Immigration…Again!
By BARBARA SIMPSON
With all the headlines in the news about the horrors of the war in Ukraine, it’s easy to lose sight of what is happening in this country. It has its own horror for the people involved.
The latest example I saw is a news story out of Sacramento, Calif. — the state capital. It was headlined in the radio coverage I first heard of it, as a mass killing at a church. The details initially given were that a gunman killed three children as well as the person who was their chaperone. The gunman then killed himself.
Clearly, it was a tragedy but it became more so, when it was revealed that the children killed were the daughters of the gunman, aged 9, 10, and 13. The chaperone was supervising them for what was to have been a court-ordered visitation with their father.
A restraining order had been issued against the shooter after the mother of the children claimed he had threatened to kill her and frightened the girls.
The court order also prohibited him from having a firearm. Despite that, he had an unregistered, homemade, semiautomatic weapon — a so-called ‘Ghost gun’ — and an illegal 30-round ammunition magazine from which 17 bullets had been fired.
Clearly he was ready for action.
Sheriff’s deputies investigating the killings say they do not know how or when he got the firearm, but sheriff spokesman Sgt. Rodney Grassmann said:
“The person who knows these answers is dead. I think I can safely say, he obtained it illegally.”
So, who was this man? Authorities say he was 39-year-old David Mora.
News reports said he was living at the church following an April 2021 release from an involuntary mental health hold which had led to the restraining order.
While there is no direct information that would reveal a direct motive for the killings but he did have a recent brush with the law which led him to being out on bail. Police say he had been arrested five days earlier on charges of resisting arrest, battery on a police officer, and driving under the influence.
Various information is available about him but for me, bottom line, is that he was an illegal alien in this country. We can review his activities that put him in contact with police authorities — but as far as I am concerned, none of them take precedence over his illegality in the country.
While most people are not aware of it, this country is enduring an ongoing assault by illegals from more than a hundred countries around the world, crossing our Southern border on a regular basis. Not only are these people from countries of all types of governments, there are criminals — drug and human traffickers, gang members, and convicts.
We don’t know who they are or where they go when they get here.
In fact, the Biden administration is transporting busloads and planeloads of them to the interior of our country and releasing them on the streets in the middle of the night without any notice to local governments.
You don’t see that headlining your local news. Of course not.
Washington doesn’t want it known although taxpayers are paying for the flights and bus trips.
Another problem with immigration is that the administration has reduced efforts to have ICE deport illegals. In fact, in the Mora case, ICE had asked to be notified when he was released from police custody, but nothing was done to deport him.
The Biden administration supposedly puts priority on deporting people deemed to be threats to our people or country — but it rarely happens, and it also depends on what is meant by a “threat” to our country.
The difference with the Trump administration policy is that Trump wanted any illegal alien deported.
Another aspect of illegal immigration is the movement of illegal drugs that those people transport across our border. We are told that the incredible level of illegal drugs crossing the border, especially Fentanyl, is responsible for as many as 100,000 overdose deaths in this country every year!
We should pay attention to that. Too often it is ignored because people are concerned that they would be accused of racism. In fact, racism has nothing to do with it. It is a simple acknowledgment of fact.
The importation of illegal drugs enriches the cartels, but it also contributes to the enormous problem of homelessness in this country. This is an epidemic of despair here for which we seem to have no solution. It affects cities and small towns. These are people for whom there is seemingly neither hope nor future.
They live on the streets, using drugs in public and often commit crimes. They have nothing that would ensure them of a normal life or a future.
While this is going on, the federal government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on public housing for these people for them to have housing as well as “safe smoking kits.”
In other words, we are subsidizing their habits and their futures with no real information on who they are or where they came from.
I live in Northern California, and every day, there are stories, especially from San Francisco, about more deaths on the streets of the non-citizen “homeless” as well as American citizens.
Despite the reporting of these tragedies, there is no solution to the problem. Just “cleaning” the streets isn’t sufficient. What we need to do is eliminate the source of the problem and put an end to it.
The cartels make a powerful profit from the drugs they move into the United States and we have allowed it to spread from the cities to the towns. It is a devastating problem that at this point has no solution in sight.
The David Mora killings are just one example of what can happen when there is an out-of-control movement of drugs into a country. Is he “just” guilty of illegal immigration or is it compounded by his use of drugs and easy access to illegal weapons.
At this point, we don’t know and I’m not confident anyone in charge of things really cares.