said. “U.S. courts modified operations in 2020. Fewer persons were arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to prison. The largest decline in arrests and cases occurred from March 2020 to April 2020.”

“The number of defendants charged in U.S. district courts dropped from 5,300 in March 2020 to 1,232 in April 2020, a 77% decline,” it said. “The number of defendants convicted in U.S. district courts declined 43% from March 2020 (5,295) to April 2020 (2,995). During that time, the number of defendants sentenced to prison decreased 70%, from 3,220 to 964.

“Comparing February 2020 (before the decline) to September 2020,” it said, “there were 40% fewer investigations in September 2020, about 53% fewer arrests, 10% fewer defendants charged, 33% fewer defendants convicted, and 33% fewer defendants sentenced to prison.”

Illegal Alien Charged with Raping His Young Daughter, Giving Her Chlamydia

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An illegal alien has been accused of raping his daughter, a toddler, and giving her a sexually transmitted infection in Davidson County, Tennessee.

Ronaldo Saul Monteroso Gonzalez, a 25-year-old illegal alien, was arrested and charged with aggravated rape of a child last week and booked into the Metro Nashville Jail, where he is being held on a $250,000 bond.

According to a police report obtained by local outlet Scoop Nashville, Gonzalez’s daughter, who is three-years-old or younger, was taken to a nearby children’s hospital after having stated that her father was sexually abusing her.

A sexual assault exam was taken in late February and the child tested positive for the sexually transmitted infection known as Chlamydia. Police only arrested Gonzalez last week because they said they could not locate him.

Gonzalez’s wife confirmed to police that Gonzalez had been in contact with his children during that period after the sexual assault exam and his arrest.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has placed a detainer on Gonzalez, requesting that local authorities turn him over to them if he is released at any time.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here


900 Pounds of Meth Seized at Texas Border Crossing

CBP officers seized more than 913 pounds of methamphetamine at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Laredo OFO)
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to a border crossing in Laredo, Texas, seized more than 900 pounds of methamphetamine. The officers found the $18 million worth of drugs in a tractor-trailer attempting to enter the U.S. from Mexico.

CBP officers assigned to the World Trade Bridge in Laredo on May 6 observed a 2013 International trailer carrying a load of stainless steel scrap metal approach for entry inspection into the United States, according to information obtained from CBP officials in Laredo. An officer identified the driver as a 33-year-old male from Mexico. The officers referred the driver to a secondary inspection area.

During the secondary inspection, a CBP K-9 alerted to the possible presence of drugs in the load of scrap steel. A non-intrusive inspection scan of the load revealed containers hidden in the load.

A physical inspection of the trailer led to discovering 25 buckets containing 913 pounds of methamphetamine, officials stated. The street value of the load of drugs is estimated to be approximately $18,253,206.

“Officers assigned to CBP cargo facilities ensure effective border security by preventing and countering the flow of suspected narcotics entering the country,” Port Director Alberto Flores, Laredo Port of Entry, said in a written statement. “Large-scale seizures, such as this one, provide an excellent example of border security management and how it helps prevent illicit contraband from reaching our communities.”

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.


The Silent Invasion and War at Home

It has been chilling to watch the steady number of deaths, the territory invaded, the executions and rapes, the fear and the flight.  It is especially shocking because we had peace for so long, but now we see all the possibilities of evil coming out.

I'm not talking about Ukraine — I'm speaking of an invasion right here in the United States.  Migrants, mostly Hispanic, are entering the U.S. at the rate of at least 2 million per year — or 20 million in the next decade — and with them come hundreds of thousands of violent gang members.  Meanwhile, our own inner-city gangs are spreading out into affluent suburban areas, invading high-end shopping areas and stealing from stores and individuals, often at gunpoint and with deadly consequences.

I am not being alarmist or racist.  I am simply describing what is happening and pointing out the future state of affairs if we do nothing.  If anything, my numbers are low, and my words cannot describe the horror of what is happening.

The most numerous victims of this invasion are blacks and Hispanics who are attacked by young men of their own race.  These are the forgotten men and women in our society, and this is a topic that mainstream news won't cover because the killers are mostly black and Hispanic.  Just in 2020, the year of the "defund the police" protests, murders of blacks soared by 32%, and they're only continuing.

We're seeing an explosion in the number of carjackings and car thefts, along with murders, home invasions, rapes, assaults, and other violent crimes, not just in our cities, but in suburban areas as well.  And authorities cannot or will not do anything to stop it.  There has always been violent crime in Chicago, but now there seems to be a crime wave, and it includes the murder of children, police officers, and the elderly.  The authorities mumble about "root causes," but social work won't reduce the numbers.  We are at war, and war requires the use of force.

The perpetrators are largely the same in every location: young black and Hispanic men, heavily armed and with no apparent conscience or morality.  They prey on the weak and take what they want, which seems to be money, sex, drugs, and a certain kind of street cred that they mistake for status.

These thugs now control the streets, even in many smaller cities.  Mayors like Lori Lightfoot seem to have given up.  They attempt to change the subject and ignore the problem, just as the Biden administration does.

Biden ignores the fact that we have been invaded by a powerful army of young men of similar backgrounds and natures — ruthless gang members and repeat offenders with the same teardrop tattoos signifying their having committed murder, the same cold, haughty stare, the same hostile swagger and domineering speech.  These criminals have become so familiar that even some middle-class whites, through popular culture and rap music, have mistaken them for Robin Hood–type heroes.

They are anything but heroes.  They inflict suffering and death on everyone around them.  Like half-starved lions released into the Coliseum, they exist only to murder and prey on the weak.

More Americans have died in this war over the past decade (some 200,000) than Ukrainians who have died in their war (13,000 according to a recent count), and American cities are beginning to resemble the bombed out shells of civilization we see in Mariupol and Kharkiv.  The difference is that everyone notices the destruction in Ukraine, but few understand the magnitude of violent crime in the U.S.  If the media coverage were honest and proportional, Americans would demand change.

We have been invaded by an army that is worse than that of Russia.  Unlike the hapless conscripts who constitute those Russian forces, the thugs who roam America are remorseless.  If anything, they enjoy killing since it inflates their sense of power, especially their power over whites, and particularly white police officers, though black victims are hardly exempt.  They are lean, muscled, and street-tough, and they are not afraid of getting caught since in most places there is no real punishment for "common" crimes like stealing cars or home break-ins, and little punishment for violent crime as well.

The invaders we face are violent and lack all compunction, but they are not all that numerous.  They fit a similar profile — a certain type of young minority drop-out, stealing or selling drugs — but according to several estimates, they constitute at most one quarter of their demographic and a smaller percentage of Hispanics.  Indeed, most blacks and Hispanics live in fear of these invaders, just as most whites do.

The Ukrainian army has repelled Russian forces in many areas.  If the Ukrainians had been properly armed, they might have turned back the Russians at the beginning and saved their country so much suffering and destruction.  In America, we don't even realize we have been invaded, or else we refuse to admit it.  It's not "woke" to say that young black men commit murder at 18 times the rate of the general population.  Not woke to say, as is true, that twice as many whites are murdered by blacks as are blacks by whites.  Not woke to point out that fully one quarter of black men "end up in the criminal justice system," as Bernie Sanders has it.

One does not defeat an enemy by allowing it to murder, steal, and rape without resistance.  The only way is to recognize that we have been invaded, and we are at war.  War requires its own way of thinking and its own tactics and strategy.  At present, we arrest criminals (a few of them, since 54% of reported violent crimes and more than 75% overall go unsolved), charge them with a lesser offense, release them (in many places without bail), and watch them go right back to committing crimes.  That is the wrong strategy for a state of war.

It is possible to defeat our enemy, but it will take a change of attitude.  We must be willing to fund our police at maximum levels, support our police in their dangerous work, and indemnify them against unreasonable prosecution in their use of force, and we must elect prosecutors who actually prosecute this army of invaders.  The recall of L.A. district attorney George Gascón might be a good start.

We are under attack, and the situation is getting worse.  The only way to defeat an invading army is with greater force.  We need to provide that force so that we can live safely once again.

Jeffrey Folks is the author of many books and articles on American culture including Heartland of the Imagination (2011).

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