Democrats target ICE funding after shootings but the cost would be high

Democrats in the House and Senate are trying to shift Two tragic federal shootings in Minneapolis led to ICE’s budget being shackled, reduced, and ultimately broken. But let’s not pretend that this political storm is about empathy or accountability.

If Democrats succeed, they could abruptly halt the deportation of as many as 20 million illegal aliens imported under the president, according to some estimates. Joe Bidenhundreds of additional American citizens will be murdered and thousands raped, assaulted, or robbed by a violent subset of Biden’s crowd of illegal aliens.

Here’s the statistical story behind America’s latest true crime nightmare.

Many studies have analyzed the relationship between illegal aliens and crime. Using large administrative data sets, the researchers calculated – with surprising accuracy – the rates at which illegal aliens commit various crimes. From these rates, it is easy to calculate the number of Americans who may fall prey to the new violence practiced by foreigners.

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Lizbeth Medina, Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley and Rachel Morin are Americans who were allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants. (Instagram, Fox Houston, Facebook, Family Post)

Start killing.

The Cato Institute has examined one of the largest and most reliable data sets available, drawn from… Texas border stateIt found that for every 100,000 illegal aliens, about 2.2 Americans are killed. Using essentially the same Texas data, the Center for Immigration Studies corrects for lagging identification and other methodological problems and arrives at a homicide rate of about 3.9 per 100,000 in one explanatory year.

Apply these rates to Biden 20 million new illegal aliensThe result is stark: between 440 and 780 more Americans will be killed.

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This is not a statistic. This is a slaughterhouse.

Previous victims already have names.

laken riley, She, 22, was killed in Georgia after prosecutors said she resisted a rape attempt by Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal alien He was previously released after arrest.

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jocelyn Nungaray, The 12-year-old was strangled to death in Houston in June 2024. Two Venezuelan nationals — Johan José Martinez Rangel and Franklin José Peña Ramos — have been charged with capital murder. They both entered the United States illegally, were arrested near El Paso, Texas, and released with notices to appear before the killing. They remain in the Harris County Jail awaiting trial, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

rachel morain, She was raped and murdered on Maryland Road by Salvadoran Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez.

Applying these rates to the 20 million new illegal aliens joined by Biden, the result is stark: between 440 and 780 additional Americans will be killed.

Kayla Hamilton, 20 years Maryland woman Autistic, she was raped and strangled by Walter Javier Martinez, an illegal alien from El Salvador who had entered the United States only months earlier.

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Future victims will have names, faces, families, and dreams, too—just as empathetic as Rene Judd and Alex Peretti.

And the killing is just the tip of Biden’s illegal alien iceberg.

According to a National Institute of Justice-funded study published in 2020 using Texas Department of Public Safety arrest data (2012-2018), felony arrest rates per 100,000 undocumented immigrants were 11.3 for felony sexual assault, 77.8 for felony assault, 18.2 for felony burglary, and 136.0 for felony drug violations.

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Measured by 20 million illegal aliens, this calculation means that approximately 2,260 more Americans would be sexually assaulted, 3,640 Americans home burgled, 15,560 Americans violently assaulted, and 27,200 felony drug arrests involving drug dealers, traffickers, smugglers, and aggravated possession cases.

These are uncomfortable statistics for Hill residents like the Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and politicians like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz don’t want to reckon with the sheer evil they don’t want you to see.

As a misdirection, the left also likes to point out that many studies have concluded that crime rates among illegal aliens are only marginally lower than among American citizens. But this is the wrong measure.

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Even if illegal aliens have a lower crime rate — and the data is far from clear — when millions are illegal aliens Enter the countryThe absolute number of crimes is increasing. You don’t need to be a mathematician – or the victim of an illegal alien crime – to understand this.

Anti-ICE protesters gather in Minnesota on Saturday, February 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

There’s also this: The outdated data sets many analysts use today almost certainly understate the risk posed by the latest wave under Biden. Why?

Because countries around the world like Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela intentionally opened their prisons and released violent criminals during the recent border collapse — to reduce crime at home and export crime to America.

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These are the statistics. Here is the policy.

The coalition of Odd Fellows that has come out to bring ICE to its knees is led by Democrats playing the electoral long game who view illegal aliens as political pawns and are funded by corporate interests that profit from cheap labor and wage suppression. Add to this the supply chains of drug cartels, human trafficking, and legacy media blinded by Trump derangement syndrome, and we find ourselves facing a government shutdown crisis today.

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Future victims will have names, faces, families, and dreams, too—just as empathetic as Rene Judd and Alex Peretti.

Our mission is to resist. because “Freezing ice“It doesn’t just mean fewer deportations.

This means more empty seats at dinner tables. More funerals. More lives shattered – plus all the jobs American citizens lose.

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Republicans should Do a much better job of holding ranks on Capitol Hill and messaging these basic Secure Border Trump facts.

Democrats would do well to remember one of the main reasons they lost in the last election. The vast majority of Americans want secure borders and mass deportations. For their safety. For their jobs. For their wages. For their culture.

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