Do you know that an adult male is not allowed to enter Legoland by himself? If I wanted to go to Legoland by myself, they would not let me in. They believe that a single male going to a place like Legoland that was created for families and children increases the risk of children being victims of kidnapping or pedophilia. Does that mean that every male who wants to go to Legoland by himself is a kidnapper or a pedophile? Of course not, but there is a higher probability that that person would be one, and the people who run Legoland want to create a safe environment for their patrons by having a policy which greatly reduces the risk of anyone of their visitors becoming a victim of crime.
Why can’t we not apply this same thinking to people crossing our border? Single adult males should not be allowed to enter our country. They pose a much higher risk of crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and terrorism. If it is not a violation of an American citizens rights for a single male to be prohibited from entering a place like Legoland because his demographic group poses a higher increase of kidnapping and pedophilia, then why would anyone consider that same type of policy toward migrants may be infringing on their rights when they are not even American citizens?
We are constantly told that we need to have an open border so that families less fortunate that ourselves who are looking for a better life have a chance of experiencing the American dream, but the videos that I have seen of border crossers over the last three and a half years have not been of families of looking for a better life. Most of the border crossers are single males between the age of 16 and 30. There are very few women and very few children crossing our southern border illegally. And these males between the ages of 16 and 30 are not coming to improve their own lives or improve the lives of American citizens. Many have come to exploit the system or commit crime.
Last week, police arrested Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez who raped and murdered mother of 5, Rachel Morin, 10 months ago, in Maryland. He is an illegal alien from El Salvador who fled to the United States after murdering a young woman in El Salvador in January 2023. Shortly after crossing our southern border, he brutally attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother during a home invasion in Los Angeles. His DNA has been matched to that crime as well. He is a rapist and murderer from El Salvador who came to America on the run from authorities looking for sanctuary, and Joe Biden and the Democrats swung the door wide open and welcomed him in, which allowed him to continually commit heinous crimes against American citizens.
This is not an isolated incident. It is becoming an epidemic. Jose Antonio Ibarra, the man who murdered Laken Riley in Georgia was a criminal illegal alien who entered the country illegally in 2021. Earlier this month in Queens, NY, Bernardo Castro Mata, 19 — who entered the United States illegally last year — shot police officers Richard Yarusso, 26, and Christopher Abreu, 26. It was seven male illegal immigrants who beat up the cops in Times Square earlier this year.
In 2023, 334,900 Venezuelans have illegally crossed into our country, many of whom are members of the Tren de Aragua, one of the deadliest gangs from Venezuela. Last month, in Louisiana, Homeland Security Investigations busted a sex trafficking scheme led by members from Tren de Aragua who had been forcing Venezuelan women into sex trafficking to repay coyotes who smuggled them into the U.S.
It is not just crime that we are importing into this country by allowing single males of military age to walk across our border. Last week, eight men from Tajikistan with ties to ISIS were arrested in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. The suspects had been on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force radar and were arrested by ICE. All were single males of military age.
In 2023, 659 known or suspected terrorists were apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S. Since January 2021, there have been an estimated 1.7 million “gotaways” who have entered the U.S. Former ICE Chief Tom Homan believes that many are coming from countries that are sponsors of terrorism. “If you don’t think a single one of the 1.7 million [gotaways] is coming from a country that sponsors terrorism, then you’re ignoring the data. That’s what makes this a huge national security issue.” Biden and the Democrats know this is all happening, they know this is a threat, and they are allowing it anyway.
These are not isolated or one-off incidents. These are the expected results of opening our southern border and allowing anyone into our country unvetted, and then offering sanctuary to them in our major city. Not only are we importing the world’s poverty into our country and signing them all up for our social services programs which will eventually bleed us dry, if it has not already, we are importing the world’s worst criminal elements into our country and we are importing people who want to destroy our country.
What would happen in Legoland if they allowed single adult males to enter Legoland? There would be a dramatic increase in pedophilia at Legoland, and Legoland would no longer be a place for children and families, that is why single males are not allowed. It is mind boggling to realize that the people who run Legoland are smarter and care more protecting the people they are responsible for than the people who are currently running our country. And if we continue down the path we are on, very soon, the United States of America will no longer be a place safe for families and children.
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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.