During the early morning hours of March 27 in a quiet northern Virginia suburb, FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a raid to arrest a top MS-13 gang member.
“Early this morning, the Trump Administration directed the successful apprehension of a key leader of the brutal MS-13 gang in Virginia — an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the United States,” the White House released in a statement. “This gang leader is no longer terrorizing our streets.”
Illegal alien Henry Josue Villatoro Santos was arrested as part of Trump’s larger deportation strategy and a reestablishment of cooperation between local law enforcement and federal government. Something that was completely absent during the Biden administration when violent criminals were free to enter, roam, and victimize American communities.
“It’s this effort that has been enabled by the Trump Administration. President Trump said, ‘Get the bad guys.’ I’ve been working on this — literally — for the first three years of our administration with little to no help from the senior leadership in the federal government in the Biden Administration,” Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin detailed. “This task force was designed in the White House…architected in a very quick period of time and stood up immediately….I cannot emphasize enough the collaboration and support and leadership out of the new administration that is so different than what we saw.”
“This is what happens when you let good cops be cops and we’re going to continue to let good cops be cops across this country. President Trump gave us the executive decision to go after and safeguard our communities,” FBI Director Kash Patel added. “We are returning our communities to safety.”
Officials with moral clarity are back are charge, and the bad guys are on the run. This is a concept Americans voted for in November, with expectations of execution beyond a campaign promise.
But the raids aren’t limited to residential neighborhoods. Those sowing chaos elsewhere and abusing the legal immigration system are also facing consequences.
In college towns and cities across the country, the Trump administration has moved to revoke the visas of more than 300 foreign students engaged in terrorist activity and agitation.
“Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio says about foreigners causing trouble on American campuses. “I hope at some point we run out because we have gotten rid of all of them, but we’re looking every day for these lunatics that are tearing things up.”
Syrian national Mahmoud Khal was picked up by federal agents two weeks ago after allegedly having direct ties to Hamas and organizing campus riots at Columbia University. Rumeysa Ozturk, a pro-terrorism student activist from Turkey, has also been detained. Professor Rasha Alawieh was denied entry into the U.S. after visiting Lebanon and attending the funeral of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
“Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is commonsense security,” a DHS spokeswoman explained.
Trump and his team are delivering. Bad hombres are getting arrested and booted out of the country — just as the President promised. Adios!
