An illegal immigrant is being sought in Tennessee for the rape of a 15-year-old girl, which he committed less than four hours after being released from jail. (He was released on bond at 9:44 p.m. and raped his victim shortly after midnight.) To make matters worse, he had been in the Maury County Jail 11 times since 2001 on charges that include assault, and the investigation surfaced a 13-year-old girl who also claimed to have been raped by the same man. The local sheriff had contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents about deportation, but was told that the matter would be dealt with “at a later date.” Said the sheriff, “It is very frustrating. I don’t know what the statistics are, but these illegals are committing many, many crimes against the citizens of the United States.” Now imagine that that 15 year-old girl was your daughter, and then ask yourself how important it is for us to secure our borders. (Illegal immigrant sought in rape of teen – Columbia Daily Herald)
Frustrated with immigration control efforts at the national level, Prince William County in Virginia is moving to enact a policy that would make 
it mandatory for the police to check
the immigration status of anyone and everyone detained for breaking the law, whether it’s shoplifting, speeding, or riding a bicycle without a helmet. The measures would also require the county’s schools and agencies – including libraries, medical clinics, swimming pools and summer camps – to verify the immigration status of anyone who wants to use county services. The old media naturally describes these not as security measures but as “efforts to create inhospitable conditions for illegal immigrants.” The county’s Board of Supervisors attributes a rise in crime and spiraling school costs to thousands of border violators who have settled in the county in the last decade. Emergency room patients would be treated before immigration officials would be contacted. An expert on immigration law says that the resolution is not in fact “extraordinary” but in most respects simply reaffirms federal laws that are already in place but seldom enforced. One new wrinkle: the resolution would allow legal residents to sue the county if they suspect that a county agency has failed to comply with its provisions. Opponents naturally call it a hate-filled and unconstitutional proposal. (Residency Rules May Tighten in Pr. William – washingtonpost.com)
Peggy Noonan argues that one of the reasons we need to insist on a common language, and insist that immigrants to our shores master English as quickly as possible, is that language barriers separate people and keep them from connecting with each other. Even when you want to close the gap, you can’t. She desperately wanted to say an encouraging word to an immigrant woman on a New York street who was reduced to wearing a sandwich board advertising inexpensive men’s suits, but couldn’t because the woman could not understand a single word she was trying to say to her. Our desire to make America a place where language makes it possible to minister encouragement and compassion to hurting people is reason alone to insist that English be our official language. (
OpinionJournal – Peggy Noonan: We Need to Talk)
Source: Our friends at the Idaho Values Alliance. Used with permission.
