"Back on Track" Helps Illegal Aliens to Break US Laws

By Michael Cutler

Earlier today I appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss this LA Times article.

Here are a couple of my thoughts as I noted in yesterday's commentary about the article:

First of all they should re-name "Back on Track" by a more descriptive name, I would suggest, "Derailing Community Safety and the War on Drugs."

The immigration laws were originally promulgated in the early 1950's with the basic and commonsense goal of protecting Americans and our nation from aliens whose presence in our country was contrary to the best interests of our citizens and our country.

You would certainly think that illegal aliens engaged in drug trafficking and various crimes including crimes of violence should be considered to represent a clear and present danger to our citizens and others living in our country.

It is insane to attempt to "rehabilitate" deportable aliens to prevent them from committing future crimes. A more surefire means of keeping them from doing more harm is to remove them from our country!

In the early 1980's I met with Senator Al D'Amato and over a period of about 6 months, I brought more than 30 INS agents to his office to convince him to increase the penalty for reentry after deportation for criminal aliens from the previous maximum of 2 years in jail to a maximum of 20 years in jail.

I also recommended that deportation hearings be conducted in jails so that an alien serving many years in jail could have his deportation hearing early on and then he could, if he desired, spend the balance of his sentence appealing his order of deportation.

That way, hopefully, by the time the criminal alien was released, he would be released to a seat on an airliner. The enhanced penalty for reentry was intended to act as a deterrent against those criminal aliens who would attempt to return to the United States to continue their criminal "careers."

To now hear that the city of San Francisco was expunging convictions for drug trafficking in an unknown number of cases, placing the lives of innocent people at risk is an outrage beyond my comprehension.

It is difficult enough for me to grasp that any law enforcement entity would shield illegal aliens from ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). To hear about this program that shields drug dealers and assorted thugs from ICE leaves me speechless! I wonder how many people have been killed or assaulted by such criminal aliens whose continued presence in the United States is attributable to this insane program.

Back in the days when I attended Brooklyn College, a common expression was, "You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem!" Clearly the numbskulls who are running this program are the problem!

Perhaps the victims of these thugs should not only sue the City of San Francisco but sue the "leaders" who are responsible for managing this program. If doctors can be sued for malpractice, perhaps the time has come to sue politicians and high level administrators for what could be considered "Obstruction of governmental administration."

The time has clearly come when those who make decisions need to be made accountable for their decisions. The collective failure of We the People to get involved in making our concerns known to our politicians have nearly made the concerns of the great majority of the citizens of this nation all but irrelevant to the politicians.

I implore you to get involved! The lives you save may be yours or someone important to you! We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance.

This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue - simply stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue! You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem! Democracy is not a spectator sport! Lead, follow or get out of the way!