Editorial: Is Obama’s pursuit of illegal immigrants too successful?
dallasnews.com
Published 23 August 2011 06:06 PM



When public policy is inherently flawed, when the laws that govern it are mutable and at times unenforceable, the only apparent salvation is … the interagency working group! The sole function of this Washington creation is to render aid to federal bureaucrats who have to make sense of the senseless.

It is no shock that the two agencies charged with enforcing immigration laws, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice, recently had to resort to an interagency working group. The Obama administration, in its zeal to demonstrate how tough it can be on illegal immigration, cast a wide net. It has now predictably panicked over what to do with a significant portion of the catch.

The program, known as Secure Communities, was aimed at illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes — “the worst of the worst,â€