Illegals

The arguments surrounding the immigration system are somewhat bewildering to many people. There are those who say illegal immigrants, whose only crime is their being here illegally, should be treated differently than those illegals who are here and have been convicted of crimes. If this rule is followed it makes it very difficult to determine a course of action at the border. When a person comes across the border illegally and is picked up, the law officer must determine if that person will at some later date commit a crime. The only reasonable way to do that is to allow anyone in and then wait to see if they do in fact commit a crime. If this is the way they want to do things then they don't need any border guards. This is how California currently deals with illegals but many complain that even after conviction these criminals are not incarcerated or deported. Sometimes convicted criminals are released by local authorities to prevent the federal agents from deporting them. This occurred in the recently well publicized case of the Oakland Mayor. The mayor of a self-proclaimed sanctuary city in California issued a warning to illegal immigrants in the Oakland area over the weekend that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were preparing a raid.