Posted on 09/23/2005 7:11:15 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
The ACLU has become so divorced from any semblance of common sense, it should be opposed on every front. This organization, which is trying to destroy the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts, is now trying to interfere with attempts on the part of local authorities to protect good Samaritans from criminals mixed in with Katrina refugees.
Rhode Island recently greeted more than 100 refugees. State police did criminal background checks on every refugee and found that more than half had criminal arrest records — a third of them for felonies. In South Carolina, state police checked every evacuee flown there by the government. Of 547 people checked, 301 had criminal records, according to Robert Stewart, state Law Enforcement Division Chief.
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