If we moved 2 million people from Katrina in two weeks, why 12 million criminals in 12 weeks.?
362741
would the criminals be those who enter the country illegally or those that employ them?
529095
Hey, your english is not very good.  Are you an immigrant? No, I'm not going to "over shop" my whole life...and I also know it's highly improbably that 12 million people will be deported.  It's just not possible.  But we can sure as heck do our best to stop letting people in for awhile...and deport SOME of them.  I say start with the ones who don't pay taxes or put much money into our economy.  \n\nTell me, 20 guys who carpool to work in the same car, and share one house...how much are they really putting back in to the economy???  Not much...won't miss 'em.
388032
2 Million plus 3 illegal workers.
81765
It's not likely to happen depending on the crime. The person will have to reapply for a Visa and if it was drugs or something else serious, then we won't let them come back. No offense but I think we have enough to deal with already with terrorist cells and our own criminals. Why would you want to bring someone here who was deported for a crime they committed in this country in the first place? I believe in second chances but I'd have to know the circumstances of the crime as well as the charge before I'd even consider telling you HOW to bring them back into our country. Sorry.
582444
We have poor in this country, like the poor victims of Katrina. Why would I send my money to Mexico when there are people that need it here.
113044
A failure? I would call it a horrific farce. I mean bad enough it was celebreties going down there to get people out of New Orleans instead of the government(Thank the Godess for people like Sean Penn) but the fact that there was NO follow up...I mean COME ON!!! How many were turned out of their hotel rooms and shelters with NO place to go? It makes me sick to my stomach. Where is the humanity???
717434
There's a very good argument to be made there.\n\nOne of the reasons the response in Katrina went so badly is that a large percentage of the Louisiana and Mississippi National Guard were stationed over in Iraq.\n\nActually, troops can't be used to defend the borders unless there is an actual invasion going on. Military personnel can't perform civilian law enforcement duties - it violates the Posse Commitatus Act.
797245
I just attended a lecture yesterday that talked about these very statistics.  Our crime rate is actually going down, but our rate of incarceration is going up.  This reflects the US' "war on crime" and "war on drugs" started in the late 70s, early 80s (Reagan, mostly).  It's because we are taking action and using incarceration as the solution.  To really properly analize these numbers, you also have to look at the crime rates of all these nations (we also score very poorly, there, so you still have a point).  The statistics for african-americans is even worse - something like 6000+ african-american inmates per 100,000.
819916
Wouldn't it make more sense to pay our ghetto slugs and homosexuals $50,000 to move to Nigeria, or better yet France. Now I wouldn't complain for a minute about that!
476972
I don't think it was preventable at all.\n\nIf you piss off a large proportion of the world for long enough then someone is going to do something crazy.\n\nEven with the somewhat police state methods now being used we're still due for more terrorism. \n\nHurricane Katrina couldn't have been prevented as it was caused by weather, but the reaction in terms of getting people out could have been better. So could actually rebuilding the levies properly before the hurricane. bit of a pity most of the national guard  and army engineers who were supposed to be working on it were out of the state relieving other national guards sent to iraq or sent there themselves....
366732
If they're here illegally, how do we know how long they've been here? Send them all South. Illegal = criminal! Adios!!
134173
a population of 12 people?
796721
Valid point.\n\nI agree. It is a money saving tactic. They don't have the manpower to monitor everybody 24 hours a day either so it won't work and since it's a money saving tactic they won't put more money into increasing manpower. That would be counter-productive.\n\nLot's of people believe that it would be best to keep some criminals locked up. In the UK we have prison overcrowding so clearly too many people are being sent. This costs governments lots of money which they do not want to spend. They have far better things to be doing like invading countries, etc. Wars coincidentally also cost money.\n\nPrisons are not the solution to all crimes but if people are deemed (by society) a danger to society then keep them locked up.
358142
Crime (in general): thought to be the work of Satan, proven to be the activity of the masses. Crime is this Nation's largest employer and the mover of more money through our economy than any other activity. To prove this point, simply try to envision how our society and its economy would be with the total absence of all crime: no police, no private security industry (rent-a-cops, etc.), no lawyers, no judges, no courts. no FBI, no ATF, no law makers (senators, representatives, county supervisors, city councilpersons, etc.), no criminal justice system of any kind, half as many firefighters (arson and criminal code violations account for most fires), half as many doctors, nurses, and hospitals (with all their supporting personnel) to take care of all the stabbings, beatings, shootings, poisonings, and a host of others injuries and ailments brought about as the result of crime, no more lock, key, and safe industry, few walls and fences would be needed, the media (TV, news- papers, etc. would have to lay off thousands without crime stories and dramas), the paper industry would all but collapse, two million inmates would have to be released, a million hookers would have to be cared for, and the number of industies, large and small, that supply all the cars, vans, buses, helicopters, uniforms, medical supplies, and thousands of other products and services that are needed as the result of crime, would simply disappear. Without all crime, tens of millions would be instantly unemployed, millions upon millions of square feet of real estate would lie vacant, and the domino effect from all this would bring ruin. And just who is committing all this crime? There aren't enough atheists and freethinkers around to hold accountable. Got any ideas? The ads say "Take a bite out of crime." (Don't take too big a bite, it just may cost you your job or business.)
501277
There have always been the crimes you listed. People have just been informed of resources and that the crimes are reportable. It just appears as if there is more crime. BUT actually-the population of the world does increase.
461287
They were WARNED that they MUST evacuate.  Busses were running full time to get people out, yet so many refused to leave.  Some were on the news dancing in the streets of the French Quarter as the storm approached.  After the storm, they all ran for the Superdome, and there were not enough supplies for the additional people, so that screwed the people who originally went to be sheltered there.  Something else angers me: The National Guard gets blamed for not responding, but the storm was over Tuesday, and TV cameras broadcast National Guard at the airport on Thursday.  This pretty enlisted female told the reporter that they arrived Wednesday, and were setting up relief.\n\nThen cops are out there looting Wal Mart (caught on video).  It would have been one thing if they were getting food, but, well you know the rest of the story.  \n\nPeople cry for the idiots in New Orleans (no, the ones who evacuated are NOT idiots), while Rita pretty much levelled some towns in Southwest Louisiana.  Places where there were towns were now just a bunch of cement foundations.  One person found their house a few miles away.  Nobody even talks about these people--Mississippi gets more attention.
266113
Dont you know it is illegal and you could go to prison. There are enough illegal immigrants coming to our shores without you adding to their numbers.