Winning The War At Home

There is a war here at home, and it is even more deadly than
the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Far more Americans are being
killed by violent, evil people here in America than in our
official military “combat zones” overseas. In 2004 alone,
there were over 14,000 murders in the United States.

We have much to do to reverse these horrible statistics.

The truth is, all too many Americans are being killed. But
what is so completely senseless is to tolerate the killing
of Americans by people who are in the United States
illegally and who have previously been arrested for a felony.

Did you know that one of the suspected murderers of three
young African-American college bound students in Newark,
New Jersey two weeks ago was in the United States illegally?
Did you know that this wasn’t his first vicious crime –
that he was indicted last month for raping a five year
old girl repeatedly and threatening to kill her family?
And that ten months ago, he was charged with assaulting
patrons in a bar?

It is intolerable that the lives of three young, achieving
students were cut brutally short by someone who not only
should not have been in the United States in the first
place, but who should have been in jail awaiting trial,
sentencing, prison and eventual deportation!

One step we can take now to stop this war here at home
is to require local governments to determine if an
arrested felon is here illegally and if so to detain
any such felon until they can be tried, sentenced,
imprisoned, and eventually deported.

As a father, and a grandfather, I am outraged our government
failed to protect these four promising young people in Newark
(one victim survived the shooting).   And as an American, I
am sickened that the political leadership of America continues
their August vacations and does nothing to prevent such
avoidable killings from taking place again.

The President should call Congress back into emergency
session for three days to pass a single, decisive bill
that would end “sanctuary” cities and establish a system
for identifying the immigration status of felons who are
here illegally and detaining them so they cannot commit
more crimes.  Current prisoners will be screened to
identify if they are in the United States illegally;
if they are, they will be turned over to federal authorities
for deportation.

This failure to take sensible measures to protect Americans
shows how our government isn’t working right now. No matter
how painful, big or urgent the problem our nation is facing,
we are trapped in politics and partisan wrangling as usual.
That’s why we are losing the war at home.

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to secure our borders and defend our citizens from those
who enter our country illegally and have even already been
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Terry, government isn’t working.  That’s the reason we
have over 12 million people living here illegally.

But we can make things better…if we insist on it, and work for it!

I’d love to include you on the team of people who want to
think and hear about ways we transform our government and
move our country forward.

Newt Gingrich