Another day, another alleged rape in sanctuary Montgomery County, Maryland, that was 100 percent avoidable if our laws were actually enforced.

My colleague, Nate Madden, wrote about yet another illegal alien rape suspect arrested in Montgomery County, Maryland. Oluwakayode Adewole Adebusuyi, 26, is accused of raping a woman in Silver Spring on August 24.

But that’s not the full story. According to Maryland court records, Adebusuyi was arrested almost exactly one year ago on similar rape and assault charges. He was charged with three counts of sexual assault, kidnapping, and one count of second-degree assault on August 28, 2018, in Montgomery County, according to Maryland court records. However, local media is reporting that the victim did not want to pursue charges, so the county dropped the case.

Sadly, this happens all the time throughout the country as more and more violent criminals get released back on the streets. But this is where his immigration status makes all the difference. How on earth can someone who is here illegally get arrested on rape charges – whether he is convicted or not – and not be immediately turned over to ICE? How is it that a citizenship question is not standard during arrest? I am asked all the time if I’m a citizen of the United States when interacting with much less consequential functions of government and the private sector. Our laws are designed to ensure no illegal alien can be shielded from detection, much less one who actually comes into law enforcement custody on rape charges. By definition, that means that this alleged subsequent rape was 100 percent avoidable.

It’s truly hard to imagine a more profound display of anarchy that needlessly endangers public safety than states refusing to abide by an unquestionable federal power in order to shield other countries’ sex offenders and serious criminals from detection. In August, ICE arrested a convicted child sex offender who was released multiple times by Boulder County, Colorado. Oregon has also let out criminal aliens charged with child sex offenses, against ICE detainers. Mecklenberg County, North Carolina, has released numerous violent offenders, including Oscar Pacheco-Leonardo, who was arrested on first-degree rape of a minor. In total, sanctuary jurisdictions in the Tarheel State released nearly 500 criminal aliens over the past 10 months in violation of ICE detainers.

The bottom line is that with the increasingly lenient criminal justice system, there are six ways from Sunday for even the worst offenders to escape justice. This is where immigration policing is so important, because we shouldn’t have to be on the hook for repeat crimes by illegal aliens. They should be removed from the country upon their first arrest. Local law enforcement that is constantly dealing with repeat offenders should relish the opportunity to get rid of other countries’ criminals.

The video of a crying 11-year-old girl is being used by the Left to militate against enforcing our sovereignty and immigration laws. Apparently the rule should be that anyone can come here and remain here illegally if they have a child, because enforcing our laws will result in hardship to the kids. But no such heart-tugging imagery exists for all the girls raped and harmed by criminal aliens thanks to the lack of enforcement or loopholes in our laws. The latest atrocity involves a different 11-year-old girl who will never be seen on camera.

Yesterday, WJLA news reported that Montgomery County, Maryland, police arrested two illegal aliens from El Salvador, Mauricio Barrera-Navidad, 29, and Carlos Palacios-Amaya, 28, for raping an 11-year-old child known to the alleged attackers. The investigation was triggered by a discussion the child had with a school social worker last month, and the rapes are alleged to have occurred last September.

In September 2018, the victim was introduced to her older brother's friend, Palacios-Amaya. Over the course of the next few months, the then 27-year-old man raped the middle schooler on multiple occasions, authorities allege. The victim recalled one instance where Palacios-Amaya "used his cell phone to video record the two of them having sex," police noted in court documents.

The victim told the social worker that Palacios-Amaya would often pressure her not to attend school so that she could stay home while her parents were at work. That gave Palacios-Amaya unsupervised access to the girl.

Palacios-Amaya is charged with four counts of second-degree rape, and Barrera-Navidad is charged with one.

There seems to be a full-court press over every single illegal alien who dies of natural causes after making the perilous journey over our border. Yet there is almost no coverage even of the most high-profile murders committed by illegal aliens, including by the “children” coming through our border from Central America and being released into our communities.

Last week, three teens, including two confirmed illegal aliens from El Salvador, were charged with first-degree murder in Prince George’s County, Maryland, for allegedly butchering a 14-year-old with a bat and machete. Josue Rafael Fuentes-Ponce, 16, and Joel Ernesto Escobar, 17, both gang members, were arrested on May 16 by PG County police for the murder of 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz in a wooded area in Riverdale. Shockingly, a 14-year-old girl, Cynthia Hernandez-Nucamendi, was also arrested for the murder last week.

Gang-style murders committed by illegal aliens have become very common both on the Maryland and Virginia sides of Washington D.C., as these counties are saturated with illegal aliens from Central America who are often connected to MS-13. Yet nobody in the local media reported on their immigration status until now.

In response to a media request from CR last week regarding the immigration status of those charged, ICE has now confirmed that the two male suspects were both illegal aliens from El Salvador who were released into the country – one as part of a family unit and one as an unaccompanied alien child. It turns out both were arrested for attempted murder almost exactly a year ago, and both were released by the PG County criminal justice system in defiance of an ICE detainer.

ICE has confirmed that Josue Rafael Fuentes-Ponce was first apprehended as part a family unit in Texas on December 23, 2015. “They were ultimately paroled into the U.S. pending the outcome of the immigration case,” said ICE spokeswoman Justine Whelan in a statement. An immigration judge ordered Fuentes removed in absentia on March 16, 2017, but like so many of them, it was too late. He had already disappeared.

Escobar had a parallel experience, except that because his family smuggled him in alone, he was resettled as an unaccompanied alien child. “On Aug. 23, 2016, immigration officials encountered unlawfully present El Salvadoran national Joel Ernesto Escobar as an unaccompanied juvenile near McAllen, Texas. Escobar was transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and later released to a family member in the Washington, D.C. area,” said Whelan.

The fact that, once again, illegal aliens released into our country as part of a smuggling operation were allowed to remain and allegedly commit murder would be tragic enough, but that is not the end of the story.

While the media is focused on the potential cost if President Trump shuts down the southern border for a period of time, there is not much focus on the cost of the status quo unbridled illegal immigration. And that cost is often not quantifiable in monetary terms. A previously deported illegal alien has been arrested in Louisiana on 100 counts of possession of child pornography and sexual battery of a minor.

According to Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry, Miguel Martinez, an illegal alien who had previously been deported in 2005, “was arrested on 100 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13 years old, one count of production under the age of 13, and one count of sexual battery of a juvenile under the age of 13.”

This was the conclusion of a joint state and federal operation, which included Mississippi state authorities as well. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of ICE, has placed a detainer on Martinez pending the outcome of the criminal case. An ICE spokesman confirmed these details with Blaze Media but declined to comment further on Martinez’s background and nationality until he is transferred to ICE custody.

These cases of criminal aliens who have been previously deported, yet successfully re-enter to victimize more Americans have become all too familiar. However, this case has a wrinkle that demonstrates how the criminal alien problem sits at the nexus of both weak border enforcement and sanctuary cities thwarting interior enforcement. It was discovered over the course of the investigation that Martinez had already been convicted of sex crimes in California and is a registered sex offender in the Golden State.

How can known sex offenders be allowed to remain in the country, rather than being turned over to ICE for deportation? It’s dangerous enough for citizen sex offenders to remain around children, but harboring other countries’ sex offenders is a completely avoidable liability.

This case also shows that what is attracted to sanctuary states doesn’t necessarily remain in sanctuary states. By incentivizing illegal immigrants to come and obtain benefits, sanctuary jurisdictions often place other cities and states in danger, in this case, the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.

This is one of the reasons why the Founders swapped out the Articles of Confederation for the Constitution and empowered the federal government to deal with issues pertaining to the sovereignty of all the states collectively. They wanted to protect the entire union from “the intrusion of obnoxious aliens through other States,” in the words of Madison.

Roger Sherman, among the greatest of all the Founders, noted during the House debate on the Naturalization Act of 1790 that “it was intended by the Convention, who framed the Constitution, that Congress should have the power of naturalization, in order to prevent particular States receiving citizens, and forcing them upon others who would not have received them in any other manner” (emphasis added). Sherman was emphatic that federal control was designed to “guard against an improper mode of naturalization” and prevent individual states from flooding the country with immigrants based on “easier terms.”

However, getting all the states to cooperate with federal law enforcement is only half the equation. Even after the criminal aliens are deported, if the border continues to remain largely open, they will march right back in, as Martinez did. This is the untold story of the mass migration and asylum fraud. While as much as 40 percent of Border Patrol resources are diverted to “care for, transport, provide medical and hospital watch for families and children” of those surrendering to agents en masse, according to CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenen, criminal aliens who don’t want to get apprehended have a free opening to re-enter undetected.

The Trump administration ramped up interior deportations by 46 percent in fiscal year 2018 over the final year of the Obama administration. In the same year, ICE apprehended, with intent to deport, illegal aliens who collectively were convicted of or charged with 2,028 homicides, 50,753 assaults, and over 12,000 sexual assaults or sex offenses. How many of these criminal aliens are able to return even more easily than before because of the unprecedented shutdown of Border Patrol?

A recent example was Simon Rochel-Cervantes, an illegal alien from Mexico who spent 11 years in a Kansas facility for the rape of a child. After serving his sentence, Rochel-Cervantes was deported back to Mexico on February 19, yet he was picked up by police in Kansas again just two weeks later.

While a partial border wall alone will not directly solve the mass migration and asylum fraud, it will likely help Border Patrol strategically slow down and interdict those who enter surreptitiously because of their criminal records.

As Jeff Landry, Louisiana attorney general and former congressman, said about this case, “Illegal immigration has real-life consequences – countless numbers of needless crime victims, including too many Louisiana families and children. For their sake – I again urge Congress to realize the national emergency we have at our Southern border, support President Trump, build the wall, and help us make our communities safer.”

When you bring in hundreds of thousands of young males from the most violent countries through a lawless border, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the results. It’s called the Long Island effect. The latest victim of our “unaccompanied alien child” policy and judicial amnesty is a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed almost to death by three “Dreamers” who were members of MS-13, according to local police. They were all released by a federal judge.

WABC in New York reported yesterday that on Wednesday, a group of illegal aliens believed to be tied to MS-13 attacked a 16-year-old boy and stabbed him in the back outside a Burger King.

According to police, three suspects were arrested and charged with assault. Here are their profiles:

Ramon Arevalo Lopez, 19, entered illegally in December 8, 2016, and was apprehended by DHS in October 2017. He should have been thrown out of the country, but he was released by a federal judge.

Nobeli Montes Zuniga, 20, and Oscar Canales Molina, 17, “entered the country illegally as unaccompanied minors.” Molina was apprehended by the feds in July 2017 but was also released by a federal district judge in November 2017.

We have a lot of our own inherent violence in this country, but now we have “animals,” as Trump rightfully calls them, being released into our country and committing completely avoidable violence.

This is the big lie the media is not telling you about the border flow. When you see pictures of 16- and 17-year-old “children” coming here and wrongly being treated as refugees, being released by judges, and placed in our communities, many of them are your 19- to 20-year-old MS-13 members committing the most gruesome crimes just a year or two later. Not all of them, but way too many.

Geraldine Hart, police commissioner of Suffolk County, New York, indicated last May at the president’s roundtable on MS-13 violence in Long Island that the entirety of the MS-13 crisis over the past few years is because of the UACs and that Long Island has it bad because it was the largest recipient of UACs in the nation. “MS-13 sustains itself by constantly recruiting new members, and particularly minors,” said Hart last May 23 with Trump in attendance. “MS-13 members recruit children placed in communities in Suffolk County through the UAC program.” She noted that since 2014, “4,965 UACs have been placed in Suffolk County, making it the largest recipient of UACs in the nation. While the vast majority of these children live law-abiding lives, many of them are susceptible to gang recruitment.”

This reflects the deep problem of criminal aliens coming across our border. It is true that there are a lot of known bad people who come through, but there are also a lot of troubled youth who might not have a paper trail flagged in our international databases, but are very much at risk, particularly when they come in such large numbers and settle in gang-saturated areas. Of all people, Rod Rosenstein explained this dynamic well at that same Long Island roundtable:

“We’re letting people in who are gang members. We’re also letting people in who are vulnerable. Many of these alien children, who have no parents, no family structure — we’re releasing them into communities where they’re vulnerable to recruitment by MS-13. And so some of these kids who come in without any gang ties develop gang ties as a result of the pressure that they face from people that they confront in the communities.”

None of these people are victims of a “severe form of trafficking,” and almost none of them are in the country without any adult relative, the two conditions for eligibility to be treated as a UAC. They are, in fact, self-trafficking themselves in order to reunite with other illegal aliens in this country! They are taking advantage of us, empowering the drug cartels, and serving as the fresh blood of the transnational gangs working for the cartels. They should be repatriated back to their home countries, but instead, we now have judges implementing a greater degree of amnesty than all of the legislative amnesties we’ve successfully defeated.

Thanks to the courts rewriting statutes to include the very evil the UAC statute was designed to combat, 98.2 percent of all Central American teens who came in fiscal year 2017 still remain in our communities.

Think about all of the avoidable crimes that are committed because we refuse to deny entry to or to deport these people. Now the legal system is illegally treating these people like American citizens in all aspects of criminal law. Many of them are released if local judges and sanctuary jurisdiction law enforcement believe the crime wasn’t severe enough. Newsday is reporting that the three stabbers already have swanky lawyers representing them who are claiming their clients are not MS-13 members and are peaceful and innocent.

While everyone is certainly entitled to due process for criminal convictions, there is a broader question to be answered here. We won’t know all the facts about this attack until there is a trial, but we do know they are here illegally. Why then were they not deported when the Suffolk County database had them flagged for being MS-13? Look at how clogged our criminal justice system gets because we refuse to deport the people we can before they commit crimes.

This is a growing trend. A month ago, six MS-13 members were indicted in Lynn, Massachusetts, for killing a boy they suspected was cooperating with law enforcement. They used such force, like “chopping wood,” that the knife was bent, according to prosecutors. According to prosecutors, “At least two of the six defendants have felony records. At least two of the six defendants were previously in immigration custody but were released and went on to commit … murder.” Why weren’t they deported, and why would a judge let them go? The Boston Herald reports that, in the case of at least one, according to the feds, the lawyer “succeeded in convincing an immigration court that he was not in a gang, was not violent, did not pose a threat to the public.”

Sound familiar?

Every illegal alien crime, by definition, is avoidable because we should be enforcing our laws and getting rid of the immigration magnets. But we now have a ubiquitous crisis of known criminal aliens who are let go and are allowed to continue ratcheting up the severity of their crimes. It’s bad enough that we are too weak on sentencing for Americans and so many bad people are on the streets. But when it comes to illegal alien crime, shouldn’t we all agree they should be immediately deported after committing their first crime?

This is why the border issue is not really about the border. It’s about all our communities. Most of the recent invaders are not staying near the border; they are passing through to other states, particularly in the East Coast. At this point, perhaps the only thing that will stop this travesty is when it arrives next door to where the political elites live.