. . .Just this week, Lewis reported the case of 21-year-old Nestor Lopez-Guzman, a Salvadoran illegally in the U.S. He is charged with sexually molesting a pre-teen girl and her younger brother, who both lived with Lopez-Guzman, along with several other family members.

Lopez-Guzman allegedly touched the girl on her breasts, buttocks and vagina atop of her clothes multiple times over the course of six months, and he allegedly fondled the crotch of the young boy, saying, “Where are my little balls?” He was released on a bond until his court date.

This and countless of other cases just like it (and worse) happened in liberal Montgomery County, Maryland (75% for Hillary Clinton in 2016). Lewis’s reporting indicates that there are permissive local policies that allow illegal immigrants to run wild, even after being charged with crime. ICE requests that such suspects be held for deportation are simply ignored by county judges, and evidently the police aren’t notifying ICE either.

Lewis on Tuesday reported the case of 46-year-old Nelson Reyes-Medrano, another Salvadoran illegally in the U.S., who allegedly raped a 16-year-old he had been living with. The charges say that Reyes-Medrano entered the girl’s room with a knife as she was taking a midday nap. Reyes-Medrano allegedly held the knife to the victim’s neck and demanded that she take her clothes off, telling her, “Last time I’m going to say it … take your clothes off.” He then took his own clothes off and allegedly spread her legs with his hands so that he could forcefully penetrate her while on top of her body. The victim told authorities that it “hurt” for “a long time” and that Reyes-Medrano only stopped after he heard a noise outside the apartment, at which point he put his clothes on and left. In this case, at least a judge denied a request for bond release.

Last week, Lewis shared police reports of 28-year-old Luis Perez-Giron, a Guatemalan illegally in the U.S., who is alleged to have twice sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl. The first incident allegedly occurred back in May, when the victim was at Perez-Giron’s home, in his bedroom watching TV with two other children. Perez-Giron, a friend of the victim’s family, allegedly entered the room, kissed the victim’s neck and put his hands over her clothed breasts and vagina, before telling her not to tell anyone. The second incident allegedly occurred at the victim’s own home. When Perez-Giron allegedly entered the apartment, the victim hid in a bathroom until she thought he was gone. Once she exited the bathroom, Perez-Giron allegedly walked out of a closet he had been hiding inside, and pushed the victim to the ground, causing her to cut her hand. According to the charges, he then placed her on a couch, removed her clothing and put his mouth on her breasts. He also unsuccessfully attempted to remove her pants, then told her not to say anything and that he would “rape her when she turned 13.” (Read more from “Rape, Molest, Go Free — Judges Turn Illegal Aliens Loose in Sanctuary City” HERE)

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Do the people of Arizona have a say in the future of their own state, or is their destiny controlled completely by illegal aliens working with unelected bureaucrats and courts to override state and federal law? Evidently, Doug Ducey, the alleged Republican governor of the Grand Canyon State, believes that illegal aliens should receive privileges as Arizonans. Arizonans will continue to pay for the rope to hang themselves and they will like it, according to Ducey. Who needs Democrats when Republicans have already turned the state blue?

Last week, the Arizona Board of Regents voted unanimously to offer illegal aliens a discounted tuition rate for attendance at state universities. They set the rate at $16,500, which is $5,500 more than the standard rate in-state residents pay of $11,000, but well under the $30,000 American citizens from other states have to pay. One would expect that the governor would immediately work with the legislature to fix this travesty passed by an unelected body of bureaucrats, especially at a time when illegal immigration needs to be deterred more than ever. Shockingly, as if he’s trying to pour lighter fluid on the immigration fire at Arizona’s border, Governor Ducey praised the decision earlier this week, according to the Arizona Republic.

In an interview with KJZZ host Mark Brodie, posted online Tuesday, the Republican leader said he believes that “somebody that graduates from an Arizona high school is an Arizona kid.”

“I congratulate the regents for a first step around this,” Ducey said. “I do believe that if you are here and graduate from an Arizona high school, you should have the same opportunities that anyone else that graduates from Arizona high schools has.”

So, according to Ducey, are the children among the 66 Central Americans who just marched into the Tucson sector on Wednesday deemed “Arizona kids” as well? Well, they haven’t attended high school yet, but once they step foot here, the unelected courts make them go to primary school on the taxpayer dime. Does that make them an Arizonan so they can get a subsidized college education as well? Evidently so.

Making Arizonans pay for the rope to hang themselves

At a time when Arizona is getting slammed with the hospital costs, the drug-running, the crime, gangs, cartel activities, sexual assaults, and health concerns stemming from illegal immigration, the governor’s focus is on the wants of the illegal aliens and not on the citizens suffering from the influx of illegal immigration. At a time when unelected judges in the Ninth Circuit are forcing Arizona to grant one benefit after another, he joins in with another unelected body to grant them discounted tuition.

Just consider the following:

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, as of 2013, there were 630,700 illegal aliens residing in Arizona (including American-born babies of illegal immigrants, erroneously deemed citizens). That is a population of foreign invaders larger than the total population of any single colony at the time of our Founding. And that was six years ago, before the newer influx of Central Americans.

Over 10 percent of the state’s public school population is composed of illegal alien children, according to Pew Research. When coupled with the fiscal strain of health care and incarceration, the total cost of illegal immigration is $2.4 billion a year.

A recent study by John Lott of 32 years of prison data in Arizona concluded that illegal immigrants in Arizona are at least 142 percent more likely to be convicted of crime than other Arizonans. They are more likely to be convicted of serious violent crimes: at least 163 percent more likely for first-degree murder; 168 percent more likely for second-degree murder; and 189.6 percent more likely for manslaughter. Also, Lott’s data confirms what some of us see anecdotally every day but is ignored by the national media – that illegal aliens in Arizona are more likely to commit sexual offenses against minors, sexual assault, drunk driving, kidnapping, and armed robbery.

Justice Scalia observed in his partial dissent in Arizona v. U.S. (2012) that “Arizona bears the brunt of the country’s illegal immigration problem” and that “its citizens feel themselves under siege by large numbers of illegal immigrants who invade their property, strain their social services, and even place their lives in jeopardy.” He concluded, “If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign State.”

Yet Ducey thinks that now, of all times, illegal immigration needs to be further incentivized?

Mr. Ducey must understand that in a republic, the power must flow from the people through their elected representatives. That is doubly true in the case of adding a new member to the society. That decision must be made by the citizens, not invaders. If Ducey wants to start a charity to raise money for other countries’ citizens, that is his prerogative, but the resources of the American people and their governments are not his to give away.

If Republicans in Arizona continue nominating such weak representatives to the governorships and the Senate, the state will turn blue. Not just because of the self-fulfilling prophecy of blue immigration policies leading to more blue voters, but because when voters are faced with the same policies from both parties, they will always choose the more authentic version.

Tuition breaks for illegal aliens violate federal and state law

Whenever the people get a say in the matter, they vote the opposite way. Federal law is very clear. Nothing can be done to induce, encourage, harbor, or shield illegal aliens from detection (8 U.S.C. §1324). Furthermore, federal law, which passed unanimously by the Senate and was signed by Bill Clinton in 1996, very clearly bars this arrangement of charging illegal aliens a slightly higher rate than state residents because it is still much lower than out of state residents:

“An alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit (in no less an amount, duration, and scope) without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.” (Section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), codified as 8 U.S.C. § 1623.)

Those were laws passed by Arizona’s representatives. Why are they not being followed? The gulf between the citizens and the elites is enormous. Swing voters and even lean-Democrat voters are to the right of Republican elites on this issue.

Additionally, voters of the state went to the ballot box in 2006, which in general, was a terrible year for Republicans, and voted 71-29 percent to bar in-state tuition for illegal aliens. For a Republican governor to applaud this clever end run around the people’s will of discounting tuition for illegal aliens, but stopping short of offering full in-state rates, is a repugnant elitist rejection of his own voters.

Ducey scoffed at the threat of a lawsuit:

“We live in a litigious society, and … it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if someone brought suit,” Ducey said. “I think the regents did their best to design this so … that they follow the law.

“I think we need to continue to follow the law, but we also want to make certain that Arizona high school graduates don’t have to leave our state to pursue opportunity.”

Leave no illegal alien behind!

No state in the country has been jackbooted by the courts more than Arizona. Yet Ducey never mentions a word about the Ninth Circuit’s assault on the state’s sovereignty, forcing it to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens and preventing it from stopping non-citizens from voting, for example. And he then dismisses the notion of the sovereign citizens finally using the courts against illegal aliens to sue for what is rightfully theirs.

Just whose country is this, anyway? (For more from the author of “Republican Governor Applauds Illegal Discounted State College Tuition for Illegal Aliens” please click HERE)

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We don’t have an opioid crisis in this country, at least not today. We have a sovereignty crisis, which has led to the flooding of this country with drugs more powerful than anything around even 10 years ago – all promoted by the Mexican cartels and the criminal alien networks allowed to peddle them in sanctuary cities. Yet, for our politicians and the courts, it’s so much easier to make big bad Johnson & Johnson, doctors, and chronic pain patients the boogeymen in order to protect the sacred agendas of open borders and “criminal justice reform,” aka not locking up those trafficking the stuff actually responsible for most of the drug fatalities.

The media and political class celebrated the Monday ruling from an Oklahoma judge ordering Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million for fueling the “opioid epidemic.” The company is being held responsible even for other companies’ drugs and, of course, the drugs of the Mexican cartels. It’s not even clear who will receive the money. Now who will sue on behalf of the pain patients who are getting their painkillers cut off in order to cover for illegal aliens and drug traffickers?

As I’ve noted in my exhaustive series on the true cause of the drug crisis since 2014, most drug fatalities are from illicit drugs peddled by Mexican cartels. Prescription deaths are down, and prescriptions themselves are seriously limited, more than ever before. To continue declaring war on prescriptions while ignoring the fact that we barely prosecute drug traffickers any more and continuing our reluctance go after the cartels is a recipe for skyrocketing overdoses and harming pain patients.

That’s because, for the most part, it’s not those who are taking pain medication who are overdosing on it, or on illicit opioids. In fact, the fastest-growing drug problem is not even opioids, but cocaine and meth, which are psychostimulants, the opposite of opioids. For a judge to make such a policy pronouncement blaming prescriptions drugs for the crisis is scandalous. As I’ve noted before, most chronic pain patients are older and more are women, while the overwhelming majority of drug fatalities are younger and male.

There is actually a perfectly inverse relationship between the trends in prescriptions and drug overdoses. Total oxycodone ER prescriptions had already decreased by 29.7 percent long ago, around 2007-2011, and decreased 39 percent from 2010 to 2015. Overall opioid prescriptions have decreased a whopping 34 percent from existing plummeting levels just from January 2017 to February 2019 and 43 percent overall since 2011. Prescriptions for high dosage, defined as 90 morphine milligram equivalents or more, declined by 61 percent. Meanwhile, drug deaths have nearly doubled since the end of Obama’s first term, when border and interior enforcement began to collapse, also coinciding with the collapse of drug sentencing in this country.

This graphic from the Alliance for Treating Intractable Pain says it all:

CDC & DEA have deceived the American people to fit their agenda. The facts are clear, the lives of our elderly, disabled and Wounded Warriors have been destroyed.
Who Is Telling The Truth About Prescription Opioid Deaths? DEA? CDC? Neither? https://t.co/GWw5zh36sp pic.twitter.com/DeMQNpDy6h

— David W Cole (@DavidWCole1) November 7, 2018

The entire baseline increase in deaths over the past five years had nothing to do with prescriptions and were all from the border and from the illegal alien networks that distribute drugs at the primary level. As Robert Murphy, the DEA special agent in charge of Atlanta, told me earlier this year: “The people coming across the border to make and distribute the drugs are coming here illegally. You can drive all the liquid meth you want here, but you still have to have the people to do it, and they are not coming across at checkpoints; they are sneaking across the border. The people who are here operating the networks are all illegal immigrants.

What the government should be doing is holding the line at our border against the cartels and deporting every single illegal alien in sanctuary cities who is trafficking drugs. As I’ve reported before, DEA agents will tell you that if we busted up the criminal alien networks (they can all be deported without a prosecution), it would become prohibitively expensive for the cartels to peddle these types of drugs at the current prices. Yet rather than going after drug traffickers, illegal aliens, and the cartels, thereby driving down the price of illicit drugs – which is the entire crisis – the politicians at all levels are going after doctors, pharmaceuticals, and pain patients, driving up the cost of much-needed medication for people who are not drug addicts.

The feds just indicted a network of 19 heroin traffickers last week in Oklahoma for bringing in heroin from Mexico. We don’t need another war on drugs. Simply enforcing our existing immigration laws would severely limit the supply to at least pre-2014 crisis levels.

Then there is jailbreak, aka “criminal justice reform.” States barely lock people up for drug trafficking any more, and even the feds are very limited. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the median time served for drug trafficking (not possession) is 17 months. And that is among those who actually serve time. Many get off with probation. Now, both parties nearly unanimously passed a bill providing both front-end sentencing reductions and back-end early release for the worst transnational drug traffickers who are sitting in federal prison, specifically targeted by federal prosecutors as kingpins.

Yet these same politicians have the nerve to lie that this is a health care issue and treat doctors and pain patients as criminals, while sending out Kim Kardashian to celebrate people trafficking drugs for the cartels.

This is no different from their approach to guns and crime. They let out violent felons, including gun felons, and then take away guns from those who need them to remain safe from those criminals the do-gooders let out. They focus on the pain meds or guns while enabling the people who kill with dangerous chemicals and guns. (For more from the author of “Government Continues Persecuting Doctors and Pain Patients to Protect Drug Traffickers and Illegal Immigration” please click HERE)

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Guess what happened once our government telegraphed the message that people can no longer come here and be released: They stopped coming in large numbers.

Nine days ago, I reported, based on exclusive data measuring apprehensions in the state of Texas, that weekly apprehensions in the Lone Star State had dropped 54 percent from the peak of May through the first week of August. Well, now I have obtained data from the next two weeks in August, ending on the 21st of the month, and the numbers have dropped another 19 percent statewide. During the reporting week ending Wednesday, August 21, there were 7,605 illegal aliens apprehended in Texas, for a total drop of 62 percent from the worst week at the end of May and early June.

The sharpest drop is among those coming from Guatemala. The numbers are down 74 percent in Texas from the peak in the first week in June. After being the top country of origin for quite a while, Guatemala’s numbers are now close to parity with those of El Salvador, which has long been the number three country of origin in Central America. All the diplomacy with Guatemala’s government is sending the right message.

Between sending planeloads of illegal aliens back to Guatemala, forging a safe third-country agreement, returning many other illegal aliens to Mexico, and barring anyone who could have applied for asylum in Mexico from applying here, the message has finally been sent that we are closed for business. Moreover, this was all before the administration announced the most critical policy of all late last week – that it will no longer be releasing family units pursuant to the Flores settlement. The numbers will likely plummet in the coming days as a result of these factors.

So here’s the obvious question: If the numbers have been cut at least in half, shouldn’t twice as many agents now be available to patrol the line against the really bad guys being smuggled in by the cartels as well as the previously deported criminal aliens seeking to re-enter? In other words, shouldn’t the Border Patrol be returning to patrolling?

I asked one veteran agent in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) if the morale of his colleagues is better in light of the reprieve from family units. Surprisingly, he sounded a pessimistic tone. “Yes, the family units are down, but nothing has changed on the operational side of Border Patrol’s core mission to hold the line at the river and defend against drugs and bad guys,” said the agent, who must remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak to the media. “We’re still only averaging 10-15 people patrolling roughly 60 miles in most stations.”

When I asked why the number of agents in the field isn’t back up, given that the number of aliens to process has dropped, he said they are still being held in reserve “in case our numbers go back up.” He also pointed to the fact that agents are still pulled off to transport aliens to the new facilities and to man them rather than housing those caught at the nine permanent stations. “It would surprise everyone to know that the stations are actually empty now. For whatever reason, what was designed originally to handle an emergency overflow are now being used as the holding facility of first resort, and this drains extra manpower, especially now that DHS has pulled the other manpower from other agencies assisting us.”

Another more junior agent in a different station in the Rio Grande Valley confirmed with CR that “the number of agents on the line in my station has not gone up at all” and that their own stations are empty because the migrants are all being transported to the new facilities. He expressed concern that “with cartels losing millions in revenue they were used to getting every week from human smuggling, they are now doubling down on drug trafficking, yet we still don’t have more agents to deter them.”

“They are still not taking the cartels seriously and are more concerned with using agents for humanitarian backup,” said the more junior agent.

I reached out to Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) press office in the Rio Grande Valley to confirm whether or not the number of agents on the line has not increased and whether the agents are being diverted to man the new facilities because the migrants are not being kept at the stations. CBP did not immediately respond to this request for comment.

Aside from drugs, there is the issue of previously deported criminal aliens who are still making their way back into the country. If agents are still at crisis levels on the line, then although the mass migration may have been solved, the more targeted illegal immigration of criminals and gang members still remains a problem. Just this week, agents in the RGV caught a pair of previously convicted sex offenders coming back into the country. One had been charged with lewd and lascivious acts with a minor in Los Angeles, and the other served time for criminal sex conduct in Michigan. The previous week, they caught an MS-13 member and another criminal alien who was convicted of “criminal sexual assault of a victim between 13 – 15 years of age and accosting children for immoral purposes” in Michigan.

With so few agents on the line, and the smugglers strategically crossing their drug traffickers and other criminals in order to avoid detection, members of Congress and the administration might want to ponder how many of these sorts of criminals, gang members, national security threats, and drug traffickers are not caught. Ultimately, DHS’ leadership needs to ask themselves if they are really helping “the children” by diverting more agents for babysitting rather than for patrolling, thereby ensuring that more child molesters, previously deported through the hard work of ICE agents, re-enter the country. (For more from the author of “Border Apprehensions Continue to Drop, but Are Agents Freed up to Actually Patrol?” please click HERE)

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