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A Migrant - Not An Inanimate Object - Killed 5 People In Texas.

A Migrant - Not An Inanimate Object - Killed 5 People In Texas.

Kerry Dougherty

Saturday’s massacre in Texas was heinous. Five people dead, including a child. Young mothers shot while trying to protect their babies. A gruesome killing spree by an animal who’s still at large.

In the immediate aftermath, however, the media showed it’s true agenda. It focused on the weapon, not the deaths. Victims didn’t matter as much as the firearm used to kill them.

For the first hour or so after the shooting, every headline contained “AR-15.” 

See for yourself:

And there were more. Many were changed by the time I went back for screenshots. Perhaps someone with common sense in the newsrooms realized how it looked.

You had to read well into the breaking news stories to learn that the “suspect” was a Mexican.

Here’s the headline I would have slapped on the breaking news: Five People Slaughtered By Mexican Living in the U.S.

But that’s me. 

And while the legacy media was screaming about AR-15s, I posed this question on Twitter: Is the suspect here legally?

Again, the open-borders media tap danced around that, pointing out that the 38-year-old Francisco Orapesa had a Mexican consular card!

 As if that conferred legal status on him.

Curious about consular cards? Me too. So I did what The Washington Post, The New York Times, PBS, ABC and other “news” outlets could have done, but didn’t: I did some simple research. Turns out these cards have been handed out by the Mexican government since 1871 to any Mexican living abroad. And in a report to Congress, the CRS - Congressional Research Service - said this:

The current debate about consular identification cards in the United States has centered around the matrícula consular, the consular identification card issued by Mexican consulates to Mexican citizens in the United States. In May 2003, the Treasury Department issued regulations allowing acceptance of the cards as proof of identity for the purpose of opening a bank account, and the cards are accepted for other purposes as well, including issuance of drivers licenses…

Opponents of domestic acceptance of the matrícula consular argue that the card is needed only by aliens who are illegally present in the United States and do not possess other acceptable identification documents. They maintain that the matrícula consular helps unauthorized Mexicans live and conduct business in the United States by, for example, enabling them to open bank accounts. In so aiding illegal aliens, opponents charge, the card effectively confers quasi-legal status on them in subversion of U.S. immigration law. They view efforts to gain widespread acceptance of the card as part of a larger strategy to legalize the status of unauthorized Mexicans in the United States. More broadly, opponents argue that acceptance of the matrícula consular has negative implications for the country’s ability to set future immigration policy.

This report is about 20 years old. Looks like it was prescient. 

Fox’s Bill Melugin, the only journalist reporting regularly and honestly from the Southern border, said his sources at ICE told him Orapesa, was in the U.S. illegally.

If correct, of course, that would mean that any firearm he owned was also illegal. Like him. Of course, it is asking a lot for people who flaunt our immigration laws to honor any of our laws. 

Oh, it’s also been reported he had a DWI in 2019. 

Adding to the suspicion that the real story here was that the killer shouldn’t have been in the U.S. at all - even armed with a water pistol - was Biden’s inept Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas on “Meet the Press” with Chuck Todd yesterday.

 If Orapesa was in the country legally you can be sure the incompetent Mayorkas would have blabbed all about it.

There’s more to this story than a deranged killer who used America’s most popular rifle to kill five people.

But you won’t learn any of it from the corporate media.

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