Thread: KLTV Investigates: East Texas taxpayer dollars spent on undocumented inmates

I reread this article and I think it is pure propaganda.

It is designed to give the impression these people have done nothing more than be here illegally - as if that isn't enough - BUT

If they were arrested for a crime, why aren't they handled just like any other criminal?

We do prosecute and incarcerate illegal aliens. Texas even executed one a few years ago.

So, what is all this fluff about 'holding' them. They have committed a crime, they should be processed just like any other criminal.

They are pretending that 'holding' them is their only option. It isn't.
I'm wondering how many people have the idea that maybe illegals can't be charged and incarcerated. That would be an interesting survey.

Yes, we would have the costs of having them in prison, but what's the cost of having them free? You can't put a price on that - and free is what they will be if they are simply deported.

Also, unless they are actually tried and convicted of a crime, no one will know what a danger they are.

What do these people have to loose when they commit a crime in this country?
A few days as a 'detainee' - then a free trip home for a short vacation - then they are back here again, with no real blight on their record.

Actually, all this 'we can/can't detain' is just a lot of smoke. You arrest someone for a crime, charge them, try them, jail them.

This is a big slight of hand - they wave all the 'detainers', etc., so no one will remember they have committed a crime. That way no one thinks to ask why they aren't being treated as any other criminal.

Ask if some criminal committed a crime in Gregg County, and was not an illegal, what would they do? Would they 'detain' them? - or would they prosecute them?

That's insanity.