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“If you are an American citizen you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for even the smallest infraction. But if you are an illegal from Mexico you can piss all over this country and its laws with impunity.”

Why do people always think that illegal aliens can commit all the crimes they want and get away with it while citizens will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? This is just a misconception for the most part. Illegals get prosecuted just like the rest of us, and probably get nailed harder in the system for the most part. I worked as a public defender for years and had to represent a lot of illegals in the process. If anything, the offers illegals would get from prosecutors tended to be worse than those for citizens. Often when we'd be negotiating a deal the fact that someone was Hispanic, illegal especially, would come up in the discussion. I'd hear something like, “your guy is an illegal alien, our jury is going to ream his a$$.” And they would too. Nobody likes illegal aliens, not the cops, not the prosecutors, not the judges and certainly not the jurors. Why in the heck would we let them go around committing crimes in our communities and not prosecute them? The feds have their b.s. excuses for not deporting people, and are actually doing a little better at deporting people now, especially when it comes to “criminal aliens,” those arrested for committing crimes other than coming here without permission. Local law enforcement typically do not do the feds job of enforcing immigration laws, but they do enforce our own local/state laws. There are always exceptions to anything it seems but for the most part throughout the country if illegal aliens get caught committing crimes they get prosecuted at least as hard as citizens if not harder.

I'm talking about the crime they committed by entering the country illegally. The government is turning a blind eye to millions of people who are here illegally. There are also places like San Francisco that drive criminal aliens over the border so they can return the next day to commit more crimes. A father and his two sons were just murdered by one of these illegals.

Why do people always think that illegal aliens can commit all the crimes they want and get away with it while citizens will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law?

You write for The Onion, right?

I can walk down any street in my town or into the Wal-Mart any hour of the day and night and see these illegal alien criminals walking around free. They don't even bother to hide.

Not only that, but they do sometimes get hauled in by the law (if they're caught redhanded at something). Often they are released on their own recognizance or small bonds. Usually most disappear before their court dates if it is anything serious. The ones that show up are generally let go or given tiny fines - not turned over to ICE or jailed even though they're already guilty of multiple other crimes simply due to how they got here and how they manage to stay and milk the system. "How" they do it is not legally, I'll tell you. But, as a lawyer, you already know that, right?

How many genuine Americans get arrested on serious crimes like document and Social Security fraud (and a host of other crimes) and simply get away with it, time and time again? Or even do these crimes? Does the number reach 100% - like these people?

They are getting prosecuted tougher than the rest of us? HA!

I want some of what you're smokin', Dude. That's some mighty fine weed!