There is no quick, 100 percent effective fix to the problem of illegal immigration. Even if the federal government worked vigorously to enforce immigration law, some unknown number of illegal aliens would still manage to stay in this country.
But the federal government is not only failing to enforce immigration law, it is actively undermining it.
A New York City woman wrote to President Barack Obama, asking that he intervene to help her husband, a native of the African nation of Cameroon whom our legal system had explicitly ordered deported. The letter was “mistakenly” forwarded to an immigration unit, and federal agents showed up and took the man to jail in preparation to deport him.
That was the proper thing to do. But when The New York Times made inquiries about the case, the government promptly released the man even though his deportation order was still in effect. Worse yet, immigration officials may actually be disciplined for supposedly violating the man’s “civil rights.”
Why? Even if authorities learned of his unlawful presence only by accident, the deportation order made it appropriate that action be taken to arrest and deport him. By no means should he have been set free.
The government has no business protecting those who are not legally entitled to be in this country.