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I love the euphemisms here:

“Nearly a third of its residents, mostly undocumented workers from Guatemala and Mexico, sit in jail convicted of identity crimes or awaiting deportation.”

residents=illegal aliens

undocumented workers=illegal aliens

convicted of identity crimes=so they break the law to get into this country and then use false ID to work, again another crime.

I support more legal immigration into this country, but turning a blind eye to illegal immigration cheapens the value of American citizenship for all of us and particularly for those legal immigrants who wait patiently for the confounded bureaucracy to process them.

In business, this is known as protecting our brand.

And Raquel manages to gloss over something quite important here... The fact that these illegal aliens were using identity theft to work in this country illegally.

Has she ever been the victim of identity theft? Has she ever been on the hook for taxes with the IRS for income she didn’t actually earn? Has she ever had to pay for the time of employees or lawyers to straighten out the mess caused by having your SSN used by illegal aliens to work illegally?

Yes, the federal government has made a real mess of things with immigration policy, or more to the point, ignoring illegal immigration for decade after decade. But at some point, you have to say “ENOUGH!”

When you’ve got a burst pipe in your basement, the first thing you have to do is turn off the water, not try to decide what color replacement carpet you’re going to get.

That means stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into the country, and making life (and earning a living) difficult for the illegal aliens already here. “Self deportation” is a good thing, and much cheaper and easier than “rounding up illegal aliens and deporting them.”

Mark