Posted on 02/07/2025 9:46:08 AM PST by PoliticallyShort
To fulfill President Trump’s mandate for “the largest deportation operation in American history” and to “seal the border and stop the migrant invasion,” we must radically rethink and resource our approach to policing illegal presence in the United States. The Trump administration should look to the successful “Broken Windows Policing” strategy of the 1980s for both operational and policy guidance. It’s time for broken windows immigration policy.
In their landmark 1982 article on the subject, social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling argued that addressing minor crimes and disorder prevents more severe criminal activities. They explained:
That link is similar to the process whereby one broken window becomes many. The citizen who fears the ill-smelling drunk, the rowdy teenager, or the importuning beggar is not merely expressing his distaste for unseemly behavior; he is also giving voice to a bit of folk wisdom that happens to be a correct generalization—namely, that serious street crime flourishes in areas in which disorderly behavior goes unchecked. The unchecked panhandler is, in effect, the first broken window. Muggers and robbers, whether opportunistic or professional, believe they reduce their chances of being caught or even identified if they operate on streets where potential victims are already intimidated by prevailing conditions. If the neighborhood cannot keep a bothersome panhandler from annoying passersby, the thief may reason, it is even less likely to call the police to identify a potential mugger or to interfere if the mugging actually takes place.
When implemented, these policies led to significant crime reductions, particularly in New York City with its increased transit police presence. The approach has been criticized by left-wing groups and racial justice advocates because arrest demographics often align with crime demographics, fueling movements like Black Lives Matter, Soros-funded pro-crime “prosecutors,” and Defund the Police.
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When the illegal is convicted, give them the max sentence and ship them to El Salvador's Super Max prisons to outsource their incarceration to people who know how to deal with them.
Because the defense of private property has been laughed off the table by local law enforcement and county prosecutors and judges here, and there is no longer a "watchdog" media in Tampa, you can be hounded and assaulted by these groups of people when you are walking on the sidewalk, driving on the road, shopping in the grocery store, even in your own front yard by an illegal alien renter on your street who's related to the illegal alien owner of the home they're renting from.
Add to this toxic mix an inability to communicate in foreign languages, and the general disdain with which illegals view U.S. citizens. These are all "broken windows".
There is just no way to stop these behaviors unless you, the U.S. citizen, are willing to resort to illegal and unlawful means.
This "dilemma", faced by the law-abiding U.S. citizen, is known and exploited by both the illegal alien population, and by law enforcement as well.
Illegal immigration would end if we shipped all the people hiring them to gitmo, wouldn’t even need a wall anymore. We are playing a game of whack a mole buy not putting employers in jail.
Universal E-Verify and constant Employer raids.
Shut down the pay checks, and 80% of illegal aliens will self-deport.
Just wait, by next year they’ll be talking amnesty. The Republicans don’t have the spine to carry through especially when the Chamber of Commerce starts complaining.
Exactly. It would be much cheaper to offer each illegal $100,000.00 to self-deport with no chance of return. Sounds like a lot but not even close to the cost of keeping them here.
Actually the same sort of solution that they offered to non-working Federal Employees, Sounds awful expensive until you really examine the cost of keeping them on the payroll.
I have been a vocal DACA opponent but under the current circumstances I'm actually leaning towards support.
We are talking about half a million DACA recipients, most of whom are established here and gainfully employed. If they stay out of trouble, don't burden the welfare system and stay gainfully employed it sort of makes sense.
500K DACA people who are mostly good neighbors who are working , contributing and not being a burden to the American taxpayer are a drop in the bucket compared to the 12-20 million welfare spongers Biden has trafficked into the country
And Trump offering a workable solution to the DACA problem while taking a hard line on deporting the recent wave of Biden invaders could be the difference that keeps Republicans in control of the House and Senate
It's worth it because if Trump losses the House and the Senate , we will never get rid of the Biden new wave of 12 + million invaders.
Deport them, incarcerate them in Gitmo or El Salvadore if we must. But don’t throw them out of windows. That’s too Russian.
I would offer it with this non-negotiable caveat.
Th DACA-ite gets a green card only! No citizenship ever!
They broke the law to get here and likely continued to break the law with fake SS, and other documentation. Their children have to go through the normal foreigner-to-citizenship process.
Criminality should not be rewarded in such a blanket way without cost. No citizenship ever is their cost.
As for me, I would totally love to see Obama's cynical DACA manipulation of the aging children of legacy illegal aliens become the final nail in the coffin for the Democrat Party and their plans to fundamentally change America via illegal alien demographic replacement.
Nobody dislikes the Biden New Wave invaders more than the legacy illegals who are getting totally screwed by the New Wave.
I have been a vocal DACA opponent but under the current circumstances I'm actually leaning towards support.'
Why do foreigners always get a pass? Always the shive to the common american who obeys our laws; always selling out to foreigners. We've had seven amnesties since 1986, that has always spurred more illegal immigration. Nothing is more DEI than amnesty.
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