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Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, a 19-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador, appeared in court in Maryland on Thursday for a hearing related to the heinous murder of Carmen Lizet Puch. He is scheduled for another appearance on Sept. 18 ahead of his possible extradition to Virginia.

The victim, a 42-year-old mother, was stabbed to death in Great Falls this week. Her body was found doused with gasoline. She apparently worked with the suspect, and they may have been romantically involved.

“We have video footage of our suspect at the restaurant where he worked with our victim arming himself with a fixed blade knife, taking a pair of black latex gloves, taking a water bottle, and then off he goes with the intent to do harm and kill the victim,” Fairfax Police Chief Kevin Davis said during a news conference after Cedillos-Campos was arrested. “We are still uncovering the many layers of motive that exist when two people are involved in a relationship, and where another relationship may exist as well.”

The Department of Homeland Security noted that “Cedillos-Campos is a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador who was arrested by CBP in 2024, after illegally crossing the Biden administration’s open border near El Paso, Texas. After his arrest, he was RELEASED into the interior of our country.” ICE has lodged a detainer with the Fairfax County Detention Center asking it to hold Cedillos-Campos.

There have been nine homicides in Fairfax County so far this year. Half of the suspects charged in those cases were in the U.S. illegally, FOX 5 reported. Although it isn’t clear that Cedillos-Campos had ever been arrested in Virginia, Fairfax County has a history of leniency toward illegal immigrants.

In February, an illegal immigrant who had been in the U.S. illegally since 2012 allegedly stabbed and killed Stephanie Minter at a bus stop. Abdul Jalloh had been charged with crimes more than 30 times in Fairfax County, including previous stabbings, but was never taken into custody by federal authorities for potential deportation.

“The man who took my daughter’s life should not have been free to walk the streets,” her mother, Cheryl Minter, told lawmakers during a congressional hearing in May. “When policies protect people who are a known threat, innocent lives are put at risk. When warnings are ignored, families like mine pay the price.”

In April, two illegal immigrants, Maldin Anibal Guzman and Wis Alonso Sorto-Portillo, received a generous plea deal from Fairfax prosecutors after they admitted to killing a man in 2024. They could have been sentenced to spend decades in prison but will be eligible for release after just five years, meaning they could be out by 2029.

Earlier this month, 33-year-old Denis Humberto Roman Navarette was convicted of a 2024 rape near the W&OD Trail. He is an illegal immigrant who had been jailed on charges including sex abuse, resisting arrest, assault and battery, and indecent exposure in the years before he committed the rape. However, he was not turned over to federal authorities and was instead released back into the community.

Sean Kennedy, the president of Virginians for Safe Communities, notes that “the vast majority of victims of criminal aliens are immigrants themselves. You are not defending immigrants, human dignity, or the Constitution when you support policies that shield dangerous offenders from prosecution and removal. You are defending heinous foreign criminals who prey on the innocent immigrants you claim to help,” he testified in May.

“Like many state and local prosecutors, my office has a policy of not assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with federal civil immigration enforcement,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano told federal lawmakers at the May hearing. “We do not have the budget or personnel to enforce federal civil immigration law, and it is simply not our job.”

Nearby Loudon County is the only locality in Northern Virginia that has an agreement to hold prisoners for ICE. The sheriff’s office said that last year it detained 1,238 illegal immigrants at some point. Of those, ICE issued detention orders for 419 inmates. ICE picked up 253 of them, WJLA reported this year. The rest would have been released after 48 hours, which is the maximum amount of time the jail may hold them without charges.

The Justice Department is trying to extend its agreement with Loudoun, which is scheduled to expire in September. It argued in a federal court this week that a Virginia policy that limits cooperation with ICE unless the federal agents meet specific criteria is unconstitutional.

When she took office this year, Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive order that ended an agreement that compelled state police and corrections officers to cooperate with ICE, a policy that had started under former Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Sunny skies, blue oceans, and palm trees are hallmarks of Southern California, but beneath the picturesque landscape lies a network of faults capable of turning deadly in a matter of seconds.

Los Angeles saw that threat firsthand in 1994, when the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley, killing dozens of people, injuring thousands, and causing billions of dollars in damage.

More than three decades later, the question remains: Is Los Angeles ready for the next major earthquake?

California officials say yes.

“California is ready to respond when a major earthquake strikes,” a spokesperson for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services told the Daily Signal.

“The state has made sustained investments to protect communities, including more than $125 million for earthquake early warning, grants to help communities reduce seismic risks, and increased emergency response staffing,” the spokesperson said.

The Office of Emergency Services also pointed to investments in seismic retrofits, critical infrastructure, roads and bridges, upgraded communications, and specialized search-and-rescue capabilities.

But experts who spoke with the Daily Signal say being prepared does not mean California will escape widespread damage.

Caltech seismologist Allen Husker said the region is better prepared than it once was and praised efforts to prepare first responders, but he cautioned that the location and severity of an earthquake could overwhelm even extensive preparations.

“Definitely it’s more prepared than it has been, and it’s slowly getting more and more prepared over time,” he said.

“Earthquakes, depending upon how they occur and where they occur … will still probably cause significant damage,” Husker said.

“Just as we saw with the LA fires … you can prepare a lot and still things go awry.”

Aging Water Infrastructure Another Vulnerability

Edward Ring, director of water and energy policy at the California Policy Center, pointed to the city’s aging water system as another potential vulnerability, saying some of the city’s water infrastructure is approaching the end of its useful life.

“The very idea that we’re … delivering water under pressure through pipes that are 100 years old—sooner or later, they have to be replaced or they’re going to fail,” Ring told the Daily Signal.

According to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s 2025-26 Water Infrastructure Plan, more than 30% of the city’s roughly 6,800 miles of distribution mainlines are over 80 years old.

“What we’ve got is a system that’s aging to the point where we’re going to see increasing failures,” Ring said.

Water mains are a major concern during an earthquake, particularly because earthquakes can spark fires, creating an even greater problem if damaged pipes disrupt the water needed to fight them.

The State’s Fault System

But the earthquake Los Angeles needs to prepare for may not necessarily be the massive San Andreas Fault event Californians commonly envision as “the Big One.”

California has more than 700 named recently active faults, with more than 300 in Southern California capable of producing a magnitude 6 or larger earthquake.

While the San Andreas is the state’s longest fault system, the destruction an earthquake causes also depends on where it strikes and how close the shaking is to densely populated communities.

“Everybody always talks about San Andreas,” Husker said. “The other thing is just that there’s kind of faults everywhere. There’s a lot of them, and so it’s not just the San Andreas.”

Northridge itself demonstrated that danger.

Husker noted that the 6.7 earthquake caused extensive damage in part because it occurred directly beneath a populated portion of the Los Angeles area.

“The distance makes such a huge difference,” Husker said. “So even smaller earthquakes, if they’re right under the city, can cause a lot of damage.”

Another challenge is what happens to Los Angeles after the shaking stops.

Husker noted concerns that building codes can allow structures to survive an earthquake without necessarily ensuring that they remain usable afterward, meaning California would potentially have billions in repairs on its hands.

This was noted in a report by the San Francisco Chronicle, which estimated the destruction from a magnitude 7.8 earthquake could amount to $1 trillion.

The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services acknowledged that the scale of a catastrophic earthquake remains California’s greatest challenge, with transportation, utilities, communications, housing, and other essential systems having the potential to be disrupted simultaneously across a large region.

Ring, however, said that the reality of a major earthquake makes complete preparedness nearly impossible.

“I think it would be unfair to claim that California hasn’t done much,” Ring said.

“The real question is … what’s a reasonable amount of preparation and have we done that?”

For now, California continues preparing for a disaster it knows will eventually come. Whether those preparations are enough won’t truly be known until the ground starts shaking.

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Jack Fowler: Twenty-one states and D.C. sue Trump administration to protect illegal alien drivers from the feds. This is from RedState. 

So, 21 states and D.C. are effectively telling the Trump administration that they are more concerned about protecting the identities of illegal aliens than keeping American drivers safe on the roads. That’s the conclusion one can draw from stunning new lawsuits filed to keep the Department of Transportation from obtaining the identities of illegal aliens who have obtained commercial driver’s licenses. 

Two lawsuits filed on Thursday, that’s a week ago from the day this particular episode is airing. Two lawsuits filed challenge the federal demands for Commercial Driver’s License Information System, CDLIS, records containing driver names, dates of birth, license numbers, and Social Security numbers, etc. 

Victor, that’s my state of Connecticut, your state of California, and 19 others, are just cool and dandy with these lunatics on the road. Your thoughts, Victor? 

Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah, well, I mean, I’m not a good person to talk to because we just drove back on Friday, the 200 miles from Stanford to Selma, and I can tell you that it is very, very scary to see the professionalism of the truck driver decline to such a degree because, I mean, when that truck, truck is in the right… 

Part of it is the infrastructure of California under Newsom is so ossified. He didn’t do anything to improve it, and it’s Third World-like.  

But when you see that truck driver go in the left lane, he doesn’t look at his rearview mirror to see who’s behind him. His theory is, “I’ve got 20 tons and nobody’s going to mess around with me.”  

And they just pull out, and then they get in the left lane, and they decide how many trucks they want to pass at 65 or 70. Forget the 55-mile limit. No one follows that anymore. And just keep going down the left lane until traffic, you know, that wants to go 80, I guess. 

Now what they’re doing, Jack, is that, and maybe some of our listeners in California have noticed, they have screens, and they pull down on the side, you know, so you can’t look in at all. If you’re in a pickup or an elevated SUV, you can’t see who the driver is, so you have no idea. 

On Aug. 8, we were driving back from Northern California and we, excuse me, from the Sierra, and we were cruising along making perfect time, and we were only four miles from home, and we passed the last exit before our exit, so we couldn’t get off, and the entire 99, three lanes, was just stopped for two hours on Aug. 8.  

And we came in about 11:30. It had been stopped since 8:30. It was backed up five or six miles. It stayed stopped till 10:00 at night, 10:00 at night. And apparently, a truck driver with two big trailer tankers with a total of 8,000 gallons of gas was just driving along fast, saw a small box truck parked in the right lane where it had broken down, and he either tried… 

He either was changing lanes back into the right, no one… The initial reports were he was changing lanes and not attentive, but he hit it. It was clear off the side of the road, and his truck exploded. He wasn’t hurt, and we had this toxic black plume, plume, flume or plume, either one, all over Selma. 

And that traffic, it cost people 12, 15 hours on the main lateral north-to-south route in the center of the state. And to this day, they won’t tell you who the driver was. It’s just a complete news blackout. They won’t tell you who was culpable, news blackout. 

California has sent down apparently an order that if there is a truck driver and the news people have not got to the scene and interviewed him, we are not going to release the information. At least we’re not going to release it in a prompt manner, even though it’s a public highway and even though the employees are public. 

Because I think it could be, I’m not saying, I’m not suggesting it was someone who was not authorized to drive or got one of these pseudo licenses, but it’s very dangerous.  

And when these states do this, they’re basically telling their population, “We’re taking a gamble with your lives because we’re going to play the odds because our virtue-signaling sense of self-guilt is more important than your collective safety. So we don’t want to know that we force poor little illegal aliens who are driving without properly qualifying on a driver’s test. We don’t want to impair their future or their careers, but we’re willing to risk your safety.” 

That’s what it is. Simple as that. 

Jack Fowler: Nearly half the states in America are essentially pro-criminal. 

Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah, they are. And we’re willing to take some collateral damage because we’ll get more media play that we’re morally superior to everybody than we will be culpable for the lives that these drivers have and will take in the future. 

And it is scary when you see, when you get on an interstate in California or an intrastate, and you know that 60 years ago they promised there would be three lanes in each direction, and there’s still two. And you see a truck on the left and the right, and that truck doesn’t feel like it’s doing anything wrong. And they’re just plowing down at 65 to 75 miles an hour. 

And you see all these drivers trying to cut in front of you to get around this obstacle. And then you look at how they drive, and when they have two trailers, the other one looks like the tail of a fish. It just goes back. Right. It wiggles, or a dog wiggling. 

And at that speed, they don’t have any idea about speed, calibration… 

Jack Fowler: Physics. 

Victor Davis Hanson: Physics, yeah. 

They don’t have that 10 years of driving 20 tons. They don’t know the history of driving. They don’t know the protocols. They don’t know the language. And so, they do crazy things like flip U-turns or miss an exit and then back up on the shoulder to see if they can still get out after they’ve passed it. 

And they don’t signal when they switch lanes, or they stay in the left lane as if they own it. Or I’ve seen now three lanes on the 99 where they’re in all three lanes for a particular time, for five or six miles. 

And I go to rest stops, and when they come in, they’re of all different nationalities, and they don’t speak English. They speak native languages. I’ve at least seen they speak in an Indian dialect, Punjabi dialect, Chinese, Spanish, you name it. But they don’t, you know, they don’t seem… 

Jack Fowler: Yeah. When I was driving down to see you a few weeks ago, there were some billboards, more than one, that were trucker-related that were, I’m pretty sure, Sikh. The language was… 

So the amount of these drivers just in California alone has got to be massive. 

Victor Davis Hanson: I don’t understand that because allegedly 30% to 40% of the truck drivers are Sikh immigrants. But the Sikh community is a very law-abiding, very successful community. It emphasizes, as I said in the case of [Zohran] Mamdani, if you look at all faiths and ethnicities of India, the census says Indian Americans are the highest-income ethnic group in the United States. 

So they’re very affluent. They’re highly educated. I don’t know why they would be protective of illegal Sikh, if that’s who it is, and Punjabi drivers coming through Mexico to get across the border illegally or overstaying a visa who don’t speak English and then put people at risk because they were able to finesse a driver’s test given that California waived the requirements for illegal aliens, apparently. 

And then they would not join… You know what I mean? 

I only say that because they signed a petition. Do you remember that? 

Jack Fowler: Mm-hmm. 

Victor Davis Hanson: The Sikhs of Canada and the United States suggesting that what I’m saying right now was somehow culturally or racially insensitive. 

But it isn’t, because they’re endangered too on the roads. 

Jack Fowler: Right. 

Victor Davis Hanson: And so it’s not aimed at any one group. It’s aimed at the idea of allowing someone here illegally who doesn’t speak the language and did not pass an authentic test to be let loose on the public with a dangerous machine. 

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Recent reports note that top members of the Democratic Socialists of America and a renowned Democrat political strategist have shown that the individuals are further from the struggling middle class than they claim.

Morris Katz

While Morris Katz is not a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the 26-year-old Democrat political strategist played a key role in top campaigns of self-proclaimed socialists, such as the failed race of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and the campaign of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

His political consultant firm, Fight Agency, describes him as someone who “hates status quo politics,” “loves long-shots, and “has never backed away from a fight.”

In January, the New York Times ran an op-ed that described Katz as someone who is “ready to fix” leftist campaigns.

After Platner’s race imploded over rape allegations and controversy over a Nazi-associated tattoo on the candidate’s chest, Mamdani stated that he would stick to Katz’ consulting advice despite fellow DSA members calling for “DSA candidates and elected officials to no longer contract or work with Morris Katz or Fight Agency.”

On Wednesday, New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino exposed what she described as a “very interesting email” stating that Katz suddenly stopped paying rent for his $5,700-a-month apartment in New York.

The email, which appears to come from the property management, accuses Katz of bouncing several checks and avoiding contact with the management team.

Katz, according to the email, would also redirect the managment team to a “useless girl he called his assistant,” who would claim that Katz was out of town, yet the team would “catch him out drinking and bar hopping locally.”

“This was just a couple of months ago,” the email added.

In an X post, the councilwoman, who first published screenshots of that email, claimed that “ultimately his rich parents, of course, bailed him out with the landlord, presumably to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.”

She then described the DSA as a group of unqualified “spoiled brats.”

“This is DSA. A group of spoiled brats who cannot even manage their own lives, yet supposedly have all the answers for how our entire world should be run. An absolute joke,” Paladino said.

Fight Agency and Paladino did not return the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Tracy Rosenthal

Tracy Rosenthal, the Mamdani ally and DSA speaker who has been “squatting” in her luxury New York City apartment, is the daughter of a four-time Grammy-award-winning music producer.

The squatter, who grew up in a $1.7 million house and even attended the Grammys twice with her dad, Steven Rosenthal, has led a four-year “rent strike” since she moved to the city from California.

During an August DSA meeting in North Carolina, the 39-year-old, who posed for a photo at Karl Marx’s grave during a trip to London in 2021, described her over $2,000-a-month apartment as “poor living conditions,” since she discovered cockroaches in the property.

“As soon as I moved in, I realized that we had roaches … and I lost my mind,” she said. “I was very angry. It’s really gross.”

Rosenthal blamed the roaches on the landlord, because she claimed that he did not want to pay for an exterminator.

She then organized with the building’s other tenants to stop paying rent after they learned that the building was allegedly renting more units than previously legally approved.

As a result, she deprived the property owner of at least $108,000 in rent from her unit alone, according to the New York Post.

Recently, the housing unit went into foreclosure. Rosenthal is now being sued, along with four other tenants, for eviction, the outlet reported.

The New York City and Brooklyn DSA chapters did not reply to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Gustavo Gordillo

This week, it was revealed that Gustavo Gordillo, the 38-year-old co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, lives in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home purchased by his parents’ company, records show.

Gordillo’s parents, who immigrated to the United States from Peru, told The New York Post that they have financially supported the Yale University graduate and DSA chair over the years.

However, the DSA co-chair frequently makes statements on television such as, “We don’t think that anybody should have the constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment.”

Gordillo, who describes himself as a union electrician and lists that occupation on his X profile, was terminated from his apprenticeship with IBEW Local 3 in March for a “prolonged absence.”

“After learning of Mr. Gordillo’s prolonged absence from and failure to participate in required work and classes, the trustees of the Joint Apprentice Training Committee terminated Mr. Gordillo from the program,” the union said in a statement.

A source familiar with the union told the Post that Gordillo doesn’t have a “strong work record to begin with” and applied for the job “just for show,” potentially taking the spot away from someone “who probably really needed the opportunity.”

The union also pointed out that Gordillo is behind on dues by three months.

However, Gordillo allegedly did not disclose the termination to his fellow DSA members.

An attendee of a DSA meeting in Queens, New York, told the outlet in July that Gordillo “went into detail” about his day job.

The source added that Gordillo even told his fellow comrades about the struggles of doing media interviews on construction job sites, adding that it was too “distracting.”

Gordillo used that union story as cover to secure full-time pay from the DSA—a position paying $95,000 a year with benefits.

“This appeal to a struggle that he is facing doesn’t seem real at all. It’s a lie,” the source added. “It just seems like a ploy.”

The New York City and Brooklyn DSA chapters did not reply to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

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