#StateOfOurBorder
Y'all have heard me tell the story of Jared Vargas.
https://twitter.com/repchiproy/status/1085547643298811905?lang=en …
Jared’s story alone should be enough to make us act. It hasn't. Here are a few more …
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Spencer and Jared are not alone. 16-year-old Tessa Nicole Tranchant and 17-year-old Allison Kunhardt were sitting at a stoplight when an illegal immigrant driving drunk w/ a fake license hit them going over 70 mph.https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/after-his-daughters-death-father-advocates-immigration-reform-following-crash/439821177 …
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Alfredo Ramos--the immigrant who killed Tessa and Allison--purchased his fake license from a cartel. As was the case with Jared and Spencer’s respective killers, Ramos was previously arrested.
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Prior to killing Tessa and Allison, Ramos ran a cop off the road while drunk. Officers ticketed, sentenced, and fined him. Yet, the local sheriff released him. Tessa’s mother claims
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Jared, Spencer, Tessa, and Allison aren’t alone. 41-year-old Purple Heart and Medal of Valor winner Don Johnston was shot by an illegal immigrant. Johnston, a police officer, was answering a call at a bank.
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An illegal immigrant, using a bank customer as a shield, fired at Johnston. A bullet struck two vertebrae in Johnston’s neck and left bone spurs near his spinal cord. The swelling left Johnston paralyzed. Johnston died 12 years later.https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-26-ga-175-story.html …
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What Americans see on a day-to-day basis is what is happening North of our border, or in English-speaking media. Americans aren’t the only ones suffering from our failures. Lives are being taken North and South of our border. Mexican drug cartels have operational control.
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As I’ve said, reasonable people can disagree about the specifics of securing our border, the appropriate levels of immigration, and other specifics. No one can disagree that these families should not have lost a loved one because we refuse to get anything done.
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As the Washington continues playing politics, we should remember Jared, Spencer, Tessa, Allison, Officer Johnston, the migrant in a cartel stash house, and countless others impacted from our failures.
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