No. of Recommendations: 4
That may or may not be. Could just be a matter of resource allocation.
Riiiiight. They don't have the manpower to pick up the phone and make 1 call to ICE when they're already holding a guy.
In principle, I might agree. But...if it's only a "detainer", they still are not obligated. Why don't they get an actual warrant, instead?
An actual warrant for what? Deportation order, missed check ins, all that stuff are civil infractions.
Sure. Good thing no one is doing that
Sure about that one? Plenty of stories about how sanctuary jurisdictions have released some really bad people back out into the wild in the name of "principle". It's the citizens of these jurisdictions that end up paying the price.
Which brings us neatly to Al's framework: Better a hundred borderline really bad guy illegals get deported than a single citizen become a victim of one of their crimes.
The right wing seems to lump them all into "violent criminals", when the data show that -as a percentage of their population- you're in far more danger from your fellow Americans than you are from undocumented migrants. It's just a scare tactic designed to inflame. A tactic that the data simply do not support.
Here's the thing. 100% of illegal immigrants are criminals. The only fact up for debate is what percentage are violent and/or repeat offenders.
