Media Runs Cover for Violent Illegal Alien Criminals

With Joe Biden’s border crisis continuing to funnel drugs and violent crime into American communities, the corporate media is now running cover for criminal illegal aliens and dismissing concerns about public safety as nothing more than racist right-wing fearmongering.

The tragic killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, by a twice-deported illegal alien in February brought home for many Americans the tragic human cost of Democrat open borders policies. The illegal alien charged with Riley’s murder, Jose Ibarra, was paroled by the Biden administration after entering the country illegally in 2022 and was arrested twice previously and then released by local law enforcement who did not contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – once in New York for endangerment of a child, and once in Athens, Georgia, for shoplifting.

But Riley and her family are hardly the only Americans to suffer the consequences of Biden enabling a flood of completely unknown persons to enter the country illegally.

Just last week, Brandon Ortiz-Vite, an illegal alien from Mexico, murdered 25-year-old Ruby Garcia in Michigan. Ortiz-Vite had previously been deported in 2020, but crossed the border again sometime during Biden’s presidency.

In early March, Raul Santana, another illegal alien from Mexico with a lengthy rap sheet, was drunk and high on drugs when he slammed his SUV into Washington State Trooper Christopher Gadd, instantly killing the 27-year-old father.

Back in 2022, Jean Macean, an illegal alien from Haiti with multiple prior arrests, brutally murdered Brenda and Terry Aultman, a Florida couple on a bike ride near Daytona Beach.

In total, Customs and Border Patrol reported just 11 convictions for homicide or manslaughter involving an illegal alien while Donald Trump was in office. Since Biden took office, that number has shot up to 169. In other words, Biden has overseen a 1,536 percent increase in illegal immigrant killings.

And of course, that’s not even to mention the increase in other crimes perpetrated by illegal aliens. Reports are now emerging of illegal alien gangs targeting homes for robbery, in some cases using sophisticated technology to dismantle alarms and even drones to scout potential targets. CBP has also seen an increase in child sex offenders crossing the border, and drug trafficking has soared.

Despite this shocking increase in the number of Americans being victimized by illegal aliens who should never have been in the country to begin with, the corporate media has instead decided to push the narrative that concerns about migrant crime are overblown.

In early March, for instance, taxpayer-funded NPR ran the headline, “Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find.” The piece claimed that the idea that “immigration brings on a crime wave” is a “false narrative” and that “there is no correlation between undocumented people and a rise in crime.”

CNN, meanwhile, published a 5,000-word article on February 27 containing interviews with “migrant crimes experts” (read: liberal criminology professors at woke universities) which argued that there is “a gap between public perception and reality” when it comes to migrant crime.

The Washington Post did their part for the liberal cause as well, accusing Donald Trump of “using anecdotal evidence to make an emotional case against undocumented immigrants” after the former president slammed Biden over Riley’s death. The article also claimed that “there is little evidence that immigrants — or even undocumented immigrants — cause more crime.”

The New York Times, USA Today, and NBC News all ran similar headlines pointing to “several studies” that purport to show that illegal aliens commit crimes at lower rates than American citizens.

Of course, all of those “studies” and the media outlets promoting them entirely miss the point. Even if illegal aliens do commit crimes at lower rates than Americans (and that is a dubious claim in its own right, as some conservative researchers have documented) every single one of those crimes is preventable. The only acceptable number of Americans murdered by illegal aliens each year should be zero, because the border should be secured.

But instead of putting pressure on the Biden administration and local Democrat leaders for letting killers like Jose Ibarra blaze a trail of death and destruction, corporate media “journalists” are spending their time lecturing the American people about why they’re racist if they believe migrant crime is a problem.

It is also worth noting that the left never applies this same logic to anything else.

For instance, despite the fact that data shows black men are no more likely to be killed by police officers than white men, the left asserted that the death of George Floyd in 2020 was enough to demand every police department be defunded. By that line of reasoning, Riley’s killing alone should be enough cause to close the border entirely.

But as Roland Fryer, a black economics professor at Harvard who found “no racial differences” in police shooting data going back decades, recently learned, questioning the integrity of the left’s narrative is a surefire way to get yourself bullied and canceled.

It is no coincidence that all of the stories insisting the migrant crime wave is an illusion appeared just a few days after Riley’s killing sparked national outrage over Biden’s border policies. The corporate media recognized that such a tragic incident would draw attention to the disastrous consequences of Democrats’ open borders agenda, and so they dutifully jumped into action to assure the public everything is fine.

Even Biden himself seems convinced by the charade. The only genuine regret the president has expressed over Riley’s death is that he slipped up and referred to her killer as “illegal” – a comment he made in an interview on cable news.

Meanwhile, 170 House Democrats voted against a bill, the Laken Riley Act, that would require ICE to arrest illegal aliens who commit theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting offenses and would mandate that these criminals are detained until they are removed from the country. Senate Democrats blocked a similar bill in the upper chamber.

The message that Biden, congressional Democrats, and the media are sending is clear: to the left, the suffering of the American people at the hands of illegal aliens and the deaths of Laken Riley, Ruby Garcia, Christopher Gadd, Brenda and Terry Aultman, and so many others are simply the price we must pay to achieve the liberal utopia of a world without borders.

Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on X @ShaneHarris513.