Illegal immigration

Big, beautiful immigration

By Steve Woodward

You need not be a golf aficionado to appreciate J.J. Spaun’s path to victory in the 125^th U.S. Open on June 15, 2025, Father’s Day.

He made four birdies down the stretch on a brutally unforgiving Oakmont Country Club course and secured his first major championship by rolling a 64-foot putt across a soggy 18^th green into the heart of the cup.

Spaun, 34, has toiled, largely in obscurity, on pro golf tours for more than a decade. His is a familiar story across the generations: an average couple finds themselves raising a child who catches “the bug” and never looks back.

In the Spaun family, J.J. is a fourth generation American with Filipino and Mexican roots. None of the adults in Spaun’s life asked for anything other than opportunities. And they embraced them to build a life near Los Angeles. His mother, Dollie, worked as an office manager. His father, John, was a hospital administrator. Both are recreational golfers. (According to Golf Week magazine, while pregnant with J.J., Dollie continued playing golf through the eighth month).

While this likely will be Spaun’s breakthrough season – he was co-leader of The Players Championship in May before losing to Rory McIlroy in a playoff – he has demonstrated that he is a closer. He won a tournament on the Korne Ferry Tour (golf’s professional minor league) and also scored a win on the PGA Canada Tour. Spaun has recorded 43 top ten finishes (and amassed more than $22 million in career earnings).

Spaun also is a college graduate. He was a four-year member of the golf team at San Diego State University, where he graduated in 2012.

Away from the rigors of pro golf Spaun cherishes fatherhood. He and his wife, Melody, were married in 2019 and are raising two daughters (photo nearby).

One of Spaun’s great grandfathers immigrated (legally) from the Philippines to California, where Spaun’s grandfather was born – a story repeated on countless occasions throughout America’s history. People arrive on our shores from every corner of the world, not to pursue fame and fortune, but to pursue a better life on a foundation of economic stability, accessible healthcare options and educational opportunities.

Occasionally one of these families hits the jackpot. A son becomes a millionaire pro golfer. A daughter finds stardom on the stage or screen. A grandchild launches a small business that becomes an empire.

J.J. Spaun was only one of the weekend’s big stories tied to Los Angeles. It is a distinctly American story. And it is a story in stark contrast to the frenzied, unhinged violence that is decimating the streets of downtown Los Angeles (and other cities).

The media report that L.A. rioters are protesting President Trump’s “immigration crackdown”, as if to infer that a coordinated effort to detain and deport migrants is targeting people like J.J. Spaun’s great grandfather.

To the contrary, millions of undocumented, unprocessed criminals who surged across the U.S.-Mexico border after Joe Biden’s regime seized power by leveraging China’s Covid-19 bioweapon did not enter our homeland to track down the best golf instructors. They’re not being bussed and flown into communities because there are plenty of empty seats in classrooms and beds in emergency rooms. They are not taking online civics courses to begin their journey toward legal American citizenship.

Many of the aliens were criminals in their countries of origin. They are not here to turn the page and leverage second chances. They are here to commit more crimes. Consider a partial roster of illegal migrants detained by a single June 2025 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Los Angeles:

Cuong Chanh Phan, 49, Vietnam (Criminal history: Second-degree murder)

Rolando Veneracion-Enriquez, 55, Philippines. (Criminal history: Burglary in Ontario, Calif.; sexual penetration with a foreign object with force and assault with intent to commit rape in Pomona, Calif., sentenced to 37 years in prison)

Armando Ordaz, 44, Mexico. (Criminal history: Sexual battery in Los Angeles; receiving known or stolen property in Norwalk, Calif.; petty theft in Los Angeles)

Victor Mendoza-Aguilar (photo nearby), 32, Mexico. (Criminal history: Possessing unlawful paraphernalia in Pasadena, Calif.: possessing controlled substances in Pasadena; assault with a deadly weapon: not firearm in Pasadena; obstructing a public officer in Pasadena)

Jordan Mauricio Meza-Esquibel, 32, Honduras. (Criminal history: Distribution of heroin and cocaine; domestic violence)

It strains every thread of logic we can muster to comprehend how anyone opposes detainment and deportation of thugs such as these. And yet the riots rage on in Los Angeles.

We began with a sports reference. Here is another. Los Angeles is scheduled to host eight soccer matches during the 2026 World Cup next summer. Los Angeles is the host city of the 2028 Olympic Games. At what point should those designations be reconsidered?

Dunces 2.0

By Steve Woodward

Amid my eternal quest to understand the deranged Left in 2025, a long-forgotten book title jarred my feeble brain as I inhaled the longleaf pine-infused air on a Spring evening.

“The Confederacy of Dunces”, published in 1980, was written in the late 1960s by an iconoclast named John Kennedy O’Toole.

“The novel offended the progressive sensibilities of publishers based in New York,” wrote historian Auguste Meyrat in 2024. “It took a fellow writer from Louisiana, Walker Percy, to agree to read the manuscript and advocate for the book’s publication nearly a decade after Toole committed suicide.”

And what happened next? The book was declared to be a literary classic. And what did it, and central character Ignatius C. Reilly, reveal that resonates today?

“There’s a whole generation of Ignatius’s today: vain, overeducated young adults who can’t hold a job, live healthily, own any property, or maintain a friendship or romantic partnership, and yet often feel proud of themselves,” writes Meyrat. “Like Ignatius, they feel qualified to deliver their opinion on a whole range of issues they have no clue about. Without a doubt, if Ignatius existed today, he would likely be an online influencer hosting a popular YouTube channel or podcast.”

Ignatius is the poster boy for today’s Democrats, in other words. Their narratives, compliantly advanced by an ever more corrupt media, never have been more absurd, or delusional. We need to call them out for what they are. Dunces. Consider:

Tariffs are imploding the economy to permit a few Trump cronies to short the stock markets and make billions. (The tariffs are, in fact, causing a flurry of requests for Oval Office visits and phone calls by freaked-out foreign leaders knowing the gig is up).

The economy is teetering (but never mind the easing of inflation as reflected by the March consumer price index).

The deportation of illegal immigrants tied to murderous gangs is just a pretext in a grand scheme to mass deport American citizens. (If true, start with Hunter Biden).

The Department of Government Efficiency ultimately plans to dismantle Social Security and Medicare to deprive American citizens of their “God-given” entitlements. (False, but at least DOGE will end Social Security payments to the deceased).

Luigi Mangione, who shot a UnitedHealthcare CEO in cold blood, is a brave martyr and, damn, he’s handsome, too. (Who knew the steely eyes of a crazed killer are a turn-on?)

Karmelo Anthony had to carry a knife to a Texas high school track competition and stab a fellow teenager in the chest because, like every black teen amid confrontation, an unarmed white kid is intent on killing him. (Media spin: the dead kid is not the victim).

Every business venture that became wildly successful under Elon Musk, especially electric vehicle production and space travel, is a threat to democracy and reminiscent of pre-World War II Germany. (And Trump is Hitler because if you repeat it often enough …)

Trump’s mass deportations are cruel and astonishing Executive branch overreach. And unprecedented. (Except Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden deported millions of illegal immigrants without inspiring one court injunction or Supreme Court intervention).

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “Maryland man” who was deported to an El Salvadoran prison by a heartless Department of Homeland Security. He should be returned immediately to his wife and three children because he committed no crimes on U.S. soil.

(Entering the U.S. illegally 14 years ago was/is a crime. Maintaining ties to the notorious MS-13 gang – evidenced by Garcia’s identifying tattoos — poses a threat to Marylanders. And only a feckless Federal Bureau of Investigation spared Garcia from arrest and charges after he was pulled over for speeding in Tennessee in December 2022 with eight passengers in tow from Texas. They presented IDs showing the same home address but traveled without a single piece of luggage. Say it with me: human trafficking).

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) flew to El Salvador to score a photo op with Garcia (photo nearby), knowing there was no possibility he would be freed. But it turns out Van Hollen is not the most deranged among the apologists for thuggish gang members living in our homeland illegally.

A New Mexico magistrate judge was arrested and has been banned from the bench for life after homeland security officers raided his Las Cruces home, responding to a tip about who was living in the judge’s guest house. In March, officers arrested Venezuelan illegal immigrant Christhian Lopez-Ortega, 23, in the home of Judge Jose Cano, a Democrat. The Tren de Aragua gang member had been living with the judge’s family after his wife hired Lopez-Ortega to perform several home improvement chores.

The judge and his wife were said to be complicit in allowing their immigrant house guest to handle household firearms.

And what is the fate of the “adopted” Venezuelan? Another Democrat judge overturned his bail and suggested Lopez-Ortega be returned to the custody of his fellow judge because they, the two Dem judges, are friends. He remains detained while a hearing to decide the gang member’s fate is pending.

Did John Kennedy O’Toole contemplate dunces as extreme and pathetic as these? In 2025, who is the dunce? The illegal thug or the New Mexico judge? China’s hijacking of the U.S. economy or Trump’s overdue tariffs? Deported illegals or politicians who coddle them? The healthcare CEO assassin or the dead CEO? A knife wielding high school punk or his dead, unarmed victim?

Waiting.

Partisan or patriot?

By Steve Woodward

British prime minister Neville Chamberlain holds a most dubious distinction as a failed leader derailed by diplomatic appeasement.

In his quest to prevent World War II in 1938, Chamberlain attempted to cut a deal with a rising German political figure, Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain pursued appeasement despite writings and speeches by Hitler that failed to hide his lust for war and the creation of a German empire, and even after Hitler’s forced annexation of Austria in March 1938.

Chamberlain proclaimed that he achieved “peace for our time” when he returned from meetings with Hitler and other European heads of state after signing the Munich Agreement in September 1938. By early 1939, Hitler’s Germany began it rampage across the continent, trampling the pages of the agreement under foot.

Hitler proceeded to do precisely what so many had warned Chamberlain about. World War II soon became inevitable.

Comparing contemporary leaders or nations to Hitler and the Third Reich typically is ill-advised because he was no mere tyrant. He was a murderous monster. Ask Donald Trump, who is neither but is often portrayed as Hitler-in-waiting by the fear mongering Left.

But there is a parallel between Chamberlain and his underestimation of Hitler happening before our eyes in 2024. There certainly is nothing Hitleresque about Trump, the MAGA movement, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris or a corrupt corporate media. The parallel lies in the underestimation by Republicans and so-called independents of who these people are, and their insistence that we must “tone down the rhetoric” and “end the polarization”.

Columnist John Hood of the John Locke Foundation – a constitutional government research institute – laments the nation’s political partisan divide in a recent, oddly timed column amid the final countdown to election day 2024.

“I do indeed believe in bridging the partisan divide,” Hood writes. “For one thing, our discourse has become coarse, often even revolting.”

You don’t say, Mr. Hood? If we could only reason with Islamic jihadists. If we could somehow empathize with virulent antisemites parading in our streets and disrupting universities in defense of an Iran-backed terror plot that killed 1,200 innocents in Israel on October 7. 2023. If we could embrace the measured temperament of, say, Neville Chamberlain.

He prattles on: “Understand that others probably see things differently from you not because they are evil or stupid, but because they possess a different set of facts, experiences, assumptions and values.”

The partisan divide Hood laments is not, as he would have us believe, a drifting to extremes on both sides. Arguably, conservatives remain steadfast in defending our core principles in the spirit of William F. Buckley, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Meanwhile, since the improbably ascension of Obama beginning 20 years ago, the Left has not merely drifted but sprinted further away from any pretense of “leaning” Left of center.

Hood seems to have missed numerous glaring examples, so let’s refresh his murky memory.

They were more measured, at first, in their dismissive contempt for conservative Republicans and their Christian tendencies. Barack Obama mocked us during a private event for “clinging to guns and religion”. Hillary Clinton scoffed, also behind closed doors, about a “basket of deplorables”. Then along came Trump in 2016. Gloves came off. The media concocted Russian collusion. Democrats in Congress pursued Trump’s impeachment on baseless grounds. And lusting for Trump’s demise, the Left seized upon a manageable virus unleashed by their Chinese ally, to impose formerly unimaginable tyranny, locking down cities and leveraging a well-orchestrated “health crisis” to hijack an election in 2020.

The emergence of a Biden regime has turned ordinary Americans into January 6 political prisoners. It has ushered in an era of lawfare in an effort, futile as it turns out, to diminish or even imprison Trump. It has normalized crime and homeland insecurity by deliberately allowing untold millions of illegal immigrants to surge across the U.S-Mexico border.

It has brought us to a place where Hillary Clinton, no longer behind closed doors, is calling for the imprisonment of Americans for exercising a right to free speech. And to a place where vice president Kamala Harris is installed without a single vote having been cast as her party’s presidential nominee, platforming a campaign that defends abortion, ignores the economic realities crushing the American people and brazenly mocks those who dare express their Christian faith.

During a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Harris denounced two college students who in defiance of her threats to nationalize abortion shouted, “Christ is king”. She shot back: “You guys are at the wrong rally.”

Only a deranged atheist would be “triggered” by the mention of Jesus Christ. Is this a “polarizing” moment, Mr. Hood?

The strongest indicator that the era of naïve partisanship is over, and that it has been usurped by an understanding that we stand at a crossroads of distinct choice – good vs. evil, America First vs. America in managed decline – is proven by the very public denunciation of the latter by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and, most recently, Democrat hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman.

Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, not only openly endorses a second Trump presidency. He outlines 33 policies embraced by the Obama-Biden-Harris that mirror what America’s most “aggressive adversaries would likely implement if they wanted to destroy America from within and had the ability to take control of our leadership.”

A review of Ackman’s concerns refutes the flimsy narrative advanced by Hood that we just need to mind our manners and we’ll all be sharing an ideological hot tub before we know it.

In fact, Mr. Hood, I would warn that it is dangerous, and intellectually dishonest, to lump evil and stupid together when exposing the agenda of the Left. The Left is inherently Godless and, thus, evil to its core, but stupid? Certainly not. Dismantling a nation and eroding its values, its culture, requires vast intellect, actually. The term “evil genius” applies. Utterly despicable, compassionless and arrogant, the George Soros-Klaus Schwab-Barack Obama deep state overlords do not want for intellect or resolve.

Thus, opposing them is not merely a partisan choice. It is duty.

Collateral damage

By Steve Woodward

In the aftermath of a glaring security failure that allowed a deranged man-child to aim his rifle and fire multiple rounds at President Donald Trump, wise media overlords are warning that we must strive for national unity. This is a vile diversionary tactic intended to spin a narrative that every American is equally to blame for the so-called polarization that defines our times.

Instead, it must be loudly vocalized that what we observed on July 13, 2024, in rural Pennsylvania was a perfect storm of a vast mentally ill sector of our population converging with the relentless weaponization of corporate media, social media and our legal system.

The latter has been taking aim at Trump and his 75-million-plus legion for eight tumultuous years by trivializing physical threats against Trump or, worse, ignoring them.

But we’re once again called upon to unite, and lower the “temperature” of political discourse. It’s a sophomoric, hollow ploy to provide cover to the Biden regime’s army of surrogates in the White House, on Capitol Hill and within the corrupt, decaying journalism profession, all solely responsible for stoking smoldering embers of wrath.

“(Trump’s) opportunity now is to present himself as someone who can rise above the attack on his life and unite the country,” instructs a Wall Street Journal editorial.

It is “on all Republicans, all Democrats to come together, to lower the temperature (and) to measure the rhetoric,” said U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) during a television interview. Republicans? Are Republicans the ones drawing frequent comparisons between and Adolf Hitler and Trump? Are Republicans cheering on deeply corrupt attorneys general intent on imprisoning Trump?

The blue ribbon for post-Pennsylvania sermonizing goes to the Journal’s Gerard Baker, who wrote: “If there is room for emotional restraint in the aftermath of this horror, there is also reason to hope for a small movement toward de-escalating the mutual loathing to which so many Americans have fallen prey.”

Let us unpack the absurdity of Baker’s bloviation: Conservatives, many guided by Judeo-Christian principles, loathe hypocrisy, deceit and threats to our inalienable rights and freedom. Conservatives have not called for the execution of Joe Biden, however.

By contrast, the Left hates us. As people. You. Me. Our very existence. There is no pleasure to be gained from knowing this, but there is no escaping the reality that it is so. If we are collateral damage in their war on American exceptionalism it’s our fault. We keep getting in the way. Military veteran Ashli Babbitt got in the way of a bullet on January 6, 2021, the day she died in the U.S. Capitol, an unarmed protestor. What explains a Capitol Police officer’s impulsive firing of a pistol that took her life? Rage? Contempt? The question never was formally asked. Lt. Michael Byrd was not charged.

The Left coldly refuses to contemplate the collateral damage trailing in its relentless wake. Consider the the human toll during nearly a decade of Trump Delusion Syndrome. Lives lost. Jobs lost. Careers destroyed. Businesses closed or vandalized by BLM brigades. Kids trafficked.

Something resonated with the Pennsylvania shooter. How can we not conclude that this mentally damaged person believed his cause was just? He believed that Trump needed to die. What triggered that belief and his act of terror might never be known. Take your choice on what influenced him. Trump is 21st century Hitler. Trump is an existential threat to “democracy”. Trump’s supporters are racist, sexist, transphobic. These narratives have bubbled like a toxic brew for years. Suck the hope out of human souls for long enough and some of them will snap.

The collateral damage in Butler, PA, was a firefighter, 50, attending Trump’s rally, Corey Comperatore. He is deceased. He took bullets to save his wife and daughter. David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, remain hospitalized and critically wounded by the gunman’s erratic shots.

These names are added to the rolls of lives ended, or upended, by the a weaponized federal government during the Trump presidency, and by the current Biden regime. Many of these shortened lives include growing numbers of victims of murderous illegal aliens swarming our homeland, aided and abetted by Team Biden’s open border betrayal.

Recent victims of immigrant misconduct are Lisbeth Gutierrez-Salazar and her two sons, Juan Gutierrez-Salazar, 10, and Julian Cardona-Gutierrez, 7 (photos nearby), who died in an arson fire set in Stockton, CA, by three-time deportee Jose Carmen Cardona. Joining the list of needlessly deceased: Kristie Thibodeaux, 43, of New Orleans, fatally shot by three illegals, including Joshua Bonifacio-Avila, 19, a Honduran citizen who illegally entered the U.S. on an unknown date at an unknown location. Authorities say he was arrested for theft and released on two previous occasions. In New Mexico, Tiger Gutierrez, 22, was killed by a drunk hit-and-run driver on July 1, 2024. Mexican national invader Jesus Sandoval-Martinez, 21, is charged with vehicular homicide.

These incidents are just a few of many happening almost everyday across the homeland. And this is only one category of Biden-era carnage.

After then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s self-acknowledged refusal to bring in 10,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol ahead of an openly scheduled January 6, 2021, rally, Capitol security is seen welcoming citizens through the doors (contrasted by smaller pockets of more aggressive protestors). Rather than take responsibility for encouraging crowds to surge in, Pelosi and fellow Democrats doubled down. More than 460 January 6 patriots have been or are imprisoned. More than 1,260 have been charged with offenses. Matthew Perna, 37, one of those charged, committed suicide more than one year later as the feds prolonged an investigation without explanation.

Capitol police officers were not unscathed by the orchestrated free-for-all. At least two committed suicide in the aftermath

Trump surrogates have suffered greatly amid perpetual law-fare waged by the Left. Gen. Michael Flynn. Roger Stone. George Papadopoulos (the alleged Russian collusion agent). Peter Navarro (who will complete a four-month federal prison sentence on July 17, 2024). Steven Bannon (who reported to federal prison to begin a four-month sentence on July 1). Navarro and Bannon refused to testify before a sham House panel “investigating” January 6.

Finally, let us not diminish victims of Left-imposed pandemic hysteria, lockdowns and forced injections. Thousands were fired or suspended from jobs. Military service members were demonized and stripped of pensions for refusing the mRNA jabs. Teen suicide was rampant. But once the Left recognized that compliance was widespread, and that a virus during an election year worked to its advantage, there would be no further introspection, no reassessment. No regrets, certainly.

Former Centers for Disease Control chief Dr. Robert Redfield testified on July 11 to what many Americans knew instinctively three-plus years ago when he observed, “They never should have been mandated. It should have been open to personal choice. (mRNA jabs) don’t prevent infection; they do have side effects.”

The overlords are begging us to embrace a side effect of the bloodied side of Trump’s head. Unite, they say.

But Trump had it right as he rose, defiant, from the stage. Fight.

Illegals among us?

By Steve Woodward

A nondescript building along Highway 1 near Southern Pines, N.C., that is home to Sandhills Assembly Church is also the operational headquarters of a little known entity, Immigration Hope Sandhills.

While it is aligned with a recognized protestant religious organization, Immigration Hope Sandhills (IHS) is a nonprofit outreach seeking to assist people who reside in the United States illegally. According to its web site, IHS offers illegal aliens advice on paths to U.S. citizenship, English language and citizenship courses, and mental health counseling. Through a program coordinated by the U.S. Department of Justice, IHS trains volunteers who do not hold law degrees to provide low-cost legal advice and services toward navigation of the U.S. immigration process.

Under executive director Sarah J. Cortesio, IHS has operated under the radar since 2018 during a time when Americans have grown increasingly weary of illegal invaders. Undocumented and unscreened, they are overwhelming hospitals and emergency rooms, and arriving with children who generally do not speak English, vying for seats in already crowded public school classrooms. Americans are leery of the threat to public safety posed by adult illegal migrants. In a February poll by Monmouth University, 61% of those surveyed describe illegal immigration as “a very serious problem”.

IHS is one of 11 immigration service centers operated by the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) nationwide, and one of the few located in a rural location. Immigration Hope, according to its web site, has locations in Atlanta; Bloomington, Minn. (a Minneapolis suburb); Brooklyn, N.Y., where IHS launched in 2011; Gainesville, Fla.; and Santa Barbara, Calif.

The founding organization, EFCA, came into existence in 1950 after a merger of two U.S.-based EFC denominations with Swedish and Norwegian origins. As has been the case across numerous long standing religious denominations, EFCA has moved gradually down a path toward “woke” relativism and a so-called social justice gospel.

A professor on the faculty of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Jarvis Williams, attracted the attention of Baptist pastor Seth Brickley, who was raised and baptized in the Evangelical Free Church. Knowing that Williams has emerged in recent years as a social justice evangelist (some say he actually is part of a post-evangelical movement), Brickley was surprised when EFCA invited Williams to speak at a leadership conference. At the same conference, a member of the EFCA board of directors “encouraged pastors to promote political diversity, giving legitimacy to the harmful agenda of the Left,” wrote Brickley in a June 2023 article for TruthScript.com. The piece by Brickley, who left EFCA to pastor a traditional Baptist church seven years ago, was entitled, “Injustice In The Evangelical Free Church of America”.

A founder of the EFCA’s first Immigrant Hope ministry center, Roy Larsen, in a piece posted on an EFCA web site in 2011, did not attempt to veil its intent: “to give all immigrants among us — including the undocumented — the hope of the gospel, (and) help in finding a pathway to legal residency if possible (emphasis added).” In 2011, few Americans could have imagined that a sitting U.S. President and Democrat surrogates would willfully oversee an open border policy and permit the illegal crossing of tens of thousands per day, some encountered by border patrol, others not.

Even fewer could have foreseen the emergence of organizations deliberately setting up their own migrant processing centers near prime border entry points.

“Many of the country’s best-known (taxpayer funded) nonprofits, including Catholic Charities (photo nearby), the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, the Red Cross, and United Way … and scores of lesser-known charities have instead worked to increase the number of illegal border-crossers dramatically,” wrote Lewis M. Andrews for The American Conservative on April 28, 2024.

“There is no special exemption (in U.S. law) which allows an employee of an American tax-exempt organization willfully to ignore his own country’s laws, as increasing numbers have been doing since Biden’s election. This is true no matter how well-intentioned that nonprofit staffer might imagine himself to be.”

The New York Post reported as long ago as 2022 that the federal government launders money through contracts with nonprofit charities to keep the illegal immigration pipeline flowing.

“Even before crossing the border, migrants still in Mexico are being handed debit cards loaded with $800 a month to enable them to pay for necessities,” reported former New York Lt. Governor Betsy McCaughey in a July 2022 op-ed in the Post. “The gift cards are distributed by the non-profit Organization for Migration, thanks to money provided by the U.S. State Department.

“CARECEN, a far left group funded almost entirely by government contracts, and Catholic Charities … (provides) gift cards and food packages, direct migrants to shelters or hotel rooms, or helps them buy (air) tickets to other destinations. Who pays for all this? FEMA — the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a government agency that funnels money through the nonprofits.”

Immigration Hope Sandhills poses a threat to the security of Moore County by attracting migrants who will take all of the help they can get but typically have no inclination to assimilate or seek legal citizenship. A recent, tragic example is provided by the murder on June 17, 2024, of a Houston girl, age 12, who was strangled by two Venezuelan adult males who entered the U.S. through Eagle Pass near El Paso, Texas, earlier this year. After kidnapping Jocelyn Nungaray (photo nearby) in a convenience store, the men murdered her and hurled her body into a creek.