CEJ 5

February 26, 2013

Garrett Kitchen

CEJ Five

Wave of Immigrants Released Ahead of Automatic Budget Cuts

Semple, Kirk
February 26, 2013
Politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/us/immigrants-released-ahead-of-automatic-budget-cuts.html?hp&_r=0

            Recently many illegal immigrants have been released into the US by Federal Immigration officials to save the government money. The immigrants still have deportation cases that will remain in court (nytimes.com). “It’s abhorrent that President Obama is releasing criminals into our communities to promote his political agenda on sequestration, by releasing criminal immigrants onto the streets, the administration is needlessly endangering American lives.” (Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, chairman of the Judiciary Committee) Goodlatte, among other republicans are angry with Obama, and think it is his scheme to deal with the immigration negotiation. Detaining illegal immigrants in the US is very expensive. The cost could be reduced by about $100-$150(National Immigration Forum).

            I have no personal involvement in illegal immigration. I think that it is sad that so many good people are detained for fleeing the terrible situations in their countries and coming to America “the promise land” and being detained. It is unfair that many people have to illegally enter the US, because their own countries won’t cooperate and let them come here. Fortunately this article had no bias, because I enjoyed learning more about this event and illegal immigration, and I may not have read it if the author’s opinions leaked into his article. I think this is a god way for the government to save money, but I think the immigration officials should look into alternative cheaper ways of detainment.