Many police departments both big and small now simply do not arrest illegal aliens for minor offenses. Their logic is as follows. Illegals do not exist in the criminal justice system. There is no way to track them and hold them accountable. If you issue them a ticket all they have to do is move down the street and change their name a little bit and their citation falls off the map.
The only way to hold them accountable is to arrest them on the spot and detain them until they can be brought before a judge for trial and sentencing. The problem with this that the U.S. Justice Department would crucify any police department big or small that incarcerated illegal aliens for not having a valid license plate, running a stop sign or even driving under the influence. Under this president and this justice department they have to be treated exactly like people with ties to the community that allow them to be held accountable. The officer is wasting his time and the taxpayer's money by making the citation. So, they just look the other way.
But, that brings up a second problem. Why should Juan Gonzales who crossed the border last year and works at the chicken plant get a pass when Billy Bob Hankins whose family has lived in town for five generations can't. Why should Billy Bob be forced to pay a penalty that cannot be enforced against Juan? What happens is that the Rule of Law itself suffers. The cop just looks the other way to be fair. Minor offense are not prosecuted and eventually quiet little places like Sallisaw and Muldrow begin looking like the barrio neighborhoods of big cities like Tulsa, OKC and Denver where Mexican rules of everything from traffic to commerce apply and the police only step in when the violence gets out of hand.
Is anybody really surprised that people who commit a felony to get into the U.S. and live here don't have a lot of respect for the rest of our laws? The bottom line here is that if law isn't applied equally to everybody pretty soon it won't be applied to anybody.
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