Gary Bauer: Media Malfeasance on Violent Illegal Immigrants

One of the Left’s favorite talking points on immigration is the claim that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans. That claim is highly debatable. More importantly, it’s irrelevant.
 
What open border advocates refuse to acknowledge is that every crime committed by an illegal alien never should have happened. American citizens are suffering because left-wing politicians refused to secure the border and refused to enforce our immigration laws.
 
Democrats claim they want criminal illegal aliens deported but then support “sanctuary city” policies that protect criminals from deportation. They release criminals rather than turn them over to federal immigration police. They’re doing everything they can to prevent criminal aliens from being deported. But the media never tells you that.
 
Here’s something else the media won’t tell you.
 
Tennessee officials keep track of and report the number of crimes committed every year in the state by illegal aliens. The figures for 2025 were just released, and they are shocking.
 
Last year alone, illegal aliens from 119 different countries committed 2,183 violent offenses. Illegal aliens murdered 41 people. Illegal aliens committed 145 sexual offenses. Illegal aliens raped 11 children.
 
Illegal aliens carjacked 966 victims. Illegal aliens kidnapped 40 people. Illegal aliens assaulted 66 police officers and first responders. All these crimes were committed in just one state in one year by people who never should have been here.
 
Because of the Democrat/media frenzy in Minneapolis, you know the names of two radical activists—Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But no one, other than family and friends, knows the names of the 41 victims murdered by illegal aliens in Tennessee.
 
Democrats and their media allies won’t tell you about those 41 victims because they don’t care about them. They only care about keeping every illegal alien in America so they can become future Democrat voters, no matter how many Americans are robbed, raped, or murdered.
 
Every state should follow Tennessee’s example and report this important information. It shows you that all the Left’s “compassion” and “empathy” for “migrants” is being used to manipulate us.
 
Otherwise, we would see the same outpouring of sympathy for the 41 murdered people in Tennessee. We would have seen the same outpouring of concern for the Americans who were raped and murdered by illegal aliens during Joe Biden’s four years of open border insanity.