Markwayne Mullin on immigrant criminality
The argument from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin cuts through the usual debate by insisting that violating immigration law is itself a criminal act. He rejects the idea that ICE should ignore undocumented immigrants just because they haven't committed other crimes, noting that agents targeting one person often find three or four others in the country illegally. For him, trying to draw a line between criminal and non-criminal immigrants misses the point entirely since the violation of the law defines the status. The post comes from Daniyal.
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that lost their loved ones at the hands of an illegal is 100% preventable because that illegal shouldn't be in our country to begin with. A criminal is someone that chose to break our law. So when you decide you're going to break our immigration policies and you're going to cut the line, you're going to step across our southern border, you're going to step across our northern border, you're still a criminal. We're still going to arrest you. And when you have a car accident and you came across this country, you came to this country legally, and the Democrats want to say you're not a criminal and you kill somebody, yes, you were YOU ARE A CRIMINAL AND NOW YOU RUIN SOMEBODY ELSE'S LIFE AND NOW YOU ARE MURDER AT THE SAME TIME. IT'S POLITICAL FOR THEM. THEY WANT TO SAY THIS EVERY DAY. NOW, WE DO GO AFTER THE WORST OF THE WORST EVERY DAY. WHEN WE ARREST THE WORST OF THE WORST, WE GOT A WARRANT TO ARREST. THEY ARE TYPICALLY NEVER BY THEMSELVES. IN FACT, VERY SELTOM ARE THEY EVER BY THEMSELVES. THEY ARE EITHER AT A HOUSE WITH THREE, FOUR MORE PEOPLE OR THEY ARE IN A VEHICLE WITH THREE OR FOUR MORE PEOPLE. WE MAKE CONTACT WITH YOU AND YOU ARE IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE BECAUSE IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE NATIONAL SECURITY IN THIS COUNTRY, WE KNOW EVERYBODY THAT ENTERED THIS COUNTRY. SO I'M NOT GOING TO RELEASE YOU BACK IN THE PUBLIC ONCE WE KNOW THAT YOU ENTERED THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY. IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO HOME AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.
