Published August 7, 2026
Mohammed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa, shouted “Free Palestine!” and threw two Molotov cocktails at a group of Jews who were peacefully marching in support of Israeli hostages. A federal judge barred the Trump administration from deporting Soliman’s wife and children even though they had overstayed their visa and are in the country illegally. Violent rioters in Los Angeles impeded federal agents from removing illegal aliens, while burning cars, throwing concrete bricks at law enforcement officers, and looting stores. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) pardoned illegal alien pedophile Tou Lue Vang, who had sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl over a two-year period. He has had a final order of removal since 2006.
This lawlessness takes different forms:
First, for an illegal immigrant — even one whose claim is that they are just here to work and make a better life — their “new” life begins by breaking laws: the first one being entering our country without permission. The cycle continues by obtaining an illegal driver’s license or driving without a driver’s license or insurance at all. Then come all the other things in life, like obtaining a job and housing.
All of these must be done outside the law, and often entail other crimes like identity theft. For people advocating for illegal aliens to continue in such a life, the reality is that they are advocating a life of instability, lived in fear of being found out. These are not victimless crimes. It is unhealthy for the illegal immigrant, as well as the citizens of the host country, who are burdened by paying for the distorted transportation and housing markets, and who suffer from stolen Social Security numbers. Still, in the hierarchy, this is more of a “passive” lawlessness.
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Luma Simms is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Mrs. Simms is writer and thinker on American culture, religion, politics, political theology, immigration and immigration-adjacent issues. Her primary focus has been the critique of modern America through an immigrant lens.
