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dicion wrote: ... and this piece of garbage hasn't been deported already, why?
I mean, he's been in custody, verified to be an illegal.... but he's still here?
Someone call Arizona... we need some of their lawmakers to move here.

We are, perhaps, in the wrong part of this forum to have this branch of the discussion. I was just sharing the information that I had because I think more people need to be aware of how selectively the laws can be upheld. I do recognize that not every case that is brought to the DA will be accepted by the grand jury or even taken to them. In light of the zero tolerance policy that has been adapted in our schools, where 7 year old Cub Scouts are punished for bringing their camping utensil to school because it contained a knife, it amazes me the extent of the non-punishment of those who commit "real" crimes. In the case of this CHL nurse, it is a good thing.

Our daughter is a police dispatcher. I have a ton of stories like the one that I told about the failure to deal with BGs including illegals who repeatedly are involved in crimes without consequence. Frankly, it was listening to some of that that convinced me that, while my 12ga is good, it may not be enough. I have several types of hammers, too.

WildBill wrote:The DA did not prosecute. See this thread for an update viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12754&hilit=bedford&start=105" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm glad that there was no prosecution. I also personally know that the DA didn't prosecute a case in involving an illegal who had pawned in Irving 12 car stereos stolen in Bedford. How do I know that they were stolen? Our daughter's was one of them and they smashed out the passenger side window of her car and tore up the dash to pry it out - 50 feet from her bedroom window in an apartment complex. While all 12 of those car stereos were verified as stolen and the same suspected perp had pawned all of them, the DA's reasoning was that no one has actually seen him break into any of those vehicles. BTW, there were over 70 similar car break-ins in a 3 week period. And the suspected perp involved had a series of arrests in the US for similar burglaries. Over half of them weren't prosecuted either. The suspected perp is a really mis-understood individual, I'm sure.

I'd have been furious if the DA had prosecuted the CHL case after letting the car burglary suspect off. There are enough places like CA or CO were there seems to be patterns of that kind of decision making - we sure don't need it here in Texas, too.