Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Jamiel's Law   [Mark Krikorian]

Michelle is on the case of Jamiel Shaw Jr., yet another black American teenager murdered by yet another illegal-alien gang member who'd been released from jail without anyone ever checking his immigration status. Now the family of the church-going high-school football star (including his mother, an Army sergeant serving in Iraq at the time of his murder) are calling on Los Angeles to repeal Special Order 40, which prevents police from checking immigration status. The repeal measure has been dubbed Jamiel's Law, and his parents confronted L.A. City Council members yesterday; Jill Stewart notes that "Council President Eric Garcetti couldn't change the subject fast enough." As the elder Shaw said, "We're not living in Beirut or Iraq. We're living in a nice neighborhood. He thought he was safe." Or as his mother, who's returning to the Middle East this very day, said: "I don't know if I can say this with me being in the military, but we need to be cleaning up the streets of the United States instead of cleaning up Iraq."

04/09 06:11 PMShare