Three squares and a bed for these illegal criminals...Your tax $$ at work.
I would suggest that any state facing a budget problem due to the cost of detaining illegal aliens simply has to pass the following three laws:
1. Any illegal alien charged with a felony is not a criminal -- he is an invader. He must also, therefore, be charged with the additional crime of "invading" the state in which he is charged -- a crime which will carry an automatic 10-year sentence above and beyond any sentence he must serve for the actual crime. Even if he is found innocent of the crime.
2. A U.S. citizen cannot be charged with a felony for a crime in which the victim is an illegal alien.
3. Illegal aliens cannot be awarded monetary damages for cases brought in civil court.
Watch how quickly the INS starts paying attention to their duties if even one of these three measures becomes written into law.
Not to mention health costs (emergency rooms commonest), school overpopulation, and highway accidents. (Illegals don't generally carry car insurance.) This is a very expensive mess. Why can't we fix this?
U.S. frees illegal immigrant mistaken for sniper
AFP - 10/31/2002
WASHINGTON - One of two illegal migrants picked up by police on suspicion of being the Washington-area sniper has been set free, a U.S. immigration official announced.
Edgar Rivera Garcia, a Mexican, was released from an Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center in Philadelphia after Mexican diplomats intervened. Rivera and a friend from Guatemala were arrested in an operation involving hundreds of police at a gas station in Richmond, Virginia, south of Washington D.C. on Oct. 21.
Police believed Garcia and his friend, who were driving a white van when they were arrested, might have been snipers who were terrorizing the area because their vehicle matched witness descriptions.
An immigration judge granted Rivera the right to leave the country voluntarily by January 2003 and set a 3,000-dollar bail, INS spokesman Nicky Edwards said.
The INS released no news on the Guatemalan also arrested.
The Mexican consul in Philadelphia, Juan Zavala, said his government put up the bail and has funds to hire lawyers for cases like this.
Rivera, a 24-year-old carpenter, lives in Virginia with his wife and three young daughters, Zavala told AFP.
He will return to Mexico in December, but it is unclear if his family will follow, Zavala added.
John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, were arrested on Oct. 24 and charged in the sniper attacks that killed 10 and wounded three in the Washington region.
We Fence off the Mexican border, when illegals(from any country by the way) are arrested, send them to the prison............ Mexico.
Tancredo for President in 2004.
