The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that many of the court cases in Houston involving illegal immigrants are being dismissed.

The article reports:

“In the month after Homeland Security officials started a review of Houston’s immigration court docket, immigration judges dismissed more than 200 cases, an increase of more than 700 percent from the prior month, new data shows.”

The dismissals mean that the officials are no longer trying to deport illegals through the court system, but the dismissals do not give the illegal immigrants legal status either.  Therefore, the illegal aliens remain here, but technically they are not allowed to work.  It sends a very mixed message to the illegal alien community–we aren’t going to deport you, but we won’t let you legally work.  This is not a workable system.

The Wall Street Journal today told a different story.  They reported that:

“In the past two weeks, Texas became the first border state to fully deploy the Department of Homeland Security program, which is scheduled to be rolled out to all U.S. counties by 2013. The program automatically routes prisoners’ fingerprints to the department, which tries to determine whether they are allowed to be in the U.S.”

“Known as Secure Communities, the program is designed to intercept and remove illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes such as homicide, rape and kidnapping, immigration officials say.”

The argument against the program is that it also targets illegals with no criminal record.  At the risk of stating the obvious, isn’t being illegal illegal?  Isn’t entering the country illegally breaking the law?   I guess I am missing something here.

Finally, CNSNews reports:

“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned Arizona law enforcement officials in May that Mexican drug cartels were deploying assassins to kill bandits highjacking their drug loads in the Vekol Valley, 70 miles inside Arizona. Then the federal government set up signs in the region to warn American citizens away from this area of U.S. sovereign territory.”  

Thanks for the help, guys.  I think maybe the federal government should just start supporting Arizona’s border enforcement in any way they can.  This is ridiculous.  This is American land 70 miles away from the border.  Would you put up with the government turning part of your state over to violent criminals?  We need to secure the border to protect innocent Americans.  That is not racist, it is just fact.