Failure to Uphold Immigration Laws Leads to the Death of a Deputy Sheriff By Ronald W. Mortensen, January 25, 2010
During the past several months, I have commented on the failure of law enforcement officials to enforce the nation's immigration laws, thereby giving illegal alien criminals an advantage that they should not have.
Law enforcement officials argue that they have to give illegal aliens a pass for violating immigration laws in order to gain their confidence and support. While this may work in some cases, it also leaves violent, criminal illegal aliens free to go about their business.
The most recent example of this can be found in a rural area in western Utah where an illegal alien has been accused of killing a female deputy sheriff.
The accused killer's immigration status should not have gone unnoticed in the small community where everyone knows everyone else. After all, he had been deported multiple times and been arrested twice for illegally reentering the United States. He had even served jail time for illegal entry.
In addition, he was a known drug dealer and had sold drugs to the brother of the deputy sheriff only minutes before he killed her.
His MySpace page showed him with firearms even though both as a convicted felon and an illegal alien he was not allowed to possess firearms.
He was apparently able to readily find employment with dairy farmers in the area even though he was not authorized to work in the United States.
This is a tragedy that did not have to happen. Had the accused killer served his first prison term of 15 years rather than being released and deported after just 14 months, or had he been given the maximum sentence for reentry into the United States, he would not have been back in the community.
Had the federal government controlled the border, he would not have been in the United States.
Had the sheriff and other law enforcement officials sought the assistance of immigration authorities, they could have arrested the accused murderer at any time for illegally reentering the United States and he could have been sentenced to a long prison term.
Had anyone viewing the MySpace page of the accused killer reported his illegal possession of firearms to law enforcement, he could have been arrested.
Had local dairy farmers used E-Verify rather than turning a blind eye to his illegal status, he would not have been able to find work and may have left the area.
And had citizens of the community truly understood that illegal aliens routinely commit multiple felonies to get jobs and that they foster a culture of corruption, they may have been less accommodating to the illegal aliens in their midst.
There is enough blame to go around in this case, but it is inexcusable for law enforcement officials to let a known illegal alien continue to live and work in their jurisdiction. Had they just used the immigration laws that are already on the books, they may have saved the life of one of their own.
http://www.cis.org/mortensen/deputy
Don’t Haitians speak FRENCH?
Just sayin’.
At the rate things are going,the United States is going to become just like Haiti.Leaderless and impoverished.
Just what we need is more people from the thired world coming here,sucking off the tax dollars of hard working people.
Seems like bringing a black person here would be cruel.
Leftists see everything in terms of “haves” vs “have nots.” The USA is where the “haves” live. The USA is evil and got rich by exploiting the “have nots” and the only way to redeem it is by emptying it out of its wealth and giving it to the “have nots.”
A more rational being would have the USA use its wealth and knowledge to help other countries become wealthy too. Then all would be happy, instead of both being miserable.
Bringing millions of Haitians here is simply not in the best interests of the country and its citizens, however well it serves Haitians. If OUR OWN GOVERNMENT doesn’t put the best interests of American citizens ahead of the interests of the rest of the world, WHO IS GOING TO? Post-Americanism is right. This person makes no distinction between American citizens and everyone else on the planet. We are, for all practical purposes, second-class citizens in our own country BEHIND foreigners of all stripes, including the ones who want to kill us and destroy our culture. Our government is supposed to defend us, and our interests first and foremost. That is the basis of the Constitution, and one step back, the Social Contract. Thank heavens people like Mark Krikorian are pointing out all of this. Every elected representative, at whatever level of government, needs to be called out on this, beginning with BO and members of Congress. They have taken an oath to “provide for the common defense” and they are falling down on the job.
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Its quite simple these leftist nutters and their Big Welfare plans along with their RINO enablers (McCain) have worked hard to destroy this country from this anarchic mess we call immigration.
C'mon AuntB. Get with the program...
Haiti would be the top vacation destination, safest, and lifestyle envy of the world in... about 2 years.