Mexico Cracking Down on Illegals: While the Trump administration is criticized almost daily for being heartless in its effort to deport illegal aliens and harden the southern U.S. border, Mexico has been ruthlessly enforcing its southern border with Guatemala. James Fredrick of NPR reports that in recent years Mexico has captured and deported more Central American migrants than the U.S.,....in some years twice as many. Utilizing migration agents, police, soldiers and marines, the Mexican government has created a containment zone along the border, with roving checkpoints and raids. "We (migrants and refugees) have become a target for everyone here," said one Honduran. "We feel like we have no rights and all security forces are after us." A Catholic Priest who heads migrant outreach for the church complains, "Today the Mexican government is hunting migrants without sympathy....The border security measures here in Chiapas are even harsher than on the U.S.-Mexican border."
Safest CA Counties Use Death Penalty: Do consequences for crime matter? Liberals go back an forth on this question, passing laws to raise penalties for politically correct offenses like hate crimes, but telling us in the next breath that tough sentencing does not reduce crimes. While it defies common sense to think that consequences have no deterrent effect, death penalty opponents insist that this is true. Phillip Reese of the Sacramento Bee reports that after reviewing which of California's largest counties are most likely to sentence an aggravated murderer to death, it appears that "counties with low homicide rates tended to have a high rate of murderers on death row. Put another way, relatively safe communities tended to send a high rate of murderers to death row." This conclusion is not universal. Los Angeles County, for example, sends about the same ratio of aggravated murderers to death row as, Yolo, Sonoma and Contra Costa Counties, but has a much higher murder rate than the others. On the other hand, Santa Cruz County sends zero murderers to death row, just like San Francisco. Yet San Francisco's murder rate is nearly three times higher.
Safest CA Counties Use Death Penalty: Do consequences for crime matter? Liberals go back an forth on this question, passing laws to raise penalties for politically correct offenses like hate crimes, but telling us in the next breath that tough sentencing does not reduce crimes. While it defies common sense to think that consequences have no deterrent effect, death penalty opponents insist that this is true. Phillip Reese of the Sacramento Bee reports that after reviewing which of California's largest counties are most likely to sentence an aggravated murderer to death, it appears that "counties with low homicide rates tended to have a high rate of murderers on death row. Put another way, relatively safe communities tended to send a high rate of murderers to death row." This conclusion is not universal. Los Angeles County, for example, sends about the same ratio of aggravated murderers to death row as, Yolo, Sonoma and Contra Costa Counties, but has a much higher murder rate than the others. On the other hand, Santa Cruz County sends zero murderers to death row, just like San Francisco. Yet San Francisco's murder rate is nearly three times higher.
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