Houston, We Have a Problem
For some reason, a huge issue in this country was largely ignored in this past election campaign. Not the media, nor neither of any of the candidates touched on the issue of illegal immigration.
Not too long after the election is over and settled, comes the latest headline, something we haven’t heard about in months.
Thousands of inmates admit they’re in the U.S. illegally, but even those convicted of violent crimes are often released right back onto Houston’s streets.
Federal immigration officials allowed scores of violent criminals — some ordered deported decades ago — to walk away from Harris County Jail despite the inmates’ admission to local authorities that they were in the country illegally, a Houston Chronicle investigation found.
A review of thousands of criminal and immigration records shows that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials didn’t file the paperwork to detain roughly 75 percent of the more than 3,500 inmates who told jailers during the booking process that they were in the U.S. illegally.
Although most of the inmates released from custody were accused of minor crimes, hundreds of convicted felons — including child molesters, rapists and drug dealers — also managed to avoid deportation after serving time in Harris County’s jails, according to the Chronicle review, which was based on documents filed over a period of eight months starting in June 2007, the earliest immigration records available.
•In 177 cases reviewed by the Chronicle, inmates who were released from jail after admitting to being in the country illegally later were charged with additional crimes. More than half of those charges were felonies, including aggravated sexual assault of a child and capital murder.
•About 11 percent of the 3,500 inmates in the review had three or more prior convictions in Harris County. Many had repeatedly cycled through the system despite a history of violence and, in some cases, outstanding deportation orders.
Suddenly this is front page news again?
It’s the governments first priority to protect its own people. Ours isn’t doing it, and hasn’t for a long time.
Those “cases” alluded to in the article, have VICTIMS. American people. Us. Children molested, women raped, and drugs entering our country. Apparently women and children are expendable and have no rights here in the U.S. anymore.
Perhaps the media treatment of Hillary, Sarah Palin, and her daughter show us exactly what the mindset is in this country. Color of skin and different cultures comes way before anything else.
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Sadly, when the Republicans picked McCain this issue became completely ignored. There was not much to debate since he was liberal in his views on this topic. All these politicians should be accountable for doing virtually nothing the past few decades.