Citizen Staff Writer
Our Opinion
Homeland Security Secretary and former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is going after what she calls “criminal aliens.”
About 113,000 criminals who were in the U.S. illegally were deported last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
As many as 450,000 criminals – currently in federal, state and local detention centers – entered the U.S. illegally.
Improved communication would enable federal authorities to red-flag illegal-immigrant inmates in jails and prisons around the U.S. Once the criminal serves his sentence, immediate deportation would follow.
That Napolitano wants to send home criminal aliens should come as a surprise only to those who bought into far-right claims that she was “soft” on illegal immigration.
Make no mistake: The former federal prosecutor and Arizona attorney general is taking a tough, sensible approach to protecting our borders. And we applaud her latest proposal for making the U.S. safer.