Morning Wire - Record “Gotaways” Under Biden & Shooting Teen Released | 5.18.24

Episode Date: May 18, 2024

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Another high-profile soft-on-crime case, this time in D.C., where a teenager accused of firing dozens of shots at a car full of people has been released by a self-described woke judge. That kid shot up the neighborhood and then calmly went back into the house. But for the grace of God, nobody died in my neighborhood that night. And it's not just the U.S. suffering a wave of mass illegal migration. The U.K. is also finding itself maxed out and spending more and more taxpayer money to handle the problem. Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know. Can your savings weather another economic storm? Think about what you've put away for the future.

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More illegal immigrants have evaded border security and entered the country since Biden took office than over the previous decade. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about the new data and new immigration rules that the president reportedly has planned. Hey Tim, so how bad are these new immigration numbers? They're staggering. More migrants have entered the country while evading law enforcement since fiscal year 2020 than in all the prior decade.

Fox News got the numbers through an open records request to the Department of Homeland Security. The records show that from fiscal year 2010 through fiscal year 2020, Border Patrol tallied more than 1.4 million gotaways. The annual numbers range from between a low of 86,000 in 2011 to nearly 172,000. in 2013. In fiscal year 2021, when Biden's terms started, the numbers jumped significantly. Authorities counted 387,000 gotaways that year, 606,000 the next, and finally, 671,000 in fiscal year 2023. Altogether, roughly 1.6 million illegal immigrants entered the country and evaded

apprehension in those three years versus, again, 1.4 million from 2010 through 2020. Those are quite the eye-popping numbers. Now, recently we've seen some news about migrants slid into the country under asylum procedures. What have you seen? Well, there's been a spate of crimes committed by migrants in the country on asylum claims. For instance, last week, police in Florida arrested 20-year-old Marvin Perez-Lopez on child kidnapping and sexual assault charges. Perez-Lopez is a Guatemalan national who entered the country illegally in January. He turned himself into the Border Patrol and claimed asylum. Authorities scheduled a court hearing to process his claim for sometime in 27 before they released him into the country on his own recognizance.

According to the arrest report, Perez lured an 11-year-old girl into his van and then assaulted her. It wasn't until the girl's mother when looking for her, saw them inside the van, and started to bang on the window that the child was set free. Perez Lopez allegedly fled, but police later cut up with him and took him into custody. He is being held in jail and Palm each county without bail. Oh, just an awful story. So President Biden is reportedly planning some reforms to these asylum processes, but would these changes have prevented this and other crimes in some way? Depends. If Perez Lopez had a criminal history and if Border Patrol agents were able to access that criminal history, then maybe he's not allowed into the country. But if an asylum applicant

doesn't have a recorded criminal history or if it's made up of minor crimes, or if he came from a country that doesn't share criminal data, then there's a good chance the applicant will be allowed into the U.S. anyway. So what would these reforms do or maybe not do? So federal law bars anyone who could pose a national security or public safety risk from asylum. This is supposed to be worked out through the asylum application process, but as it's currently structured, an applicant's criminal history isn't scrutinized until late in the process. The president's reported reforms would allow that step to happen much earlier in the process and ideally block. ineligible applicants before they're released into the country. But it's important to know that

these reforms only target applicants who have committed serious crimes or are potential terrorists. Others would still likely be released and could be in the U.S. for years before their asylum claims are heard in court because of the system's massive backlog. So it sounds like the Biden administration has a lot of work to do with asylum reform. Tim, thanks for reporting. Good to be on. A teenager accused of firing dozens of shots at a car full of people in Washington, has been released on bail by a self-styled woke judge. The alarming case has gained national attention amid a series of violent incidents involving criminals led out on the street by soft-on-crime officials. Judge Lloyd Nolan Jr., a magistrate judge who sits on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, released 18-year-old Amante Moody ahead of his trial even after admitting the teen's alleged actions could have killed someone. Here to discuss the case is Daily Wire Senior Editor Ash Short.

Hey Ash. So first, what is Moody accused of doing? Moody allegedly fired more than two dozen shots from an AR-15 at a car full of people on a busy street in D.C. on April 22nd. Surveillance footage allegedly shows him firing the gun and he's been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, among other charges. That's an extremely serious charges. How did he get released?

So the judge overseeing his bail hearing, Lloyd Nolan, is a progressive activist who is donated to a foundation created using George Soros' open society funds. And while Nolan's Facebook account is now private, it did show him posting about progressive activism, including support for Black Lives Matter and calling himself woke. He also donated to Gideon's Promise, an organization founded in 2007 on behalf of a professor through a fellowship from Soros' Open Society Foundation. The organization claims on its website that its mission is to, quote, transformed the criminal justice system by building a movement of public defenders who provide equal justice for marginalized communities.

So the judge is an admitted activist. How did he justify releasing Moody, though? It's difficult to say. Judge Nolan admitted that Moody's actions could have killed someone and agreed that there was enough evidence to send the case to trial. Now, Moody's public defender asked for her client to be released with GPS monitoring and insisted that Moody had a supportive family that would look out for him until his trial. Prosecutors argued that this supposedly supportive environment existed before Moody allegedly fired his weapon, and Nolan seemed to agree. The judge even said, quote, for something to escalate to the point where you feel you need to go into the middle of the street and let off 26 shots, I don't know what set of circumstances short of incarceration I can find, end quote. And yet he still released the team. Right. Judge Nolan actually seemed to be leaning toward incarceration, but Moody's public defender rejected that our. argument eight separate times and kept talking about how Moody didn't have a prior record and that

his personality had changed when his grandfather died. She also claimed that after two weeks already in jail, Moody didn't want to end up there again, a sort of scared straight argument. Eventually, her arguments worked and Nolan gave in. Now, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has already filed an emergency order to try to overturn Nolan's decision. Now, as we mentioned at the top, this is not the only case like this where a progressive jurist, in this case a judge, in fact, when supported by Soros, has been extremely lenient despite serious charges, correct? Right. This has become a very clear trend ranging from coast to coast. San Francisco's DA, Chesa-Budin, was removed by recall in 2022 over the same soft-on-crime pattern. And Philly's

DA Larry Krasner has also come under heavy fire, including in recent weeks by members of Congress, who point to his policies as leading to the death of police officers. Here's Republican Representative Jim Jordan during a committee hearing earlier this month. When you don't prosecute bad guys, you shouldn't be surprised that you get more crime. So these local officials like Judge Nolan are starting to get more federal attention. Meanwhile, we'll see where this case in D.C. goes from here. Ash, thanks for reporting. You're welcome.

New research has revealed that illegal immigration costs the U.K. taxpayer 14,000. billion pounds per year. That's more than $17 billion. Here to shed light on the significance of that figure is Sarah Elliott, senior advisor to the Lagatum Institute. Hey, Sarah. So what exactly has been revealed here and where is it coming from? Hi, John. So yes, this data was recently revealed by Dame Andrea Jenkins, the deputy chairwoman of the European Research Group, who also served as a minister under former Prime Minister Liz Truss. She conducted a deep dive on the cost of illegal immigration and came away with some really stunning conclusions. Each illegal immigrant costs the UK 12,000 pounds per year in public services, which totals around 14.4 billion pounds

for the estimated 1.2 million illegals living in the UK. So for our American audience, that's something like $15,000 per migrant. And this 14.4 billion, that includes only illegal immigrants, not legal migrants, right? That's correct. That's correct. These figures do not reflect any costs incurred by taxpayers from mass legal migration, which has soared in the UK. In fact, it recently hit a record in 2022 of 745,000, and that is just net migration. So more people have arrived in the UK than that. It has also been revealed that the UK is spending 8 million pounds per day on housing migrants who crossed the channel from France illegally. Eight million pounds per day.

Has the government taken steps to address this influx and cut any of these calls? Well, the U.K. Home Office, who is responsible for border control, it has projected to spend 482 million pounds on immigration enforcement in 2024. This is in addition to the recent Rwanda plan, where the government will be sending illegal asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of an agreement with the country. The project is designed to effectively scare people off arriving illegally into the UK, with the threat of being moved to somewhere completely different.

370 million pounds has been earmarked as part of the scheme, with each person sent to Rwanda costing at least 150,000 pounds for housing. The UK government will also pay grants 478 million pounds to step up their work against human smugglers. All right, so you say this Rwanda bill is designed to deter illegal immigration. Has it had any impact? actually working. The stats can only speak for themselves. This policy was designed to deter the small boat landings in the UK, but the evidence is to the contrary. They appear to be growing. We saw a 35% increase over the same period last year, when 6,415 illegals arrived by boat. Worryingly, the UK may be throwing more money away with these schemes rather than solving the problem or

addressing the cost. That's what appears to be failing so far. Are there, other solutions on the table? Well, yes, interestingly, Dame Andrea Jenkins voted against the Rwandan bill. She thought it did not go far enough and worried it would not be worth the cost of the outcomes. Instead, she has proposed as the only viable way to reduce illegal immigration for the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, removing the authority of the Strasbourg Court to intervene on migrant withdrawal in the UK. At that stage, the UK could theoretically increase the speed and severity at which it removes illegal migrants. Dame Andrea has also called for increased surveillance of coastlines and halting all payments to France until they step up their actions

against the Channel Crossing boats. An interesting point given the French Navy has been accused of actively helping the migrants reach UK waters and Paris has refused to take back migrants who originated on their shores. Sounds like there's still lots of work to do for those who want to stem the tide there. Meanwhile, here in the U.S. dealing with the illegal immigration issue has become one of the top priorities for voters. Sarah, thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. That was Sarah Elliott, senior advisor to the Legatum Institute. All right, thank you for listening this morning. But before we go, Katie, thanks so much for working with us this week. It's been a real pleasure. And where can listeners find you going forward?

Thanks so much. It's been awesome being able to report the biggest stories of the day with you. And for the future, you can find me at townhall, bip.com. Thanks for waking up with us. We'll be back this afternoon with an extra edition of Morning Wire.