OPINION:
Progressives have become enablers of unconscionable acts in their crusade to erase national borders. Their tactics are finally being exposed here and abroad.
The House could vote as early as next week on the Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, which would make it easier for federal authorities to deport noncitizens found guilty of child abuse, stalking, domestic violence or sex offenses.
It shouldn’t be controversial, but the legislation was blocked in the then-Democratic controlled Senate. It did pass the House in September over the objection of 158 members on the left side of the aisle.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Britain’s Labor Party shares the Democrats’ proclivity for protecting the growing number of predatory migrants. According to London’s Daily Telegraph, foreigners were 3.5 times as likely to be arrested on sex charges, with perpetrators most often coming from heavily Islamic countries such as Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, Algeria and Somalia.
Liberals do all they can to avoid mention of such statistics out of a fear of being perceived as Islamophobic. That’s why Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday refused to launch a public inquiry into grooming schemes involving migrants. Instead, he blamed critics for spreading “lies and misinformation.”
GB News used court records and victim testimony to identify 50 towns and cities in which grooming gangs have operated as authorities looked the other way. But the outrageous conduct can’t always be hidden. In January, Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, an Afghan refugee, attacked two little girls and their mother with acid in the London district of Clapham.
“The prime suspect in the Clapham case was given asylum on the second time of asking, despite being charged with sexual assault and indecent exposure in 2018,” Rachel Maclean, a Conservative member of Parliament, explained in February.
Ms. Maclean blamed Labor officials, nongovernmental organizations and judges for blocking deportation efforts.
“These people are only interested in a free ride on the virtue-signaling train with their celebrity mates,” she said.
Complaining about organized sexual abuse of children is a surefire way to branded a “right-wing extremist” — or worse. Individuals posting on social media about the misconduct of recent arrivals are subject to police investigation. Working-class immigration critic Tommy Robinson was imprisoned by a judge upset at his contempt for the system and his work organizing rowdy protests.
“Rather than deal with these gangs, they would rather persecute us, the people who are highlighting the issue,” Mr. Robinson said.
Fortunately, the crown can’t do much against U.S. citizens such as Elon Musk who are raising the alarm. “For anyone doubting the severity and depravity of the mass gang rapes of little girls in Britain, go to the source material and read the court transcripts. I did. It is worse than you could possibly imagine,” the entrepreneur wrote on X.
British officials are furious that Mr. Musk is highlighting their inaction; police chiefs recently withdrew from his social media platform, upset by its policy on free speech. Bureaucrats are even mulling the use of legislation that took effect last month to ban X outright — aligning with bastions of freedom such as China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and Turkmenistan.
America’s foreign policy needs to encourage freedom of speech and freedom of religion in every country — especially the ones that ought to know better. The new GOP majority also must ensure foreigners who are rapists, killers, thieves and drunken drivers are at the top of the list of deportees.
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