What exactly does an illegal immigrant have to do to get deported by President Joe Biden?
Because apparently, vandalizing Union Station in Washington, D.C., with swastikas isn’t enough.
Last month, swastikas were drawn near entrances to Union Station, just blocks away from the U.S. Capitol. The usual suspects instantly blamed former President Donald Trump for creating an environment in which white supremacists feel free to intimidate minorities. As usual, that wasn’t it.
Surveillance cameras helped nab the real culprit — Geraldo Pando, a 34-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico with a 35-page criminal history. He had been arrested just weeks earlier by the Capitol Police for vandalizing the agency’s headquarters.
Did U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement come get Pando when they learned that an illegal immigrant with felony convictions had been arrested blocks from the Capitol? Nope. The police were forced to release him yet again since no one from ICE even asked that he be detained. Pando is exactly the kind of illegal immigrant that Biden’s lax immigration policies are designed to protect.
On his first day in office, Biden issued an executive order halting all interior deportations for 100 days. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas followed up with new enforcement guidelines drastically restricting ICE agents’ ability to arrest, detain, and deport even criminal illegal immigrants.
Under the new rules, agents can only arrest illegal immigrants who entered illegally after Nov. 1, 2021, are national security threats, or have committed serious felonies.
“We have fundamentally changed immigration enforcement in the interior,” Mayorkas later said, just days before December’s record-setting apprehension numbers came out. “For the first time ever, our policy explicitly states that a noncitizen’s unlawful presence in the United States will not, by itself, be a basis for the initiation of an enforcement action.”
Biden’s commitment not to deport illegal immigrants, even allowing them to commit criminal offenses, was music to the ears of malefactors such as Pando.
The vandal was first arrested in Aurora, Colorado, in 2016 on charges of felony drug possession, driving without a license, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of marijuana. He pleaded guilty only to the marijuana charge. The other charges were dismissed, and he was sentenced to probation.
In April 2016, he was arrested again in Aurora, this time on felony trespassing with intent to commit a crime and possession of burglary tools, as well as three misdemeanor theft charges. He pleaded guilty only to the misdemeanor charge, and the felonies were all dismissed. In October 2020, Pando was again arrested in Aurora, this time for assaulting a first responder, reporting false information, and harassment. All charges were dropped. The combination of Democrats’ soft-on-crime and Biden’s
It is a privilege, not a right, for foreign nationals to be in the U.S. — for days, for months, or permanently. There are enough native-born criminals in this country already. There is no need to import them.
Unless Biden’s goal is to antagonize voters and make them dislike him even more, there is no reason at all to let Prando and other career criminals stay to abuse people’s hospitality, destroy their property, drink and drive on their roads, fill their jails and prisons, and ultimately make life in the U.S. more dangerous and less pleasant.
Only a new occupant in the White House will be able to change Biden’s nonenforcement immigration policy.
