Trump Blasts Kamala Harris for ‘Migrant Crime Epidemic’ Across Swing States; Police: California-Based Crime Ring Commits ‘Distraction Thefts’ in Utah, Illinois, Nebraska, and Wisconsin

Trump Blasts Kamala Harris for ‘Migrant Crime Epidemic’ Across Swing States:

Former President Donald Trump is blasting Vice President Kamala Harris for what he calls a “migrant crime epidemic” on her watch that has severely impacted swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona, among others.

On Truth Social, Trump posted a series of migrants suspected of crimes like murder, child sexual assault, fatal hit-and-run, rape, and burglary, among other crimes.

In particular, Trump’s post notes that the crimes occurred in critical swing states in this year’s election — the majority of which are thousands of miles from the United States-Mexico border.

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One case that stands out is the illegal alien charged with murdering 22-year-old Laken Riley in Athens, Georgia while she went for a morning jog. Riley was a nursing student and is believed to have been bludgeoned to death by Jose Antonio Ibarra of Venezuela.

Ibarra was encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas, on September 8, 2022. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials cited “detention capacity” as the reason Ibarra was rewarded parole through President Joe Biden and Harris’s parole pipeline.

As Breitbart News reported, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data shows there were about 8,100 available detention beds at the time Ibarra was encountered at the border. —>READ MORE HERE

Police: California-Based Crime Ring Commits ‘Distraction Thefts’ in Utah, Illinois, Nebraska, and Wisconsin

Police tracked an organized crime ring from a quiet Utah town through southern California, Illinois, Nebraska, and Wisconsin after it made off with thousands of dollars from unsuspecting shoppers in a boom of “distraction thefts.”

The St. George Police Department has reported 37 distraction thefts — in which criminals enter stores and other public places in a group to target vulnerable people — in just the last year. The problem began getting worse in 2021, Sgt. Zack Bahlmann told Fox News.

Many of these criminals are associated with Romanian and South American crime rings coming out of California, the outlet reported.

“Predominantly, we have these suspects working in groups of two or three entering business establishments,” Bahlmann said Wednesday. “One person will engage. They’ll identify a target. They’ll look for a person that has a purse or a wallet that’s in the shopping cart or readily accessible.”

In a time when Americans are already dealing with record-high inflation in the prices of groceries and other household items, these perpetrators have learned how to pick on consumers to pull a fast one.

“One of the people will engage the target, ask them a question about the product, something to divert their attention away from that cart,” Bahlmann explained. “Then another person will pull something out of the cart.”

Jairo Gavida-Monroy, 37, Andres Fabian Villanueva-Rodriguez, 32, and a third man — all Colombian nationals — were finally arrested in August after a string of distraction thefts across multiple states.

Two of the men are accused of snatching a woman’s purse from her shopping cart in a home improvement store on May 18 and then using her bank cards at a nearby store in the same complex, Fox reported after viewing surveillance footage.

Police said the victim’s cards were charged $1,138 just minutes after she was robbed, then later another $1,050 from a nearby pharmacy.

The suspects allegedly repeated the crime on another shopper at a grocery store on the same street about an hour later. —>READ MORE HERE

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