Laredo Congressman Cuellar Claims the Border is Safe
Texas Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar from Laredo is following the lead of the rest of the Democrats in claiming that crime is lower, especially in his congressional district that is on the border. This announcement is another example of putting lipstick on a pig. However, liberals and leftists are using a flawed report and do not mention how many crimes are de-criminalized or unreported.
https://cuellar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=410499
On Tuesday, Oct. 3, Cuellar proudly announced that crime in border communities was lower than in other cities and counties. He cited FBI crime statistics from 2023 to demonstrate that border communities are safer than non-border cities in the United States.
However, Sean Kennedy, a crime analyst, says that the FBI’s figures are “riddled” with errors” because it is trying to transition the nation’s more than 19,000 law enforcement agencies to use the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The FBI admitted that 73% of the police departments used NIBRS in 2023, while 12% used older methods which did not count.
Fifteen percent of the police departments and law enforcement did not report crime to the FBI, among them Chicago, which has a high crime and murder rate. With 27% of the crime figures missing, this FBI crime report is faulty and only serves the political agenda of liberals and leftists.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbis-flawed-crime-data-highlighted-chicagos-116-missing-murders-expert
Instead of trying to convince the citizens not to believe their own eyes about crime, Cuellar should speak to the violence caused by the Biden/Harris open border. Murders and rapists have entered the country and committed crimes, there have been dangerous and deadly vehicle chases with human smugglers, and theft and property damage are at an all-time high.
He should speak out in support of local law enforcement agencies in other communities that are suffering due to a lack of support from liberal/leftist politicians and groups who are members of his party. He should recognize that well-funded liberal/leftist “defund the police” groups in many communities are providing skewed reports to justify their “social justice” approach to crime and public safety.
Or perhaps Cuellar is trying to help himself and his brother, Martin Cuellar, the sheriff of Webb County (Laredo). Since they are both up for re-election in November, Cueller may believe that claiming that crime is lower in border communities would help them in November. Cuellar is sacrificing people’s public safety for political reasons.
In October 2023, Cuellar was carjacked in Democrat-run Washington, D.C., at gunpoint. Now, he is boasting that crime is low in his community. His claim that his border community is safer than the non-border communities (like D.C.) is like boasting that the fire damage to your house is not as bad as it was to other houses – when your friends caused the fire at your home.