This is the most outrageous thing I've read about in a long time. Those kids, good kids, not involved in drugs and gangs, going to college, something no doubt very difficult to do while growing up in Newark, where gangs and violence are rampant, are shot to death in a schoolyard. And to add insult to injury, the scumbag is an illegal with a nasty police record. Absolutely incredible.
When is it going to stop? The sister of my sister's friend was murdered a couple years ago by an illegal from Honduras, stabbed 37 times, no known motive, and this girl is just dead now, life over at 20, for no good reason.
Defeating the immigration bill was the first step, in that it brought awareness to the problem. We're in deep trouble as a country, I think, if we don't do something about this, and I don't just mean the small percentage who are violent lawbreakers. The whole immigration issue has such incredibly far-reaching implications. And right now it just seems like most politicians are living through the looking glass, because so much of it makes no sense whatsoever. It's backwards and upside-down.
It's astounding to me that a judge in PA could rule against the mayor there in his efforts to put a stop to illegals in his town (my family used to live in Hazleton in the mid-nineties and the problem he was trying to fix is a very recent one - no influx of illegals when we lived there), and it is even more astounding that a judge in MD could dismiss charges of repeated child rape against a Liberian - who went to high school and college here - for language barrier issues. What on earth have we become?
Whew. OK, I'm done.