CBS News affiliate KFMB reports that Orange County, California law enforcement agencies and the federal government are now working together on a program to deport illegal immigrants serving time in U.S. jails. This could mean that as many as 11,000 illegal aliens could be handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.
Now that makes all the sense in the world. No illegal alien belongs in this country, but there is absolutely no excuse for the ones who are known criminals to be allowed to remain here. It's bad enough that they break our laws when they sneak into our country but the ones that go further and engage in ongoing criminal activity against the rest of us need to be tossed back over that border fence immediately upon completion of their sentences, ideally with a tattoo or microchip to identify them should they ever violate our nation's borders again.
Of course the advocacy groups for the illegals claim that this the program contributes to the targeting and racial profiling of all persons who appear to be "illegal." However the government responds that is not true because they are checking the immigration status of all inmates, not just those that appear "illegal."
Can't argue with that, can you, ACLU?
Every state should participate in this program, as even the people who think that illegal aliens who just want access to our jobs, schools and health care should be allowed to stay can't seriously object to deporting known convicted criminals back to their rightful countries.
