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Toward a crime-focused immigration policy

Over at Threats Watch, Jay Fraser considers it an "interesting policy contradiction" to find that Texas will begin screening prison inmates' fingerprints to identify and deport illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes, while "The City of Oakland plans to issue photo-ID cards to illegals to enable them to ease their "access to services, improve their civic participation and encourage them to report crimes" (emphasis in original).From a pure public safety perspective, though, I see both policies as complementary, not contradictory. It's not realistic and would be too disruptive to the fabric of society to deport the estimated 12 million foreigners who don't have proper documentation, but it's a perfectly manageable (and justifiable) task to send home the ones who commit serious crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 08, 2009 (boomark / email).