What You Can Do, If You Try

Reluctantly or not, it looks like the government may finally be enforcing our laws. According to this article, Federal agents who track down fugitives on immigration charges arrested more than 30,000 people nationally in fiscal year 2007, nearly double the previous year's total.

Agents focused on people who hadn't appeared for immigration hearings, or who stayed in the country after being ordered to leave by an immigration judge.

They also prioritized cases, looking for those who had criminal records or were considered a threat to national security.

There were more than 30,408 arrests nationally in fiscal 2007, which ended Sept. 30, compared to 15,462 last year, ICE said.

ICE officials also said the backlog of fugitives was down by 38,000 to 595,000 for the new fiscal year.

Enforcing the law, what a concept!