Sunday, March 14, 2021

Predictable Train Wrecks on Crime and Immigration | RealClearPolitics

Predictable Train Wrecks on Crime and Immigration | RealClearPolitics
"If you think really hard, perhaps you can imagine more disastrous policies than throwing open our country’s southern border and abandoning criminal-law enforcement in city after city. 
The consequences are already emerging, and they are grim. 
...Our border policies are national fiats handed down by the Biden administration. 
The abandonment of criminal enforcement, by contrast, is a local decision, made by supine city councils and district attorneys, many of them “social justice Democrats” backed by progressive elites and Black Lives Matter.
The most consequential effect of open immigration and lax criminal enforcement is to undermine the safe, stable environment law-abiding citizens need to go about their lives, free from predation.
Providing that environment -- and signaling clearly that you intend to provide it -- is the first responsibility of government.
That means punishing crimes. 
The goal is not vengeance. 
...It is also to send a strong message to would-be criminals: Don’t do it. It’s not worth it. 
Right now, we are sending the wrong message and, by doing so, we are encouraging law breaking on a massive scale...Read all.

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