The thing about cancer is it spreads, slowly at first, but then it metastasizes. If it is not treated before it metastasizes, it is very often fatal.
A new issue brief published by the Heritage Foundation in Washington describes the cancer that is metastasizing in America as a result of the open-border policies of the Biden-Harris regime. Specifically, the deliberate importation of hundreds of thousands of convicted criminals — that’s not a typo — hidden in plain sight among the millions of unvetted “migrants” the Biden-Harris regime has allowed to enter the country since 2021.
The video player is currently playing an ad. You can skip the ad in 5 sec with a mouse or keyboardSome of these are the worst of the worst, like members of the Venezuela-based gang, Tren de Aragua. They are similar to MS-13, the Salvadoran gang that established itself in Southern California back in the ’80s and that has since spread across the country. They are different in that while both gangs are involved in myriad illegal activities, including transnational narcotics and human trafficking, the members of MS-13 shied away from assassinating law enforcement. Tren de Aragua gangsters are notorious for deliberately targeting law enforcement — both in Venezuela and now the United States.
For example, two New York City cops were savagely beaten in Times Square earlier this year allegedly by a gang of street thugs, including Venezuelan “migrant” Yohenry Brito. Border agents caught Brito on May 9, 2023 but released him days after on the orders of the Biden-Harris regime’s Homeland Security department.
Brito quickly made bail — and allegedly resumed his criminal activity almost as soon as he was back on the streets.
Even more alarming and brazen is the takeover of an entire apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado.
Apologists for the Biden-Harris regime such as Martha Raddatz of ABC News tried to make light of this unprecedented assault on America during an October interview with Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance. She said the stories about what is happening in American cities such as Aurora, Colorado, are “limited to a handful of apartment complexes.” An appalled J.D. Vance replied: “Do you hear yourself”?
Of course, she doesn’t.
Elite Leftists like Raddatz think they’re safe inside their gated compounds and “nice” neighborhoods from the criminality brought into other American neighborhoods by the open-border policies of the Biden-Harris regime.
And that may be so, for now.
But only in the “for now” sense that a person diagnosed with cancer is still alive … for now.
The Heritage Foundation’s issue brief notes that, “During the past few years, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have been released or paroled into the United States, allowed to stay in Temporary Protected Status, or just slipped in without being encountered by authorities.”
Or, as in the case of Yohenry Brito, caught and released.
It is unknown whether the Tren De Aragua gangsters — who allegedly stormed the apartment complex in Aurora armed to the teeth with the kinds of weapons the Biden-Harris regime wants to make a criminal offense for American citizens to posses — were caught and released or just slipped across the border, under the radar.
This radar has been deliberately turned off for the past almost-four years running.
The Heritage researchers who wrote the issue brief — Simon Hankinson and Erin Schniederjan — note the impossibility of knowing exactly how many criminals, including Tren de Aragua gangsters, have entered the country since the border was effectively thrown wide-open by the Biden-Harris regime.
While many of the millions who’ve come across the border unvetted aren’t violent criminals, they are still criminals. They are in America illegally. An affront to the millions who obeyed the law and came here legally.
And “blend(ed) among” all the illegal migrants who’ve entered the country “are hundreds of members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), which, like all migrant gangs, begins by preying on its own countrymen,” notes the Heritage brief. This is similar to how MS-13 has been preying upon latino communities in California and elsewhere in America since it first got a foothold in America back in the early ’80s.
“Although MS-13 remains at the top of the list of the 50-plus different gangs from across the globe attempting to illegally enter our borders,” said former acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan, the Biden Harris regime has “intentionally provided the pathway for what could become MS-13 2.0.”
“This is a gang whose propensity for violence and ruthlessness is well documented. TdA is expanding its criminal operations like a slow growing cancer across our nation and unleashing a preventable wave of crime that will be with us for decades,” Morgan said.
The rising crime wave is here — one that washed onto our shores from Venezuela. Violent deaths are down by 25 percent over the same time-period that Venezuela has exported its violent criminals to the United States. This echoes much of what happened back when Jimmy Carter — another Democrat — stood by while Cuba’s communist dictator emptied his prisons and sent thousands of violent criminals to Florida for Americans to live with.
There is still time to treat this cancer, and Donald Trump has promised to be the surgeon, if elected. He has said he will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to take apart “every illegal migrant criminal network operating on American soil.”
Operation Aurora, it’s called.
And it’s just what the doctor ordered to treat the cancer that the Biden-Harris regime has allowed to metastasize for the past going-on-four years.
Americans will have a chance to vote to stop the spread in a little less than a month from now.
