{"id":23523,"date":"2020-08-21T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23523"},"modified":"2020-08-21T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:05:59","slug":"weak-immigration-enforcement-enables-dui-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/08\/21\/weak-immigration-enforcement-enables-dui-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deadly Consequences of Tolerating Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the Prince William County, Virginia, jail board recently took the unfortunate step of ending<\/a> their 13-year-old 287(g) agreement with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), one particular statistic stood out. Since 2017, 1,612 out of the 2,639 illegal aliens the county handed over<\/a> for possible deportation had been convicted of Driving Under the Influence (DUI).\u00a0 That\u2019s an astonishing 61 percent — or more than three out of every five.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet that figure isn\u2019t actually all that unusual.\u00a0 In Fiscal Year 2019, ICE deported<\/a> over 267,000 illegal aliens.\u00a0 More than 74,000 of those deported had been charged or convicted of DUI.\u00a0 That\u2019s over 27 percent, and by far the single largest category of crimes involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past 30 to 40 years, DUI laws have been dramatically strengthened in most states, while safety features of both vehicles and roads have been improved.\u00a0 According to the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, DUI fatalities are down more than<\/a> 50 percent since 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at the same time that DUI laws have been tightened, immigration enforcement has been loosened, as sanctuary policies at the state and local level have explosively proliferated<\/a> across the country.\u00a0 The fact remains that every time illegal alien drunk drivers are shielded in their communities and end up killing someone while behind the wheel, it was a completely preventable death, caused by someone who wasn\u2019t supposed to be here in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tragic examples abound, like Sara<\/a>h<\/a> Root<\/a> of Iowa in 2016 and \u00a0Logan and Jessica Wilson<\/a> in Oregon in 2018. Most recently in July, three members<\/a> of the Thin Blue Line Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club in Texas were allegedly struck by an illegal alien already out on bail for another traffic crash which might also have been DUI-related.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to immigration and DUI, it\u2019s pretty apparent some don\u2019t believe it is a serious enough crime to warrant deportation.\u00a0 The Obama administration didn\u2019t regard DUI as a \u201cpriority\u201d for deportation.\u00a0 Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) uses<\/a> the odd euphemism \u201ctraffic violence.\u201d\u00a0 Former Vice-President Joe Biden even says<\/a> he\u2019d actually fire Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) \u00a0officers for arresting illegal aliens who weren\u2019t guilty of a felony and went out of his way to stress, \u201cI don\u2019t count drunk driving as a felony.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, DUI isn\u2019t a felony in most states unless it\u2019s by a convicted serial repeat offender or causes serious injury or death.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t a serious crime. Every DUI is arguably just a fatal crash averted, sometimes by no more than pure chance.\u00a0 Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) notes that, “an average drunk driver has driven drunk 80 times<\/a> before first arrest,\u201d while according to<\/a> the National Highway Safety Administration, \u201c[e]very day, almost 30 people in the United States die in drunk-driving\u00a0crashes \u2014 that’s one person every 50\u00a0minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom line is the fewer DUI offenders we deport, the more people will die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the Prince William County, Virginia, jail board recently took the unfortunate step of ending their 13-year-old 287(g) agreement with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), one particular statistic stood out. Since 2017, 1,612 out of the 2,639 illegal aliens the county handed over for possible deportation had been convicted of Driving Under the Influence (DUI).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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