Right Thinking From The Left Coast
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Monday, January 08, 2007

Respect for the Law
by Lee

I’m shocked, shocked to read that people who have no respect for the borders of the United States show no respect for its other laws, either.

Illegal immigrants who were caught but released in the United States may have been re-arrested as many as six times, Justice Department data released Monday indicates.

The findings by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine are based on a sampling of 100 illegal immigrants arrested by local and state authorities in 2004, the latest complete data available. They show that 73 of the 100 immigrants were arrested, collectively, 429 times — ranging from traffic tickets to weapons and drug charges.

Fine’s office said its audit could not conclude precisely how many of the 262,105 illegal immigrants charged with criminal histories that year had been re-arrested. “But if this data is indicative of the full population of 262,105 criminal histories, the rate at which released criminal aliens are re-arrested is extremely high,” the audit noted.

Since we haven’t discussed immigration in quite some time, allow me to go back on the record.  I’m with much of the GOP in believing that illegal immigration is a serious problem, both from social and national security standpoints, and must be addressed.  However, I differ from most of the GOP in that I don’t view immigration itself as a problem at all.  The solution to illegal immigration is legal, documented immigration.  Let these people into the country, but set the system up so we know who is here, where they are, and what they’re doing.

Posted by Lee on 01/08/07 at 08:16 AM in Politics, Law, & Economics  • (1) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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