Crime and Rhetoric: Open Borders Advocates are More Offended by the Latter
As the border crisis continues to rage on, so do the crimes committed by illegal aliens. One such recent case, which shook the nation, was the death of nursing student Laken Riley in Athens, Georgia. The alleged suspect is a Venezuelan illegal alien and member of the vicious gang Tren de Aragua who was released into the country through the administration’s massive abuse of immigration parole. In Michigan, another young woman, Ruby Garcia, was murdered and dumped on the side of a highway on March 22 by an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported under the previous administration but who had returned to America illegally. These high-profile cases continue to underline the need for a serious debate about the relationship between open borders and violent crime.
In spite of this, some pro-mass-migration voices prefer to attack not the criminals who commit these acts, but instead, anyone suggesting that America has an illegal alien crime problem. On April 2, former president and current GOP frontrunner, Donald Trump, spoke in Grand Rapids, Michigan, mentioning and condemning the murders of Ruby Garcia and Laken Riley by illegal alien criminals, whom he called “animals.” In response, a Michigan Senate candidate sent a campaign email asserting that mentioning the victims of illegal alien crime amounts to “spreading lies and advancing dangerous narratives.” A Biden-Harris reelection campaign account on X also went on the attack, mainly by omitting vital context and leaving Americans to believe that Trump referred to all immigrants as “animals.”
For so many within the pro-mass-migration movement, illegal alien criminals killing Americans is much less of a problem than the real “sins” of pointing out the problem or using intemperate language to do so. While the use of such language is highly unfortunate, and not necessarily the most appropriate way to discuss this emotional issue, it is clearly less serious than murder. By deflecting from the issue of two American women being murdered by illegal aliens to the use of language, open borders voices do a disservice to the victims of such crimes. Rather than seriously debate the issue, they would rather seize on the use of a word and claim that this is the real issue.
Recent events have shown that deflection, outrage, and mischaracterization have become the last refuge of the apologists for mass illegal migration at any price. They know they are on the side of a losing issue given that an overwhelming majority of Americans (and 41 percent of Democrats) now see illegal immigration as a very serious problem. Rather than engaging in rhetorical or semantic games, elected representatives of both parties owe it to their constituents to be honest about the problems faced by our country and to make bona fide attempts to fix them, be it in Michigan, Georgia, or anywhere else. Acknowledging the nexus between mass illegal migration and crime – instead of trying to distract from it or attack those wishing to debate it – is an important step in that direction.