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U.S. Attorney Narrowly Avoids Murder Attempt by Illegal Alien Matt Margolis

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/19/us-attorney-narrowly-avoids-murder-attempt-by-illegal-alien-n4940983

When a United States attorney can’t walk the streets of Albany without facing a knife-wielding illegal alien, we’ve officially reached the breaking point. This isn’t just another crime statistic to file away—this is a federal prosecutor being hunted like prey by someone who shouldn’t even be in our country.

United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III of the Northern District of New York learned firsthand about the consequences of Joe Biden’s open borders. On Tuesday evening, as he left his downtown Albany office, Sarcone found himself face-to-face with Saul Morales-Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador who had already been deported once before sneaking back across our border in 2021. What followed was a terrifying chase through the streets of New York’s capital city, with Morales-Garcia brandishing a knife and screaming threats in Spanish while making slashing gestures across his throat.

Sarcone’s response reveals everything you need to know about the character gap between law-abiding Americans and the criminals flooding across our border. After initially fleeing to the safety of a nearby Hilton Hotel lobby, the U.S. attorney made a decision that probably saved lives. Rather than staying hidden while his attacker disappeared into the crowd, Sarcone deliberately drew Morales-Garcia’s attention back to himself, knowing full well the maniac might charge him again with that knife.

Sanctuary States, Sleeper Cells, and a Nation on the Brink You can thank the Biden regime’s deliberate sabotage of border enforcement. by Kevin McCullough

https://www.frontpagemag.com/sanctuary-states-sleeper-cells-and-a-nation-on-the-brink/

Last week, in what is being called the largest-ever ICE enforcement operation, nearly 1,500 illegal foreign nationals were arrested—most of them hiding in so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions. That’s not just a number. That’s a blunt warning: there are thousands more just like them—living, working, and perhaps plotting among us, thanks to open-border ideologues and their enablers in blue-state leadership.

These weren’t friendly tourists who overstayed a visa to see the Statue of Liberty one more time. These were criminal aliens—some with convictions for rape, murder, kidnapping, and terror-related charges. They were swept up in Democrat-run strongholds like California, Illinois, and New York, where the local governments actively thwart federal immigration enforcement.

Let that sink in: Your government is risking your life to score cheap political points.

The operation was described as a “major success” by top Homeland Security officials under Secretary Kristi Noem, who has brought a radically different tone and urgency to the department since taking over. Unlike her predecessor Alejandro Mayorkas—who presided over record-setting illegal crossings and national security apathy—Noem has made it clear: illegal entry will not be ignored, and criminal aliens will not be protected by politics.

But the deeper question lingers like a storm cloud over our national security: Is it enough?

Or more to the point: Is it in time?

Big Government and Illegal Immigration Illegal immigration isn’t just driven by desperate migrants—it’s sustained by bureaucrats chasing budgets, power, and incentives in a system designed to serve itself first. By Stephen Soukup

https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/07/big-government-and-illegal-immigration/

The general consensus among opponents of mass illegal immigration is that the immigrants in question are largely irrelevant in their purported supporters’ calculations. For all their rhetoric about compassion, the “promise of America,” and the “land of opportunity,” immigration supporters cynically think of immigrants not as people, but as tools, as the means to an end. Mass illegal immigration is the quickest and easiest way to change the nation’s electoral calculus—altering Congressional (and, by extension, Electoral College) apportionment to favor Democrats. Or it’s the best way to undermine “white privilege” in elections (and elsewhere) by upending the white majority status. Or—as in Great Britain—it is a way to upend the historical underpinnings of the nation, create a multicultural society, and make “the right” pay for its cultural intransigence:

The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity,” according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw, and David Blunkett.

He said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to “open up the UK to mass migration,” but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate their “core working-class vote.”

As with any such consensus, this one is undoubtedly rooted in at least some truth. Democrats in the United States did indeed hitch their wagons to the theory that demographic change would deliver them a semi-permanent electoral majority, and they’ve behaved accordingly for years. As for Great Britain, who am I to disagree with “an adviser” who helped craft the nation’s immigration policy and who believes that it worked precisely as expected and delivered the multicultural utopia he and his compatriots had long envisioned? Some significant part of the present immigration crisis—here, there, and everywhere—is inarguably the result of consciously cynical manipulation on the part of aggressive ideological operatives.

All of that said, however, it is perhaps unwise and unhelpful to overcomplicate matters. Hanlon’s Razor (attributed to Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania) admonishes that one should “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Douglas Hubbard, a management consultant and author, coined what he called a “clumsier” version of Hanlon’s adage, which almost certainly applies here: “Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system.”

Biden’s Border Nihilism Will Live Long After He Is Gone Biden’s border legacy isn’t just policy—it’s a demographic earthquake that will rattle America’s foundation long after he’s gone. By Victor Davis Hanson

https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/05/bidens-border-nihilism-will-live-long-after-he-is-gone/

The spiteful open-borders legacy of Joe Biden will plague America for generations to come, long after the former president is a fading bad memory.

Somewhere between 10-12 million foreign nationals are believed to have entered the U.S. illegally under his watch, to add to the existing 12-20 million illegal aliens.

Almost all were unaudited.

They stormed the border for four years without background checks of the sort that American citizens must undergo to purchase a firearm or take out a loan.

At a time when citizens were expelled from the military for not submitting to the experimental mRNA COVID inoculations, millions of foreign nationals, with the Biden administration’s encouragement, crossed the southern border, exempt from any vaccination requirement or medical examination.

When Americans were required to present multiple forms of identification to apply for a mandatory “real ID” to fly in 2025, millions of illegal entrants were flown across the country, often stealthily and under the cover of night, without any valid ID at all.

On some days, the Trump administration has managed to deport 800 of Biden’s illegal aliens.

But ten times that many entered illegally each day under Biden.

Trump’s border patrol would have to deport over 8,000 people every day of his four-year tenure just to undo what Biden wrought by his dismantling of federal immigration law.

Some 500,000 illegal entrants are believed to have criminal records—a number greater than the population of Oakland, California.

Indeed, new reports relate almost every day that another illegal alien has murdered, raped, or assaulted an American citizen.

We Don’t Need To Welcome In People Who Hate Us Francis Menton

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/

Yesterday in Boulder, Colorado, a perpetrator sprayed a flammable liquid on a group of mostly elderly Jews protesting the continued holding of hostages in Gaza. Then he threw Molotov cocktails to set several of the demonstrators on fire. The New York Post reports here that 8 were injured, ranging in age from 52 to 88 years old. Police arrested a man named named Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who was caught on video committing the acts. Oh, and also shouting slogans, including “They are killers! How many children you killed?” and “End Zionists.”

It quickly emerged that Soliman was an Egyptian illegally in the country. He had originally entered legally in 2022 on a tourist visa, but then overstayed. In 2023 he was granted a permit to work in the U.S. by the Biden administration. That expired in March 2025, after which he stayed on illegally.

Which raises the question, why was Soliman in the country in the first place, or granted permission to stay and work, or not thrown out when the permission expired? Whatever you might think about the illegal immigration situation, why on earth do we welcome into the country people who hate us? Did anybody vet this guy, even a little?

Add Soliman to a long list of Middle Easterners in the U.S. at the grace of the government who make no secret of their hatred of the U.S. and of Israel. And who are only too happy to lead groups in acts of trespass, vandalism, and violence. To refresh you on some of the names and roles, here is a May 15 piece from Al-Jazeera with a brief list of some of the most prominent:

Mohsen Mahdawi, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil and Badar Khan Suri are among the students targeted by US President Donald Trump.

These four are all student leaders of pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and pro-BDS movements at elite university campuses — Mahdawi and Khalil at Columbia, Ozturk at Tufts, and Suri at Georgetown.

Paul Dreyer New York’s Next Mayor Should Help Deport Criminal Aliens Undoing the city’s expansive sanctuary regime would be popular and help cut crime.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-city-mayor-crime-immigration-deport-sanctuary

New York City voters consistently rank crime among their top concerns, with migrant-related offenses drawing particular ire. Yet a progressive city council and entrenched bureaucratic resistance continue to block cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The next mayor should break this impasse by facilitating the deportation of unlawful immigrants convicted of crimes.

To do so, the mayor would have to roll back the Bill de Blasio-era bans on ICE cooperation. Local Law 58 prohibits federal immigration authorities from keeping an office on Rikers Island, the city jail. Local Law 228 prevents city agencies from honoring federal immigration detainers without a judicial warrant for certain serious crimes. Intro 486 and Intro 487 restrict the Department of Correction and the New York Police Department, respectively, in cooperating with a federal detainer. The agencies may honor a detainer request only for an alien convicted of certain serious or violent crimes who is eligible for release from custody, and in response to a judicial warrant.

These laws have the effect of codifying the city’s sanctuary status. The next mayor should push for their repeal or modification.

For de Blasio, such virtue-signaling may have been good politics. But these laws are unsuited for the circumstances of the city’s ongoing migrant crisis. In December, an intoxicated migrant immolated Debrina Kawam on the subway. This February, two convicted Tren de Aragua gang members from Venezuela were released bail-free, despite pending felony gun and drug charges.

The next mayor need not pursue the wholesale deportation of all illegal aliens in the city. Instead, city policy should clearly distinguish between those who have been charged with crimes and those who haven’t.

Judge backs Trump’s invocation of Alien Enemies Act for deportations But the ruling also emphasizes the need for more due process in advance of the deportations. Kyle Cheney

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/13/alien-enemies-act-trump-ruling-00346312

A federal judge for the first time has backed President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, a war power Trump has used to deport Venezuelans he claims are part of a criminal gang.

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines, a Trump appointee to the bench in Pennsylvania, upheld Trump’s March 14 proclamation declaring that Tren de Aragua, a violent gang based in Venezuela, is mounting an “incursion” into the United States.

Though that “incursion” looks nothing like the military invasions the founders envisioned when they passed the Alien Enemies Act in 1798, Haines said old statutes can be applied to modern developments in the world. And she compared Tren de Aragua to the “military detachments or pirates” that pillaged the United States when the law was passed.

It’s a rare legal victory for Trump on the most aggressive plank of his mass deportation effort. Judges in New York, Colorado and Texas have reached the opposite result, concluding in effect that the gang is not mounting the type of government-backed “incursion” needed to justify the president’s invocation of the act. Almost simultaneously with Haines’ ruling, a second judge in Texas barred Alien Enemies Act deportations without 30 days notice.

But Haines’ ruling is double-edged. Despite backing Trump on the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, her ruling sharply rejected the administration’s primary goal: to deport those targeted by the Alien Enemies Act quickly — sometimes within hours — with limited due process.

Indeed, Haines said the Trump administration had fallen woefully short of its obligation to allow those targeted by the Alien Enemies Act to raise legal challenges. The judge said that the administration must allow individuals subject to the act 21 days to file lawsuits challenging their deportations, up from the 12 to 24 hours the Department of Homeland Security says is sufficient.

If the administration abides by that three-weeks notice requirement, Haines’ ruling permits the officials to deport a single individual, identified only by the initials A.S.R., who is being held in Haines’ western Pennsylvania district. That individual had sued on behalf of himself and other potential targets of the Alien Enemies Act residing in western Pennsylvania, urging the court to block his summary deportation.

Illegal Immigrant Youth Gang Members Released After Assaulting NYPD Officers No more lax treatment of violent illegal immigrants regardless of age. Joseph Klein

https://www.frontpagemag.com/illegal-immigrant-youth-gang-members-released-after-assaulting-nypd-officers/

A mob of young illegal immigrant gangbangers descended upon innocent individuals they intended to rob in Times Square on May 2nd. They attacked police officers who were trying to rescue the victims. The mob’s leader, believe it or not, was a 12-year-old who police believe is linked to the designated Venezuelan terrorist gang Tren de Aragua through his membership in a related youth group, Diablos de la 42.

This 12-year-old and three other youths, who are believed to be connected to the Diablos de la 42 gang, were arrested at the scene. They have since been released without bail. Adding insult to injury, these young Tren de Aragua-related hooligans in training are living in hotels at taxpayers’ expense.

“Make no mistake, this is not low level crime. It’s organized violence carried out by gang members that we have already taken off the streets for preying on New Yorkers,” New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. “It’s not a fluke. It’s a system failure. It’s what happens when repeat offenders are allowed to cycle through arrest after arrest.”

Commissioner Tisch’s words sound well-intentioned, but they are meaningless. ICE agents who showed up at the NYPD precinct, where one of the teen suspects involved in the melee with the NYPD officers was being held, were denied access to the illegal immigrant. Commissioner Tisch justified turning away the ICE agents by citing New York’s sanctuary laws prohibiting police officers from cooperating with federal officials on civil immigration deportation cases.

Commissioner Tisch operates not only in a sanctuary jurisdiction but also in a juvenile criminal-friendly state where the chance that even violent youths will be sent to juvenile detention is slim at best. The 12-year-old ringleader was busted previously in connection with a violent subway mugging and with several muggings in Central Park when he was 11, only to be back on the street to menace more innocent people.

“Is this what a sanctuary city is supposed to be?” a frustrated police officer asked. “One of these kids was 11 years old when he was the ringleader of that Central Park robbery pattern. What is it going to take for some of this policy to change when you have an 11, now 12-year-old, running around — or anybody — committing these crimes? When is common sense going to prevail?”

Citizenship is a Gift Eileen F. Toplansky

NO URL ORIGINAL ESSAY

As the demonic Democrats demand subservience to the god of Moloch, it is important to ponder the controversy surrounding the courts, illegal immigrants and free speech.

Judge Learned Hand was a political progressive, and an advocate of judicial restraint, who stated he could not “frame any definition that will explain when the Court will assume the role of a third legislative chamber and when it will limit its authority.”

In light of the partisan actions by Judge Boasberg and other judges who have worked overtime to stop Trump from deporting alleged members of Tren deAragua (a Foreign Terrorist organization), Boasberg should be vigorously reminded that “his court does not have jurisdiction over the president’s exercise of powers [.]” Boasberg has also forgotten Judge Hand’s reminder that a judge’s

“…utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it — if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate — for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.”

In fact, in Dennis v. United States, a plurality of Supreme Court Justices adopted Judge Hand’s view that “Eugene Dennis, General Secretary of the Communist Party USA, did not have a First Amendment right to free speech if his goal in organizing Antifa-style protestors was to overthrow the Constitution and set up a government which would not allow free speech.”

Moreover, those who defend the establishment of a sharia-compliant community in Plano, Texas in order to establish a totalitarian Islamic caliphate are embracing the very antithesis of American Constitutional law.

Meir Y. Soloveichik has written “What to do with a Bad Guest” and cogently explains why the arguments coming from the Left are baseless.

“We are hearing from many that [deporting Mahmoud Khalil] amounts to a criminalization of free speech solely for his views regarding Israel. The problem with this description is that it is doubly incorrect.

“First: To deport a radical pro-Hamas activist is to do so in the knowledge that those representing such positions on college quads not only dislike Israel. They also hate America. Indeed, the very organization Khalil represented, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, has openly stated that it seeks ‘the total eradication of Western civilization. The sympathy with Hamas is the symptom; hatred of the West is the disease.”

Moreover, “Khalil—like all others fighting deportation relating to these statutes—has issued many public declamations through his lawyers, but he has never, as part and parcel of their public defense, put forward two simple statements: that he hates Hamas and that he loves America. The refusal to state the former, of course, is linked to his inability to express the latter [.]”

Thus, “[f]or the Secretary of State to cite statutes allowing deportation of those who espouse support for terror, and who pose a threat to America’s foreign policy, is to emphasize the fact that individuals like Khalil seek the end of America itself.”

In addition, “[t]he second mistake—that deportation is a criminalization of speech—follows from the first. Khalil is being detained only because he has been told to leave these shores and he has refused.”

“As the Supreme Court has clarified, ordering a noncitizen to leave your country is not a criminal punishment. This was made clear by Justice Robert Jackson in 1952, in Harisiades v. Shaughnessy, a case about an individual deported on the grounds of being ‘a member of an organization which advocates overthrow of the government by force.’

“Jackson asserted that ‘[i]t is thoroughly established that Congress has [the] power to order the deportation of aliens whose presence in the country it deems hurtful. The determination by facts that might constitute a crime under local law is not a conviction of crime, nor is the deportation a punishment; it is simply a refusal by the government to harbor persons whom it does not want.

Consequently, “[h[ow is it a punishment to order a guest in your country—or a green-card holder like Khalil, who is here because of the graciousness of the United States—to leave a land he hates? Indeed, how is such an order anything other than a country reflecting basic self-respect and self-preservation for its own future?”

In fact, citizenship is a gift and under President Harry S. Truman, “the third Sunday in May each year has been set aside as Citizenship Day. It is a reminder

“WHEREAS our numerous citizens of foreign birth have shown loyalty and fidelity to their new citizenship in the performance of all the tasks which helped to bring the final and complete victory over the enemies of the country which these citizens have made their own by naturalization;

In a nutshell, to become a United States citizen, immigrants have to study and honor the Constitution.

To those politicians, NGOs, judges, lawyers, and activists who shelter illegals, I say “hold your heads in shame”. Despite illegal immigration’s terrifying cost, and the sheer insanity

of illegal immigration, you have forgotten or are simply indifferent to the oath an immigrant must declare.” You reflect the Western spiritual sickness afflicting our nation.

“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;

“that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;

“that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law;

“that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law;

“and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”

Since illegals broke American immigration law, that should suffice for their deportation. That they engage in the most egregious of crimes against Americans, only cements the fact that they need to be ejected from the country. In essence, as Judge Hand asserted

“If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

Our legislators and judges need to be reminded of Judge Learned Hand’s 1944 speech titled “I Am an American” wherein he wrote

We have gathered here to affirm a faith, a faith in a common purpose, a common conviction, a common devotion. Some of us have chosen America as the land of our adoption; the rest have come from those who did the same. For this reason we have some right to consider ourselves a picked group, a group of those who had the courage to break from the past and brave the dangers and the loneliness of a strange land. What was the object that nerved us, or those who went before us, to this choice? We sought liberty; freedoms from oppression, freedom from want, freedom to be ourselves [and] in the spirit of that America for which our young men are at this moment fighting and dying; in that spirit of liberty and of America I ask you to rise and with me pledge our faith in the glorious destiny of our beloved country.

Roadblocks prevent Trump from deporting millions of illegal immigrants Local judges and officials aren’t the only obstacle to Trump’s immigration enforcement Charles Lipson

https://thespectator.com/topic/roadblocks-prevent-trump-from-deporting-millions-of-illegal-immigrants/

“You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” So goes the bartenders’ refrain to customers at closing time. The Trump administration is issuing that same call to millions of illegal immigrants, beginning with the most violent (and those caught staying with them). You can’t stay here.

It’s a wildly popular stance, but it is running into predictable problems.

The first is that rounding up the millions here illegally is costly, time-consuming and sometimes dangerous. That problem was vastly increased by Joe Biden’s deliberate decision to open the southern border, allow millions of people to cross it illegally and then lie to the public and Congress about what his administration was doing.

President Biden, Vice President Harris and Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas repeatedly said the border was “closed and secure” when they knew it was not. Mayorkas said it in sworn testimony to Congress. These weren’t just lies; they were stupid lies because voters could see the increasing problems and the obvious deceit.

Second, while Biden ignored the laws protecting our borders and did so with legal impunity, the immigrants gained rights of due process once they arrived on American soil. Again, the Biden administration failed in its basic responsibilities, with considerable support from the entire Democratic Party. The Biden administration could have detained these illegal immigrants at the border, which would have facilitated swift, legally appropriate deportation. They chose not to. Instead, they released almost all the illegal arrivals into the country’s interior. Some were given instructions to return in several years for court hearings. Some were simply released with no instructions or documentation.

Those policies swamped states and localities with new, illegal residents and vast expenditures for schools, housing, healthcare, crime prevention and more. The “sanctuary” policies of many blue cities and states invite them to come and stay. One unanticipated result has been a deepening cleavage within the Democratic Party, pitting progressives (who favor the influx without ever saying the word “illegal”) and minority voters who rely on jobs and government services that are under greater pressure.