I've got
an item up at The Atlantic about racial
politics in Los Angeles, pegged to the recent murder of a black
high school student by a Hispanic illegal immigrant. While I argue
in the piece that Southern California jails should make better
efforts to check the immigration status of all inmates, and deport
rather than release those here illegally when their sentence is
completed, the argument really applies to the whole country -- many
thousands of illegal immigrant ex-cons are released back into the
population because local jailers and the federal government don't
bother to identify and deport them.
UPDATE: LA County Sherrif Lee Baca
said today that Hispanic gang members are sometimes
deliberately murdering any young black man they can find. Explosive
stuff.
topics:
Immigration
