Comments on: McDonnell Response To Illegal Alien Crime Underwhelms

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:32:40 +0000

“US Justice Department issued a report on criminal aliens that were incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails. In the population study of 55,322 illegal aliens, researchers found that they were arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien. Nearly all had more than 1 arrest. Thirty-eight percent (about 21,000) had between 2 and 5 arrests, 32 percent (about 18,000) had between 6 and 10 arrests, and 26 percent (about 15,000) had 11 or more arrests.” ” They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien. One arrest incident may include multiple offenses, a fact that explains why there are nearly one and half times more offenses than arrests. Almost all of these illegal aliens were arrested for more than 1 offense. Slightly more than half of the 55,322 illegal aliens had between 2 and 10 offenses.”

By: hazegray

hazegray — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:31:44 +0000

I respectfully disagree.

IF you can get VA State Police into the 287(g), then travel on the Interstate and US numbered highways (e.g., 17,29) is subject to oversight by police who are empowered to ask questions of those who look like they might not have “legal presence.” That would be a BIG step toward denying illegals freedom of movement within the state.

Sure, you can still use the county backroads, but the whole travel thing gets a lot more difficult. At the end of the day, “enforcement by attritiion” is simply to make being in the state such a pain that they’ll go elsewhere, hopefully back home….

By: Greg L

Greg L — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:47:37 +0000

Regardless of ambition or future aspirations, he was hired to do a job. Much of that job was to clean up the mess that Tim Kaine left by subverting the interests of the Commonwealth in order to bolster Kaine’s efforts to be Chairman of the DNC and to serve his future political interests.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is bolstering any future political ambition he may have by doing his job and doing it with determination and extraordinary courage. In the end, it will be Chris Christie whose national political fortunes will rise the most, because he has proven dedication and fidelity above and beyond, leaving those who ill-advisedly try to gain acceptance from political opponents by sacrificing principle wondering why they are seen as marginal players at best in comparison.

Governor McDonnell has the opportunity and the ability to lead with principle, show his determination to put the interests of Virginians first, and stick to what he told the electorate he would do. I sincerely hope he will follow through not only for the results this will deliver to the Commonwealth, but eventually to the nation as a whole.

History has proven that pandering to political opponents, as GW Bush was wont to do is a losing strategy. I hope Bob McDonnell has learned that lesson. We’ll see if he has.

By: Jim F.

Jim F. — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:22:20 +0000

In my opinion, McDonnell has higher political ambitions on a national stage (VP nominee maybe?) and doesn’t want to take aggressive stances where possible. McDonnell seems to be trying to take a middle of the road approach on most issues to avoid confrontation. That is why we are seeing Cuccinelli do all of the heavy lifting required to actually clean up the state and protect the citizens of our great old dominion.

By: Patty

Patty — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:12:24 +0000

Greg,

I have to disagree. Sure B.O. has done everything he can to make 287g weak but Congress has not repealed it. It is still on the books. B.O. is not going to be president forever. I wish people would stop acting like he is. There is plenty of politiclal pressure mounting on him. His recent statements about allowing a mosque at ground zero is going to put another nail in his coffin so to speak (figure of speech).

I still think enrolling in 287g is worthwhile. It may take a long while but it would be worth the wait. To get from point A to point B you have to take one step at a time. Can Virginia do more….Absolutely! We have to do everything we can including E-verify because illegal immigration is a huge multi faceted problem to which we have to have many solutions just like the military has to have many weapons to defend a country.

For those of you who do not like my analogies (JM) TOO BAD.

JM, would you have picked on Jesus for comparing the Kingdom of Heaven to a mustard seed? (Matthew 13:31-33). You need to remember who you’re working for.