“A small village near Cincinnati, Ohio, is struggling with an influx of Mauritanian illegal immigrants, with officials warning that they are facing an economic shortfall as a result and that the quality of life is being affected,” Fox News reported Saturday. “A Washington Post analysis in June found that over 15,000 residents from Mauritania came to the U.S. last year, a 2,800% increase over 2022, when just 543 arrived. Lockland, a village in the southwest of Ohio of about 3,500 people, has seen what it says is a large number of arrivals. The Post reported that there were 2,700 who settled in Ohio in 2023, with about half going to nearby Cincinnati.”

The decision to pick “nearby Cincinnati” can hardly be considered coincidental. The city is dominated by the Democrat political machine, and as its national leadership through Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has revealed, the goal is to bring in foreign nationals from all over the world and “get a path to citizenship for all 11 million, or however many undocumented, there are here.”

The concerns from the Fox News story are economic, with references to overcrowded housing, unemployability of the new arrivals, and losses of tax revenues. It’s overlooking a greater immediate danger of government “settling” illegal alien populations in our midst: There’s no real way to vet them (or even most “legal” refugees), and that’s long been known, despite longstanding Democrat lies.

“I am very disappointed in the xenophobic response from governors across the country today who vowed to keep Syrian families who have passed rigorous background checks from entering their states,” then-VA Governor Terry McAuliffe complained in 2015.

And the source for those “rigorous background checks”?  Where do the records come from, and what audits have been performed to ensure system integrity and that they are comprehensive and uncompromised? The Assad regime’s filing system?  Something else? Baksheesh isn’t a way of life with administrators there?  And no one else has any interest in falsifying or just plain omitting records, assuming any exist in the first place? (Note he was engaging in this deliberate deception at the same time a leader of New York City’s Syrian community was claiming “ISIS is already in America.”)

So, what does that have to do with unvetted Mauritanians, most of whom were able to make it to the Mexican border via a route opened by Nicaragua (a Marxist tyranny hostile to United States interests)?

“Reconsider travel to Mauritania due to crime and terrorism,” the State Department warns in its latest Travel Advisory, assigning the northwest African Islamic Republic a Level 3 (1= Exercise normal precautions, 2= Exercise increased caution, 3= Reconsider travel, 4= Do not travel).

“Violent crimes, such as mugging, armed robbery, and assault, are common. Local police lack the resources to respond effectively to serious crimes,” the advisory elaborates. “Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting places frequented by Westerners.”

The Democrat administration’s State Department says we shouldn’t go there. The same Democrat administration is relocating their unvetted populations from there here.

Welcome to Ohio.

That’s the same Democrat administration demanding complete vetting via “universal background checks” for American citizens to exercise their fundamental right to keep and bear arms. And based on the Party platform and Kamala Harris’ threats, that’s just a a prelude to wider citizen disarmament should she win in November and assume the power to reshape the Supreme Court (and reverse Bruen).

The Democrat strategy to do this is to bring in and subsidize more uncheckable Third Worlders from violence-plagued tyrannies, set them on the superhighway to citizenship, and, among other “fundamental transformations,” eviscerate the Second Amendment. If they succeed, how many gun owners will have helped them, either through being useful idiot Fudds or through the simple inaction of not voting?

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.