A suspected drug smuggler rescued from a violent kidnapping in Phoenix was shot to death last month in Mexico - months after he turned down a chance at entering a witness-protection program, according to local investigators probing the case.
The April murder was reported in graphic detail by Mexican media, which raised concern with Phoenix police investigators who believe the slaying is connected to organized crime in both the United States and Mexico.
Renan Beltran-Leon, 32, was initially considered a witness in the October case, in which he was beaten and held captive for a week at a house. His captors threatened to kill him and bury him in a 5-foot-deep grave dug into a bedroom at a home near Indian School Road and 75th Avenue.
The Racial-Profiling Smoke Screen [Heather Mac Donald]
As each day passes without any abatement in the increasingly surreal hysteria over the Arizona immigration law, the ground for that opposition becomes ever clearer: The real problem with the Arizona law is that it threatens to make immigration enforcement a reality. Every other argument against it is a smoke screen.
The two main lines of attack against SB 1070 — that it is preempted by federal immigration laws and that it will lead to racial profiling — make sense only if you believe that we should not be enforcing our immigration laws.
Putting state resources behind immigration enforcement interferes with federal enforcement only if it is federal policy not to enforce the immigration laws. Without question, more people will be picked up in Arizona for being in the country illegally with SB 1070 than would have been picked up without SB 1070. Arizona has only several hundred ICE agents, and they are are overmatched by the estimated 560,000 illegal aliens in the state. Authorizing the state’s 15,000 police officers and deputies to inquire into suspected illegal aliens’ immigration status during lawful stops acts as a significant force multiplier for ICE.
2 comments:
A suspected drug smuggler rescued from a violent kidnapping in Phoenix was shot to death last month in Mexico - months after he turned down a chance at entering a witness-protection program, according to local investigators probing the case.
The April murder was reported in graphic detail by Mexican media, which raised concern with Phoenix police investigators who believe the slaying is connected to organized crime in both the United States and Mexico.
Renan Beltran-Leon, 32, was initially considered a witness in the October case, in which he was beaten and held captive for a week at a house. His captors threatened to kill him and bury him in a 5-foot-deep grave dug into a bedroom at a home near Indian School Road and 75th Avenue.
The Racial-Profiling Smoke Screen [Heather Mac Donald]
As each day passes without any abatement in the increasingly surreal hysteria over the Arizona immigration law, the ground for that opposition becomes ever clearer: The real problem with the Arizona law is that it threatens to make immigration enforcement a reality. Every other argument against it is a smoke screen.
The two main lines of attack against SB 1070 — that it is preempted by federal immigration laws and that it will lead to racial profiling — make sense only if you believe that we should not be enforcing our immigration laws.
Putting state resources behind immigration enforcement interferes with federal enforcement only if it is federal policy not to enforce the immigration laws. Without question, more people will be picked up in Arizona for being in the country illegally with SB 1070 than would have been picked up without SB 1070. Arizona has only several hundred ICE agents, and they are are overmatched by the estimated 560,000 illegal aliens in the state. Authorizing the state’s 15,000 police officers and deputies to inquire into suspected illegal aliens’ immigration status during lawful stops acts as a significant force multiplier for ICE.
Post a Comment