Say Anything Blog

Finally some progress:

With America facing a surge of 80,000 violent criminals on its streets, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan that would enlist as many as 700,000 state and local law enforcement officers in the battle.

The 277-140 vote, according to plan sponsor U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., affirmed the authority of state and local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws while in the course of their regular duties such as traffic stops and drug arrests.

“The margin by which this bill passed sends an unmistakable message to the Senate from the people’s House that the nation demands action on this issue,” Norwood said. “All across America, people have witnessed horrific crimes committed by criminal illegal aliens, who were released on our communities because we failed to enforce immigration laws.”

“We currently have roughly 5,000 federal agents trying to apprehend 500,000 illegal aliens with court orders against them. Eighty-thousand of them are serious felons, such as murderers, drug dealers, child molesters, and rapists,” Norwood said on the floor of the House. “Those odds are impossible. But if we allow our 700,000 state and local police to volunteer to help, the odds get a lot better.”

I can’t begin to imagine why local law enforcement hasn’t been able to detain illegals to be picked up by INS. Even with strong border security some illegals are going to get in. It’s those illegals that have run-ins with the cops that are the first ones that should be deported.

I also find it shocking that we have 80,000 illegals who have committed felonies out on the street. Every crime committed by an illegal immigrant is a crime that never should have happened.