Minnesota’s ‘Nice Culture’ Is Now a Sanctuary for Transnational Gangs and Drugs

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The North Star State is known for its “Minnesota nice” culture and the small city of Stillwater is known to be quiet and peaceful. The last thing town residents expected was to find a body of a badly injured woman at the hands of an illegal alien gang member lying on one of their streets, but that is exactly what happened on Sunday, June 9, according to the 39-year-old victim. It’s part of a broader problem plaguing the state thanks to the largest metropolitan area being a sanctuary for repeat criminal alien offenders who are incentivized to return after being deported.

Last week, thanks to the recovery of the victim and court documents, local Twin Cities media has gotten the background on the woman found lying in the street in a pool of blood by an Uber driver on June 9. According to the criminal complaint, 32-year-old Angel Sardina-Padilla and 23-year-old Luis Alfredo Cortez-Mendoza, both allegedly members of the Surenos 13 street gang, held the female victim captive in her St. Paul apartment on June 8 and threatened her and her roommates with a metal tool heated up over the stove.

The pair of gang members then drove her around until the next morning when Sardina-Padilla, the alleged ringleader, ordered Mendoza to shoot her. He fired three shots, one striking her in the chest, knocking her down in the street until she was found by the Uber driver at 2:38 a.m. on June 9.

Mendoza reportedly told police that he feared he’d be killed for not following orders when he was arrested on June 10. Sardina-Padilla was arrested June 18. Bail for both of them was set at $2 million in separate court appearances. Mendoza was charged with attempted first-degree murder for the benefit of a gang, attempted second-degree murder for the benefit of a gang and kidnapping for the benefit of a gang. Sardina-Padilla was charged with aiding and abetting on all three counts.

The first question that popped in my mind when seeing the reference to the Surenos 13 gang when following this story last week was that it’s likely these suspects are here illegally. I was the first person to send an inquiry to Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the immigration status of Mendoza last Tuesday, and indeed I was told he is an illegal alien and that there is a detainer lodged against him, a fact that was not mentioned in a single local media report for the first few days of the story. There is no detainer for Sardina-Padilla, which presumably means he is a natural-born or naturalized citizen.

“On June 10, 2019, deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed an immigration detainer with Washington County (Minnesota) Jail on Luis Alfredo Cortez-Mendoza, 23, an illegal alien from Mexico, following his criminal arrest on charges of attempted murder,” said Nicole Alberico, spokesman for ICE in a statement to CR last week. “Cortez-Mendoza was removed to Mexico four times in April 2015.”

It wasn’t until late on June 18 that the Star Tribune reported that Mendoza was an illegal alien previously deported several times to Mexico. No other reporter followed up on the immigration status.

This is yet another example of a high profile violent crime committed by an illegal alien that went unreported in the local media. We’ve uncovered several high-profile DUI manslaughters in California where we were the first to inquire about immigration status and report the issuance of an ICE detainer, even though every local media report ignored the immigration aspect of the story.

This tragedy demonstrates how even small towns in the upper Midwest are not immune to transnational gang violence. While the victim in this case was found in Washington County, the alleged assailant lived in St. Paul, a known sanctuary city. So many illegal alien crimes and ICE operations to ensure they are not released after posting bond go unreported in the media. I only found out about this story from a local listener to my podcast.

Stories of violent transnational gang members committing murder or mayhem occur every day, but few trace the origins back to the border. Every day we see agents tied down dealing with mass numbers of illegal immigrants, it is a certainty that dangerous criminal gang members are getting through the border undetected. Mendoza’s ability to come right back four times in the same year is a testament to the border problem that will be ignored through much of the media coverage of this case.

The Twin Cities area is beginning to see many of the problems that plague the East Coast. Minneapolis has long been a sanctuary city. In 2003, the city prohibited its officers from inquiring about immigration status. In recent months, suburbs such as St. Cloud and St. Joseph declared themselves “welcoming cities.” Minneapolis has an entire “Sanctuary City Task Force” to help push back against federal immigration authorities.

More broadly, Hennepin County, the jurisdiction that encompasses the Twin Cities and holds one-fifth of Minnesota’s population, was listed by ICE’s Declined Detainer Outcome Report as a county that declines to honor ICE detainers. Hennepin County was listed for refusing to honor a detainer of a convicted Mexican meth dealer and weapons violator. It’s no surprise why the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote a story “Mexican drug cartels turned Minneapolis into a meth hub.”

All of the deaths from gang activity, drunk driving, and drug trafficking emanating from sanctuary cities are all completely avoidable. They are either the result of an unsecured border allowing them to come in or reenter, or from sanctuary cities who release them even after being apprehended for a subsequent crime, or both. In April, Mark J. O’Gara, a 52-year-old father of 10 children, was killed in St. Paul while pulling out of his driveway. He was hit by a 19-year-old illegal alien from Honduras who was a recent beneficiary of catch-and-release who didn’t show up to his court case.

One thing is clear: as Democrats hold up pictures on the Senate floor of illegal aliens who die of natural causes and blame it on Border Patrol and ICE, they will never show the pictures of victims of illegal aliens. Nor do they show the pictures of all those Americans saved from an unknown number of crimes criminal aliens would have committed had they not been deported. Both of them would likely fill the Senate gallery from floor to ceiling. (For more from the author of “Minnesota’s ‘Nice Culture’ Is Now a Sanctuary for Transnational Gangs and Drugs” please click HERE)

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Effort to ‘Hamstring’ President Trump’s War Powers Against Iran Fails in Senate

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An amendment designed to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to use military force against Iran failed in the Senate on Friday after failing to meet the 60-vote threshold for legislation.

After a lengthy 10-hour vote, the resolution fell short of the necessary 60-vote threshold for passage.

The amendment was authored and put forward by Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., who said on the Senate floor Thursday that the president’s “reckless diplomacy” amid recent tensions with the Islamic dictatorship “is dangerously reminiscent of the run up to the war with Iraq.”

Voting on the amendment — which would have required President Trump to seek congressional approval before taking military action against Iran — began at 5 a.m. and was held open through the afternoon in order to allow for some senators with early flights to leave for their weeklong Independence Day recess and others to return from this week’s Democratic debates in Miami. This ended up setting a record for longest Senate vote in modern history.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., warned on the floor Thursday that the “timing couldn’t be worse” for the amendment, given the current state of affairs, adding that the amendment was redundant to the provisions in the Constitution and would send the wrong message.

“The redundancy is actually damaging,” Rubio explained. “It’s only going to reinforce this belief among some in the regime that they can go further than they can.”

The senator went on to say that the amendment “increases the chance of war” because it could encourage the Iranian regime to “miscalculate” and attack thinking that the United States is constrained.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the amendment “dangerous” Friday, saying that it would “hamstring the executive branch from reacting quickly in a crisis and prevent the U.S. from taking decisive action.”

“We don’t want war with Iran,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., in a statement. “I agree with the president’s restraint, but if Iran threatens to attack again, we should leave all options open.”

The only Senate Republicans who voted for the measures were Mike Lee, Utah; Rand Paul, Ky.; Jerry Moran, Kan.; and Susan Collins, Maine. Paul and Lee are longtime proponents of reclaiming Congress’ constitutional war powers from the executive branch. Last year, Lee was one of the key sponsors of a high-profile Senate amendment to restrict the U.S. involvement in the ongoing conflict in Yemen over constitutional concerns.

“The Constitution is clear: Only Congress can declare war,” said Paul in a statement about the amendment. “For too long, Congress has largely ceded the most important of its responsibilities to presidents of both parties.”

On Monday, President Trump hit Iran with new sanctions in response to Iran’s shooting down an American drone last week.

“The Supreme Leader of Iran is one who ultimately is responsible for the hostile conduct of the regime. He’s respected within his country,” the president said of Monday’s sanctions. “Sanctions imposed through the executive order that I’m about to sign will deny the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader’s Office, and those closely affiliated with him and the office, access to key financial resources and support.”

Trump signed off on the sanctions days after he said he called off a retaliatory airstrike against Iranian assets in response to the drone being shot down. (For more from the author of “Effort to ‘Hamstring’ President Trump’s War Powers Against Iran Fails in Senate” please click HERE)

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Previously Deported Asylee and Child Molester Indicted on Child Porn Charges

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Fontana Herald News reports that a previously deported child molester has been apprehended by authorities and was indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of child pornography as well as illegal re-entry into the United States.

José Ramón Aguilar-Moreno, 50, was deported in 2003 after being convicted of sexually abusing a child. However, Aguilar-Moreno was only allowed in the country at that time because he was granted asylum by U.S. authorities in 2000. “Aguilar-Moreno illegally entered the United States in 1986 and in 1995 he applied for relief from removal and requested asylum in the United States,” the paper notes.

The Salvadoran national then re-entered the United States after his removal in 2003 but was discovered in 2018 in Fontana, California. Authorities found him because “Aguilar-Moreno used an alias, ‘Abel Aguilar,’ and posted the videos on Facebook, which later notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, court documents allege,” according to Fontana Herald News. On Thursday, he was officially indicted. . .

Last Wednesday, the United States Border Patrol arrested a previously deported child molester after catching the pervert sneaking into the United States with five other illegal aliens who were traveling as a family unit in Tucson, Arizona. (Read more from “Previously Deported Asylee and Child Molester Indicted on Child Porn Charges” HERE)

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New: Must Watch Exposé of the Muslim Brotherhood with Key Organization Leaders

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Filmmaker Ami Horowitz has just released a brilliantly done 15-minute video, exposing leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in their own words as they continue their mission started in the 1920s of creating a global Islamic caliphate throughout the entire world. Their target, according to key Muslim Brotherhood leaders as well as experts interviewed by Horowitz, is a complete takedown of the United States of America.

The Muslim Brotherhood began in Egypt “as a religious and social organization. It as over the years metastasized to become the largest global Islamic organization in the world with branches in dozens of countries,” Horowitz explains.

“It has representatives in various governments and leadership in social and charitable organizations around the world. Its stated goals are to spread Islam and the word of the Quran throughout the world with the ultimate objective being the creation of a global Caliphate,” the American filmmaker notes.

Thus, Horowitz traveled to “Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and elsewhere to meet with Brotherhood leaders and to get a better sense of their plans and goals.”

“The Muslim Brotherhood has aggressively tried to expand their global influence by sending an unknown amount of proxies into countries around the world,” Horowitz explains. Many of these “proxies” operate based on a key memo written by Muslim Brotherhood leader, Dr. Mohammad Akram Nadwi.

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More Bad News Hits Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign

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Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has taken another hit as one of Biden’s top fundraisers has announced that he can no longer support Biden.

“Tom McInerney, a veteran San Francisco based lawyer, informed Biden’s team on June 20 that he can no longer help him raise campaign cash to compete in the 2020 presidential election,” CNBC reported. “While McInerney is the first financier to publicly withdraw his support after Biden’s controversial round of comments, the loss is significant because it could be a harbinger of further defections.”

McInerney pulled his support from Biden after Biden’s past comments praising racist Democrat segregationist senators surfaced earlier this month and after Biden flipped on repealing the Hyde Amendment.

“I don’t think he did well last night,” McInerney said of Biden’s debate performance.

Biden suffered a massive blow during Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate of MSNBC from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who ripped Biden to pieces over race.

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Beto Claims Illegal Aliens Have No Choice but to Come to the U.S. – Here’s the Insane Reason Why

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Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke claimed this week that migrants have “no choice” but to come to the United States because of climate change caused by American “excesses.”

O’Rourke, who is struggling to stay relevant in the 2020 Democratic primary, made the remarks on Wednesday while visiting the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Florida.

“And we’ve got to remember that they are fleeing the deadliest countries on the face of the planet today compounded by drought that was caused not by God, not by mother nature, but by us, man-made climate change, our emissions, our excesses, our inaction in the face of the facts and the science,” O’Rourke said. “When it is that deadly and when you’re unable to grow your own food to feed yourself, you have no choice but to come here.”

O’Rourke participated in the first Democratic presidential debate this week, giving himself an ‘A’ for his performance, while late-night comedians mocked him over his performance. (Read more from “Beto Claims Illegal Aliens Have No Choice but to Come to the U.S. – Here’s the Insane Reason Why” HERE)

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Watch: This Teenage Chick-Fil-A Employee Does Something Unheard of to Save a Choking Child

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On Wednesday, a teenage boy working at a Chick-fil-A in Flowery Branch, Georgia, looked through the drive-thru window and noticed that a 6-year-old boy in a car in the drive-thru lane was choking. Not wasting a second, Logan Simmons jumped through the drive-thru window and ran to the car, where he found the mother of the boy begging for someone to help her save her child from being choked by a seatbelt that had gotten tangled around his neck. Simmons said later, “You could see he was turning red and losing pigmentation in his face … I just jumped out the window and ran straight down to the car. I think it was the quickest option. It was right there and I saw the other car right there.”

The quick-thinking Simmons yanked out his pocketknife and cut the young child free. After the incident, Simmons recalled, “I’m still kind of shocked right now myself that all this has happened.”

Simmons’ mother Teri told WSBTV, “He’d been home for a couple of hours and he said nonchalantly, ‘I saved a kid’s life today,’ and I was like ‘What?’” She added, “I’m amazed he didn’t panic. As his mother, I would have panicked. I’d be running around going, ‘Oh my gosh! What do we do?’”

An hour after the incident, the boy’s mother called Simmons and thanked him.

WSB’s Justin Wilfon asked Simmons if he thought his actions would trigger Chick-fil-A into giving him a raise; Simmons joked he might mention that to his bosses.

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Kamala Surprises, Biden Flakes, and Dems Tear Each Other Apart in First 2020 Debate

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By PJ Media. In two marathon stretches on Wednesday and Thursday, 20 candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination fought for time and exposure on the debate stage in Miami, Florida. In the first night, former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-Texas) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) lost, but there was no clear winner. In the second night, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) emerged triumphant over the frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden.

The first debate round on Wednesday achieved the basic goal of a debate, allowing each candidate to define himself or herself as an option, distinguishing between the different choices. The second debate round on Thursday involved more acerbic attacks, pitting candidates against one another to yield clearer winners and losers. . .

On Thursday, however, candidates targeted one another. Harris went toe-to-toe with Biden on the issue of his record of treating segregationists with civility. While Biden was right to say he did not actually praise segregationists, as Booker had falsely claimed, Harris slammed him and emerged the clear victor in the exchange.

Harris also emerged triumphant in a spat early on. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) urged Biden to “pass the torch to a new generation of Americans.” Biden shot back, saying, “I’m still holding on to that torch.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg tried to edge in, but shouted over one another. . .

Attacks on Trump came sparsely in the first round, but frequently in the second round. The two debates had entirely different spirits, and the first round was a better debate than the second. The clearest winners were Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg. Notable mentions include Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. The clearest losers were Beto O’Rourke, Joe Biden, and Amy Klobuchar. (Read more from “Kamala Surprises, Biden Flakes, and Dems Tear Each Other Apart in First 2020 Debate” HERE)

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Biden Falters in Democratic Debate

By The Hill. Front-runner Joe Biden faltered in the Democratic presidential primary debate here Thursday evening, suffering some damage at the hands of rivals while also stumbling of his own accord.

The former vice president hit particularly rocky ground when he was confronted by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on his recent warm words for two Southern segregationists of a previous era, the late Sens. James Eastland (D-Miss) and Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.).

Harris also highlighted Biden’s past opposition to school busing. . .

He also defended his vote to give then-President George W. Bush the power to go to war in Iraq, arguing that Bush had abused that power.

On Iraq, Biden was left vulnerable to the inevitable attack from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who took the opportunity to remind voters that, in contrast to Biden, he had “led the opposition to that war, which was a total disaster.” (Read more from “Biden Falters in Democratic Debate” HERE)

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Trump Rape Accuser: ‘I Have Not Been Raped’

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E. Jean Carroll can’t get out of her own way. I simply don’t know what to make of this:

“Every woman gets to choose her word. Every woman gets to choose how she describes it. This is my way of saying it. This is my word. My word is ‘fight.’ My word is not the victim word. I have not been raped. Something has not been done to me. I fought.”

Okay, either it was rape or it wasn’t. I understand Carroll’s point that she doesn’t want to think of herself as a victim. But are we supposed to accept that she’s not claiming she was raped because she says she wasn’t, or are we supposed to assume she’s claiming she was raped anyway? Are we supposed to #BelieveWomen or not?

Here’s yet another bizarre twist. Trump’s defenders are now pointing to a 2012 episode of Law & Order: SVU that depicted a similar scenario:

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Debate Crowd Cheers as Buttigieg Attacks Christian Republicans

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On Thursday night during the second round of the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate, Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., tried to shame Republican Christians into silence by attacking immigration policies that the Trump administration either never employed or that the Obama administration also employed.

“The Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion,” Buttigieg, a member of the liberal mainline Episcopal Church, began. “Now, our party doesn’t talk about that as much largely for a very good reason — which is we are committed to the separation between church and state and we stand for people of any religion and people of no religion.”

“But we should call out hypocrisy when we see it,” he added. “And for a party that associates itself with Christianity, to say that it is okay to suggest that God would smile at the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages, has lost all claim to ever use religious language again.”

Buttigieg has long directed his liberal Christian ire against conservative Christians who follow the clear teachings of the Bible on sexuality. My church actually withdrew from his denomination because the Episcopal Church started saying that Jesus was not the only path to salvation, and because it was rejecting the Bible on sexuality issues. It is ironic for Buttigieg to slam conservative Christians as insufficiently Christian when he does not follow the Bible on these issues. . . .

First, the narrative that Trump’s administration put “kids in cages” is entirely false. The infamous photos of “kids in cages” by the border came from 2014 under the Obama administration, not under Trump. Photos showing immigrants sleeping on the concrete floor also date from Obama’s tenure, in 2015. (Read more from “Debate Crowd Cheers as Buttigieg Attacks Christian Republicans” HERE)

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