Patterico Says "Deport the Criminals First"

Blogger Patterico is running a series of posts in which he points out the utter folly of not using all of our available resources to deport illegal aliens who are also known criminals. In too many places such illegals are allowed not only to roam free, but to commit crime after crime without being forcibly removed from the country. "Sanctuary cities" prevent their own police from reporting these illegals to the government so that they might be deported. They do so because of a misguided do-gooder mindset and white guilt that prevents them from wanting to enforce the law. The result is that people are dying at the hands of these illegal aliens who would otherwise have been sent back to their home countries.