Thread: Arrests of illegal criminals jumps 250% in one week

Originally Posted by Judy

6 Million Dollar Man wrote:

However, if Congress will use its majority to pass a simple bill that acknowledges states authority to enforce US immigration law, this could activate the trained, equipped, paid and sworn forces of state and local police officers to assist in this endeavor and important task. State and local law enforcement know who they are, where they are and what they're doing so it is a much easier, faster and with their ability to verify status almost instantaneously from the federal government, just as accurate and compliant with the limited due process illegal aliens have under US immigration law.

There are over 800,000 armed state and local police officers in the United States. According to FBI statistics, on average, they arrest approximately 1.5 persons per month. So based those arrest records, they should have ample time on their hands to arrest on average 1 illegal alien per month per officer. That's 9.6 million illegal aliens per year. If they did that for 2 years, that's 19.2 million illegal aliens. If they arrested 2 in one month, that's another 800,000 for a total of 20 million illegal aliens in 2 years. We know that illegal aliens travel in groups, safety in numbers, so most arrests will result in multiple illegal aliens, whether it's 2 or 4 or 10 or 30 or 100 at an event depending on the site and circumstances of the arrests.

You have a good point Judy. I could see this working very well. However, for this to be able to take place, we first need to make it illegal for cities to be sanctuary cities. And then the mayors of these sanctuary cities should be subject to prison time if they don't comply with federal immigration laws.

Also, if we could just make it a felony to employ illegal aliens, I think that would pretty much take care of most of the problem. Most employees won't employ illegals if they know they can be thrown in jail and/or excessively fined for doing so.

That's one thing we should focus on, is to have a law passed to make it a felony to employ or harbor an illegal alien. That would change so much. We really need to get a big movement on this and force our politicians to enact this into law.