The federal government has been notoriously lax about enforcing our nation’s laws against illegal immigration. But not only is the government failing to root out illegal aliens, it is even turning them loose in some cases once it has them in custody.
An illegal alien who has been attending Harvard University was recently detained by immigration authorities when he tried to board an airplane in Texas. It was a clear-cut case that called for his prompt deportation to his homeland, Mexico.
But instead, Harvard officials began lobbying on behalf of the illegal, Eric Balderas. Now, the federal government has declared that he will not be deported. No good reason for allowing him to remain in this country was offered. Immigration officials just said they first wanted to focus on illegals who had committed other crimes once they were here.
Obviously there should be an urgency to capturing illegal aliens who commit additional serious crimes after they are on U.S. soil. But is that any excuse to turn loose an illegal whom the federal government actually has in custody? Balderas could have been deported easily, yet the feds let him go.
To make that bad situation worse, some Democrats in Congress see the Balderas case as a reason to enact a law granting permanent legal status to many thousands of illegal aliens.
“They are American in every sense except their technical legal status,” Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said in a statement.
But that “technical legal status” is extremely important! If that condition is dismissed by lawmakers, then what is to stop tens of millions more people around the world from invading our nation?
The American people are fed up with illegal immigration, and Congress and federal bureaucrats are making this crisis worse.