Why Democrats REALLY Love Illegal Immigration

Spoiler: It's Not About Compassion

So as a public service, we offer a quick snapshot of America’s current immigration environment: if you break into the country, commit crimes, and maybe even allegedly rape a corpse on the New York City subway… congratulations! You’re now among the left’s latest heroes.

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According to this article, the guy charged with raping a dead man on an NYC subway train for 30 minutes—yes, you read that right—is an illegal immigrant (at least he didn’t set the corpse on fire).

Now, is this fine non-taxpayer representative of all illegal aliens? Of course not. We’re past that point on this issue.

But understand that if he had previously made his case to an immigration judge that he was “in danger” if returned to his home nation — as Abrego Garcia did — then we’d likely be stuck with him for good. Because naturally, no other country would want him.

We’re also past the point of debating whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia was MS-13. Flying gang colors while hanging with said gang, but not actually being a member of that gang? Um, right. All that deep law enforcement experience on the left showing itself again.

So, Un-Asked Question One: What proof — exactly now — did Kilmar Abrego Garcia proffer as part of his case to avoid deportation to El Salvador and so remain here? What is this “documentation” we hear cited?

Un-Asked Question Two: Why does “Due Process” now apparently involve trying to validate such claims, with no possible means of doing any real investigation?

It’s classic governmental mission-creep. We’re trying to adjudicate overseas gang scenarios from inside a Maryland courthouse now? For a guy with THAT police record?

And how did this “investigation” miss the details of those police encounters? You know — the details here in America, that actually could have been investigated.

All this highlights the absurdity of pretending any true “due process” is in play when you’ve allowed 20 million unvetted illegals into the nation. At the least, the burden of proof should genuinely be on the asylum-claimant (which is the actual legal standard).

Here’s how it’s gone lately. What do you notice? Yep — low approvals under Trump in 2020. But once 2021 began and the Bidens took the reins, we hit new asylum-approval highwater marks. Which only began to drop once we hit the election year.

So was there somehow a shift in the declared legal standard? I’d say we have a clue here.

(source: Center for Immigration Studies)

So while the media and Democrats were busy lighting votive candles for Kilmar Ábrego García, you might be wondering: Why all this passion? Why are Democrats so inclined to volcanic outrage every time someone with no legal right to be here is sent packing?

Well, it turns out it’s not just about feelings. It’s about power. Congressional power, to be exact.

Here’s the trick: House seats are divvied up based on total population, not total citizens. That means every illegal immigrant—yes, even subway necrophiliacs—counts toward the number of congressional seats a state gets. So, states like California, New York, and Illinois, all of which are blue as a smurf in a snowstorm, gain more seats simply by being sanctuary destinations.

The Center for Immigration Studies did the math. Their 2019 report (link here) found that illegal immigration alone allowed California to pad its seat count back then by three. New York also gained. Meanwhile, states like Alabama, Ohio, and West Virginia lost out—because they didn’t stockpile enough people who sneaked across the border.

According to this study, were illegals taken off the board, Democrats stood to lose up to 10 seats in the House in 2020. Imagine that number now — after four years of the Biden debacle.

It's not just about keeping families together—it's about keeping districts intact.

So the next time Democrats emote about “disappearing democracy” or “due process” or “the soul of the nation,” ask yourself: are they crying over a deported dad, or a disappearing House seat?

Spoiler: It’s the seat. Always the seat.

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Hate in Ohio — The Last Acceptable Prejudice

A Sheriff Deputy in Hamilton County Ohio was killed Friday when he was struck by a car while directing traffic. The fact that the yet-unnamed deputy was killed by a car is, unfortunately, not that unusual. Cops get killed in traffic accidents way too often.

What is unusual is that the man who apparently ran the cop down intentionally was the father of a young man who was shot and killed by the police the day before.

On May 1^st, Cincinnati police shot and killed 18-year-old Ryan Hinton as he fled from a stolen car that was being pursued. Hinton allegedly had a semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine. A Cincinnati officer shot Hinton as he was running towards him with the illegally possessed gun, according to released body camera footage.

The next day Ryan Hinton’s father apparently sought revenge. Rodney Hinton allegedly saw a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputy directing traffic outside the University of Cincinnati’s commencement ceremony and fatally ran him down with his car.

Rodney Hinton was arrested and arraigned on aggravated murder charges. Dozens of cops filled the courtroom in honor of their fallen brother.

We have seen and, unfortunately, experienced the ambush and execution of cops before. It has happened several times in the NYPD. This is another example.

There will be more. Some people in our society simply hate the police. That is a fact. They see the police as oppressors, racists, fascists, or whatever negative tag they want to apply. Hatred of the police is customizable, a convenient vessel for a wide swath of greivances.

But we can speak from our experience that cops are just regular people. Some are great, some are flawed, some care a lot, some are just there for a paycheck. But when they put on the uniform, they are there to protect us. And they risk their lives by doing so.

The people of Ohio should mourn the death of this officer and stand up against this sort of hatred. Because clearly, it was there before this series of events took place.

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New York’s Fantasy Island

Well, that’s the end of that. The years-long, mismanaged, half-planned illusion of closing New York’s Rikers Island jail looks like it’s finally over. Eric Adams announced that he is “exploring a move” to keep the facility open. That’s a leaked story to see if the residents of NYC would be outraged by the idea of keeping Rikers as New York’s citywide lockup.

Newsflash – no one cares.

(NYC’s jail, Rikers Island)

Adams will move ahead and eventually declare the inevitable: that closing Riker’s is a bad idea that can’t be accomplished by our incompetent city government. As the story leaked to The Daily News indicates, he will soften the blow by creating mental health facilities and low-income housing in the locations where the borough-based jails were planned.

Fine, whatever, let’s just face reality and end this costly charade.

This will still take a bit of political doing, as the wretched hive of scum and villainy known as the New York City Council has passed a law requiring the jail complex to be closed by 2027. Maybe the Droogs at the City Council didn’t get the memo that this was just a half-baked idea to waste taxpayer money while implementing a leftist agenda.

Then it will likely take at least $10 million in barely concealed bribes to get our fine council members to agree to leave the jail complex in place. That’s money well-spent – the price of closing is tagged at $8.7 billion.

If you do the government-spending math and multiply that number by the traditional three-times-the-promised-price, that would have cost taxpayers $26 billion. No thanks.

In addition, the plan was to build housing on Riker’s Island. That island is a fetid landfill off the end of a LaGuardia Airport runway. Buildings on the island cannot be higher than three stories due to airspace concerns. Housing on Rikers was always a non-starter despite pie-in-the-sky promises.

And if the housing were ever to be built — how long before the city is settling lawsuits brought by rapacious lawyers who claim that every case of chapped lips is caused by “toxic environmental conditions”?

Proponents of closing Rikers promised cost-cutting measures in prisoner transportation at borough-based jails. That is a joke. The borough-based jails weren’t going to be built inside or even adjacent to the court houses and would still require transportation duties by corrections officers.

Truth is, the plan to close Riker’s was always a cover story for the left-wing fantasy of mass-decarceration. The borough-based plan only allowed for 3,300 inmate beds. Even after criminal justice and bail reform there are still 6,500 inmates in Riker’s Island jails today. That’s down from around 18,000 in the 1990’s.

There is no way this city can function, even in the best of times, with only jail space for 3,300 people. No amount of pink-haired demonstrating or academic bloviating can change that.

Adams is doing the right thing by ending this boondoggle. Funny how it took an election year to get him moving.

This has always been the inevitable result; it just took us a decade and billions of dollars spent to acknowledge it. Another government success story.

Would be nice to say, “only in New York” — but show us a blue city that has its act together.

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Karen Read Is In Trouble

Over at the podcast, Paul talks to John DePetro, New England crime maven, for an update on Week Two of the dramatic Karen Read trial.

John has been in court for every day of both trials. He knows the back-story, the front-story… whatever story there is to know. Including the story playing out on the faces of the jury during testimony.

DePetro has a very different take from what most of the media is saying… and frankly, his observations are the most compelling we’ve heard yet.

So click below for an audio preview — or HERE for the whole thing (note: this week’s pod is audio-only. We caught John between court sessions!).

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And finally…

She’s baaaack….

Hey, RNC: Appropriate the funding to keep her vodka supply steady until the midterms.

Way more effective than any campaign ad.

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