Burning Atlanta

He's right, we are stupid. We're stupid to reward people for breaking our laws. We're stupid to say, "Don't come illegally, but if you do we'll give you jobs, drivers licenses, free education and health care, you'll be able to open bank accounts and buy homes, cars, whatever you want and with little to fear." We're more than stupid. As a nation, we're suicidal.

SCUM

Rolando Mota-Campos, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, has racked up convictions for drunken driving, domestic assault and threatening to cut someone's head off with a machete.

Yet the 42-year-old scallop boat worker has slipped easily into the country after being deported three times.

He'll be deported again after serving a 14 1/2-year federal prison term imposed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, but he has already vowed to sneak back in.

"United States is stupid," Mota-Campos reportedly told an immigration agent after his latest arrest, court records say. "I come back every time."

You should read the article to get an idea of his record AND, again I ask, "Why wasn't this piece of puke arrested and put in prison before now? How many police agencies didn't ask or fifn't tell ICE?" The most time he got was 30 days for DUIs?

The day after the September arrest, Mota-Campos was charged with beating his wife and son. His wife became so fearful of him that she moved her and her children into hiding. Then the following February, he was charged with threatening a social worker assigned to his case who refused to tell him where his wife was living.

He told the social worker that he carried a machete and that the social worker's " sweet little head can come right off. "

After his domestic violence conviction, Mota-Campos was again deported in May 2005. Less than a month later, he used a phony passport to return to the United States through Tijuana.

In August 2005, Mota-Campos was arrested in Newport News on a warrant for threatening the social worker. He was convicted and served a short jail term before being turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

That led to the current federal indictment.

In court papers, Morgan cited his fear that Mota-Campos will again return.

"The defendant has expressly stated that he has no respect for the United States and that once deported he will re-enter again and come back to Newport News, where his history of alcohol abuse will further endanger the residents of this district," the judge wrote.