When this story broke a few weeks ago, it was shared across social media not only as a disturbing story about an attack on law enforcement officers, but as yet another example of the steep and crime-riddled decline of our nation’s capital city. As it turns out, there’s another major angle to the episode. According to our former colleague Julio Rosas’ sources, the man who shot three DC cops during that violent episode (thankfully, none of the resulting wounds were life-threatening) is in the United States illegally:
After Donald Trump was elected nearly eight years ago, DC’s mayor put out a virtue-signaling statement, affirming the District’s ‘sanctuary’ status. She claimed that such policies make the city “safer and stronger.” Such embarrassing naivety (at best) has aged about as well in DC as it has elsewhere during the Biden border crisis. Rosas’ report was published within hours of Fox’s Bill Melugin relaying this development from across the Potomac in Virginia: