[hchutch]

Then find the convictions - refute that assertion with the facts if you can find them.

I don't think you will. U.S. Attorneys prefer to win cases - losses look bad on their record.

[monkeywrench]

I wasn't the one that tried to pass of bad info. :) You defend YOUR assertions.

[Poohbah]

I knew someone from the US Attorney's Office in San Diego back in 1994. Right after Proposition 187 passed, the Clinton administration passed word to US Attorneys to prosecute any and all cases regarding illegal alien hires that they could find--Clinton saw which way the crowd was moving on this issue, and tried to get in front without alienating core Democrat constituencies.

Several open-and-shut cases were brought. In one case, the driver's license and social security cards were printed on fax paper. The defense merely stated that he had been duped and deceived by the forged documents.

That case led to an acquittal in 15 minutes. My friend in the US Attorney's office went absolutely ballistic.

Everyone said in the post-mortem that it would've been far more profitable to go after illegal aliens engaged in welfare fraud--except that doing so would annoy the American Federation of Government Employees, who are the second biggest union in the Democrats' corner (the first being the National Educators' Association).