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In late April, near my home in Tampa, a woman from Guatemala and her four-year-old daughter were brutally killed with a knife and a shovel by the womans live-in boyfriend. The alleged killer, described in the press as a Florida man, apparently killed his girlfriend because she returned home late from an outing with friends.

You would think that CNN, NPR, the New York Times, and other prominent media outlets might cover this story. You would also assume that progressive legislators and groups that purport to care about women, immigrants, and domestic violence would highlight the case, condemn the horrific attack, and demand action to protect women. Those are reasonable assumptions, but they dont apply here.

Instead, this story has been mostly cabined to right-leaning media. The reason? The accused killer, Angel Gabriel Cuz Choc, came to the United States illegally in September 2023 from Guatemala, where he was wanted for murdering two other people, according to U.S. Border Patrol.

Those facts explain why only four national news outlets covered the story:Newsweek,People, Huffington Post, andCBS News. None admitted that Cuz Choc had entered the countryillegally, or followed up when news broke that he was wanted for two other murders in Guatemala. In its opening sentence, HuffPo ridiculously referred to Cuz Choc as a Florida man.

Left-wing and mainstream outlets ignore, downplay, or outright lie about these types of stories to preserve the narrative that illegal immigrants are all innocent strivers, fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries. But what about those, apparently like Cuz Choc, who flee because they committed violence in their home countries and plan to commit more crimes here?

Occasionally, crime stories involving illegal immigrants become too big for the media to ignore, like the case of Laken Riley, a University of Georgia student kidnapped and murdered in February, allegedly by another recently arrived illegal immigrant with a criminal record. When they are forced to cover such incidents, the corporate media often cite misleading academic studies asserting that migrants commit fewer crimes than Americans. These studies are often bogus; some include legal migrants (such as IT professionals from India), instead of focusing on illegals, and all use unreliable data, since police in most states dont track offenders immigration status.

The press rarely asks the president and other high-ranking officials responsible for our effectively open border to defend the policies that produced these preventable crimes. Joe Biden was forced to address the Riley murder only because Marjorie Taylor Greene heckled him during his State of the Union address. Biden got her first name wrong, calling her Lincoln, and infuriated his base by referring to her suspected killer, accurately, as an illegal. He quickly pivoted to say, But how many of thousands of people are being killed by legals? as if that would comfort Rileys family.

Unlike Laken Riley, Cuz Chocs alleged victims, Amalia Coc Choc De Pec, 36, and her four-year-old daughter, Estrella, wont become household names. Progressives, who otherwise often note the unequal treatment afforded white and nonwhite victims, havent had much to say about this disparity. Indeed, left-wing elites and their media allies have proved repeatedly that they dont care about minorities killed by illegal immigrants. The press were uninterested in the case of Ariana Funes-Diaz, a 14-year-old girl who, in 2019, was stripped, beaten with a baseball bat, and stabbed to death with a machete by a pair of teenage MS-13 gang members with criminal records. Neither were they interested in the five Latino victims, three female, killed in 2023 by Francisco Oropesa, an illegal immigrant with five previous deportations.

Cuz Choc says he came to the U.S. illegally, with the help of a coyote. We dont know if he was a got away (an alien who snuck in unlawfully and undetected), or if he was paroled into the country. Given the presss lack of interest in the case, we may never find out.

Ive traveled to 80 countries and have met many more good people than bad ones in the developing world. But migrant advocates are foolish to think that we can import without consequence large numbers of lawbreaking migrants from places that dont respect womens rights.

This attitude was recently displayed by a nave but entertaining English YouTuber named Benjamin Rich, whose channel, Bald and Bankrupt, has more than 4 million subscribers. A few months ago, Rich produced a series of viral videos in which he traveled north from Mexico to our border with migrants hoping to sneak into the country, repeatedly emphasizing along the way that they were swell people whom we should be happy to welcome. Like other good progressives, he never mentioned the possibility that mixed in with the nice people were pedophiles, killers, rapists, and ordinary men who hold their home countrys retrograde beliefs about women.

If we want to protect women like Laken Riley and Amalia Coc Choc De Pec, we should restrict male immigration from countries that compel female subservience, or practice female circumcisions, child-bride arranged marriages, or polygamy. This wont happen, of course, because the media and left-wing activist shops that claim to care about immigrants and women really care about advancing progressive policy agendas. To those groups, women like Amalia Choc de Pec and her daughter may as well be collateral damagevictims whose killers were members of a preferred tribe.

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As Donald Trump touts increasingly aggressive plans to crack down on illegal immigration, economists are wary that his proposals would deal a massive blow to the U.S. job market, which has stayed strong thanks in part to foreign-born workers.

Trump has made strict immigration restrictions including mass deportations, detention camps and an expanded border wall core to his promise of a stronger U.S. economy, arguing that immigrant workers reduce wages for everyone and take jobs from native-born Americans. Those proposals lack specificity and detail, so its difficult to know exactly how he would carry out his plans.

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OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond vowed to defend a law making illegal immigration a state-level crime after the U.S. Department of Justice threatened to sue Oklahoma if the law is enforced.

In late April, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 4156 into law, making illegal immigration a state level crime.

The bill will go into effect July 1.

On May 15, the Department of Justice sent a letter addressed to Stitt and Drummond, saying the United States will sue unless Oklahoma agrees to not enforce the law.

In the letter, the Department of Justice claimed the bill intrudes into a field that the federal government has authority over, citing the Arizona V. U.S. court case.

In recognizing that well-settled power, the Supreme Court has explained that immigration policy can affect trade, investment, tourism, and diplomatic relations for the entire Nation, as well as the perceptions and expectations of [noncitizens] in this country who seek the full protection of its laws. Id. at 395. It is fundamental that foreign countries concerned about the status, safety, and security of their nationals in the United States must be able to confer and communicate on this subject with one national sovereign, not the 50 separate States. Id, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton wrote in the letter.

To that end, Congress has established a comprehensive scheme governing noncitizens entry and reentry into the United States, including penalties for unlawful entry and reentry, see 8 U.S.C. 1325, 1326. HB 4156, however, seeks to create a separate state immigration scheme by imposing state criminal penalties for violating the federal prohibitions on unlawful entry and reentry. HB 4156 therefore intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government and is preempted, Boynton continued.

The Department of Justice also claimed the bill interferes with parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

For example, it interferes with the federal governments ability to enforce the entry and reentry provisions of the INA, and it effectively seeks to regulate noncitizens unlawful presence in the United States. HB 4156 likewise improperly regulates the international movement of persons in violation of the Foreign Commerce Clause and undermines the United States foreign relations, Boynton said.

However, Drummond said because the federal government is failing to handle illegal immigration, Oklahoma had no choice but the pursue the law.

Acquiescence to this intolerable situation is not in my states DNA; neither is surrender, Drummond wrote. As such, HB 4156 represents a meaningful, common-sense, and legally permissible step toward addressing and correcting that which the Biden Administration has willfully refused to enforce the last 3.5 years.

Drummond also said the Department of Justices argument is dubious at best and the federal governments broad authority overall immigration does not mean they have exclusive power on the subject.

In any event, HB 4156 does not create a separate immigration system for Oklahoma. This is not even close. Rather, Oklahoma is exercising its concurrent and complementary power as a sovereign state to address an ongoing public crisis within its borders through appropriate legislation. Put more bluntly, Oklahoma is cleaning up the Biden Administration's mess through entirely legal means in its own backyardand will resolutely continue to do so by supplementing federal prohibitions with robust state penalties. In short, Oklahoma has moved to protect its sovereigntynot in contradiction of federal law, but in complete compliance with it. The laws under challenge here do not extend or revise federal immigration restrictions, but merely enforce those restrictions more effectively. Arizona, 567 U.S. at 437 (Scalia, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), Drummond wrote.

Drummond also emphasized that racial profiling is not a component of enforcing HB 4156.

I emphasize that racial profiling of any sort is not only unacceptable under any circumstances, but also illegal in Oklahoma. To detain someone who looks, sounds, or acts foreign is itself un-American and will never be tolerated by this office, Drummond wrote.

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Immigrant-rights organizations are cheering a federal judge who blocked enforcement of a Florida law criminalizing transportation of undocumented immigrants into the state.

U.S. District Judge Roy Altman of the Southern District of Florida ruled Wednesday that federal law preempts that language in the state law, SB 1718, because federal authorities hold exclusive power to regulate immigration.

He issued a preliminary injunction against the measures enforcement pending further proceedings.

Renata Bozzetto, deputy director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, noted that Altman was appointed by former President Donald Trump.

It is a relief to see a judge rule impartially and fairly to uphold the laws of our country which our state is working so hard to break, she said in a written statement.

Our state government cannot pose itself as one of law and order while bending the Constitution or breaking federal laws. Furthermore, the clarity of Judges Altmans ruling, understanding the irreparable injury that Floridians with an irregular immigration status would suffer at the hands of this unjust and unconstitutional law, is spot on, Bozzetto continued.

The court was right to block this callous and patently unconstitutional law, which had threatened Floridians with jail time for doing the most ordinary things, like going to work, visiting family, and driving kids to soccer games. This ruling is an important victory for Florida communities, said Spencer Amdur, senior staff attorney with the ACLUs Immigrants Rights Project, in his own written statement.

In his 12-page ruling, Altman noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to decide the full scope of the federal preemption over state laws like SB 1718, which in its Section 10 criminalizes anyone who knowingly and willfully transports into this state an individual whom the person knows, or reasonably should know, has entered the United States in violation of law and has not been inspected by the federal government since his or her unlawful entry from another country.

Still, Altman wrote, he was bound by a precedent established by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, whose jurisdiction includes Florida.

Without express guidance from the Supreme Court we remain bound by the pronouncements of our circuit, which has held that the unlawful transport and movement of aliens is a fully preempted field, he concluded.

Overall, though, the Supreme Court has made clear that, where Congress occupies an entire field even complementary state regulation is impermissible. This is because field preemption reflects a congressional decision to foreclose any state regulation in the area, even if it is parallel to federal standards, Altman wrote.

There was no immediate response from Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the law a little more than one year ago.

The measure, which the governor at the time described as the most ambitious anti-illegal immigration laws in the country, also barred state and local officials from issuing IDs to any undocumented person or recognizing those issued by other states. It restricts their ability to work and requires law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration officials, among other provisions.

Altmans ruling doesnt affect those provisions.

The Farmworker Association of Florida, an affiliate of the Immigrant Coalition, filed the lawsuit last July, along with individuals belonging to mixed-status families, churches, and communities who feared being prosecuted under the law.

The action originally named DeSantis as a plaintiff, although Altman dismissed him from the case, leaving Attorney General Ashley Moody, Statewide Prosecutor Nicholas Cox, and Floridas 20 local state attorneys to defend the law.

The judge cited discrete injuries both to the Farmworker Association, which was forced to divert resources to avoid violating the law, and the individual plaintiffs, including a nonprofit operator who transports immigrants from Georgia to medical and immigration appointments in Jacksonville and the grandmother of an undocumented immigrant who feared to drive him to visit family in Georgia because of the risk of arrest upon their return to Florida.

As for any damage to the interests of the states from enjoining the law, if a state law is preempted, then the state can suffer no harm from a court order that enjoins that law. Indeed, [t]he United States suffers injury when its valid laws in a domain of federal authority are undermined by impermissible state regulations, Altman wrote.

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Emma Winger, deputy legal director of the American Immigration Council, said: This ruling means freedom from fear and increased safety for families and communities of color in Florida. As states across the country are increasingly passing unjust and unconstitutional laws that target people because of their immigration status, its critical that our courts set a precedent for protecting these families at risk.

Evelyn Wiese, litigation attorney at Americans for Immigrant Justice: Todays decision marks an important victory for Floridians, visitors to Florida, and for the U.S. Constitution. We are gratified that the court recognized the harm that Section 10 does and temporarily blocked this unconstitutional law from remaining in effect, and we will continue to fight against it. But for now, this unjust and illegal law cannot be used to criminalize our clients or the community at large for transporting family, friends, or coworkers.

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RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. Lexington police that there could be more charges coming in this case against Giovanni Mendoza Jimenez.

Police say they'll be reviewing phone data to see if he was distracted during Monday's crash.

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Meanwhile, some who have faced a situation like this, wonder how this case will be handled because Jimenez was in the country illegally.

Tasha Kirton told WACHFOX News about the devastating loss of her son, Stevie, who was killed in a motorcycle crash after a van driven by a man who was here illegally collided with her son on Percival Road in Columbia.

Kirton says the driver of the van ran away.

The owner of the van told investigators who the man was but he has never been found.

A crash in Lexington that killed motorcyclist Jon Ratcliffe when he was pinned to the back of a school bus brings up painful memories for Kirton.

The driver charged in the case, Giovanni Jimenez, told a judge he was in the country illegally.

Columbia attorney, Taylor Bell, says safety and training is just one concern with illegal immigrants driving without a license.

Jimenez faces three charges including driving without a license, traveling at a speed greater than reasonable, and failing to stop when approaching a school bus.

The 20-year-old is being on the maximum bond allowed by law, and the Lexington County jail is also holding him for the feds.

According to Bell once Jimenez resolves the charges in Lexington County, he will be taken to Georgia for a deportation hearing where he will stand before a judge.

A federal detainment order has been placed on Jimenez. Lexington police say if he's able to post bail he will be turned over to u-s immigration officials.

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For now, he's being held at the Lexington County jail and is due back in court on June 5th.

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