Posted on 6/15/2007, 9:06:25 PM by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON — Immigration-related felony cases are swamping federal courts along the Southwest border, forcing judges to handle hundreds more cases than their peers elsewhere.
Judges in the five, mostly rural judicial districts on the border carry the heaviest felony caseloads in the nation. Each judge in New Mexico, which ranked first, handled an average of 397 felony cases last year, compared with the national average of 84.
Federal judges in those five districts — Southern and Western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California — handled one-third of all the felonies prosecuted in the nation's 94 federal judicial districts in 2005, according to federal court statistics.
While Congress has increased the number of border patrol officers, the pace of the law enforcement has eclipsed the resources for the court system.
Judges say they are stretched to the limit with cases involving drug trafficking or illegal immigrants who have also committed serious crimes. Judges say they need help.
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Looks like all those good-hearted people are straining our judicial resources.
That can’t be true, Whoraldo says that illegals commit far less crimes than us evil lawless Americans.
It’s time to bring the illegal alien crime statistics out of the shadows.
...”Judges in the five, mostly rural judicial districts on the border carry the heaviest felony caseloads in the nation”..... No problem just take careloads back over the border...
Whoraldo says that illegals commit far less crimes than us evil lawless Americans.
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And our world is FULL of mindless liberal idiots too...
We just need compassion for these people. That’ll do the trick.
Simple solution: Legalize everyone, give them enough welfare to live comfortably and they won’t have to commit crimes!
ping
and some that vote Republican
Kennedy, Bush, and Lott should pay this out of their own pockets.
Legalize everyone, give them enough welfare to live comfortably and they won’t have to commit crimes!
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Then the Washington pols will have to figure out how they are going to pay for it....they are already taxing us to death now. These morons have not thought this thing through at all and they really do not even care about the consequences....not a pretty picture.
The families of the victims get no compensation, and we get to pay for their lawyers, food, incarceration, and if we are lucky, their deportation.
The GOP needs to pull its head out of its ass.
...and some that vote Republican...
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Republican and conservative are really two different things now. Just occasionally, they are the same thing. Well, that is someone else’s problem for me now, since I am no longer a supporting Repub. Bush and the RINOs made that decision for me — the recent polling data on both the administration and the Congress SAYS IT ALL. The people are fed up. 2008 is going to be a real turning point for America.
As a ret. Legal Support Asst. with the County Attys. and before that, at Superior Court, folks don’t have a clue
how huge the amount the illegals are committing in major crimes. Taking up space in Jails, Prisons, and the cost of our judicial system at tax payer expense.
TSN ping
If these criminals can’t be bussed back across the border, they at least should be bussed to city hall in the “Sanctuary Cities.”
Oh don't worry, JORGE will come to the rescue,,,,,wait til the 20 more million family members of the UNDOCUMENTED AMEICANS start coming across the border,,,what's that BTO song.........you ain't seen nothing yet............
Why does CNN not investigate how many children of illegals go to Texas public schools? Why does CNN not talk about how much one single kid costs the tax payer in one year and multiply that times those that are here? Is this math to difficult for them when they talk about their undocumented workers that allegedly pay taxes with their “under the table jobs” that are unreported for the most part?
Crime, our courts and prisons are only the tip of the iceberg. But those advocating this slave trade and are profiteering from it either in business or politics don't want to see.
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