Every State a Border State: Illegal Immigrant Arrested for Stabbing 14-Year-Old Indiana Girl

Another week, another post like this one, highlighting the upsetting reality of violent crimes being committed by illegal immigrants. As we always stipulate, the actions of some dangerous people should not reflect on any wider community. The truth, however, is that when ten million illegal border crossings are allowed to occur over a very short period of time -- including millions of known 'got-aways' -- far too many national security and public safety threats will flow into the country in that process. It is unacceptable. Every single act of violence carried out by someone who has no right to be inside the United States is a preventable outrage, that rightfully sparks a public outcry.

Here's the latest example, out of Indiana:

An illegal alien has been arrested for stabbing a 14-year-old girl watching her brother's baseball game.

The illegal had been deported back to Honduras in 2018 under President Trump — then was let back in by Border Czar Kamala Harris.

Coming to your city in a Harris presidency. pic.twitter.com/NdHmik18AM
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 3, 2024

Thankfully, this child was hospitalized, treated, and released. Other victims have not been so fortunate. The suspect was deported during the Trump administration, then re-entered the country during the Biden-Harris administration. It's unclear whether he was encountered, "vetted," and released under Biden-Harris policies, or if he was one of the roughly two million got-aways (that we know of) who have slipped into America since Biden and his Border Czar took office in 2021. Another suspect that was recently taken into custody by ICE was definitely a 'got-away,' having been deported following a 2008 murder conviction in Alabama. She may have been ensnared by even superficial vetting at the border, so she evidently paid cartels a premium to sneak her back across our border without getting caught. This is an example of why many border officials are so concerned about the composition of the ever-growing 'got-away' contingent:

NEW: Houston based ICE deportation officers have arrested an illegal alien from Mexico who has been deported from the U.S. four previous times & was convicted of murder in Alabama in 2008. She was last deported in 2010, and re-entered the U.S. as a gotaway at an unknown time. ICE… pic.twitter.com/gYjBoiYtKw
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 30, 2024

Deported four times, committed a murder, and still got back across a border that Kamala Harris and Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly called "secure." Their words do not match reality, where the crisis continues (even as the Biden-Harris administration re-categorizes tens of thousands of monthly border crossings to superficially bring down the official 'encounters' numbers):

San Diego sector continues to see illegal immigrants from around the globe crossing there.

Per CBP source, yesterday, San Diego sector Border Patrol encountered 27 Jordanians and 23 Chinese after they crossed illegally.

94 Indians & 35 Chinese encountered there on Thursday.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 31, 2024

Nothing to see here except dozens of Chinese nationals crossing in one border sector, every single day. The Jordanians number also sticks out, in light of this recent story. Meanwhile, in Colorado, the Democratic governor seems to be changing his tune after dismissing an alarming story about an armed Venezuelan gang (confirmed by DHS) comprised of illegal immigrants taking over an apartment complex in his state. At first, his office hand-waved the revelation. But the video evidence speaks for itself, so now it's being taken "seriously:"

Donald Trump is promising to detain such foreign, illegal gang members and "get them the hell out of here." Finally, as Katie touched on earlier in the week, studies that we've cited many times in the past have indicated that immigrants (legal or otherwise) commit fewer crimes on a per capita basis than native-born Americans. If those findings were accurate, they need to be re-examined, in light of what we've seen happen across this country over the last few years. We know that migrants represent a disproportionately high number of arrests in a number of foreign countries ("while foreigners make up about 15 percent of Germany’s population, they accounted for a record 41 percent of all crimes in 2023"), and stats like this can't simply be disregarded:

Today's cover: Migrants flooding NYC’s justice system — making up ‘75% of arrests in Midtown’ — as ‘pathetic’ sanctuary city laws handcuff cops https://t.co/jNlMjtd7iM pic.twitter.com/weP6mdRrni
— New York Post (@nypost) September 3, 2024

America is a nation of immigrants. We should welcome immigration. But the immigration must be legal, and it's not bigotry to apply common-sense filters that align with our national interest -- around economic, public safety, and national security considerations -- as other Western countries do as a matter of policy.