Thread: To Protect and Serve by Bill O'Reilly

To Protect and Serve
by Bill O'Reilly (more by this author)
Posted 05/04/2007 ET
Updated 05/04/2007 ET


Well, Virginia Beach folded. In the face of growing anger from its citizenry, the city announced it will stop its "Sanctuary" policy of failing to inform federal authorities about criminal illegal aliens.

The back story here is brutal. On March 30, 17-year-old Alison Kunhardt and 16-year-old Tessa Tranchant were killed when illegal alien Alfredo Ramos slammed into their car. Ramos was drunk and had four previous beefs with the law, including a D-U-I conviction.
Yet, Virginia Beach police Chief Jake Jacocks told the press he had ordered his officers not to call Homeland Security Agents (ICE) about any "low-level" offenders because he, Jacocks, didn't believe it was his job to help the feds.

What?

It seems to me that every law enforcement officer should want as few criminals in town as possible. Since Ramos was here in the USA illegally, and was a consistent lawbreaker in Virginia Beach, the feds could have easily removed him from the area and sent him back to Mexico. Apparently, Jacocks had a problem with that.

But not any longer, at least in public. After my reporting battered the government of Virginia Beach, it has changed it's dangerous and irresponsible policy. But Jacocks got in a last shot calling me, your humble correspondent, "pathetic."

But that was an improvement over what Denver Post columnist Joanne Ostrow called me after she saw my coverage of the Virginia Beach story. Ms. Ostrow called me "racist."
So why all the anger? Doesn't it make sense that any person who is in the country illegally in the first place, be deported when convicted of committing a crime on American soil? I can't read minds but there is something very strange going on inside the "pro-immigration" movement.

When President Ronald Reagan delivered citizenship to almost three million illegal aliens in 1986 through his "amnesty" program, the entire problem of people coming to America without proper credentials was supposed to have been solved. At the time the Atlanta Journal editorialized "it will help stem the tide of future illegal entrants ..."

The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, all rhapsodized that Reagan's vision would be great for America.

So now we have four times as many illegal aliens waiting for another amnesty, with more coming every hour of the day.

With emotions running high, the federal government, never a tower of courage, does not seem able to fix the chaos. Most Americans understand that the vast majority of illegal immigrants simply want a better life and will work hard to get it. So I ask you, who wants to deny anyone a better life?

But by failing to institute standards of behavior in the immigration arena, the U.S. government puts us all at risk. There's no way on this earth that a four-time loser, in this country illegally, should have been driving around drunk. Didn't Allison and Tessa deserve to live? We have millions of Americans who drive around smashed, do you we need to add to that number with insane "Sanctuary" policies that protect criminal illegal aliens?
The power brokers in Virginia Beach were forced to do the right thing but still don't believe they were ever wrong. How did things get so out of whack in America?

Mr. O'Reilly is host of the Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor" and author of "Who's Looking Out for You?"

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How did things get so out of whack in America?

It's called liberalism, multiculturism, politically correctism, dumb assism, blah blah blah.

All I can say is my heart goes out to the family and their losses. It's a shame our government won't do anything but endless and pointless debates on what to do. The time for talking is over! Crap or get off the pot!

Hey SIPPY you forgot their favorite term, cultural diversity

Cultural Diversity is fine, as long as the ones who are supposed to assimliate into their new country do so. Language is what binds us, not citizenship. If all of these illegals end up with citizenship, or a path to it, then their lack to assimilate will only cause more problems. Oh, they may be required to pass a reading and speak test in English, but believe me..assimilation will stop right there. They will continue to speak in Spanish whenever they feel. This is what will keep the barriers of separate ethnic grouping in place and the melting pot will cease to exist. They believe that we should learn their language and not the other way around. That's stubborn, ignorant, rude and racist for these people to act this way in a nation where they were welcomed.