(Chuck Muth) – I still don’t get the media’s confusion and/or spread of misinformation over President Trump’s mass deportation efforts of illegal aliens – other than your standard propaganda media bias.
If someone breaks into your house and takes up residence, that’s illegal. They broke the law. They have no right to be there. They should be kicked out.
And if a pregnant illegal alien “squats” in your home and has a baby there, that does not make the baby a member of your family who automatically gets added to your will.
Nor does a baby born in a hospital make it a doctor. What’s so hard to understand here?
Now, enforcing immigration laws is the job of the federal government. It’s in the Constitution. You could look it up.
Enforcing criminal laws – committed by legal or illegal criminals – is the job of local law enforcement.
Occasionally, the two will intersect. Someone who has already broken the law by breaking into our country will go on to commit additional crimes.
When they do, local law enforcement arrests them. And that’s where a conflict sometimes occurs.
When local law enforcement nabs a suspect, they check to see if they’re wanted elsewhere for anything else, as well as their citizenship status.
If they’re in the country illegally, local law enforcement should notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – which is responsible for enforcing (it’s right there in the name!) immigration laws – and turn them over.
The problem is that several states and cities have declared themselves “sanctuaries” and refuse to even notify ICE when they have an illegal alien in their custody, let alone turn them over.
That’s all about to change. Harboring and protecting illegal aliens from ICE is itself illegal.
As you’re reading this, ICE – under Trump and Border Czar Tom Homan – are already rounding up the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, including, if not especially, in sanctuary cities and states.
Despite Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford’s best efforts to turn Nevada into a sanctuary state, we’re not. Neither is Las Vegas.
As such, when the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) arrests someone for a violent crime who turns out to be an illegal alien, it notifies ICE – exactly as it should be.
And once the new Laken Riley Act takes effect, illegal aliens arrested for non-violent crimes such as theft and burglary, will also be turned over to ICE.
What Metro is NOT doing is pro-actively going out and looking for illegal aliens because…well, that’s not its job. That’s ICE’s job.
Now, as long as Metro is cooperating with and not interfering with or obstructing ICE, all’s good and as it should be.
And for the record, neither Metro nor ICE are going into schools hoping to nab illegal alien kids simply for being illegal alien kids.
Media reports suggesting otherwise are, at best, irresponsible. At worst, they’re scaring the $#%& out of kids for no reason.
So knock it off.