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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 11:23PM
The federal 287(g) program that empowers local law enforcement to assist in the identification and deportation of illegal immigrants will soon be the subject of greater federal scrutiny. The questionm however, is why? According to the article, Cobb County's program is doing exactly what it should be doing - helping to deport those who have come to the United States illegally.
So let me get this straight. We should only deport those who commit major crimes? Should we simply ignore the fact that being in the country illegally is a crime in and of itself? By this line of thinking, perhaps the feds would prefer that a police officer simply let someone go because they only had a small amount of cocaine rather than enough to traffic?
Now the feds are going to step in and assist local law enforcement in administering the program.
Am I the only one who is astounded that the Obama administration is effectively turning a blind eye to all but a portion of the illegal immigration problem? Frankly, by effectively saying "We won't deport you so long as you keep your crimes minor" does not surprise me from a party that has largely taken a position of coddling illegal immigrants. Any more of you now suffering buyer's remorse over your Obama vote?
A recent Government Accountability Office report questioned its effectiveness. GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, reported that authorities failed to determine how many of the thousands of people deported under the program were the kind of violent felons it was devised to root out.
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As a result, some law enforcement agencies focused on people arrested for relatively minor crimes, the GAO said.
So let me get this straight. We should only deport those who commit major crimes? Should we simply ignore the fact that being in the country illegally is a crime in and of itself? By this line of thinking, perhaps the feds would prefer that a police officer simply let someone go because they only had a small amount of cocaine rather than enough to traffic?
Now the feds are going to step in and assist local law enforcement in administering the program.
To address the GAO’s concerns, ICE officials say the new agreements will specify who should be arrested, how the arrests should be made, how data are to be collected, and how ICE will supervise the program.
Am I the only one who is astounded that the Obama administration is effectively turning a blind eye to all but a portion of the illegal immigration problem? Frankly, by effectively saying "We won't deport you so long as you keep your crimes minor" does not surprise me from a party that has largely taken a position of coddling illegal immigrants. Any more of you now suffering buyer's remorse over your Obama vote?
Categories: Immigration Tags: 287(g), Barack Obama, Cobb County, Crime, Democrats, Government Accountability Office, ICE, Immigration, Law Enforcement, federal government, politics
Immigration Tags: 287(g), Barack Obama, Cobb County, Crime, Democrats, Government Accountability Office, ICE, Immigration, Law Enforcement, federal government, politics
Reader Comments (1)
Why are you surprised? He has done everything he said he was going to do.
What surprises me is the number of BHO voters who are shocked that he has done everything he said he is going to do.
He is a Democrat, he supports Democray, mob rule. We are not a Democracy. We are a Republic.