Trump's Goons Attack Innocent Visitors

...and other urban myths.

Honduran boy, Brazilian teen, ATM thieves.

Back in the day, young reporters quickly learned an important lesson—everybody in jail is innocent.

If you ask them. Based on the testimonies of convicted criminals, our prisons are stuffed with guys who simply accepted a ride from a stranger and were appalled to learn the driver had just robbed a liquor store or shot someone the passenger knew only slightly. The gun wasn’t his, the drugs didn’t belong to him, and darn it, he was just starting to turn his life around when all this bad luck happened.

It seems today’s journalists have not learned this lesson. They believe every story they hear, wholly and without question, especially when it comes to people in this country illegally. To them, everyone who comes here is just looking for a better life and is willing to pick crops or clean toilets for ridiculously low wages. No one has fake documents so they can get on our generous welfare system, no one has plans to commit a single crime (other than entering illegally), and their kids will all be valedictorians of their high school classes if we just give them a chance.

All we have to do is ignore the crime they committed when they crossed the border.

News sites are replete with these stories. There’s “a Massachusetts student arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice.” Or how about the “Southern California boy to be deported following detainment at immigration hearing”?

That “Southern California boy” is actually a citizen of Honduras, brought here by his dad four years ago. It’s not like Daddy wasn’t aware he broke the law—he was ordered to go back home with his son on September first of 2022. Daddy appealed the order, likely helped by a religious-based nonprofit financed by your tax dollars. In August of 2023 a judge dismissed the appeal. The feds and the universe were telling Daddy to go home. Due process had played out.

But Daddy stuck around despite the order, and almost two years later the law caught up with him. TV station KTLA’s website notes, “News of the boy’s detainment had teachers and community members outraged. [PTA President Jasmin] King said the 9-year-old has been a student at Torrance Elementary since the first grade.”

Which brings up another issue. The PTA president’s kids likely aren’t learning at the rate they should because one out of five students in California is learning English as they go to school, slowing down the whole process. Thanks to California’s embrace of illegals, some 40 percent of students in the entire system (more than two million) don’t speak English at home. California has to teach students in more than a hundred languages, which requires specialized teachers and billions of dollars not spent to help young American citizens.

That “Massachusetts student” is a kid from Brazil, also here illegally. Marcelo Gomes da Silva was picked up by ICE agents last Saturday. The Associated Press story says “the agents were looking for the Milford High School teenager’s father, who owns the car Gomes da Silva was driving at the Tim and had parked in a friend’s driveway.” Which makes one wonder why he parked in the “friend’s driveway.” Could it be that he was trying to avoid law officers? Hmmm? The “Massachusetts student” is listed as 18 years old, though he could easily be 25 or so. Liberals are notoriously bad at checking the backgrounds of illegal immigrants.

The stories are written as if the reporters are all citizens of another country and living in fear of being arrested. ICE bad, illegals good. A story in the Palm Beach Post notes, “a week after ICE detained more than 100 people at a construction site in Tallahassee, authorities are declining to say why they targeted the site.” Well, let me think—could it be because there were MORE THAN A HUNDRED illegal aliens there?

A letter to the Winston-Salem Journal asks “what would Jesus think about ICE arrests?” That’s not really a fair question, since half the males picked up by ICE are named after Him. Tocallo, as they say in Spanish.

Lots of people here illegally are doing other illegal things, but big-city news operations try not to talk about them. That’s left up to smaller operations like the TV station in Dubuque, Iowa, which noted that three illegal aliens had stolen 33,600 dollars after prying open an ATM in that city. The report says it was “a crime known as ‘jackpotting’ - when thieves exploit an ATM’s physical and software vulnerabilities to get cash to dispense.” Showing illegal immigrants can easily learn valuable skills if given the chance.

Of course this is all presented as if it’s the fault of Donald Trump, even though it was the Biden administration that let them in and ignored their illegal activities. ICE is simply serving the role of those disaster-repair companies that come in and clean up after something awful happens. They didn’t start the fire, as Billy Joel might say. If some child is being sent back, it’s only because their parents brought them here, knowing full well that federal law as against it. It’s not our job to raise children brought here by bad parents. If we did, the liberal media would complain that we broke up the family.

And that’s really sad, because we know every one of those kids could be a valedictorian.