This is not a matter of politics, but common sense. Deport illegals who commit a crime (and any who can’t show a strong reason to be allowed to remain), and this repeat crime would not have happened.

Cory Booker seemed tired, beleaguered, bewildered.

The young mayor had been on the run with very little sleep for several days. Now, during a break in a private room at City Hall here, he leaned forward in his chair and said, “There is something going on in our country that people are not, for some reason, awake to.”

He then mentioned what he described as a “poignant” meeting he’d had with a top official of the F.B.I. “I asked him, ‘What is the solution to this problem?’ ” said Mr. Booker. “And he said to me, ‘It’s not law enforcement.’ ”

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The communities hardest hit are those in which too many parents have failed their children. The most effective anti-crime effort begins at home with parents (fathers, are you listening?) who raise their kids to know better than to point a gun at another human being and blow that person away for no good reason.

Somehow, I’m not at all sure that reminding fathers to be fathers is going to work. The piece that I find as worrisome as anything else in the column is this.

Forty years after the riots that wrecked this city, Newark is once again unnerved. People are calling for the resignation of a mayor who has been in office only a year. Others want the National Guard to start patrolling the streets, a stomach-turning suggestion to many who remember the riots.

The sheriff of Essex County, Armando Fontoura, lost it completely on Tuesday, loudly declaring, “I’m on the verge of telling my guys to suspend civil liberties and start frisking everybody.”

There’s a fever in the city. But the biggest mistake one could make in looking at the gratuitous slaughter of these young people (three arrests have been made and more are expected) is to view it as a problem peculiar to Newark.

The riot in Watts began on August 11, 1965.

“Racial profiling is illegal and ineffective and has no place in a democratic society,” said Reginald Shuford, an ACLU senior staff attorney.

See.

That’s like saying all black ppl are ghetto or all Italian’s are mafia. Or to the notes of some bloggers here, that all gun owners are killers!

Seriously, can we just talk about how people in general, not any specific TYPE of humans, but just as a society in general we are rotting from the inside out. Think about that for a change! And try and find how you can make a difference. Maybe start with recycling. Yeah, that’s a good start.

Pokey, you know the law better than that. You can’t fool me.

(For the record, he’s Peruvian.)

Looks like Carranza just figured he would get a quick release to Mexico since he is an illegal.