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.’ “
The same article continues “The prosecution guidelines have been a source of frustration for years among the ranks of U.S. Border Patrol agents, said T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council. Smugglers can figure out the criteria by trial and error, he said, and can exploit it to avoid prosecution. ‘It’s devastating on morale,’ Bonner said. ‘Our agents are risking their lives out there, and then they’re told, ‘Sorry, that doesn’t meet the criteria.’ The memo was written in response to DOJ inquiries at five U.S. attorney offices, including Houston, about immigration prosecutions. The others — San Antonio, San Diego, Phoenix and Albuquerque — cover the 2,000-mile border….As part of the inquiry into the firing of the U.S. attorneys, the House Judiciary Committee has posted on its Web site thousands of pages of e-mail, memos, reports and testimony… The documents offer a glimpse into the overburdened federal court and detention systems, which suffer from a lack of resources and bed space to detain and prosecute every illegal entry violator.”
Okay, fine. The solution there is simple. You don’t detain them and you don’t prosecute them. You put them on a bus and you SEND THEM BACK. Given the extraordinary size of the problem, law enforcement officers need to be allowed to do “racial profiling” against Latinos. Any Latino without a valid driver’s license gets rounded up and deported. The government has no problem in sending thousands of people in chains to Guantanamo Bay or to secret torture facilities in eastern Europe, so why not do a mass “extraordinary rendition” and SEND THE ILLEGALS BACK.
A few mass sweeps through the fifty largest American cities, backed by many, many buses and maybe a few railroad cattle cars, would be a good start.