Six Strikes and Your Wrist Is Slapped
by Jeff Davis
Sometimes you have to wonder about the people who are ruling over us in this country. Are they actively criminal, or just insane? Our state and local governments are literally going broke paying for health care, public schools and all the other costs generated by millions of illegal aliens. Our courts issue one lunatic ruling after another and they have even sent to prison border patrol agents, who tried to apprehend a known drug smuggler. Now it comes out that a Justice Department guideline under George W. Bush allows illegal aliens SIX apprehensions each before they are deported.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Documents released in the controversy about eight fired U.S. attorneys show that federal prosecutors in Texas generally have declined to bring criminal charges against illegal immigrants caught crossing the border — until at least their sixth arrest. A heavily redacted Department of Justice memo from late 2005 disclosed the prosecution guidelines for immigration offenses, numbers the federal government tries to keep classified. DOJ officials would not say Thursday whether it has adjusted the number since the memo was written, citing ‘law enforcement reasons.’ ” (more…)