Felonizing illegals

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsbu ... 28802.html
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Illegal immigration should be a felony. To that end, a group of House Republicans has introduced the Accountability in Enforcing Immigration Laws Act of 2007.

The bill also is aimed at forcing Customs Enforcement agents to arrest and deport more illegal aliens. With an eye to cities that give "sanctuary" to illegals, the bill would pay local police for holding them until federal authorities take them into custody.

The sanctuary movement contends that coddling lawbreakers is preferable to tearing the fabric of society by frightening people who have no legal right to be here.

Poppycock. In sanctuary city Newark, N.J., Jose Carranza was arrested in the murder of three college students. The illegal alien already had been indicted twice in New Jersey, in one case in the sexual assault on a 5-year-old girl. Another illegal and suspect in the triple homicide has an extensive rap sheet involving violent crime.

A 2005 Government Accountability Office study of 55,322 incarcerated criminal aliens found they were arrested an average of eight times.
By definition, no illegal alien is law-abiding. And the predators among them find safe haven within sanctuary communities.

When it becomes policy to sacrifice nationhood and commonsensical law enforcement on the pyre of political correctness, is it not true that some of the worst "felons" are the people who run our government.