The Patriot Post® · Friday Opinion
Today’s Editors’ Choice
- Hans von Spakovsky: Rahm Emanuel Welcomes Criminal Aliens
- Michael Reagan: The Follies of Appeasement
- Jonah Goldberg: Diversity Flaps Are Often Manufactured
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Opinion in Brief
Hans von Spakovsky: “Why would [Chicago Mayor Rahm] Emanuel even want to keep criminal aliens on the already mean streets of Chicago? One 2005 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of 55,322 criminal aliens found that they had been arrested 459,614 times and committed almost 700,000 criminal offenses — an average of 13 offenses per illegal alien. The crimes included everything from murder to robbery to sex-related assaults. A 2011 GAO report told a similar sad story. Reviewing the records of 251,000 criminal aliens in federal, state, and local prisons and jails, it found they had been arrested nearly 1.7 million times for close to three million criminal offenses. Had these offenders not been in the country, their victims would have been spared much suffering. Or if cities and states had notified Washington that they were about to release these repeat offenders, the feds could have picked them up and removed them from the country. The sanctuary policies championed by Rahm Emanuel make that impossible. Yet he arrogantly boasts that Chicago will not be ‘blackmailed into changing our values.’ The ‘value’ he seeks to uphold is the self-proclaimed right to flout federal law to protect known predators. Only the most twisted logic could equate withholding federal agency grants from a city that refuses to allow the federal agency to do its job to some form of blackmail.”