Remember that old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”?
In that connection, j. b. pritzker is the twice elected Governor of the state of Illinois.
I could fill several blogs with positions and comments that cause me to combine that saying with those election results. But, for today, let’s talk about one of the most egregious: pritzker’s decision to foist dangerous illegal aliens with histories of violent crime on his state’s citizenry.
From Christina Shaw’s article for Fox News:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is warning that Illinois officials are releasing violent criminal illegal aliens despite active immigration detainers, a move the agency says is putting the public at risk.
In the letter shared with Fox News Digital, Todd Lyons, ICE’s senior official performing the duties of director, said Illinois has “tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens” in custody – individuals who, he noted, have committed crimes ranging from murder and rape to child pornography and armed robbery.
Lyons said these offenders “should be swiftly removed from the United States … and not be returned to our streets to wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens.”
According to data provided by ICE, Illinois has released 1,768 criminal aliens with active detainers since January 2025. ICE said the crimes tied to those offenders include homicides, assaults, burglaries, weapons offenses and sexual-predatory crimes.
The agency also said another 4,015 criminal aliens with pending detainers remain in state or local custody, including individuals linked to 51 homicides and more than 800 sexual-predatory offenses.
The article then cites a group of the most dangerous/violent of this released bunch. I urge you to use the link, take a look at who they are/what they are guilty of…
…and then wonder, along with me, how a sane Governor could allow them to be released back into the general population.
Then we can also wonder how in the world this “man” could possibly run a third time (or, as has been reported, aspire to a presidential run)…
…and whether, after he inflicted these murderers, rapists, etc. on them, the voters of Illinois would be so amazingly stupid that they would re-elect him anyway? Or does this finally wise them up?
We may get to find out.
