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This election year, the president will campaign on a promise to amnesty millions of illegal aliens and institute a guest worker program, while leading Democrats insist that our country should simply grant citizenship to every illegal alien here.
Voters who seek stronger enforcement of our immigration laws (some 85 percent of Americans, according to a recent poll) have nowhere to go.
Almost.
On the state level, there are individuals running for Congress who understand what voters want and have made better enforcement of our immigration laws the centerpiece of their campaigns. Houston police officer John Nickell, a Republican, is running for Representative of Texas’ Congressional District 2. The district encompasses the city of Houston, and Nickell, being a police officer, is intimately familiar with some of the problems that come from nearly unchecked illegal immigration along our southern border. The city of Houston, as it happens, has a sanctuary policy that prevents Houston employees from working with federal immigration authorities to apprehend and remove illegal aliens.
Houston has seen more than its share of immigration-related crime. On Jan. 2, 2003, a 6-year old boy named Jose Soto was riding his bike near his parents’ apartment in northwest Houston when he was run over by a garbage truck. People who saw it happen watched as the truck’s driver, Jose Ines Morales, stopped the truck, pulled the child from underneath it, and then drove away. With the boy in critical condition, the driver, apparently taking advantage of his Mexican nationality, fled across the border into Mexico and has not been found since. As a matter of policy, Mexico will not expedite wanted criminals to the U.S.
In a March 2003 episode that demonstrates just how sanctuary policies can end lives, Walter Alexander Sorto, a 25-year-old Salvadorian national and illegal alien, abducted, raped and murdered two Houston women. Sorto had repeatedly been picked up by Houston police for moving violations and driving without insurance, but the police were prevented by Houston’s sanctuary policy from reporting Sorto to federal immigration authorities. What’s more, Sorto had already been convicted of robbery and sentenced to 10 years probation when the murders took place. Had the state done its job, Sorto’s conviction would have been reported to federal immigration authorities and Sorto would have been removed.
Posted by Suzanne at March 5, 2004