Harris County Releases Illegal Immigrants

According to a story by the Associated Press, thousands of illegal immigrants were released from Houston jails this past week.

Many of these people were charged with minor charges, but 177 of the inmates were arrested for felony assault charges, rape, child molestation, and homicide charges. While the percentage of those committing major felonies is small, the fact that the felonies were committed at all is a travesty. Over 3,500 of the inmates released told jailers they were in the United States illegally.

The reason these criminals were released was because ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) did not file the paperwork to detain, prosecute, and deport the criminals.

While many of us will disagree on the the immigration debate, we must all look out for the welfare of our citizens. Most of the immigrants who come to the United States are here to seek jobs and to pursue the American Dream. There are others who come here and commit heinous crimes against American citizens. These heinous crimes cannot be tolerated.

When dangerous felons are released from prison due to the inability of the prosecutor to file the necessary paperwork, we have a problem. How many more lives will be affected by these dangerous criminals who are in our country illegally before we begin to seriously address the illegal immigration problem? How many repeat assaults will we tolerate before ICE deports these criminals?

Dallas ISD used False Social Security Numbers to Hire Teachers

We constantly hear that the government must continue to fund education. We hear of the No Child Left Behind Act, spending money "for the children," Texas Education Agency guidelines for success, standardized testing, and a countless number of other initiatives to improve education.

What we are hearing about now is as disturbing as all of the alphabet soups of failing programs combined. The Dallas Independent School District hired a number of bilingual teachers in the last couple of years and gave them FALSE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS to hire them! Let me repeat that. The Dallas Independent School District, who's Superintendent makes more money than Governor Perry, who sports an astronomical amount of debt, who has some of the highest dropout rates in Texas, now is also been caught by the Texas Workforce Commission with employees who were given FAKE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS by the school district.

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The citizens of Dallas should be embarrassed and ashamed. Not only does our public education system not produce enough skilled workers, but now one of the largest school districts in Texas is caught breaking federal law by falsifying social security numbers. How can we expect our children to abide by the law when our school districts cannot do so themselves?