Why do the left always root for the bad guys?

Have you noticed? The ‘heroes’ of the American left, like Michael Brown, George Floyd, Freddie Gray, and Trayvon Martin were all bad guys? Mr Floyd was a convicted felon and drug addict, caught in the act of passing counterfeit money, Mr Brown had just roughed up a shopkeeper half his size, and then attempted to assault a police officer. Mr Martin had assaulted George Zimmerman. Mr Gray had a criminal record with 18 prior arrests, on drug charges, three separate assault charges, and minor crimes and had spent time in jail.

You’d think that at least a few of the ‘heroes’ chosen by the left to condemn the police and the law would actually be decent people, but that never, ever seems to be the case. Even 12-year-old Tamir Rice was playing around with a toy gun, which had the bright orange tip that indicated it was a toy removed, and after being reported to the police, appeared to be drawing the weapon on officers. Young Mr Rice probably wasn’t a bad kid, but he did a very stupid thing, one that got him killed.

And so we come, yet again, to one of my favorite whipping boys, Will Bunch, the far-left columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. In his Friday morning column, championing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Mr Bunch admitted:

It’s actually true that, in an oft-ridiculed media trope, this undocumented immigrant was no angel. I do find quite troubling the allegations of domestic abuse that caused Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, to briefly seek a protective order.

So, why does Mr Bunch want to keep Mr Abrego Garcia in the United States? Does the columnist hate President Trump so much that he’d rather see someone he admits is an illegal immigrant — “Undocumented immigrant” is a phrase the left love, to use to minimize the fact that they are here illegally — with a history of domestic abuse stay here than Mr Trump get a victory?

But not only have Sura and others cast Abrego Garcia’s narrative arc as one of redemption, seeking counseling and becoming a committed and involved dad to three kids with varying disabilities, but that’s not even the point.

“(O)ne of redemption, seeking counseling and becoming a committed and involved dad”? I am reminded of my good friend Robert Stacy McCain’s use of the definition of ‘aspiring rapper‘ from the snark site Urban Dictionary.

Mr Abrego Garcia is an illegal immigrant, and therefore a criminal. Mr Bunch himself admits that. The columnist finds it “quite troubling” that he was accused of domestic abuse, but proceeded in the very same paragraph to try to persuade us that this “undocumented immigrant” was straightening his life out, was trying his best to become a good guy.

In his final paragraph, the columnist characterized his documented troubles as “irrelevant imperfections from his past” and described him as am “immigrant essential worker,” as though no one else could do his job.

Why do we want this guy in the United States? If we are going to deport the illegals, which is for what the American people voted last November, shouldn’t Mr Abrego Garcia be one of the first to go?

Every human on American soil — from abusive husbands to cloistered monks — is entitled to due process. Period. Nothing is more fundamental to the success of the American Experiment. Which is exactly why the awesome power of the current regime — including Trump himself, who went on national TV with the absurd claim that a photoshopped picture showed the gang name “MS-13” tattooed on Abrego Garcia’s hand — is pulling out every stop to deny Abrego Garcia his constitutional rights.

That’s because proving their unstoppable power to deny due process to Abrego Garcia is essential to stripping you of your human rights when the time comes — and that time will come.

This is utterly ridiculous. Mr Abrego Garcia is here illegally; even Mr Bunch admitted that. And that means he has to go. This one is open-and-shut: is he here illegally? If yes, which no one denies, then he has to leave. He could avoid the other criminal charges, the ones Mr Bunch claims are trumped up — yes, pun most definitely intended — but for which there is sufficient evidence for an indictment at least if he’d just accept the deportation order and leave.

We need legal, and I stress legal, immigrants. Mr Abrego Garcia we most certainly do not want, or need. Perhaps if our good friends in the credentialed media were championing actually good people, they’d have more influence.