'They make MS-13 look like school kids': Palm Beach sheriff slams Biden ... trends now
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw lambasted the federal government's handling of illegal immigration just days after three Guatemalan men were arrested and charged with kidnapping and assaulting a woman in the county.
'This morning, I'm just here to deliver a message. And the message is, don't think for a minute that what happens at the Mexican border doesn't affect us here,' Bradshaw said during Wednesday morning's press conference.
'Here we have three illegals who never should've been in this country that have committed a very serious crime: kidnapping and sexual battery.'
The three men are accused of forcing a woman into a car at around 1 am Monday and sexually battering her at two locations west of Lake Worth Beach.
Andres Felipe Morales, 29; Darinel Ordonez Jjimenez, 30, and Marcos Felipe Ramirez, 31, were arrested and booked into the Palm Beach County jail around 7 pm the same day.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw slammed the federal government's handling of illegal immigration during a press conference Wednesday
The conference came just days after three illegal immigrants from Guatemala were arrested and charged in connection to the kidnapping and sexual assault of a Palm Beach County woman
Andres Felipe Morales, 29, faces counts of sexual assault and false imprisonment
Their bond was set at $200,000 each. Morales faces counts of sexual assault and false imprisonment while the others were charged with felony criminal conspiracy.
'They shouldn't be here! This is the same thing that we saw where the student was killed by the person that was here illegally,' Bradshaw said, referring to the murder of Laken Riley.
The 22-year-old University of Georgia student was killed by Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan man who entered the country illegally, while out jogging on February 22.
'Folks, our border is the ocean. There's no fence there. We are the fence,' Bradshaw continued.
'For them to be in this country to be able to commit these type of crimes is unconscionable. The federal government has put the American people in jeopardy.'
The sheriff said federal intelligence agencies had confirmed 'the most dangerous gangs in the world,' hailing from Venezuela, had relocated to Miami.
'They make MS-13 look like schoolkids,' Bradshaw added.
He then appeared to take a shot at the Biden administration's handling of border security by echoing a false claim popularized by U.S. Senate candidate Mark Lamb.
