Pirate's Cove

I wasn’t intending to do another immigration piece today, but, this is the web headline story from the Fish Wrap, and I wonder if they could possibly come to the smart conclusion as to how this could have been avoided

Surge in Immigration Cases in Minnesota Pushes Prosecutors and Judges to Brink

When it all became too much — the crippling case load, the lack of training and, most of all, the immigrants themselves who had been languishing in jail — Julie T. Le let loose in front of the judge.

Ms. Le, a prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, knew that he was angry. She understood that she and her colleagues had violated his orders to release people illegally detained in the state last month. But she had already tried to quit her job, and no one would replace her, so what else could she do?

“The system sucks. This job sucks,” Ms. Le exclaimed. While she wanted to improve things, she was just one person, she explained, working around the clock to grapple with the onslaught of cases stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

“Fixing a system, a broken system, I don’t have a magic button to do it,” she said. “I don’t have the power or the voice to do it. I only can do it within the ability and the capacity that I have.”

The remarks cost her her job at the Justice Department, where she had been working on a temporary basis to help handle habeas corpus petitions, or court filings that compel the government to justify holding someone in custody. But they also opened a window onto a broader problem: how the courts in Minnesota are buckling beneath the weight of a deluge of cases arising from the statewide campaign that the administration has called Operation Metro Surge.

OK, I’ll skip posting lots of excerpts and get to the heart of the Times’ story, which is that Trump is a big meanie for detaining people illegally present in the US and pushing them through court, which Obama mostly didn’t, he just deported them toot sweet, and it’s making judges and prosecutors nuts. Oh, and that illegals are great.

But, you know how this could have been avoided? Giving the illegals who get arrested by local, county, and state police over to ICE. Honoring detainers. Letting ICE pick up illegals when they come on their radar at all times. Like during the Obama administration! Deporting them without this whole long rigamarole of courts and hearings and stuff, because the law says they need to be deported. Period.

Meanwhile, more stupidity from the Times, right below the above story

The Long Goodbye:A California Couple Self-Deports to Mexico

Enrique Castillejos and his wife stopped at a Winchell’s Donut House. It was part of their after-church routine on Friday nights.

That evening’s sermon had been about finding peace in God in turbulent times, and they felt it spoke directly to them. Enrique, 63, and his wife, Maria Elena Hernandez, 55, were undocumented immigrants. Like millions of others in Southern California, they had been looking over their shoulders as federal agents conducted immigration sweeps.

Freedom, they felt, had become impossible in the land of the free. They had made a decision: Leave America and move back to Mexico.

People who’ve broken the law should be looking over their shoulders. They had 30 years to do something, to attempt to get some legal status. They didn’t. That’s on them.