“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”

Those were the indelible comments Trump made when he announced his candidacy for president at Trump Tower June 16, 2015. That statement was truer than he could even imagine, yet three years into the presidency, thanks to capitulation on every single budget battle and legislative point of leverage, ICE doesn’t even have the funding to swiftly remove all of the worst foreign criminals.

The local NBC affiliate in Charleston, South Carolina, reported on Friday, “A Charleston County man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly sexually assaulted a girl who was in fourth grade.” Except this is no Charleston man; this is an illegal alien from Mexico, according to the booking in the county jail.

The charging affidavit alleges that between February and June 2019, Carlos Bartolo Rios, 29, sexually assaulted the girl and forced her to watch sex videos. He was arrested Thursday night by the U.S. Marshals and is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11 years old. He is being held at the Charleston County Jail, where there is an ICE hold on him because of his immigration status.

Ever wonder how many of these sexual assaults every year are committed by illegal aliens because we refuse to actually enforce the laws on the books?

Thankfully, South Carolina cooperates with ICE, but because the biggest illegal alien jurisdictions do not, we will never know the true number. However, ICE recently reported that just for fiscal year 2019, there were a total of 14,500 sex crime charges among those who were subject to ICE detainers.

Moreover, it’s likely that ICE is missing many of these people thanks to sanctuary jurisdictions releasing sex offenders, including child sex offenders. The number of apprehensions in sanctuary states has plummeted. For example, South Carolina is under the auspices of ICE’s Atlanta field office, which made 13,247 arrests last year. Contrast that to the Los Angeles field office, which made just 6,657 arrests. That is simply astounding given how many more illegal aliens live in California and tells us that, given that 90 percent of those targeted by ICE are criminal aliens, there are endless dangerous criminals like Rios who are not caught and removed if they commit their crimes in places like California.

This is the case the Republicans have failed to make for three years. ICE has just between five and six thousand deportation officers to deal with a population of several million criminal aliens who have criminal records, not to mention any other enforcement priorities. Most illegal aliens, and even criminal aliens in sanctuary cities, are escaping enforcement. As late as 2014, ICE was making over 16,000 arrests from the L.A. field office and 14,000 in 2016. Sanctuaries are winning, and immigration enforcement is plummeting under Trump because the administration is failing to harness the bully pulpit and the leverage of veto power in the budget to force a fight. Thus, as Trump understood when he launched his campaign, there will now be many child rapists remaining in this country.

How many more lives need to be lost to Islamic terror before it becomes fashionable to shut off mass migration and visas from the Middle East?

A parallel question is often asked by the Left about gun control after a mass shooting incident, but there is one important distinction: American citizens’ self-defense is an inalienable right; all immigration, including mass migration, student visas, and foreign military training visas, is not.

On Friday, just hours before the commemoration of the 78^th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, a naval base in Pensacola was attacked by a Saudi Arabian national. At least 10 other Saudis are also training there. Unlike at Pearl Harbor, however, this attack was committed by an enemy within that we electively brought into the country, and then onto our military bases. Why?

Imagine if the American people were given a voice as to whether we will electively bring in an estimated 850 Saudi pilots to train on our military bases. What if we had been given a choice after 9/11 of whether to double our intake of immigration from the Middle East? What if we had been told that after 15 Saudi nationals flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, we’d bring roughly 40,000 students from Saudi Arabia into our universities every year? Would the public have supported such a suicidal plan? Fat chance.

Some stories cannot be described as anything short of horrific: A missing Florida teenager was found in pornographic online videos almost a year after she disappeared.

The Florida Sun-Sentinel reported the story last week. According to a police report obtained by the newspaper, the missing 15-year-old's mother found sexually explicit photos of the girl online. When law enforcement looked further, they found her in almost 60 pornographic videos across multiple digital platforms.

In some of the videos, the teen was seen with a bald man whom police recognized as someone she had been seen with around the time she went missing. Using surveillance footage, they were able to track down and find the girl and arrest the suspect, who denies raping the alleged victim.

Upon searching the suspect's apartment, they also found paperwork from an abortion clinic. A detective explained in the police report, “The victim stated that she got pregnant from the defendant and he took her to the clinic to have an abortion.”

The suspect is being held in jail on felony charges of lewd or lascivious battery on a victim between the ages of 12 and 16, the Sun-Sentinel reports.

The details of this account are terrifying, especially for parents. Perhaps even more terrifying is that we simply don't know how many other cases similar this are happening right now.

The situation described in the arrest report appears to be nothing less than sex trafficking and doesn't differ all that much from the plot described in anti-trafficking activist and filmmaker Jaco Booyens' 2014 film "8 Days," which was based on multiple trafficking stories. Indeed, this story should force all of those disgusted by it to confront the reality of the link between internet pornography and sex trafficking.

Because of the growth of free pornographic websites, the distribution of explicit material across many different social media platforms, and the underground nature of sexual exploitation, there's simply no way to know how many crimes like this are out there.

In a July blog post, the anti-pornography educational nonprofit Fight the New Drug explained, "The average porn consumer, likely exposed and hooked in before the age of 18, has no idea what exactly goes into the production of a single pornographic image or video" or whether or not a "performer" was there of his or her own free will.

"We’re not claiming that all porn is non-consensual," the blog post cautions. "We’re just pointing out that some of it is and some of it isn’t, and there’s no legitimate way to know which is which."

A 2014 post from the nonprofit Human Trafficking Search explains that traffickers put victims into pornography for both increased financial gain and a means of psychological control. "It is possible for a young woman or girl to walk away from sex trafficking and start a new life, but sexually illicit photos or films will follow her forever," the post says. "Traffickers know this and use it as a method of control and blackmail, letting the girls know that now they are on the Internet they can never escape the life."

“I really wish that people who watch porn knew more about" the link to trafficking, Dr. Mahri Irvine, adjunct professional lecturer at American University, said earlier this year. "Because I think they believe that they’re engaging in this activity in a very passive way. And they’re like, ‘Oh, I’m doing it in the privacy of my own home and this is just a video that I’m watching’. And they’re not associating it with the fact that pornography is very often the filmed rape of sex trafficking victims.”

It’s exactly why proponents of the bipartisan leniency for violent drug traffickers and gang members didn’t want a transparent debate in Congress over the bill. It’s why they stifled all dissent and rammed the biggest change to federal prison sentencing in three decades through the House on a “suspension vote” with no debate or hearings during the last moments in session last year, when all eyes were focused on the pending government shutdown. They didn’t want you to know they’d be releasing people like Joel Francisco of Providence, Rhode Island.

In order to perpetuate the lie that we are somehow unjustly incarcerating too many people for too long and that there is a general over-incarceration problem, particularly in federal prison, phony conservatives joined liberals in selling the First Step Act as nothing more than “prison reform,” never telling the fact that it dramatically cut sentencing for thousands of hardened criminals. They told us it would only affect first time, low-level, non-violent offenders. In reality, federal prosecutors only pursue the worst criminals in a given area, who are often gang leaders fueling widespread violence, and convict them on drug charges. That is why CR is the only legislation scorecard that had the fortitude to score against this travesty of a bill.

In February, when the first wave of prisoners were released, Joel Francisco was among them. Who is Joel Francisco? According to Cmdr. Thomas Verdi, deputy chief of the Providence Police Department, quoted in the Providence Journal, he is a “cold, evil, violent person.”

“Some criminals deserve to spend their lives incarcerated,” Verdi said. “Joel is one.”

Yet like most people in federal prison for drug charges, he was officially “only” convicted as a crack dealer. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2005 because it was his third conviction. That sounds harsh, but he was hit with the maximum sentence because he was a Latin Kings gang leader who was believed to be responsible for a lot of violence in the city. The incarceration of people like him is the single most important factor in driving down the murder rate since the 1990s.

In 2010, Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act, which raised the quantity of crack cocaine needed to trigger the sentencing guidelines to be more on par with the levels of powder cocaine.  Among the many retroactive jailbreak provisions of the First Step Act of 2018 was section 404, which applied the leniencies of the 2010 act to crack dealers already convicted prior to enactment. Francisco was one who was released under the retroactive reduction of sentencing for repeat crack dealers. 2,600 federal inmates are potentially eligible for retroactive reductions under this provision, according to the Marshall Project.

During the debate over the bill, Senator Mike Lee claimed that “nothing” in the bill gives inmates “early release.” Sen. Tom Cotton replied by specifically warning about the crack cocaine provision. As of July, 1,691 inmates were released early just under section 404.

According to the Providence Journal, Francisco was accused of attempting to break into an ex-girlfriend’s home in July, and a knife was found on the scene, but he was not reincarcerated. Now there is an arrest warrant out on him for the stabbing of Troy Pine, 46, who was found dead last Wednesday night in a local bar. Francisco was scheduled to be arraigned for the attempted domestic violence and break-in charges on October 15, but he is now a fugitive.

The sad thing is that none of the foolish pro-criminal politicians in the White House or Congress from either party will be made to answer for Francisco and God knows how many others like him who have been released. As I’ve chronicled almost daily at CR, there is an epidemic of repeat violent offenders going on to commit heinous murders and rapes, yet the media seldom reports how and why they were let out of jail. The same way the “abolish ICE” movement doesn’t want you to know how many heinous crimes are committed by deportable aliens who should have been removed, the “abolish prison” crowd doesn’t want you to know how many murders were committed by repeat drug offenders and other offenders who were released from prison.

If not for the Providence Journal, I would never have known about this case, and undoubtedly, there are countless others who are now back in the criminal underworld, yet their stories will never be told. Sob stories of victims are never told by Kim Kardashian and Ivanka Trump, but only those of cartel traffickers.

The issue of how abortion survivors should be treated under the law has been hotly debated over the past few months. But just how many children survive abortions in the United States? We don't know, because only a small number of states report the data.

The data, reported by Fox News, shows that at least 40 people were born alive after botched abortions across three states since 2016. Minnesota reported 11 since 2016. Arizona reported 10 such cases in 2017, and Florida reported 19 the same year.

Other states, the report notes, have laws that require reporting information on children born after failed abortion attempts, but those have either not seen any cases or have simply not started putting the data together.

This data offers only a small portion of the whole picture, however, because state-level abortion information like this is only reported on a voluntary basis. And many states with lax abortion laws don't report their abortion information. The CDC pointed this problem out in a 2018 abortion report: "Because the collection and reporting of abortion data are not federally mandated, many reporting areas have developed their own data collection forms, and therefore do not collect or provide all the information or level of detail included in this report."

"Imagine if all that we knew about bank safety came from the financial industry’s own press releases or if we relied on a restaurant owner’s assertion about what could be found in a private inspection of the kitchen," wrote Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins about abortion reporting last year. Hawkins went on to call for the passage of "a National Abortion Reporting law."

Earlier this year, Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Gary Palmer, R-Ala., introduced a bill to "mandate accurate reporting of abortion data to the CDC and ensure that states are given technical assistance to help with data collection."

The issue of abortion survivors became a large part of the abortion discussion earlier this year after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, D, said that, under a proposed state-level abortion bill "the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

After Northam's comments, the Senate voted on a bill that would have required that doctors provide medical care to the survivors of botched abortions; it failed when 44 Democrats voted against it. House Republicans have tried 80 separate times to bring the bill to the floor in the lower chamber and even filed a discharge petition on the matter, but Democratic leaders still refuse to allow a vote on the measure.

While many abortion survivors don't live to maturity, some have gone on to lead fulfilling lives. For example, Melissa Ohden — who survived a saline abortion — has written a book about her experiences. Josiah Presley also went on to become an advocate for the unborn, as has Claire Culwell.

Nik Hoot lost parts of his arms and legs to a failed abortion, but went on to wrestle in high school and is now a middle school wrestling coach.

“I knew that I was supposed to be an aborted baby and it failed," Hoot once said. "It makes me angry because I would never want for that to happen to any kid. Anybody can become anything, and getting rid of a kid like that isn’t right to me.”