Criminals

It appears that sanctuary cities in the US are using tactics similar to what Hamas used in Gaza. Recall that Hamas fighters intermingled with the general population to make it difficult for Israel to kill them without killing innocent civilians. The mayors of sanctuary cities, instead of holding convicted migrant criminals in jail and turning them over to ICE, have chosen to release them into the general public, to make it difficult for ICE to arrest convicted criminals, without arresting migrants without criminal records. This thwarts the plan to go after convicted criminals first. It is a very effective strategy. Only five percent of the estimated 10 million illegals that came in under Biden are considered convicted criminals and it appears that five percent of those arrested are convicted criminals. This is what is expected in random arrest. According to Pew Research: U.S. adults who say some immigrants living in the country illegally should be deported have varying views of who should be removed. Nearly all (97%) support deporting those who have committed violent crimes. In FY23, ICE arrested 73,822 noncitizens with criminal histories, including charges and convictions for assaults, sex and sexual assaults, weapons offenses, homicides, and kidnapping offenses. More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide are living outside of ICE detention in the U.S. A reasonable approach would be to deport criminal migrants, then simultaneously find the 300,000 missing migrant children while and setting up work permits for the non-criminal migrants.