Year in Review: Crime, Immigration, the Border
Prosecutorial misconduct, violence at youth lockups, the politics of immigration and continuing bloodshed in the Mexican drug war were among the dominant Tribune headlines in 2012. Here's a look back at the crime, immigration and border stories of the year.
Criminal justice
In the realm of criminal justice in Texas, 2012 was dominated by Michael Morton and renewed scandals at the state juvenile justice agency.
Following his exoneration after spending nearly 25 years wrongly imprisoned for his wife's 1986 murder, Morton in 2012 became the face of the criminal justice reform movement and of calls for prosecutorial accountability ...
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Brittanicus
Are we kidding ourselves that the policy of our government is to protect the population from a silent invasion of illegal aliens? If this was the truth, why is it not a FELONY, to enter this sovereign nation without permission? Doesn’t it make sense for rational human beings in Washington to spend our hard earned personal dollars on a double layer fence, encompassed with concertina razor wire, instead of taxing us to cater to the 20 million plus illegal migrants and immigrants? The hundreds of billions of dollars should be used to recruit more ICE and U.S. Border Patrol agents, to audit incorrigible businesses that hire nationals, and enforcement professionals to defend this country against criminals, drug dealers and the dregs from the gutters of central and South America. Something is seriously wrong with those we elect who pander to foreign nationals, instead of pouring our scant currency to our own people in poverty? WHAT IS A MATTER WITH THE WASHINGTON INSIDERS, WHO CARE MORE FOR THESE PEOPLE WHO DISRESPECT OUR LAWS, OUR FLAG, OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR LANGUAGE?
These lawmakers are dividing this country, especially the Obama administration who wants even more revenue to pay for illegal aliens, instead of spending far less and doing the job, they were elected for? Or as I surmise there was untold numbers of illegal aliens and ‘Freeloaders” who perjured themselves in the presidential election. It was utterly strange or more so questionable, that states with picture ID requirements had a much more favorable voting public for Mitt Romney, GOP and the ever present TEA PARTY? Why are the politicians who are supposed to have our protection in mind, for the people who pay their salaries not voting for the LEGAL WORKFORCE BILL, which is part of the E-Verify Provision? As the great English playwright stated in the tragic saga of Romeo and Juliet “Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's armpit. Mercutio, furious and appalled, cries "a plague a' both your houses" That is what a large portion of the U.S. population thinks of Democrats, Liberals and the Republicans? It is an outrageous situation with our deficit rising above a 16 trillion dollars and Obama wants more. President Obama will be forever known as the “Entitlement President”. He wants to spend America out of existence, and the Liberal Progressives are pushing him along with their Socialists thoughts. An agenda of open borders and keep spending everybody’s tax dollars, and still wanting more.
The Sanctuary illegal alien states of California and Nevada are under water with growing insolvency. Then issuing Driver’s licenses and a path to citizenship for anybody who can slip through the hundreds of thousands of miles of desolate areas without any barrier at all? Why do professionally skilled people even bother to apply legally, when they can be smuggled past border guards or anybody in that criminal frame of mind? Hundreds of thousands of individual wait patiently, but America ends up with the impoverished we must feed, house and keep healthy. Did the shiploads of people who entered America by steamship, through Ellis Island arrive here expecting welfare? NO! There was nothing? No Public assistance, no food stamps or low income housing. Thanks to Presidents Obama he sold us for votes from the “spongers” for food stamps and no real strict restrictions under his watch for all kinds of welfare. All he has managed to do is spend trillions more dollars and attract even more uneducated and desperate, which we must accommodate. Our laws are so porous that pregnant women are smuggling their unborn into the country, so they can apply for citizenship for their child. Once here, the child opens a official portal to birthright citizenship.
We must eliminate this fiat BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, by the enacting an Amendment to Senator Kings 14th Amendment bill. Only offspring with a parent, who holds a legal right as a citizen, will be able to gift citizenship to that baby. It’s not complicated and hundreds of billions of more dollars from now on in free schooling to K-12, health services and all the other welfare programs, which the spineless politicians seem not to care about? Other countries can carry out this service to its own countryman, why are we any different. We already offer visas to over a million legal immigrants annually and the majority not even qualified for essential jobs in Science, Techwork, engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workers, as much fraud is involved. Agjobs are not orderly or regulated and so agricultural workers can easily vanish and add their cheap labor to the marketplace, placing low income U.S. labor at a disadvantage to be exploited by bad employers. In addition give legal immigrants who offer higher degrees, business investment and who hire Americans a special preference as a path to citizenship, as their contributions to our society are what we need. Not the poverty dropped on us from other countries that we are forced to support by the chaos in the judicial system?
Redress relating to voter fraud and incidents that are not being investigated. http://recountthevote.com/
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Brittanicus
FOR THOSE OPPONENTS WHO STATE THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION DOESN”T COST TAXPAYERS? THIS IS ONLY ONE OF CALIFORNIA MAJOR CITY PAYOUT IN PANDERING TO ILLEGAL ALIENS. ANNUALLY OVER A $113 BILLION DOLLARS AND RISING ANNUALLY, THAT IS BEING SWALLOWED UP ACROSS THIS SOVEREIGN LAND AND “YOU” ARE PAYING FOR IT.
HOW MANY DOLLARS ARE TAKEN IN TAXES TO PAY FOR YOUR ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION IN YOUR PRINCIBLE CITIES?
PRIME EXAMPLE, LOS ANGELES COUNTY – Year-end closing 2011 figures from the Department of Public Social Services reported that over $646 million in welfare and food stamp benefits were issued to illegal alien parents for their native-born children, announced Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. The $646.2 million consisted of $258 million in CalWORKs (welfare) and $388 million in Food Stamps) — a $21 million increase over the previous year. “With the $550 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for healthcare, the total cost for illegal aliens to this one County taxpayer exceeds $1.6 billion dollars a year,” said Antonovich. “These costs do not include the hundreds of millions of dollars for education.” Californians need to contact their Representative, specifically governor Brown and the Liberal State assembly and demand no more illegal alien pandering, or Californian taxpayers will be taxed even more from now to doomsday.
CUT OUT ALL PUBLIC ENTITLEMENTS AND WATCH THEM GO HOME?