From the moment President Donald Trump took office, Democrats have relentlessly attacked his immigration policies with cries of racism and cruelty. But despite their nonstop outrage, poll after poll shows the American public isn’t buying it.
This isn’t some abstract debate about immigration theory; it’s a crisis unfolding in real time. Under Joe Biden’s open-border policies, violent criminals, including murderers, rapists, and child predators, had permission to flood into our communities. The consequences are no longer hypothetical; they’re hitting close to home. And Americans have had enough.
The latest numbers out of Houston say it all.
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 214 criminal illegal aliens charged or convicted of sex offenses involving minors over the past six months, which surpassed the total number of similar arrests the Houston Field Office made during the entire 2024 fiscal year.
The arrests, which ICE’s Houston Field Office carried out, reflect a disturbing surge in cases involving illegal aliens with histories of child exploitation or abuse. In FY 2024, the office reported 211 such arrests—three fewer than have already been made in just the first half of this fiscal year.
“Thanks to ICE Houston, there are 214 less pedophiles on our streets. These are the type of perverted predators ICE is targeting and removing from our country,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “President Trump and Secretary Noem will not allow these sickos to prey on children in the U.S. Our message to these depraved criminals is clear: LEAVE NOW. If you don’t, we will hunt you down and deport you.”
Too many Democrats have spent years praising themselves for “compassionate” policies that let the worst offenders slip through the cracks. When law enforcement finally steps in and brings these predators to justice, families breathe a sigh of relief, and Americans get a look at what’s really at stake. The myth that immigration enforcement is a solution in search of a problem falls apart when parents see firsthand what’s been allowed to fester.
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Meanwhile, the same media outlets that compared ICE to secret police, and the same activists who called enforcement racist or fascist, now have no answers. Their narratives fall apart in the face of overwhelming reality. Communities remember the horrors that public officials who leave law enforcement hamstrung have caused. Real people, not ideologues, pay the price.
That's why a whopping 62% of Americans support Trump's immigration policies.
Every time ICE announces another wave of arrests involving sex offenders, it validates concerns long dismissed as hysteria by Democrats and the media. For parents and families in neighborhoods affected by these criminals, the excuses have worn thin.
Americans are fed up with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who talk tough on border security while quietly preserving loopholes. The Trump administration disrupted that pattern with a focus on removing dangerous criminals from our streets. The latest arrest numbers out of Houston should be a warning to anyone more interested in virtue signaling than protecting the public.
Every parent wants to know that their kids are safe from predators. And every law-abiding citizen understands that mass arrests like these aren’t coincidences; they’re proof that the system can work when enforced. That’s why Trump’s tougher stance on immigration continues to resonate.
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