Daily Update - December 8, 2025

We need a better way to deal with career criminals who are also illegal immigrants

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This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Monday December 8th, 2025 brought to you by Cape Fear Boat Brokerage at capefearbrokerage.com

According to The Daily Wire, Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia - a twice deported illegal alien from Honduras with a long criminal record - stabbed a man on a commuter train in Charlotte. The victim is young male and is reported to be in critical but stable condition after being stabbed with a large, fixed-blade knife.

Solorzano-Garcia is no stranger to law enforcement. According to Tricia McLaughlin – the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, his criminal history includes:

prior arrests for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, destroying evidence, resisting arrest, using a false ID, and convictions for robbery and illegally re-entry. This criminal illegal alien was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2018 and removed by the Trump Administration on March 9, 2018. He was apprehended illegally crossing the border again in 2021 and was again removed. He entered the country illegally for a THIRD time at an unknown date and location

Clearly Solorzano-Garcia does respect the laws of our state and country and needs to go.

But this time, he just doesn’t need to be removed, because like the cockroach he acts to be he will find his way back in. He needs to be tried and convicted, released immediately to border patrol and the federal prosecutors, removed from this country and sent to the El Salvador Terrorism Confinement Center – or someplace similar - to serve his sentence. He should not be here, and neither should we have to pay the roughly 61,000 dollars per year to house him for his crimes.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has already put in a detainer request to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff. NC House Bill 10 – vetoed by then Democrat Governor Roy Cooper but put into law by Republican majorities – mandates that ALL North Carolina law enforcement must cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

If all goes well, we will not be seeing Solorzano-Garcia any time soon.

For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. Thanks for listening.

Reuel Sample is the Editor-in-Chief of The Wilmington Standard. A graduate of Grove City College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he has served as both a Presbyterian Pastor and a Navy Chaplain. He is the product of a classical liberal arts education combined with real world experience in politics and business and conservative Christian worldview firmly rooted in the Reformed tradition. He is the host of several podcasts including the NHC GOP Podcast, the Pastor's Voice, and co-hosts the Nikki and Reuel Podcast Experience. An avid sailor, he has sailed around the world as a youth and to the Azores as a teen as well as extensive trips up and down the east coast of the United States. He is honored to be married to his wife Pam and makes his home in Wilmington, NC.