Washington Examiner senior columnist Guy Benson said Saturday that some Democratic politicians are offering “sickening” silence to the families of victims of illegal immigrant criminals.
Linda Davis, a teacher at Hesse K-8 school in Savannah, Georgia, was killed Feb. 16 when an illegal immigrant struck her vehicle while fleeing arrest. Davis is the latest victim of illegal immigrant crime in the United States, an issue President Donald Trump spotlighted during the 2024 campaign trail and is still seeking to address in the White House.
Benson said people like Kilmar Abrego Garcia are “household names celebrated in some quarters” of the Democratic Party, as some politicians will “posture against federal law enforcement” with them. In comparison, illegal immigrant crime victims are “extremely inconvenient” for these politicians, who “pretend that they don’t exist.”
“There is more empathy for the so-called victims of ICE who are here illegally, many of them with a criminal record, than there are for the American victims of these crimes,” Benson said on Fox News’s Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany.
Benson also listed other victims of illegal immigrant crimes, including Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, and asked if some politicians who have “a lot to say about ICE” or Trump have mourned these deaths. In many cases, Benson said the answer is “radio silence.”
“It is completely inverted morally, it is sickening, actually, and I think it underscores the debate that we’re having in this country,” Benson said. “On the right, we generally believe that people who are here illegally should not be allowed to stay, especially if they’ve committed other crimes. On the left, they are all in on demonizing and in many cases attacking federal law enforcement who are trying to carry out the law.”
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Benson added that a “fairly routine basis” of “left-wing attacks and violence” is happening across the nation, citing the stolen ambulance that was purposely driven into a building where the Department of Homeland Security was leasing offices in Idaho. He contended the press’s lack of coverage on these acts of violence comes as it is instead focused on “the real outrage” of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests.
ICE rebuffed a claim on social media that shared the initial reporting that the agency had killed Davis “when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.” The agency called this “an utterly disgusting lie” and said the “criminal illegal alien fled from law enforcement” and crashed into Davis’s vehicle.
