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Sen. Gary Winfield (D-New Haven) penned an op-ed in September so dripping with melodrama it could’ve doubled as an audition tape for The View. His big revelation? Only 7% of illegal immigrants arrested by ICE are violent felons — therefore, the other 93% should apparently get a “Welcome to Connecticut” gift basket.
That’s like saying, “Only 7% of drunk drivers kill someone — what’s the big deal?” Illegal is illegal. It doesn’t matter if you’re running a meth lab or washing cars at a Southington car wash — if you broke the law to be here, you don’t get squatter’s rights.
Winfield tries to pass off deportations as some kind of MAGA plot to turn the clock back to Jim Crow, claiming Republicans want Black people “step[ping] aside” on sidewalks.
This is how unserious his argument is: enforcing federal law is now racism, but ignoring it is “justice.” He paints ICE agents like villains out of the Marvel Universe, describing them as masked men leaping out of SUVs to arrest a teenager at a car wash. That’s not fascism, it’s called law enforcement. If police arrest a bank robber at Dunkin’ Donuts, do we write sonnets about the injustice of arresting him mid-coffee run? Winfield apparently would.
Winfield, whose claim to fame is proudly accepting a trophy from the Communist Party, now writes op-eds that could’ve been ghostwritten by AOC’s interns.
He claims Republicans are hypocrites because they supported the 2013 TRUST Act under Obama but opposed expansions under Trump, leaving out the key fact that the original law was limited while Democrats later tried to gut ICE authority altogether. Republicans drew the line at turning Connecticut into a sanctuary state, which is consistency — not hypocrisy. He even waves around crime statistics, claiming America is at a “50-year low,” as if that means families in New Haven or Hartford should stop worrying about carjackings and shootings. National averages mean nothing when your kid can’t bike to the park without looking over his shoulder. And just when you thought the hysteria had peaked, Winfield equates Trump’s immigration policies with Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mussolini, and Putin. Deportations equal gulags and genocide? That’s not argument — that’s a therapy session gone wrong.
To tug on the heartstrings, he trots out Esdrás, an 18-year-old car wash worker arrested by ICE. One kid with a sympathetic story doesn’t erase the millions who came illegally, many of them with drug and gang ties. Policy isn’t written around the one teenager Gary knows.
It gets worse: he blames Trump for killing “bipartisan immigration reform,” which in Washington-speak means amnesty with no enforcement. Americans want border security first, and if Democrats couldn’t deliver that, Trump was right to call their bluff. The entire op-ed boils down to emotional bait-and-switch: start with a kid, smear Republicans as racists, massage crime stats, and close with Trump-is-Stalin.
And here’s the part Winfield doesn’t want to talk about. While he’s busy crying over ICE, a Ukrainian refugee who fled bombs in Kyiv was just stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail by a repeat felon who never should have been free in the first place. Twenty-three-year-old Iryna Zarutska was working at a pizza shop, trying to build a life here, when she was randomly killed by a career criminal with a record stretching back a decade. This is the human cost of soft-on-crime, open-borders fantasyland. It’s not an “academic debate” — it’s people buried because politicians like Winfield think enforcing laws is optional.
Sen. Winfield calls Republicans a “cult,” but his own cult is open-borders extremism. Connecticut families pay higher taxes, higher housing costs, and higher school bills because of unchecked illegal immigration — and his answer is to roll out the red carpet while sneering at law enforcement.
The bottom line is that Winfield’s immigration spin is a con. It’s designed to make you feel guilty for wanting a border while quietly normalizing lawlessness. Sorry, Senator — compassion doesn’t mean turning Connecticut into a sanctuary with no rules and no limits. It means protecting the people who are here legally, paying the bills, and trying to raise their families without wondering which “non-violent” offender is lurking at the bus stop.
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