Why do they need to be ordered?

After reading this article, I have to ask myself why do these officers have to be ordered to report criminals? Especially repeat offenders. Oh, I know why. It is because they were Illegal Immigrants, and we treat them special because we do not hold them accountable to our laws.

Lets not report someone who is an Illegal Immigrant child rapist because we may hurt their feelings. Lets just wait until they really do something wrong...

Police ordered to report illegal immigrant arrests to feds

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Highlights:

Mandate follows slayings of three Newark college students

One suspect is a 28-year-old illegal immigrant from Peru

Jose Carranza previously accused of assault, sexual assault of a child

Before AG's order, local police had discretion on info they passed to feds

TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) -- New Jersey law enforcement was ordered
Wednesday to notify federal immigration officials whenever someone arrested for
an indictable offense or drunken driving is determined to be an illegal
immigrant.

Jose Carranza, an illegal immigrant from Peru, is accused in
the slayings of three Newark college students.

That mandate, issued by
the state attorney general on Wednesday, follows a review prompted by the brutal
slayings of three Newark college students.

One of the six suspects in
the crime was an illegal immigrant who had been granted bail on child rape and
aggravated assault charges without immigration officials being alerted to his
existence.

Attorney General Anne Milgram reviewed the state's policy in
light of the execution-style killings August 4.

A fourth young person
was wounded.

U.S. immigration officials have said they would have moved toward
getting Jose Carranza, 28, deported had they known about him.

The
killings highlighted the need "to have a uniform state policy on notification to
immigration," Milgram said.

Before the directive, "all police departments in our state had complete
discretion as to if, when and how to notify immigration authorities."

The policy applies to all state and local law enforcement and to
prosecutors. It also specifies that police notify prosecutors and courts when
illegal immigrants are arrested.

The triple homicide rocked Newark, a city already reeling from a 50 percent
rise in the murder rate since 1998, and prompted an outcry over the lack of
communication between local authorities and immigration officials.

The fact that Carranza, an illegal immigrant from Peru, was out on bail
despite being accused of committing serious felonies also enraged some. State
Sen. Shirley Turner on Wednesday urged bail restrictions for accused illegal
immigrants.

The Democratic legislator proposes that illegal immigrants be required
to post a full cash bail if they are charged with committing a crime in New
Jersey.

A bail bondsman put up $150,000 for Carranza -- the lowest amount
recommended for someone accused of sexually assaulting a child -- and he walked
out of the Essex County jail in May.

Seven months earlier, he had paid $2,000 to get out of the same jail
after being charged with assault and weapons possession after a bar fight. He
was allowed to put up 10 percent after a judge set bail at $20,000.

Authorities have said they did not know he was undocumented when those
bails were set. Those bails have now been revoked, a largely symbolic move
because Carranza, a day laborer, is now charged with three counts of murder and
is being held on $1 million bail.

"I often see people back on our streets that I believe should not be
back on our streets after they've committed serious crimes," Newark Mayor Cory
Booker said. "I would be remiss if I wasn't calling for larger changes and
larger reforms in the state of New Jersey and the United States."

Some have questioned whether a policy such as Milgram's could have
prevented the schoolyard slayings, and suggested that a tougher approach could
discourage illegal immigrants from reporting crimes.

The directive, however, prohibits officers from checking the immigration
status of crime victims or witnesses.

Milgram treaded lightly on a federal law allowing local police to be
deputized as immigration agents. She said that the practice will be allowed in
New Jersey, but that deputized agents can perform immigration status
checks.

Why do I get the feeling that there were officers there who were angry that someones idea of a good public policy was to do nothing to Illegal Immigrants and they should be treated as American Citizens?

Whomever it was that came up with the idea that we treat those who enter our country by in that act alone is thumbing their nose at our laws as good as citizens was a fool. Perhaps these people wouldn't tell their children not to enter a Gorilla's cage at the zoo so as not to hurt their feelings of self esteem.

Sometimes someone has to be the dick. Someone has to enforce the laws. When did we turn a corner that we all felt it was better never to offend anyone about anything regardless of the damage they cause to themselves or others?

I know my kids think I am mean when I tell them to go to bed, or take a shower, but if I didn't, they never would.

My main issue here is that the non-enforcement of laws created to protect our citizens does not make any sense at all. Can someone explain that to me? Why if these laws are no good we have others that are? What are we teaching our children when a special class of people in our country that are not even citizens are allowed to not follow our laws, but we are held accountable? Where is the justice in that? Heck, what part of that is even fair?

The biggest sadness in this whole issue is that people are having to die all across our nation to even get attention.