The "Criminalization" Of Illegal Immigration

For the illegal-alien lobby, even murderers and rapists should be shielded from the cruel and inhumane reach of the U.S. immigration law. Better that one hundred citizens be held up at gunpoint than one illegal alien be deported..

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[Agent of Chaos]

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The "Criminalization" Of Illegal Immigration
About time, huh? Of course, Amnesty International talks about that like it's a horribly cruel thing, not an absolutely fantastic idea -- especially as my state of California, illegal immigrant central, is broke beyond belief. My pal Heather Mac Donald writes at NRO:

As I was reading this relatively heartening story about the Obama administration's plan to check all jail inmates for immigration status, the fun part was calculating the odds that the illegal-alien lobby would oppose even this no-brainer program. I should not have been so naïve. There was no chance that they wouldn't object to the program. Verifying the immigration status of arrestees could lead to the "criminalization" of illegal immigration and to immigration checks in other arenas, warn Amnesty International and immigrant advocates, according to the Washington Post. Straining even further for reasons to oppose this modest, commonsense policy, Tom Barry, an analyst for the Center for International Policy, a nonprofit research and policy institute in Washington, said the initiative "could sweep up foreign-born U.S. residents who have served time for offenses but were not deported."

So there you have it, for the illegal-alien lobby, even murderers and rapists should be shielded from the cruel and inhumane reach of the U.S. immigration law. Better that one hundred citizens be held up at gunpoint than one illegal alien be deported. Though the illegals lobby appears to have lost on this round, their constant affirmation of the idea that deportation is inherently unjust remains the dominant trope in media coverage of illegal immigration. The lobby's continuing influence means that when Obama gets his amnesty through, the chances that those illegals who don't qualify for amnesty will actually be deported are slim. And that in turn means that the chance that the amnesty will do anything other than encourage more illegals to come is zero.

Milton Friedman noted that you can't have open borders in a welfare state. Robert Rector writes, also at NRO:

It takes the entire net tax payments (taxes paid minus benefits received) of one college-educated family to pay for the net benefits received by one low-skill immigrant family. Even Julian Simon, the godfather of open-border advocates, acknowledged that imposing such a burden on taxpayers was unreasonable, stating, "immigrants who would be a direct economic burden upon citizens through the public coffers should have no claim to be admitted" into the nation.

[Octo pappy]

Wow, it takes all of my families taxes to pay for the services of an illegals family........where are my blood pressure pills?