Better take a hard look at border security, eh?
Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez is accused of killing Kate Steinle in a horrific act of random violence.
Lopez-Sanchez was in this country illegally. What’s worse — and a lot worse, at that — is that he’d been deported four times, sent back to Mexico. His fifth illegal re-entry resulted in Steinle’s shooting death.
This case has resonated on several levels, each of which is worthy of comment.
First, there must be some head-knocking occurring at Immigration and Naturalization Service, Border Patrol and Homeland Security offices. How in the world does someone keep getting into this country after getting caught and deported multiple times?
That reasoning did not work in this tragic case.
Third, President Barack Obama has been oddly silent about Steinle’s death. Why is that, Mr. President? Your critics make a valid point that you should be leading the nation in mourning the death of a young woman whose life was taken by someone who shouldn’t have been here in the first place.
Am I going to join the Donald Trump amen chorus in implying that most illegal immigrants are here to commit the kind of act that Lopez-Sanchez is accused of committing? Not on your life.
But the system failed us badly. A young woman’s family is grieving. A nation needs answers.
Trump: an unconventional former president, too?