Murder in San Francisco

Bill O'Reilly's July 23rd Talking Points Memo

Awhile back Mr. O'Reilly wrote a memo concerning sanctuary cities and a robbery. Basically there was an illegal alien who robbed a store and was shot in the back by the store owner. Mr. O'Reilly contended that had the illegal been deported, the crime would never have happened and the guy would not be dead. I found Mr. O'Reilly's argument to be ludicrous because there is no connection between crime and illegal aliens. Crime rates are not excessive among illegal aliens, in fact, I would suspect illegal aliens would be especially law-abiding because they want to stay under the radar. In the aforementioned case, the only person hurt was the illegal alien himself. Now, though, Mr. O'Reilly has found a case where the illegal alien killed some American citizens. It's like a gold mine for his political ideology.

Unfortunately for Mr. O'Reilly, there is no connection between illegal aliens and crime. This would be a non-story for O'Reilly had an American citizen killed three people. But, because it was an illegal alien, Mr. O'Reilly has decided that this story is important. Why? Because Mr. O'Reilly is on a crusade to cleanse the United States from illegal immigration. There was a great conversation between Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly about this exact topic, though the issue was drunk driving rather than murder. Here is a video clip of the exchange. I support Geraldo's point 100%. So much, in fact, that I won't even try to do better.

This is going to be Mr. O'Reilly's crusade for awhile. I can only hope he doesn't incite vigilante justice on people simply because they entered the country illegally. There is a reason that no politician out there is willing to deport all the illegal immigrants in the United States.

And that's "The CounterPoints Memo."