adminA man identified as 33-year-old Oscar Solarzano was arrested after a brutal stabbing on Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line that left a passenger critically injured and facing life-altering wounds. Police charged Solarzano with attempted first-degree murder and multiple weapons offenses after witnesses say the attack escalated from an intoxicated confrontation into a violent, knife attack aboard a public train.
Federal records now show this was not an isolated failure of law enforcement — Solarzano is a Honduran national who has been deported previously and who allegedly re-entered the country multiple times before the latest attack. This is yet another data point proving that porous borders and weak enforcement policies create repeat offenders who end up terrorizing everyday citizens.
Charlotte’s residents already remember the awful death of Iryna Zarutska on the same line this past August, and this second attack has reignited fury over transit safety and municipal leadership that has failed to keep commuters safe. The fact that violent incidents keep happening on the same system is a damning indictment of sanctuary-style policies and of leaders who cloak soft-on-crime choices in the language of compassion.
Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, pushed back hard on Sunday — not only on the criminality of repeat illegal entrants but on the larger failure to account for vulnerable children lost in the chaos at the border. Homan told audiences that federal teams have located roughly 10,000 of the unaccompanied migrant children who disappeared during the Biden years, a staggering number that should outrage every parent and elected official.
Homan didn’t stop at statistics; he publicly challenged local leaders to stop defending failed policies and to start proving they’re protecting citizens and cooperating with federal authorities on detainers and removals. When county and city officials refuse to honor ICE detainers or hide behind jurisdictional excuses, they’re choosing politics over public safety — and ordinary Americans pay the price.
Enough is enough. Hardworking families deserve mayors and county leaders who put safety first, not photo-ops and virtue signaling that release dangerous people back onto the streets. If state and federal officials won’t strengthen and enforce the laws that keep Americans safe, voters must, and conservatives will continue to demand accountability, secure borders, and justice for victims over excuses for criminals.
