Posted on 08/24/2015 8:08:21 AM PDT by rktman
A litigation battle is raging between the states and President Barack Obama over his attempt to impose a nationwide “sanctuary” policy for illegal aliens. Yet, there is no question that existing sanctuary policies implemented by numerous towns and cities have victimized innocent Americans. Those sanctuary policies have enabled illegal aliens to commit thousands of crimes –crimes that would not have occurred had their perpetrators been deported in keeping with existing law.
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released [4] a study on approximately 250,000 illegal aliens locked up in our federal, state, and local prisons. They represent more than a quarter of all of the prisoners in the federal prison system alone. The GAO’s “study population” had been arrested nearly 1.7 million times and committed three million offenses, averaging about seven arrests and 12 offenses per criminal alien. The incarcerated aliens had been arrested for a vast array of crimes:
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...
This is a problem that can be solved by enforcing the law.
However, expect the Left to fight like cornered gutter rats. They have a great deal to lose and will stop at nothing do defeat Trump and the forces of law.
We are on a very dangerous course. God, help us!
Some mayor needs to declare their own city a “Federal income Tax Free” zone....
If it works for one federal law (immigration) why not another one?
While we’re at it, how about “2nd Amendment” zones, where the myriad fed regulations controlling firearms are similarly suspended?
Democrats need to house train their new pets. They can’t keep hauling this stuff out.
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