America is waking up to what real leadership looks like when the federal government refuses to bow to the soft-on-crime madness that wrecked our cities for years. Fox’s weekend program spotlighted U.S. Marshals Service Director Gadyaces S. Serralta joining Saturday in America to discuss how decisive federal action in Washington, D.C., and Memphis is finally delivering results and restoring safety where local officials had all but given up.
Director Serralta isn’t a pundit; he’s the head of America’s oldest federal law enforcement agency, sworn in to lead the Marshals at a moment when the nation needed backbone, not excuses. His appointment and current role underscore why the federal marshals are back in the fight to take fugitives off the street, secure courthouses, and backstop overwhelmed local forces.
The reality is simple: when the federal government sends marshals, guards, and specialized task forces into cities, criminal cartels and violent gangs lose their playgrounds. Recent federal deployments into Memphis and increased security operations in D.C. involved multi-agency cooperation to target violent offenders and drug networks that had turned neighborhoods into war zones, and those operations are already producing arrests and safer streets.
Liberals whine about “overreach,” but the American people don’t care about political theater when their kids are unsafe walking to school or their small businesses are being looted. The Marshals’ traditional strengths—fugitive apprehension, tactical support, court protection—are exactly what cities need when leftist local governments bow to woke ideology instead of prosecuting and punishing criminals. The public deserves law and order, not lectures.
Make no mistake: decisive federal action paired with local cooperation can bend the curve on violent crime, as recent trends in some cities show modest but meaningful improvements where leadership took a stand. We should cheer every successful operation that removes dangerous criminals from our streets and hold accountable any elected official who refuses to partner with federal resources to protect citizens.
Hardworking Americans know the choice before us: continue down the road of appeasement and decline, or back leaders who will actually enforce the law. Director Serralta and the men and women of the U.S. Marshals are doing God’s work by forcing the criminal element to feel the full weight of justice, and patriotic citizens should stand with them and with the administration that put safety first.
