Archive for April 12, 2012

Where Do We Put Them?

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1 year ago
by Michael Weiss in

Binh Thai Luc

Last week, the Obama admin­is­tra­tion announced the arrest of over 3,000 for­eign­ers who are sus­pected crim­i­nals or fugitives.

Yet what do we do with them when they have served any time asso­ci­ated with crimes they’ve com­mit­ted in the United States, and their home coun­try refuses to take them back?

A few weeks ago, five peo­ple were mur­dered in their home in San Fran­cisco, and the man sus­pected of killing them, Binh Thai Luc, was sup­posed to have been deported to Viet­nam six years ago. This isn’t an iso­lated case; in the past three years alone, nearly nine thou­sand immi­grants ordered deported to their home coun­tries due to crim­i­nal activ­ity found them­selves instead on the streets of the United States, because their home coun­tries wouldn’t take them back. (more…)

Sanford and Son

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1 year ago
by Michael Weiss in

With yesterday’s mur­der charges brought against George Zim­mer­man, and the killing spree in Tulsa still rel­a­tively fresh, I thought it worth­while to exam­ine the star­tling par­al­lels between the two.

Of course, in both we have Cau­casians shoot­ing and killing African-​​Americans. And it appears that we’ll have mur­der charges in both. But there’s some­thing else the two have in common.

The “stand your ground” laws. (more…)

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