In his marathon 25-hour speech this week, it seems unlikely that a lachrymose Sen. Cory Booker gave even a passing thought to the mothers of Dashon Harvey, Terrence Aeriel, Natasha Aeriel, and Iofemi Hightower. If he had, he would not have dared ask America to “think about” the wife and child of an MS-13 gangster shipped off to El Salvador.

Booker knows who these mothers are. I am sure he met them. He was mayor of Newark, N.J. when their children were sexually assaulted and/or murdered in a Newark playground by a gang of illegal aliens. I know about these murders only because I grew up in Newark and follow its news.

Although the largest city in one of America’s most populous states, Newark makes the news only when the gatekeepers of New York’s newsrooms decide it should. And on the night of August 4, 2007, no one wanted to greenlight the story coming out of Newark.

On that steamy evening, Jose Carranza, 28 at the time, and five of his homies were drinking and smoking marijuana in a Newark schoolyard. There they spied four young black students, two of them female, talking and playing music, and judged them easy prey.

These were not........

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