By Gerald Holland
With due apologizes to Frogman Henry: ” I’m a lonely Venezuela gang boy. Ain’t got a home. Just-a-lookin’ for a home.” This is the gist of Alyssa Lukpat’s Nov. 21 article, and its “Migrant Convicted” headline. Laken Riley was slaughtered by a member of a violent Venezuelan gang. He was in the United States illegally. Ms.Lukpat sugar-coats the murdering rapist’s criminality with polite descriptions of him as “migrant,” and “entering without authorization.” Thereby, she demeans legal migrants and uplifts the invaders. She falsely accuses conservatives of using the Laken Riley horror to demand a crackdown on immigration. Her assertion is half-truth at best. Republicans and conservatives overwhelmingly support LEGAL IMMIGRATION.
No matter what open-borders leftists, Democrats and their joined-at-the-hip media brothers and sisters say, we have reasonable immigration laws. Those laws are being purposely ignored to facilitate far-left political gain. Most of those supporting the current criminal invasion are more than willing to have its chaos, including murders, rapes, child sex-trafficking and bankrupting social-spending. They know that within ten or twenty years, at most, there will be enough illegal migrants counted in the U.S.census to accomplish their goal. Their goal being to get a census count that includes all illegal residents and use that tally to create congressional seats and electoral college positions for Democrats. Thereafter no Republican or conservative will ever again win a national election, and the far-left will permanently control the White House, the Congress and the federal judiciary.
In the case of the butcher of Laken Riley in Athens, Georgia, he had several criminal encounters with the law. He could have been jailed and deported. Instead, he was transported by ground and air around half of the U.S., fed, housed and criminally-defended by American taxpayers. He, like nearly all the illegal immigrants, was treated as if he was an honored guest. This is not an accident. It is the deliberate policy of the Democrat party that has controlled immigration practices for twelve of the last sixteen years.
Ms. Lukpat again insults legal migrants, putting them into the same category as illegal immigrants by regurgitating the standard fiction of open-borders rubbish that says, “Immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes.” If that is so, it applies only to legal immigrants.
Why do Wall Street Journal readers have to go to WSJ editorial pages to fact-check stories printed on their “news” pages?