I would think that our government must be the stupidest in world history, except that a number of Western European governments are even dumber. This thought is prompted by the case of Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, as reported on by Byron York:
Yordanis Cobos-Martinez came to the United States from Cuba. Since the 1959 revolution, the U.S. has had special immigration programs that apply specifically to Cubans. One allows a Cuban national to come to the U.S., be “paroled” into the country — that is, given permission to stay here legally — and have one year in which to apply for permanent lawful status.
Cobos-Martinez was paroled into the U.S. on April 2, 2016. But he did not apply for permanent residency in the following year. One reason he might not have done so is that in February 2017, less than a year after his arrival, police say Cobos-Martinez stole a car in Miami-Dade County, Florida, resulting in his being charged with felony grand theft auto.
You might think that felony grand theft auto would be a good reason to deport Cobos-Martinez. But no:
From there, Cobos-Martinez was off to the races, criminally speaking. According to Dallas television station NBCDFW, “In June 2017, in South Lake Tahoe, California, a police report details a carjacking in which Cobos-Martinez, while naked, tried to force himself into a woman’s car while pulling her hair and clothes and sitting on her lap. Cobos-Martinez told police he had about 20 beers and smoked a joint of marijuana before the carjacking.”
Since the guy was here illegally and could be deported entirely at our discretion, you might think that would do the trick. But no:
According to NBCDFW, in 2018, he was charged in Texas with indecency with a child after he allegedly assaulted a 14-year-old girl. Later, the indecency charge was dismissed, but according to NBCDFW, Cobos-Martinez spent about a year in jail on an assault charge stemming from the incident.
The old carjacking charge caught up with him, and he was convicted of false imprisonment. And–finally!–Cobos-Martinez was given a final order of deportation. But, as usual, that did not mean that he would actually be deported:
But of course, he would have to be deported to Cuba. Then, Cuba refused to accept him — after all, he was a violent criminal, and who wants to accept a violent criminal?
It does not appear that the Biden administration tried very hard to send Cobos-Martinez to Cuba. And if an illegal immigrant is ordered removed, but authorities determine there is no hope of actually removing him in the foreseeable future, he is then released.
Of course! The logic is impeccable. Still, it could have been done:
The best opportunity to deport Cobos-Martinez was in January 2025, because he had a final order of removal — due process! — and he was in custody. But the Biden administration just let him go.
So what happens if you allow a violent criminal to stay in our country illegally, and give him the entirely reasonable expectation that he can get away with pretty much anything?
Eight months later, Cobos-Martinez was at the Dallas hotel, reportedly wielding a machete and hacking off the head of manager Chandra Nagamallaiah, as Nagamallaiah’s horrified family looked on. According to police, Cobos-Martinez then kicked Nagamallaiah’s head into the parking lot, “like a soccer ball,” before tossing it in a dumpster. Police arrested Cobos-Martinez, covered in Nagamallaiah’s blood and still holding the machete, a short distance away. Cobos-Martinez is now, finally, behind bars. He will be tried for murder in Texas.
How can our government possibly have allowed thousands of such horrors to play out, when it could simply have enforced our immigration laws? I think the only explanation is that our government has been, for much of the last 20 years, in the hands of people who hate our country and are trying to do us harm.
