Repeat Offenders Who Aren’t Supposed to be Here

Illegal alien criminals have a high recidivism rate. And they aren’t being dorted. Not the first time. Not the sixth time they are arrested. Does the government even care about this problem?

Criminal aliens set free on the streets of America—instead of being deported after serving their time—are being rearrested as many as six more times by U.S. authorities, according to a government audit released yesterday.
But the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General said it did not know how many of 262,105 illegals in the audit, who had been charged with a crime and then released, had been rearrested.
Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said that the volume of available files “was too great to search manually and quantify the results” and that investigators instead selected a sample of 100 illegal aliens arrested in 2004 and reviewed their criminal histories for evidence of rearrests.
Mr. Fine noted that although the limited audit did not find any instances of “outright failure” to cooperate with Homeland Security in the removal of criminal aliens from the United States, a review of the 100 criminal histories “produced results that, if indicative of the full population of criminal aliens identified, suggest that the rate at which released criminal aliens are re-arrested is extremely high.”

The government doesn’t seriously look for illegal workers even though they are easy to find. When they do it makes the news, as in the recent Swift Foods case, but then they get attacked by all usual suspects. Meanwhile, thousands of potential criminals are crossing the border illegally every day. Thousands. (Actually, they are all criminals if they are coming here illegally but that’s another matter).

The government doesn’t seem to be serious about dealing with a serious problem. Which means the real criminals are in the halls of government. They are sworn by law to protect this country and they’re doing nothing of the kind. 

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