“Give me your cons, your thieves,
Your teeming masses pillaging your streets,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the violent, the criminals and creeps,
Their bones will rot behind my iron door!”
Finally – the American People are led by a President serious about handling crime!
Last night, President Donald J. Trump ordered the infamous Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary to once again open its iron doors. In better years, Alcatraz was home to the worst of America’s slumlords, gangsters, and sickos. Al Capone and his ilk were left there to rot behind bars. Today, New York, Chicago, and other Democrat-run cities are again riddled with thuggery and thievery. This happens not because crime is inevitable; rather, Democrats prioritize the interests of criminals over law-abiding Americans.
Republicans recognize that criminals are the very dregs of society. Their interests and rights must never triumph over the interests of law-abiding citizens who do no wrong. Individual agency is the foundation of our legal system, and that means that crime is a choice. Criminals are not the mere sum of their circumstance; they willfully choose to break the law, and, for that, they must be punished. Murder, robbery, and violence are choices, and criminals who choose to commit these acts belong away from respectable people. They belong in jail. The very worst of these offenders belong in a place worse than jail: in Hell itself or in Alcatraz, if we cannot execute them after a prompt, just trial.
The New York Young Republican Club recognizes that crime is a choice, not an inevitability. We applaud President Donald J. Trump’s decision to reopen Alcatraz, but Alcatraz alone is not large enough. The United States should refurbish its other legendary asylums and prisons, as well: Guantanamo Bay, Eastern State Penitentiary, Danvers State Hospital, and others. Crime is a policy choice; last night, the Trump Administration chose to end it. Many years ago, Chicago became livable when Al Capone was thrown in Alcatraz. Let’s fill it up again.