Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has brokered a compromise deal with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that allows the feds access to arrest records in their search for illegal aliens. The records ICE now has access to will exclude information on victims and witnesses. Nutter was concerned that subjecting illegal aliens to exposure to law enforcement would dampen their spirit towards reporting crime.1
Never mind that this leans dangerously in the direction of creating a privileged class who are at the same time protected by the law and exempt from the law. Illegal aliens are criminals.
Remember that this is the same population of criminal crusaders upon whose backs is borne the entire Philadelphia justice system, and Nutter has previously stated that without their support that system would collapse.2
What Nutter’s compromise amounts to is a witness protection program protecting criminals; not from other criminals, but shielding them from our own federal agents. And it is the most costly of such programs in existence. A look at national figures for illegal immigrants gives some idea of those costs that are supported on the backs of American tax-payers.
The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens since 2008, $26 billion; the cost of educating children of illegals since 1996, $171 billion; the cost of social services for illegals since 1996, $397 billion.3
The costs are so devastating that illegals are literally bankrupting entire cities.4 What’s needed is a new protection program for Americans; such as enforcing existing immigration law. Can I get a witness?
Notes:
1. Fox News, “Philly to Continue Sharing Arrest Records With Immigration Officials” July 17, 2010. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/17/philly-
continue-sharing-arrest-records-immigration-officials/
2. David Dansker, “Illegal Aliens Indispensible Crime Fighters,” TheNewsBeats.com/news. July 5, 2010.
3. ImmigrationCouters.com, “Live Numbers,” July 17, 2010. http://immigrationcounters.com/
4. David Dansker, “Different Lottery Brought Down Maywood,” TheNewsBeats.com/news. June 24, 2010.
