From RICH ROSTRON of :The Response
McHenry County Congressional reps favor violent illegals
Pres. Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act today, but he didn’t get any help from Democrats representing McHenry County in Congress.
All voted against the act.
That means that Jan Schakowsky (9th District), Brad Schneider (10th District), and Bill Foster (11th District) all voted to protect illegal aliens even if they commit crimes beyond illegally entering the country.
Locally, Republican Congressman Darin LaHood voted in favor of the bill.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Sen. Dick Durbin also voted against the law.
The idea that a 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student could be brutally raped and murdered by an illegal while jogging on the Athens, GA, campus didn’t sway their opinions; they were more concerned about protecting the presumed rights of illegals.
In spite of their lack of compassion and concern for women, the act passed both chambers with bi-partisan approval and is on its way back to the House for approval of some changes from the Senate).
Illegal alien Jose Ibarra was convicted of raping and murdering Riley even though he was previously charged with illegal operation of a motor vehicle, reckless endangerment of a 5-year-old child in New York City.
With the pro-criminal approach of the prior administration and Democrats, Ibarra was released “pending adjudication of his claim of asylum.”
Had he been held, Riley would likely be alive today.
The Laken Riley Act will require “the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain certain non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting” and “authorizes states to sue the federal government for decisions or alleged failures related to immigration enforcement.”
Illinois has 17 members of the 119th House of Representatives. Of these, only three are Republicans.
The vote passed the House 264-159 with 48 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting for the bill.
But only two Democrats from Illinois voted in favor of the bill.
In addition to LaHood, Illinois Republicans Mike Bost (12th District) and Mary Miller (15th District voted in favor of the bill.
Only Democrats Nicole Budzinski, 13th District, and Eric Sorensen, 17th District, voted for the bill.
LaHood’s 16th District extends into Northwest McHenry.
Thanks to Gerrymandering of the Congressional District map by the unassailable Democrat majority in Springfield, however, the rest of McHenry County is represented by Democrats.
And those Democrats voted against the Laken Riley Act.
The bill passed through the Senate 64-35 (12 Democrats voted with Republicans).
If Illinois representatives Schakowsky, Schneider and Foster are proud of their votes, they didn’t show it by failing to return calls from this reporter asking to explain their votes. Duckworth and Durbin also failed to return calls.
Riley was among numerous American citizens brutalized by violent illegals during the Biden administration when the border, despite claims otherwise, was essentially left wide open.
The Biden administration was even flying plane loads of illegals into U.S. cities in the middle of the night.
Pres. Trump has taken significant strides to clamp down on the border and to return violent illegals to their countries of origin.
Tom Homan, the former acting director of ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is now Trump’s border czar.
Over the weekend, Kristi Noem was approved by the Senate as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Homan has already begun arresting and deporting some of the most violent criminals who entered the country under the Biden administration.
