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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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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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Report: ISIS Suspects Caught on Way to U.S. Border but None Were ‘U.S. Terrorism Watch Lists’

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Organized terrorist groups or state sponsors of terror might be evil, but they tend not to be unintelligent and illogical. Why would they not exploit the situation with the Mexican cartels controlling both sides of our border and Border Patrol essentially being abolished from their patrol duties to get in new terrorists that are not on any watch list? Well, if that sounds logical to you, then it’s illogical to assume our enemies aren’t trying it.

Aside from the president’s iron-clad immigration authority under 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and foreign commerce authority under Article II of the Constitution to shut off all illegal immigrant asylum requests at our border, national security should dictate that he do so as well.

Several weeks ago, it was reported that ISIS had a plan to recruit terrorists to come to our border. On June 25, Breitbart reported that the Mexican government confirmed that three ISIS suspects were headed north from Costa Rica and detained in Nicaragua. The alert flagged Ibrahim Mohamed and Mohamed Eissa of Egypt, and Ahamed Ghanim Mohamed Al Juburi from Iraq.

Now, Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, is reporting based on a Reuters article that a fourth suspect, another Iraqi, was also detained in Nicaragua. According to Bensman’s sources, “One of the Iraqis is believed to be a convicted murderer in Iraq who was supposed to be serving a life sentence, one source told me. That Iraqi was carrying a genuine passport, apparently with his real name.”

Bensman, who was an investigative journalist covering terrorism for many years and also spent 10 years in the intel branch of Texas’s Department of Public Safety, says that according to his sources, “none of the four travelers were on U.S. terrorism watch lists.” Obviously, those who wish to do us harm will likely send newbies who have no prior paper trail of a criminal record.

Whether any of these four travelers are actually tied into ISIS and whether the intel sources alerting foreign governments are credible remains to be seen. But the known threat of convicted murderers or other security threats in the Western Hemisphere coming up with the caravans – both openly and smuggled in surreptitiously – is already a known problem. That’s why it would not be surprising for Middle Eastern terrorists would do the same.

The threat of those coming in as “runners” and “got aways” while Border Patrol is strategically tied down by the cartels with the family units is obvious. All of those with massive criminal records who were previously deported now have a freer lane than ever to come right back in. The same applies to known or ‘virgin’ terrorists.

But what is even more disquieting is that would-be criminal migrants are so emboldened by the notion that we will give amnesty to anyone with a kid, that a number of those coming with the family units are criminals. One border agent in Texas, who is on an evidence collection team and administers fingerprints, told CR that they are catching so many adult males who come with one child who think that despite their criminal record they will benefit from catch-and-release.

“And they are not entirely wrong,” said the veteran agent who must remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

“In every single group, almost without fail, there is someone with a criminal record, typically males with single kids,” the agent said. “There is a wide misconception about the majority of these people being females. They are overwhelmingly male. While we try to prioritize referrals for prosecution based on criminal history, we only have so many computers we can utilize and so many staff members.”

When I asked him if that means there are those with confirmed criminal records, even with convictions in the U.S., who have been released, he said, “absolutely. They are given a notice to appear in court like anyone else.”

According to Department of Homeland Security investigators, in a memo sent to GOP staff of the House Oversight Committee obtained by CR, there were enough criminal convictions (just from their previous time in the U.S.) among the January 2019 caravan members to account for roughly one quarter of the entire group! Homeland Security Investigations identified a total of 860 U.S. criminal convictions among the 3,345 people who left Honduras, including “22 individuals convicted of assault or aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, 27 individuals convicted of sexual offenses.” They also identified 47 gang members.

These were just the number of convictions in the U.S. of previously deported aliens. One can only imagine how many had engaged in criminality in their home countries and were coming here for the first time. And these people came in full sight knowing the authorities would be on to them.

“So many of those coming here now have no records in the NCIC and are from countries that don’t share information with us,” bemoaned the evidence collection agent I spoke to. “We literally have no idea who they are before we release them. They just give us a random name a birthdate and we have no way of verifying it. None of those from China are in the system and they certainly don’t share criminal histories with us. All of them are released into the asylum system. People from the Dominican Republic often melt their fingerprints or surgically alter them. I’ve processed a few of them who sliced their fingers and had them stitched up, thereby washing away the authentic print.”

Consider the fact that 208,000 aliens have been released since Dec. 21 and we have no idea who they are. Thankfully, Border Patrol catches murderers, sex offenders, and gang members every day. But if those are the fish that are caught, one can imagine how many are in that pond and how few we catch when the net is so small and thin.

Just this past month, there have been three refugees who have killed or attempted to kill Americans. Last week, a Ukrainian refugee allegedly killed seven Americans, including five retired Marines in a vehicular manslaughter. A Syrian refugee who was brought here in 2016 despite three arrests in Jordan was arrested by the FBI on terrorism charges for plotting an attack on a church in Pittsburgh. Earlier this month, a Czech refugee was suspected of shooting four people in Cleveland, Texas.

Now, consider that refugees are fully vetted, yet we still make mistakes. Those who come straight to our border and are released are not vetted at all. We will never know who is a criminal until an American is harmed by them. Even then, the identity of the perpetrator usually goes unreported.

Even if it were to say in the Constitution, “the right to immigrate with a child shall not be infringed,” that would never prevent President Trump from shutting down processing given the security concerns. After all, it does say that about gun rights in the Second Amendment and states can place all sorts of limitations on them for public security. How much more so when immigration is the antithesis of a constitutional right and sovereignty allows the president to always deny entry to any immigration flow he deems “detrimental” to U.S. interests. (For more from the author of “Report: Isis Suspects Caught on Way to U.S. Border but None Were ‘U.S. Terrorism Watch Lists’” HERE)

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Every Single 2020 Dem Wants to Give Illegal Aliens Free Healthcare

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Every single Democratic presidential candidate on stage during Thursday’s debate raised their hands in favor of giving illegal immigrants free healthcare.

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Bow Down, Pelosi: House Speaker Caves to Senate GOP on Immigration Bill

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Trump Wins, House will pass the Senate-backed and totally bipartisan immigration bill.

Via WaPo:

The House passed a $4.6 billion emergency spending bill for the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border, after Democratic leaders scrapped efforts to amend the legislation to add more restrictions on the Trump administration.

The vote was 305-to-102 Thursday and the legislation heads to President Trump, who is expected to sign it, since the Senate already passed the bill earlier in the week. The measure will pump billions into the budgets of agencies, including the Health and Human Services Department, that have been overwhelmed by the influx of Central American migrants at the Southern border.

When this is all said and done, the liberal media and their Democratic allies need to endure a brutal and bloody lashing. The manufactured crisis at the border was real. Gee—the president has only been saying that for weeks. The Department of Homeland Security has said they were running out of money dealing with the horde of migrants storming the border. We all said this was happening and yet, Democrats thought this was a figment of Trump and conservative America’s imagination. Wrong. They were dead wrong. And it was only after bodies started to stack and children were left destitute thanks to Democratic intransigence on border security funding that they decided to realize that this actually a problem. You people caused this—all of it. And you will be made to remember it soon, you negligent, hypocritical morons. (Read more from “Bow Down, Pelosi: House Speaker Caves to Senate GOP on Immigration Bill” HERE)

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We Cannot Ignore the Horror of the Border Crisis, but We Shouldn’t Ignore Its Real Causes, Either

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A picture of a drowned father and daughter at the southern border has brought a great deal of left-wing attention to the border crisis.

The tragic photo shows a migrant from El Salvador and his 2-year-old daughter washed up on the shore of the Rio Grande River after trying to cross the border into the United States.

A Vox writer called the image “the true face of the Trump administration’s approach to immigration, the physical embodiment of the nativism that animates it.”

“Trump is responsible for these deaths,” tweeted presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke.

On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., took the photo to the Senate floor and blamed President Trump for the pair’s deaths, calling his actions on the crisis a “whirlwind of incompetence leading to pictures like this.”

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Vt., said that the image is “one painful example of so many that demonstrate the reckless disregard for basic humanity that have come from Trump’s policies.”

Sanders, of course, also called the border crisis “artificial” in January when calling for an end to the federal government partial shutdown over the border crisis.

In reality, since Schumer and Sanders’ January allegations, the administration has been dealing with month after month after month of record numbers of border apprehensions and changing demographics driven by a combination of what National Review editor Rich Lowry describes as “bizarre asylum rules” and inadequate security at the U.S.-Mexico border. These have left enforcement agencies grossly overburdened.

Meanwhile, it has been almost two months since the administration requested emergency border funding to address the ongoing crisis, and a supplemental measure addressing it only passed the House Tuesday evening (where funding bills have to begin, per the Constitution.) That spending package, however, contains no funding for additional border security measures.

It’s also important to keep in mind, congressional Republicans and the Trump administration started trying to address the asylum policies that created the current crisis over a year ago.

And, in case anyone forgot, this isn’t America’s first crisis of this nature. The journey north was still dangerous and the asylum incentives were similar five years ago, the swell of minors from Central America claiming refugee status as Unaccompanied Alien Children got so bad that then-President Barack Obama had to warn Central American parents to stop sending their kids here.

“Do not send your children to the borders,” Obama warned. “If they do make it, they’ll get sent back; more importantly, they might not make it.”

Look, it’s right to feel pangs of horror and sadness upon seeing a picture of a drowned father and daughter. It’s right to say it’s bad when kids don’t have soap and toothbrushes at detention facilities. These are objectively bad things, but we cannot pretend away the factors that actually created these conditions.

The humanitarian crisis at our southern border is indeed horrific. It was horrific before this picture was taken. It was horrific before the detention centers became as crowded as they currently are. That’s why it’s so important to fix this crisis the right way and prevent others of its kind from happening again.

You can’t fix a problem when you won’t admit what’s causing it, and as long as our current asylum and security problems persist, this crisis simply won’t go away. (For more from the author of “We Cannot Ignore the Horror of the Border Crisis, but We Shouldn’t Ignore Its Real Causes, Either” please click HERE)

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Must-Watch Video of Media Claiming Border Security Is a ‘Manufactured Crisis’

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. . .One could argue that while both sides now agree that there is a major issue, the left seems to think that the main problem is that the U.S. is not swinging the door wide open for all illegal aliens while conservatives argue that the problem is we do not have a wall to prevent illegal immigrants from coming into the country whatsoever. Regardless, the mainstream media’s coverage of the situation during President Donald J. Trump’s entire term in office has been absolutely dismal in terms of accuracy as to what was truly happening at the border. This video posted by Grabien’s Tom Elliot is proof that leftists in the media have gone from claiming that no problem exists at the border to saying that Trump is responsible for the crisis at the border that supposedly did not exist just five months ago.

Depending on how cynical you are, the video represents either the genuine stupidity or the malicious intent of the mainstream media. It also represents how dumb they think the American people actually are. For years, the mainstream media has said there is no immigration problem. They did this because they were either too dumb and too lazy to do their job or they purposefully hid the reality to paint the president as an idiot. By now admitting there is a crisis, in an insult to their viewers, they think their audience will continue to find what they say as credible. They do this despite the fact their record shows they cannot report on perhaps the number one issue facing America — illegal immigration.

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Liz Warren and Alyssa Milano Tried to Enter the Homestead Detention Center – Here’s What Happened

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The Homestead detention center is reportedly the biggest shelter for migrant children in the country. And it just happens to be only 30 miles away from the first Democratic primary debate Wednesday night in Miami. The location gave Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) time to visit the facility before the presidential contest. What she found was “prison”- like conditions.

Warren’s request to enter the center was denied, so she instead stood on a ladder and peered over the gate. She later told the press what she saw.

“There weren’t children playing,” she reported. “There weren’t children laughing the way children usually do when they’re moving from one place to another. These were children who were being marched like little soldiers – like little prisoners – from one place to another. This is not what we should be doing as a country.”

Actress Alyssa Milano wasn’t far behind Warren. She too tried to enter the Homestead premises but was turned away, handed a card and instructed to email DHS with a media request. They’d get back to her in two weeks.

Milano mused that those two weeks will “of course” be used by the facilitators to “clean up the place.” She then shared a little of what she had seen or learned of what the conditions inside were like, including how authorities were taking away pens and pencils from children because they were cutting themselves.

(Read more from “Liz Warren and Alyssa Milano Tried to Enter the Homestead Detention Center – Here’s What Happened” HERE)

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TERRIFYING: ICE Unveils Accused Murderers, Rapists Protected Under This State’s New Sanctuary Law

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in the Pacific Northwest are taking the unusual step of criticizing Washington state’s new sanctuary state law and giving detailed examples of the danger they believe it presents to the public. . .

According to ICE, Rosalio Ramos-Ramos was arrested last January for murder and dismembering his victim. It happened just months after Ramos was released from a Washington jail despite ICE’s request for an immigration detainer and notification of his pending release, neither of which were honored.

ICE also cites the case of Mexican national Martin Gallo-Gallardo, who was in a Clackamas County Oregon jail. The statement said jail officials ignored ICE’s request for an immigration detainer and notification of release. Gallardo was released and within months was re-arrested, this time for allegedly murdering his wife.

The most recent case involves Francisco Carranza-Ramirez, who was also in the U.S. illegally. He was convicted of raping a wheelchair-bound Seattle woman twice. He was sentenced to time served and released, under the judge’s order that he self-deport back to Mexico. King County Sheriff’s officials say he eventually did return to Mexico, but not before assaulting his victim a third time.

Meantime, Washington state just passed what some immigration advocates are calling the strongest sanctuary state law in the country. It forbids local jails and state prisons from honoring ICE immigration detainers and even prevents corrections officials from even letting ICE know about the pending release of a criminal illegal immigrant. The law also instructs the attorney general to draft new rules restricting ICE agents from making immigration arrests at courthouses and hospitals. (Read more from “ICE Unveils Accused Murderers, Rapists Protected Under This State’s New Sanctuary Law” HERE)

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WATCH: CNN Host Forced to ADMIT Child Immigrant Detention Happened Under Obama

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CNN anchor John King admitted what many liberal critics of President Donald Trump refuse to acknowledge about controversial migrant child detention in a segment Tuesday.

“I just want to remind people, that under president Trump, Democrats don’t like anything he says about immigration, he’s had problems with his own party on immigration,” King explained.

“But this particular issue is not new. I just want to go back, this is an interview, going back to 2014, with the then-Democratic president of the United States,” he added.

“There are some Democrats who come to the table and say Trump created this crisis, this is all about Trump,” King continued. “Alright, maybe it escalated under Trump, the numbers are certainly higher under Trump, but this has been a problem the United States government has had to figure out a solution to, for a very long time.” . . .

“Oh, our message absolutely is don’t send your children unaccompanied on trains,” he said, “or through a bunch of smugglers, that is our direct message to families in Central America, do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they’ll get sent back…”

(Read more from “CNN Host Forced to ADMIT Child Immigrant Detention Happened Under Obama” HERE)

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