To hear that there was a horrific crime last week in Philadelphia, unfortunately, is not shocking. A Philadelphia woman was raped on a train, according to police. And while all rapes are horrific, this crime was noteworthy for two very sad and specific reasons, both of which show that it could have been prevented. First, police reported that the woman was raped on a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority train in front of multiple passengers, and no one bothered to intervene or call the police. As if that was not horrifying enough, the suspect, Fiston Ngoy, is an illegal immigrant who was supposed to have been deported in 2015.
The rape occurred on Philadelphia’s Market-Frankford elevated train route. It is commonly known as the “El.” It is a train route I took every day while I was in high school. It is a train route that I take frequently even now. The fact that not one person bothered to intervene or, at a bare minimum, call 911 to help the victim is abhorrent. The fact that bystanders instead, over the course of 27 train stops on one of SEPTA’s busiest train routes, allegedly recorded the rape on their cellphones is absolutely disgusting. It is a sad commentary of my fellow residents in the City of Brotherly Love. This is one instance in which the rape could have been prevented. Immigration and criminal justice policies reveal the other failure.
Ngoy’s case reveals just how devastating the decisions of liberal judges can be. It is a painful reminder of how brutal the consequences of illegal immigration can be. The fact that Ngoy was an illegal immigrant and should have been deported is angering.
After he illegally stayed in the U.S. when his student visa was terminated in 2015, Ngoy had multiple arrests, court records showed. He also was convicted twice for misdemeanors, one of which was sexual abuse. In 2017, after pleading guilty to the sex charge in Washington, D.C., he was sentenced to 120 days in jail and then placed in an immigration detention center in January 2018, Tucker Carson Tonight reported.
He overstayed his visa and had a criminal record, so why wasn’t Ngoy deported? The reason is because, in 2019, an immigration judge ordered a “withholding of removal” after the Board of Immigration Appeals determined that his sex charge was not a serious enough crime that warranted deportation.
This is indicative of how disastrous the Left’s immigration and criminal policies are. Ngoy is just the latest example of an illegal immigrant who was spared from deportation by illegal immigration activist leaders only to turn around and brutally harm an innocent life. And, all too often, these victims are women. Between lousy immigration policies and horrific criminal justice decisions, people on the Left are enabling a plague of criminal horrors on unsuspecting, innocent people. When will enough be enough before our country starts taking illegal immigration seriously and holding those that break the law accountable for their crimes?
