After spending billions of tax dollars on homeland security, the federal government has still not secured the nation’s borders. To understand why, realize first that too often the government’s left hand actively blocks the right hand from doing its work on the border. For example, instead of deporting the 505,365 illegal immigrants thought to be here who are also convicted felons – as the agency is required to do by federal law — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released them back into local communities.
By refusing to release any “personally identifiable information” to elected public officials and law enforcement, ICE puts criminals’ “privacy rights” before the safety of American citizens. At the same time, the Interior Department is blocking the Border Patrol from intercepting members of drug cartels, terrorists and human traffickers at the southwestern border, so the criminals enter the United States virtually at will, wreaking environmental havoc on protected wilderness areas along the way and sowing murder and mayhem in our cities.
