12/19/2025
"I have spent my entire adult life in law enforcement. Over nearly four decades on the job, you learn that the distance between a safe neighborhood and a tragedy is often measured in inches and seconds. You also learn to recognize when someone is lying to you.
For years, we have been fed a lie. It is a lie told by pundits, activists, and politicians who live far away from the consequences of their theories or are blind to its negative impact on our community. The lie is that enforcing our immigration laws is somehow "cruel." We are told that looking the other way when foreign nationals break our laws is an act of "compassion."
I am writing this today not as a politician, and not as a bureaucrat. I am writing this as a cop who is tired of seeing innocent people pay the price for this delusion.
Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security released its database on the Worst of the Worst criminal aliens arrested across the nation. If you have the stomach for it, I suggest you read it: https://www.dhs.gov/wow It is not a policy paper or a partisan screed. It is a catalog of preventable human suffering - including here in Bucks County.
The list details individuals arrested in Doylestown, Hilltown, and Middletown. These aren’t "undocumented workers" caught with a broken taillight. These are predators with charges including Strongarm R**e, Exploitation of a Minor, RICO violations, and Human Trafficking.
The premise we are constantly asked to accept - that we should shelter those who are here illegally in the name of "tolerance" - collapses the moment you look at those charges. There is nothing tolerant about allowing a child ra**st to set up shop in our community. There is nothing compassionate about shielding a gang member who is trafficking human beings.
When we are told that enforcing our nation’s laws "tears families apart," we need to have the courage to ask the uncomfortable question: What about the families these men destroyed?
And here is the infuriating reality: Every single one of those crimes was preventable. The perpetrators were here illegally. They had no right to be in this country. If we had a system that prioritized public safety over scoring political points - if we simply enforced the laws on the books - those victims would still be whole.
It is sad that we have allowed a partisan environment to develop where stopping these criminals is considered controversial. We have let the conversation be hijacked by people who care more about the feelings of an illegal foreign national criminal than the safety of a Bucks County neighbor.
We need to reject the premise entirely. The debate shouldn't be about whether it is "nice" to hand violent criminals over to federal authorities. The debate should be: What can we do to prevent the next victim?
The only people who benefit when we refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement are the criminals themselves. The people who pay the price are the families who mistakenly believed their government’s first priority was to protect them.
It is time to stop apologizing for wanting safe streets. It is time to stop pretending that negligence is a virtue. The "Worst of the Worst" are real, and they are dangerous. We owe it to every law-abiding resident of this county to stop playing political games and start enforcing the law. The safety of our neighbors is non-negotiable, and it’s time we started acting like it."
