Crime does not pay under the Trump Administration. This high profile theft made the news and the perpetrator got caught!

 

Sure enough, it was an illegal alien who stole DHS chief Kristi Noem's handbag

By Monica Showalter www.americanthinker.com

In a Washington, D.C. restaurant, an illegal alien working as a professional thief thought he had hit paydirt.

He found a handbag sitting on the floor, Gucci, to be exact, which would be easy steal with a little stealth technique.

Better still, once he got it, he found $3,000 in it. He didn't notice the government I.D. of the owner, the pretty lady he had taken for an easy mark.

He decided to reward himself, according to the New York Post:

The booze-hound illegal migrant who snatched Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci purse brazenly drank for hours with her Amex card at an Italian eatery after pulling off the caper, according to shocking details released by the feds.

Mario Bustamante-Leiva, 49, was caught on camera blowing $205.87 on food and alcohol at Angolo Ristorante Italiano in Washington, DC, on April 20 just minutes after he slyly made off with her shoulder bag, charging documents from the US Attorney’s office of DC show.

Turns out it was his unlucky day -- the woman he stole the bag from was the deporter-in-chief -- and as a top federal official had the resources to find the criminals, and make examples of him and a confederate. This wasn't Muriel Bowser's Washington they were robbing, as they no doubt thought, this was the feds under the Trump administration. The thief didn't expect that they would hunt him down through security cameras, catching him drinking away on her credit card. He'd probably done it a thousand times before with no consequences.

He's not going to be thieving in the U.S. much, one can infer, now that the bust has been announced.

As for Noem, it was an unwelcome up-close encounter with a sanctuary city, the home of illegal aliens. Coming from South Dakota, she probably wasn't aware that one must latch one's handbag, at least under the leg of the chair, if not keep it around one's arm all the time in these surroundings. Normal people don't need to do that. Only low-trust societies, such as those found in the third world do. I learned this in San Francisco as a teenager in the 1980s when the same thing happened to me, in a nice restaurant no less. It's how blue cities roll, particularly when there is no law enforcement worthy of the name, which started early in the City by the Bay, but eventually spread through the country with the advent of South America's theft rings, of whom these thieves seemed to belong.

As for carrying around $3,000? Yes, it could have happened, maybe she cashed a check and was taking home some money to have around the house if needed. Certainly the people of Spain, fresh from a greenie-induced blackout, are learning the value of that.

Two things stand out about this incident:

One, it comes as a surprise to no one that the brazen thief and his co-thief were an illegal aliens, from Chile where professional theft rings have been plaguing the U.S. for a while now, putting paid to the leftist narrative that illegal immigants wouldn't dream of commiting street crimes while ensconced in the U.S. without authorization.

While most illegals don't commit this professional level of crime, which takes a certain amount of practice and training, the incident shows that there are enough illegals of this kind here to make a difference in how we live. Soon, we will be living behind high walls, our social life will revolve around dinner parties solely with people we know, we won't wear jewels or fancy watches in public, we will throw our purses in our car trunks, we will all have security guards and we will drive in bulletproof cars -- which is how the middle and upper classes have to live in many countries in South America. Welcome to the new normal, the low-trust societies brought to us by Joe Biden's open borders and Washington, D.C.'s do-nothing prosecutors and disincentivized cops. The Chilean gangs, by the way, aren't the only imported thieves, South Asia has some impressive ones, too.

Two, that this could happen even to Noem, whose face should have been known to the thieves, tells us we are all vulnerable; we now live in a sea of crime, imported in by Joe Biden. When the thievery is so saturated in society it can even hit someone like Noem, we know it's thick on the ground, with thousands of victims without her resources (and the need, given the security concerns and the lack of knowledge of the motive) to catch the thief.

I've been a victim of what is almost certainly these Chilean gangs let in by Joe Biden myself -- two years ago, my car was robbed, of $3,000 worth of cashmere sweaters I was planning to take to storage, hidden in a black garbage bag. Rolling in at 4:30 a.m., the thieves working silently from a car with a chase car behind them to lift the items, carefully choosing only the best as I worked at the computer here. It was astonishing that they could break in and find the exact valuable items and I didn't hear a thing. They left the car door open so as not to create a sound. The cops took my police report and the neighbor's security camera footage showing the organized group in the act but told me they weren't going to do anything beyond maybe sending some extra patrols to the neighborhood. Whoop-dee-do. They told me I could look for the sweaters online and advise consignment shops, which I did, to no avail.

In that kind of atmosphere, thievery flourishes and theft rings grow richer and bigger.

So now it's hit Noem. It underlines how important her mission is, to remove the plague of illegals committing property and violent crimes in addition to undermining rule of law with their abuse of the asylum system.

I hope the feds throw the book at these thieves and force them to reveal their bosses and organizers, putting them in an appropriate place like the CECOT prison in El Salvador. Societies can't function with people like this around who make the quality of life for all go downhill. And I hope Noem gets her money back. This is what we voted for.

 

The previous administration has created a national nightmare that will never be totally rectified. Shame on them for destroying our once great Republic.

 

Biden set Trump up for the illegal immigrant version of ‘Sophie’s Choice’

By Andrea Widburg www.americanthinker.com (click title URL to read tweets)

(Warning: There are spoilers coming up if you haven’t read William Styron’s 1979 novel, Sophie’s Choice, or watched the 1982 movie adaptation.)

The big story currently roiling the media, which takes its marching orders from the Democrat party (explaining why Trump’s coverage is 92% negative), is that the cruel Trump administration is either forcing American infants out of the country or separating them from their mothers by leaving them in the country. What we’re seeing is how the Biden administration intentionally teed up a million “Sophie’s Choice” moments for any Republican who tries to address illegal immigration.

From practically the first moment he entered office, Biden started shipping hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens away from the border and into America’s interior. The government then paid bazillions of taxpayer dollars to house illegal aliens in luxury hotels in New York City and essentially allowed them to take over Midwestern towns.

The goal was obvious: Most would melt into the interior, never to be seen again. The dates for their “due process” hearings to determine that they were, in fact, illegal aliens without refugee status have been set for ten years into the future. This endless delay is because Biden allegedly wanted to prevent crowded ICE holding cells. Trump, of course, has prevented those crowds by making it clear that the door to illegal immigrants is firmly shut, the benefits spigot is turned off, and law enforcement is on to them.

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The difference, as Libs of TikTok says, is staggering:

The situation on Biden’s watch was, of course, deliberate. As Tom Homan explained, illegal aliens weren’t languishing in ICE facilities for a decade; they were there for, on average, 30 days:

The push to get them into the interior was intended to integrate them into America, so that they’d have kids, jobs, and concerned upper-middle-class white women who hired them as nannies. Then, when they finally had their hearings, we’d be told that they had American children, thanks to birthright citizenship, and paid their taxes. Additionally, those leftist white ladies would do anything to keep in place the women doing the hard work of raising their children.

It’s the anchor babies, of course, that were most important. If you can get an illegal alien woman out of the country before she gives birth—something very possible within 30 days—you lose the “it’s for the (American) children” sob story.

That sob story, which a federal district court judge just generated, is incredibly important. These were intended to hit leftists right in their emotional sweet spot:

• “Judge says US citizen, 2, may have been deported without ‘meaningful process’”
• “Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’”
• “2 American Children Were Sent to Honduras With Their Undocumented Mother”

The lockstep reporting is endless. Just search “two-year-old deported,” and you’ll see that every drive-by media outlet has virtually identical headlines.

The reality is a bit different. The illegal alien mother requested that her child come with her. That’s all. It’s precisely as if I moved abroad and took my infant with me.

As Rubio said, the U.S. would be castigated as unbelievably cruel were it to say that the infant, as a birthright citizen, must stay behind. And sure enough, that scenario—the infant staying behind—is exactly what the Democrat operatives dug up:

• “ICE deports immigrant mother of an infant and 3 children who are US citizens, lawyers say”
• “Tampa woman deported to Cuba gets separated from one-year-old and U.S. citizen husband”
• “Mother of 1-Year-Old Married to US Citizen Deported, Separated From Baby”

My favorite in this genre is the claim that “She had no criminal records.” Well, yes, she did: She was in America illegally. Moreover, and this is the kicker for purposes of how the Biden system was intended to work, “Sanchez had an outstanding deportation order after missing an immigration hearing in 2019.”

That was always the plan. They come to America, they get shuffled into the system, they have children, their hearings are irrelevant, and—voila!—millions of new Americans, all indebted to the Democrat party and displacing people who have deep and legal ties to America.

With this, you see exactly what the Biden administration wanted, which I call the illegal immigrant “Sophie’s Choice.” And here’s the spoiler I promised: Sophie, a Polish woman waiting in line with her two children at Auschwitz is approached by a Nazi who tells her that she must select one child to be killed or both will die. Of course, eventually, both die, but not before Sophie is emotionally destroyed by having handed her daughter over to the Nazis for immediate death in order to save her son.

We Americans are being told that, whether these children go to their mother’s legal country or stay in America, the outcome is equally cruel. And of course, the subliminal message is that the Trump administration and those who support it are the modern equivalent of Nazis sending children to the gas chambers.

 

 

This is an outstanding article that must be read and re-read. The last three lines tell us what must be done, if we are to survive this terrible onslaught.

 

We’ve Been Here Before

By Allan J. Feifer www.americanthinker.com

It’s an obvious fact that we have individuals living amongst us (citizens and non-citizens) fomenting violence, undertaking seditious acts, breaking our laws, and knowingly furthering false narratives intended to harm us. They are led by people employed by foreign governments or groups whose actions intend to overthrow our way of life, sow discord, alter our essential narratives, and disrupt our economic and political systems. In effect, they are levying what amounts to war against us.

We’ve been here before. Before WWII, there were other anti-American groups and malicious narratives similar to what we are experiencing today. Then, as now, America faced an uncertain future with war warnings and economic calamity omnipresent. Americans in the 1930s were worried about Bolshevism, anarchists, unlawful immigration, and a rising fear of “fifth columnists“ perceived to be almost everywhere.

Communists and fascists commanded the national airwaves, trumpeting the evils of American-style democracy and its failed economic system that still hadn’t recovered from the Great Depression. Americans were looking for answers in all the wrong places. Unfortunately, then as now, there was no shortage of malcontents and bomb throwers who were ready to join in the mayhem.

 

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Succumbing to this pressure, Congress passed the Alien Registration Act (aka the Smith Act) on June 28, 1940, which created

Criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence and requiring all non-citizen adult residents to register with the federal government

Although over 200 people have been tried under the Act, it’s been used with less frequency because it often ran afoul of the First Amendment. The question, always, is how we retain our liberties without allowing our enemies to use those same liberties against us?

Currently, enemies foreign and domestic are pressing against America’s systems and her values. NGOs facilitated millions of illegal aliens invading our country. Democrats’ money funded pro-Hamas protests on campuses, protests that used Civil Rights violations and violence to force the government to change its policies. Small groups push transgenderism on an unwilling America as a wedge issue promoting progressive causes. Soft money from foreign groups is used to influence key elections and to support organizations and individuals with money to continue organizing, leading, and directing “spontaneous“ demonstrations nationwide.

The evidence of foreign malign influence is readily visible

Meanwhile, undoubtedly with funding from foreign or foreign-aligned actors, President Trump’s administration faces over 200 lawsuits aimed at freezing his attempts to implement the policies that voters overwhelmingly support. In most cases, three issues are at play:

1.    Immigration Policies: The divide between the due process obstructionists and the necessity to return millions of illegal aliens

2.    Education and Funding: Lawsuits from institutions like Harvard University over federal funding cuts tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

3.    Civil Rights and Discrimination: mainly tied to issues of sexuality and transgenderism.

The facts are not in dispute. Progressives have corrupted our children, and corrupted concepts like fair play, patriotism, individualism, self-sufficiency, hard work, God, and even the central importance of morality and family.

It took a generation or two, but they’ve done it. Today, everyone’s opinion must be respected, no matter how absurd or in conflict with reason and facts—and, increasingly, no matter how blatantly illegal or downright seditious.

The issue of fake moral equivalencies on any number of subjects has tied us up in knots and left our system of democracy barely functioning. We must now defend absurd ideas like illegal immigrants having the right to full access to our legal systems, our educational systems being run like Stalinist retraining centers, the government growing faster than the private sector, and capitalism being blamed endlessly for every social ill the left can come up with. And all of this comes wearing the polite mask of cultural relativism.

In Slouching Towards Gomorrah, Robert Bork postulated that we face real enemies pushing false narratives. Change is coming at us fast and furious, with many of us not understanding how this is happening but frightened by what we observe.

The Smith Act correctly judged the mood of the country at the time, but failed in its intent to be a deterrent against the kind of activities we are railing against even to this day. Since then, the need has increased for an effective and, most importantly, quick legal process at the federal level to deal with mass illegal immigration and, more directly, how best to deal with anyone who, under the color of Free Speech, effectively operates with impunity working against our country’s other cherished traditions. Immigration was always intended to be a privilege, not the right that progressives now insist it is.

We must confront our legal systems, which have allowed reason to become corrupted by process, sacrificing justice and sanity. Activist judges have discovered a new right to the Constitution that allows them to substitute their morality for law and precedent. The resultant inability to control our borders and punish lawbreakers has left us in a continually tightening death spiral. Pushing back comes at a cost…most of us have too much to lose and fear the consequences of standing up against the mob.

If January 6 taught us anything, it’s that the government is ruthless in protecting itself, whether average Joe citizens, grandma, or simply principled individuals standing up to thugs and bullies. If we ever had the stomach for it, most of us have seen that we would likely face similar consequences if we did.

Two hundred fifty years after Concord and Lexington began our journey to independence, we’ve seen that traitors are now held high by progressives while patriots are criminalized. We’ve lost our way, and few are willing to risk it all.

In time, a match will be struck over something so terrible, pervasive, and detestable that out-of-proportion pushback is inevitable. Dems largely still can’t understand why they lost the last election. They promoted it as a messaging issue instead of the substance that is so evident to the rest of us.

Republicans, like them or hate them, are the only ones in a position to put forward laws and regulations that could possibly turn this sinking ship around. We must elect more conservative judges and presidents loyal to the Constitution who can be relied on to see the big picture that is determinate.