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A Charlotte commuter was left fighting for his life after a brutal stabbing on the city’s light rail Friday, authorities say, and the accused has been identified as 33-year-old Oscar Solarzano. Police moved quickly to arrest the suspect and the victim was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, a grim reminder that ordinary Americans cannot take public transit safety for granted.
Court papers show Solarzano faces a slate of serious charges including attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and investigators say the attack happened aboard a Blue Line train in the NoDa neighborhood as commuters tried to get home. Witness accounts and surveillance from the train paint a scene of senseless violence that terrorized innocent riders and saw law enforcement bring the situation under control.
Even more disturbing, federal officials confirm Solarzano is a Honduran national who was in the country illegally and had been removed before — not once, but twice, only to reappear on our streets. This is not a bureaucratic footnote; it is a catastrophic failure of border and immigration enforcement that directly endangers American lives when removed individuals keep slipping back across the line.
Charlotte families don’t need lectures about root causes when there are preventable attacks happening on public transit; this latest stabbing comes months after another commuter, a young Ukrainian refugee, was murdered on the same system. When repeat violent incidents cluster on the same transit line, it exposes the hollow promises of so-called sanctuary policies and soft-on-crime local leadership that prioritize politics over protection.
Republican leaders — including Rep. Mark Harris and others — have been blunt: this is a direct consequence of weak enforcement, and Charlotte officials must choose whether they will put citizens first or political virtue-signaling. Conservatives rightly argue for restored cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, more resources for police, and tougher measures to keep known dangerous people out of our communities.
Hardworking Americans deserve to ride trains, walk streets, and run errands without fearing for their lives because of policy failures in Washington and Democratic-run cities. It’s time for common-sense, enforceable immigration laws, real accountability for repeat offenders, and leaders who will back our police instead of undermining them. If Charlotte’s officials won’t act to restore safety, voters must.
