US: Heaviest felony caseloads found in 5 border states' rural counties
Daily News Record
Those who doubt the necessity of building a wall on our southern border should reconsider after realizing these startling facts — immigration-related felony cases are swamping federal courts along the southwest border.
Judges in the five, mostly rural judicial districts on the border, have the heaviest felony caseloads in the nation. Defendants have not been charged with illegally crossing the border, but are accused of felonies committed on American land.
According to The Associated Press, each judge in New Mexico, which ranked first in caseloads, handled an average of 397 felony cases last year, compared with the national average of 84. The federal judges in the five districts handled one-third of all the felonies prosecuted in the nation’s 94 federal judicial districts last year.
Judges say they are stretched to the limit. Additional federal judges are needed to handle the workload.
Needless to say, allowing thousands of foreign criminals into a nation is not a good policy. There are enough homegrown criminals in the United States. The nation doesn’t need to import murderers, rapists or armed assailants from other cultures.
The best solution is, of course, to keep the illegal criminal aliens on their own side of the border. Some critics say the way to stop illegal immigration is to crack down on employers who hire the immigrants. That may be one needed part of immigration reform, but the thousands of defendants lined up before federal judges in border states did not come here to work in chicken plants. They came to prey on innocents, and to rob, steal and kill.
A secure border wall may not be the only element in an immigration reform policy, but it is a needed one.
Those who doubt the necessity of building a wall on our southern border should reconsider after realizing these startling facts — immigration-related felony cases are swamping federal courts along the southwest border.
Judges in the five, mostly rural judicial districts on the border, have the heaviest felony caseloads in the nation. Defendants have not been charged with illegally crossing the border, but are accused of felonies committed on American land.
According to The Associated Press, each judge in New Mexico, which ranked first in caseloads, handled an average of 397 felony cases last year, compared with the national average of 84. The federal judges in the five districts handled one-third of all the felonies prosecuted in the nation’s 94 federal judicial districts last year.
Judges say they are stretched to the limit. Additional federal judges are needed to handle the workload.
Needless to say, allowing thousands of foreign criminals into a nation is not a good policy. There are enough homegrown criminals in the United States. The nation doesn’t need to import murderers, rapists or armed assailants from other cultures.
The best solution is, of course, to keep the illegal criminal aliens on their own side of the border. Some critics say the way to stop illegal immigration is to crack down on employers who hire the immigrants. That may be one needed part of immigration reform, but the thousands of defendants lined up before federal judges in border states did not come here to work in chicken plants. They came to prey on innocents, and to rob, steal and kill.
A secure border wall may not be the only element in an immigration reform policy, but it is a needed one.
posted by jillosophy at 4/30/2007 02:06:00 PM
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