Smuggled Drugs Coming To Gwinnett; the Commission Yawns

Has anyone seen Chairman Charles Bannister? Didn’t think so.

"The vast majority of marijuana that is available in the United States has crossed the southern border at some point," said Cochise County, Arizona attorney Edward Rheinheimer. "The 100 pound load of marijuana that comes across the border ends up in a middle school in Atlanta, Georgia."

Smuggled Drugs From Mexico Coming To Atlanta – News Story – WSB Atlanta

Race, Reasonable Suspicion and SB 1070

Opponents of the new Arizona immigration law, including President Obama, paint a wild picture of jack-booted Nazis stopping innocent folk on the street for no reason but their race, to demand their “papers.” The critics– either ignorantly or knowingly– criticize a legal principle that is well established in law and court precedence.

Nothing new is happening in Arizona.

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Stuck Inside the Box: My Dissent to the Engage Gwinnett Report

The 94-page final report of the Engage Gwinnett committee is now online. It details the findings and recommendations of the citizen committee (of which I was a member) that examined Gwinnett County’s finances for over six months.

Despite our herculean efforts, I believe that our work product has serious deficiencies. In a nutshell, we nitpicked county departments while missing the bigger picture. We strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel. We didn’t see the forest for the trees. You get the point. Read more…

Thank You, La Raza!

Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies highlights one the most important aspects of the aggressive enforcement of immigration laws: perception is reality. Whether or not a law is enforced to the hilt is not always as important as the publicity that it receives:

Be all that as it may, I think the biggest impact of the new law won’t actually be in its implementation; rather, the hyperbolic fear-mongering by the bill’s opponents will actually amplify its effect far beyond anything the sponsors could have wished for…. But if the thing had been passed and signed with little fuss, it wouldn’t have half the attrition effect it’s going to have. So my advice to the open-borders folks: Fear-monger away!

Activists Amplify Arizona Act, Accelerating Attrition Aftermath | Center for Immigration Studies

ICE to Inspector General Re 287(g): `We Fixed That`

 Newspapers across the country have hyped a report by the Office of the Inspector General that is critical of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s 287(g) program. What the papers don’t tell you is that the criticism is a bit stale.

The Inspector General examined the 287(g) program from February to July, 2009. In July, however, ICE began a substantial reformation of the program. Most, if not all of the problems detailed in the report have already been corrected:

Since the audit was conducted, ICE has fundamentally reformed the 287(g) program, strengthening public safety and ensuring consistency in immigration enforcement across the country by prioritizing the arrest and detention of criminal aliens — fulfilling many of the report’s recommendations.

Section 287g Reform Facts

Gwinnett Judges Exercise Poor Judgment

We’re in tough times, economically speaking. It makes sense to look at every public contract to see if any extra pennies can be pinched. If that is what Gwinnett’s State Court judges were trying to do when it picked a new private probation company, it sure doesn’t look that way.

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