Why ICE Should Enforce the Law

The Obama administration has decreed that illegals are pretty much free to stay here. There are numerous outs he gives them, and all the law breakers must do is say they qualify for one of the outs. Law enforcement officials have to take their word for it. 

That is plainly a bad idea to begin with -- the law was made to be enforced, not played with to advance a political agenda. But here are some statistics that demonstrate why not enforcing the law is stupid.

Immigrants who were identified as possibly being here illegally but who were not detained by ICE when arrested by local or state police authorities went on to be arrested again on more than 1,800 serious offenses. The 1,105 charges for violent or major crimes, included at least 19 murders, three attempted murders, and 142 sex crimes. Also included were 682 burglaries/thefts, 48 firearms charges, and 1,420 drug violations.

John Morton, director of ICE calls the statistics "a misleading picture of the facts and a disservice to our actual efforts." Either the charges are there, are they aren't. How can they be misleading?

By the way, I don't like the headline on this story. These people are illegals. It does an injustice to legal immigrants to lump them in with the scum who break our laws.

"Report analyzes rearrests of immigrants." The Dallas Morning News; August 1, 2012; p. 2A.