The Left Continues to Downplay Serious Migrant Crimes

If you’re wondering where the progressive outrage over crimes committed by migrants is, it’s not there.

Haitian immigrant Cory Alvarez, accused of raping a child at a Rockland immigrant shelter, has been released on $500 bail from ICE agents seeking to detain him for possible deportation, The Herald reports. He is nowhere to be found.

The Herald said the Plymouth court did not accept a detainer plea filed by federal immigration officials and Alvarez was released on $500 bail.

That’s not surprising, considering Massachusetts is also home to Judge Shelley Joseph, who was charged with helping a twice-deported illegal immigrant evade federal immigration officials in 2018. That came at the height of the “sanctuary cities” frenzy, when “No one should live in fear” of being reported to ICE was the mantra of the day.

Six years later, the influx of migrants has reached a crisis point in cities and towns across the country, and disturbing news about what is happening at the border emerges almost weekly.

The Department of Homeland Security has identified more than 400 migrants from Central Asia and other countries who entered the United States in the past three years as “items of concern” because they were brought by a human smuggling network linked to ISIS, three U.S. officials told NBC News.

According to officials, more than 150 people were arrested, but the whereabouts of more than 50 of them remain unknown.

In addition to hard-working families seeking a better life in America, those crossing the border include gang members and people with criminal records. Some are arrested and deported, then try again until they succeed.

Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, was brutally beaten and murdered in Houston, allegedly by two Venezuelan migrants who were released to the U.S. earlier this year. The New York Post reported on Alejandro Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security press conference this week, during which he answered a question about the Nungaray case:

“We screen and verify the people we meet along the way.”

Border agents called bull. “I don’t know what Mayorkas is smoking because it should be legalized,” one Border Patrol source told The Post.

Whatever you do, don’t blame President Biden’s border policies for making it easier for bad actors to commit crimes, even heinous ones like rape and murder. He may have opened the door, but it’s not his fault if violent criminals come in.

“The person responsible for a heinous criminal act is a criminal,” Mayorkas said.

So all is well, at least as far as the Biden administration and its media allies are concerned, who discredit reports of migration crimes as fear-mongering.

No one should live in fear – not migrant women and children in shelters targeted by sexual predators, not families who wonder where accused rapists fled after they were rescued and evaded ICE agents.

The vast majority of those who go to America want to improve their lives and obey our laws, but it is the gangs, criminals and terrorist supporters among them who do the real damage.

This cannot be swept under the rug and Mayorkas should be ashamed of himself.