"....focuses overwhelmingly on nonviolent offenses, the document fraud and unauthorized entry and other misdeeds that implicate many people who fit no sane definition of brutal criminal or threat to the homeland.
If an illegal immigrant is deported for those "small" violations before he joins a gang (or if he is a gang member to begin with), he/she is unavailable to perpetrate drug dealing or other "big ticket" crimes. NYT is a total dumbass these days.
Precisely: the broken windows theory, an academic theory proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982 that used broken windows as a metaphor for disorder within neighborhoods.
Their theory links disorder and incivility within a community to subsequent occurrences of serious crime.
We saw two examples recently, the other day when Chicago said it would ignore parole violations. And before that, in Oregon when a judge associated with the `hispanic’ Bund helped an illegal alien charged with DUI evade ICE.
Public officials actions hurt citizens when they wink at “small things”.
Ignoring (and worse, abetting) small things like border jumping and ID fraud leads to aliens, like MS 13 tossed from El Salvador and others here illegally, regularly venturing from “the shadows” to demand citizenship so they can draw even more public benefits.
The small things are the cause of the big things: the siphoning-off by aliens of goods and services meant for and paid by citizens; violent crime and fraud crime and costs associated with them; and all the other costs to Americans of open borders.
This has Carlos Slim’s fingerprints all over it—acting on behalf of Mexico’s ruling `guero’ class—urging that lose Estados Unidos continue to allow itself to be used as a dumping ground for their unwanted, but revenue generating, indio and criminal citizens.
Ain’t gonna happen amigo. No mas.