Leaping before they looked Bad causes attract bad people, and the Democrats certainly chose a bad cause!

It has to be asked: did President Trump and his staff just plain set up the Democrats for failure?

Following the arrest and deportation of the “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the left waxed wroth and have trumped it up that his deportation was unjustified, that Mr Abrego Garcia was as pure as the wind driven snow. Several Democratic lawmakers even traveled to El Salvador, to try to rescue the poor, abused soul and return him to the United States.

Oops!

Dem immigration talking points fizzle as dark picture of Abrego Garcia emerges

‘The fact that they went to the mat for this guy just shows exactly who they are,’ DHS Secretary Noem said of Democrats defending Abrego Garcia

By Emma Colton, Fox News + Sunday, May 4, 2025 | 1:05 PM EDT

Democrats rallying around illegal immigrant KIlmar Abrego Garcia are facing a narrative reckoning as allegations of violent and criminal behavior mount against the man they made a poster child in the fight against President Trump’s mass deportations.

In recent weeks, evidence has emerged that Abrego Garcia beat his wife and was caught trafficking migrants during his time living illegally in Maryland. He has since been deported to El Salvador, where several Democrats, including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, have rushed to meet with him and decry what they say was a lack of due process extended to him.

“The fact that they went to the mat for this guy just shows exactly who they are,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday. “That they are people who don’t put America first. They don’t care about our citizens and protecting our communities. So, I’m glad that the onion’s been peeled back and that their true motivations have been revealed, and this is just one of the cases that we’re getting off the streets.”

Van Hollen has led the surge of Democrats traveling to El Salvador since April, after Abrego Garcia was deported to the country in March and sent to its notoriously high-security prison equipped to handle violent gang members, known as CECOT. The Trump administration has repeatedly cited court and police documents showing that the El Salvadoran man was not only in the U.S. illegally, but also connected to the MS-13 gang and that his wife had sounded the alarm to police about his violence.

That Mr Abrego Garcia was in the United States illegally was sufficient to kick him out!

But our good friends on the left have a rather consistent history of championing the wrong people. Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, turned out to be exactly the kind of thug that was said about him, a physically large teen who had roughed up a convenience store owner in a robbery just a few minutes before he was killed, and stupid enough to attack the police officer who was trying to question him. George Floyd turned out to be a fentanyl-and-methamphetamine-addled, previously convicted felon. Breonna Taylor was connected to a notorious drug dealer. Trayvon Martin physically attacked and assaulted George Zimmerman.

Democrats and the media had characterized Abrego Garcia as a “family man” and a “Maryland man” who was wrongly deported back in March and the following weeks.

Van Hollen met last month with Abrego Garcia and advocated for his release, declaring that the deportation risks “the constitutional rights of everyone who resides in the United States of America.” Van Hollen’s trip sparked other left-wing lawmakers to also make the trip south, including Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California last month. At one point, Dexter pledged to remain in El Salvador until Abrego Garcia was brought back to the U.S.

“At one point.” šŸ™‚ Mrs Dexter did return to the United States, but without Mr Abrego Garcia in tow.

The article notes that the Democrats have mostly stopped yapping about the “Maryland man,” because the evidence has been overwhelmingly against him being anything other than a scumbag. Vice President J D Vance asked why “congressional Democrats care more about this man than the victims of illegal immigrant crimes,” and it’s a question they do not want asked. A reasonable case could be made that the procedures used to kick him out of the country could have been better, but he did have a valid deportation order, but this is not the kind of guy on whom the Dems would want to build their propaganda.

It has to be asked: did President Trump and his staff guess that the left would fall into a trap over Mr Abrego Garcia, and set it? Information about the “Maryland man” was released slowly enough that it seems like the left were given enough rope to hang themselves! That would be a clever trick, and I’d like to think that is exactly what happened, but, clever trap or not, the Democrats stepped right into it.

Bad causes attract bad people, and the Democrats certainly chose a bad cause!

Will Bunch says the quiet part out loud The left want to eliminate all immigration law enforcement

Some of our good friends on the left in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia simply want to eliminate law enforcement entirely. The city’s George Soros-sponsored, police-hating and criminal-loving District Attorney, Larry Krasner, has been twice elected, and I will be completely unsurprised if The Philadelphia Inquirer in general, and far-left columnist Will Bunch individually endorse Mr Krasner for re-nomination.

“Working Families Party” criminal justice organizer — whatever that title means! — Sergio Hyland, who had previously served 22 years for murder before being paroled in February of 2022, was just arrested for the early morning murder of Jasimane Ransom on July 11, 2024. When officers arrested Mr Hyland at his East Germantown home, they recovered three rifles, two handguns, and multiple rounds of ammunition inside. As a previously convicted felon, Mr Hyland was legally prohibited from possessing firearms. He was not a good guy.

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Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right President Trump tries to break the 'anchor baby' chain.

According to Wikipedia, the term “anchor baby” is defined as:

Anchor babyĀ is a term (regarded by some as aĀ pejorative[1][2]) used to refer to a child born to non-citizen parents in a country that hasĀ birthright citizenshipĀ which will therefore help the parents and other family members gain legal residency[3]Ā or avoid deportation. In the U.S., the term is generally used as a derogatory reference to the supposed role of the child, who automatically qualifies as anĀ American citizenĀ underĀ jus soliĀ and the rights guaranteed in theĀ Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[4][5][6]Ā The term is also often used in the context of the debate overĀ illegal immigration to the United States.[7]Ā A similar term, “passport baby”, has been used in Canada for children born through so-called “maternity” or “birth tourism“.[8][9]

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Good news out of Philadelphia! A Philly cop turned an illegal immigrant over to ICE despite city's 'sanctuary city' status

Deportation machines abound at local convenience stores! šŸ™‚

Philadelphia is like a lot of major cities, declaring itself to be a ‘sanctuary’ city for all immigrants, by which they meant illegal immigrants. The city government was not going to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Well, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported some good news on that front.

Charges against a man were dismissed. Then a Philly police officer escorted him into ICE custody.

A judge had dismissed charges against the Dominican National when, according to his lawyer, court and sheriff staff said he was wanted by ICE officers. A Philly police officer then stepped in.

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Requiescat in Pace, Pope Francis

My Twitter — I refuse to call it š• — feed was full of chortling posts claiming that the Vatican denied Vice President J D Vance a meeting with Pope Francis, sending the Vatican’s second-ranking official instead, in what the left loudly proclaimed was a deliberate snub to Mr Vance.

That’s not quite what it was.

The story behind JD Vance’s unlikely visit with Pope Francis

Vance and Francis had publicly disagreed in recent months on immigration policies and other aspects of church teaching.

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Another Philly illegal immigration sob story

There were so many interesting headlines in today’s news that it has been difficult for me to choose just one on which to write.

But, as always, there is the newspaper that I frequently refer to as The Philadelphia Enquirer, which is not actually spelled that way. RedState writer Mike Miller called it the Enquirer, probably by mistake, so I didn’t originate it, but, reminiscent of the National Enquirer as it is, I think it very apt. And this morning, it was opinion columnist Jenice Armstrong, one of the Usual Suspects:

Her husband was outside, yelling for her when ICE grabbed him. She hasn’t seen him in person since.

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This is what winning looks like President Trump was right all along: we didn't have to accept some illegal immigration to reduce illegal immigration in total; we could fight illegal immigration without compromise.

American military on border gate between California and Mexico at San Ysidro. Photo by Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times. Click to enlarge.

One of President Trump’s main campaign promises was to close the border to illegal immigration. It’s easier to intercept and interrupt illegal border crossing than it is to round up illegal immigrants already in the United States, and that policy is absolutely working. Not only are the Border Patrol undertaking stronger efforts to stop the illegals from crossing, but the President’s policies have discouraged many more from even trying.

The Los Angeles Times is one of America’s (formerly) great newspapers, and of an extremely liberal editorial slant. But even that newspaper has to tell the truth sometimes:

California-Mexico border, once overwhelmed, now nearly empty

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That thing that never happens has happened again

The murder of Laken Riley by JosĆ© Antonio Ibarra, an illegal immigrant released into the US by Customs and Border Patrol during the Biden Administration because the surge in apprehended border crossers had worsened to a point where they did not have enough space at a detention facility to hold him, was a rare, rare event, certainly nothing over which to criticize our 46th President’s compassionate immigration policies. Such criticism was inflamed by the evil reich-wing former President Donald Trump, for political gain, don’t you know.

Detectives arrest a subject who sexually assaulted children.

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Illegals apprehended in Kentucky

Our good friends on the left would have people believe that the poor, oppressed ‘undocumented’ residents in our country are all just sweetness-and-light, good, people working hard to make a living. Well, when the liberally-oriented Lexington Herald-leader starts pointing out that those apprehended in the Bluegrass State might not be among our better angels, perhaps some of us might doubt the meme the left are presenting.

Kentucky isn’t the largest state in the union, but it’s good to see that we’re not being ignored in Operation Take Back America.

16 people federally indicted on criminal immigration charges in Kentucky

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