The individual who vandalized the Iwo Jima memorial is an illegal alien from Mexico who has been on the dole for 26 years.
Posted by The Kuhner Report, Checked
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The Kuhner ReportOct 26, 2026
Multiple authoritative sources (DHS, DOJ, Fox News, NY Post) confirm the Iwo Jima Memorial vandal, Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, is a Mexican illegal alien, and the post's "26 years" roughly matches his reported 1999 entry.
What was said
… Don't get me wrong, but it's not even like somebody from Japan, I don't know, whose grandfather died in Iwo Jima or something, and he says, oh, yeah, I'm gonna show them, you know what I mean? And here's a sledgehammer. You know, this is an illegal alien from Mexico, from Mexico, 26 years on the dole. 26 years. Just so that people understand, we paid for every meal, we paid for his housing, we paid for his clothes, we paid for his healthcare, we paid for his education, we paid for his freaking phone. I mean, there's nothing. …
The Kuhner Report · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. DHS describes the suspect as an illegal alien from Mexico and says he was granted DACA under Obama, while the DOJ release identifies him as a Mexican national residing in Stafford.[1][2]
Supports. Fox News federal sources and the NY Post report that Maldonado Soriano illegally entered the US in December 1999, which is consistent with about 26 years of presence.[3][4]
Context. DACA status was granted in 2014, extended under Biden in 2024, and expired or was stripped in 2026. The sources do not describe any public benefits he received.[3][4][5]
Context. The claim that he was "on the dole" for 26 years, with EBT and other payments, appears only in the claimant's own remarks, which cannot corroborate it. The extraction matches the post's wording, so it is not an added claim.
Sources
5 sources: 2 primary, 1 tier 3, 2 not rated
- 1DHS Issues Statement After Illegal Alien Attacks Iwo Jima ...dhs.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 2Mexican national charged with destruction of the Quantico Iwo Jima Memorialjustice.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Vandal who beheaded Iwo Jima monument ID'd as illegal alien ...nypost.com · tier 3 · cited for: supports, context
- 4Illegal alien with former DACA status accused in Iwo Jima ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Illegal immigrant accused of beheading Iwo Jima monument granted bondwhmi.com · not rated · cited for: context
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