Insecure border spreads lethal crime to America’s heartland, creating powerful election issue

Gripping, gruesome cases are driving home the reality that every city is a border city during the Biden presidency, experts warn.

A 5-year-old riding in her mother’s car. A Texas sheriff’s deputy on routine patrol. A Florida father who thought he was foster parenting a minor. A Mississippi woman pistol whipped as she talked on cell phone. Three people found burned to death in a car in Alabama.

All have one thing in common: they were victimized since President Joe Biden took office by immigrants who illegally crossed the border.

The rising tide of high-profile, gruesome crimes far from the U.S.-Mexico border is creating a potent political issue as control of Congress is up for grabs this November while leaving a trail of carnage and drug overdoses in America’s heartland.

“Every state is a border state. And that’s the truth,” said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who joined Texas in suing to challenge some of Biden’s immigration policies they argue have left the border open to trafficking and criminals.

 

Missouri has seen a marked increase in the last year in deadly fentanyl trafficking and deaths, including the tragic deaths of seven residents in St. Louis on Monday from drugs laced with fentanyl typically made in China and trafficked across the border by Mexican cartels.         

Fetanyl is more of a silent killer from the border, piling up bodies without blaring headlines. But in recent weeks a constant stream of breaking news reports has awakened the nation to the reality that the permissive border crossings and trafficking to the country’s interior under Biden has had deadly consequences far from the border.

In Alabama’s Chilton County, two illegal immigrants, ages 27 and 28, have been charged in the murders of three adults found shot and burned in an SUV that was set afire last summer.

Just the News exclusively obtained a memo, the content of which was published Tuesday, about Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas offers his support to CBP agents against whom assaults and threats of violence are being lodged.

The memo informs Chris Magnus, the CBP commissioner, that DHS is working with leadership at the Justice Department to ensure that “assaults on CBP and other federal law enforcement personnel are referred for prosecution as appropriate and treated as a priority.”