A U.S. House Judiciary Committee interim report skewering the Biden-Harris administration’s actions to the southern border used a Boston case of an illegal immigrant assaulting a developmentally disabled woman to illustrate its point.

“The information obtained by the Committee shows in stark terms the real-world consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration’s failure to secure the border and enforce immigration law,” states the executive summary of the Interim Staff Report of the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement.

“In some cases, the illegal aliens had committed crimes in their home countries but were nevertheless released from DHS custody. In other cases, the illegal aliens had criminal records or were gang members and were still released into the United States,” the report continues. “In all cases, the illegal aliens went on to commit crimes in American communities ranging from murder and robbery to brutal assault.”

The powerful House committee chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, highlighted the Boston case of Pierre Lucard Emile.

In September 2023, Boston Police arrested Emile, a native of Haiti, and charged him with the rape and sexual battery of a “developmentally disabled person.” Boston Municipal Court’s Dorchester division released him following his arraignment there, the Herald previously reported.

The information contained in the report reveals “heinous” details about Emile’s alleged assault: that he was friends with the victim’s stepfather and had been living in their home as he “viciously assaulted her … more than five times.”

He was picked up by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston field office in January. ICE says that he entered the country through Brownsville, Texas, in December 2022, “where he was deemed inadmissible.” The Department of Homeland Security released him, however, and ordered him to appear before an immigration judge in Boston.

The Judiciary Committee report states that the current administration “has released into the United States more than 5.6 million illegal aliens, with another 1.9 million illegal alien ‘gotaways’ escaping into the country during the same time” and that criminal screenings at the border are inadequate, with former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott saying the “process is the equivalent of checking aliens ‘against a blank sheet of paper.’”

The report concludes with an endorsement of the Secure the Border Act of 2023, introduced last year by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Republican who represents a wide swath of southern Florida east of Miami. It says that “For 16 months, President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Senate Democrats have failed to consider the House-passed H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act of 2023, despite rapidly deteriorating conditions both at the border and in the interior.”

But President Biden accuses Congress of failing to act on the border crisis. In June, he issued new executive orders along with a slap to Congress.

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“Over the past three years, while Congress has failed to act, the President has acted to secure our border,” the announcement of his orders states, adding that his administration “has deployed the most agents and officers ever to address the situation at the Southern border, seized record levels of illicit fentanyl at our ports of entry, and brought together world leaders on a framework to deal with changing migration patterns that are impacting the entire Western Hemisphere.”

“President Biden believes we must secure our border,” his statement continued. “That is why today, he announced executive actions to bar migrants who cross our Southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum. These actions will be in effect when high levels of encounters at the Southern Border exceed our ability to deliver timely consequences, as is the case today. They will make it easier for immigration officers to remove those without a lawful basis to remain and reduce the burden on our Border Patrol agents.”

Read the report

Pierre Lucard Emile (Courtesy)