With fury and frustration on full display, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw blasted the Biden administration for failing to protect American citizens from illegal migrants who “never should’ve been in this country.”
The angry Wednesday morning press conference came just days after the arrest of three Guatemalan men, here illegally, for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a Palm Beach woman.
Andres Felipe Morales, 29; Darinel Ordonez Jjimenez, 30; and Marcos Felipe Ramirez, 31, were booked into the Palm Beach County jail on Monday, hours after allegedly “forcing a woman into a car at around 1 am Monday and sexually battering her at two locations west of Lake Worth Beach,” according to the Daily Mail.
Their bond was set at $200,000 each,” the outlet reports. “Morales faces counts of sexual assault and false imprisonment while the others were charged with felony criminal conspiracy.”
“This morning, I’m just here to deliver a message,” Bradshaw told reporters on Wednesday. “And the message is, don’t think for a minute that what happens at the Mexican border doesn’t affect us here.”
“Here you have three illegals that should’ve never been in this country that have committed a very serious crime: kidnapping and sexual battery of a lady,” the sheriff said. “They shouldn’t be here!”
Without referring to her by name, the sheriff likened the crime in his county to the murder of Laken Riley in Georgia, allegedly at the hands of an illegal Venezuelan migrant.
“Folks, our border is the ocean,” Bradshaw reminded Americans. “There’s no fence there. We are the fence.”
“For them to be in this country to be able to commit these type of crimes is unconscionable,” he stated. “The federal government has put the American people in jeopardy.”
According to the sheriff, his intelligence section, working with the FBI, “has also identified that the most dangerous gangs in the world are now in Miami from Venezuela.”
“They make MS-13 look like schoolkids,” Bradshaw said, in an apparent reference to Venezuela’s deadly Tren de Aragua gang, which, as BizPac Review has reported, is now operating in American cities such as Miami and Chicago.
In Florida’s Miami-Dade County, a suspected member of the gang, Yurwin Salazar Maita, 23, was arrested for his role in what has been described as a “honeytrap” murder that left a former Venezuelan police officer dead in Miami.
“They’re not going to stay just in Miami,” Bradshaw warned. “They’re going to go where they need to go to do what they do.”
“And we’re going to have to deal with them,” he added.
“Forget about the 3 million people that came across the border, put their hands up to Border Patrol and says I give up, you know, they get the cell phone and the gift card and all that kind of garbage,” the sheriff fumed. “What about the 1.5 million people that they call ‘gotaways?’”‘
“Those are the people that don’t want to get caught by Border Patrol because they’re cartel, they’re gang members, they’re wanted,” Bradshaw stated. “They’re packing fentanyl.”
The sheriff recalled surveillance video from Texas that showed ten “military-age” men clad in camouflage and carrying. backpacks sneaking across the border.
They were “wearing carpet on their shoes so they didn’t leave footprints, in a military formation, coming into the country,” the sheriff said.
‘What do you think they’re here for?” Bradshaw asked. “They’re not here to play the lotto. They’re going to do bad things.”
He cited testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray in which he warned that it isn’t a matter of “if,” but “when” we’re going “to have something bad happen here.”
Among the 1.6 million “gotaways,” Bradshaw said, Wray is “worried there’s people from ISIS, from the terrorist watchlist, that could be in the United States.”
He urged Floridians to “pay attention” and report suspicious behavior because “there are 85,000 kids that are unaccounted for that came across the border.”
“The human traffickers are going to be the ones that are going to prey on those people,” Bradshaw added.
“I have been in law enforcement for 52 years and this is the worst I have seen it,” the sheriff said of the migrant invasion. “This is unconscionable that the federal government has let this happen.
“These idiots in Washington D.C. need to close this border.”
