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Immigrants and Crime

There is a tendency to deny our new citizens the right to justice as we accept their crimes are without responsibility by making racially based judgements. In this article from the NZ Herald , New Zealand First law and order spokesperson, Ron Mark, accuses the Government if being indifferent to immigrant crime and called for immediate deportation of criminal overstayers.

In his version of the world, there are two classes of people. Real New Zealanders who deserve the services of the Department of Justice, and people who can be sent home, perhaps to escape responsibility for their actions. To class immigrants as improper citizens is to give them a conditional status insofar as responsibility is assigned. To deport criminals without proper inspection and decisive action may have been sensible once, but now we have to be more able to detain real criminals as processed by our justice system and release those without responsibility.

If language is a barrier, then deportation may well be an option of the Justice system but it is important for immigrant crime to be examined by a local jurisdiction.

Rules that naturally shove a "terrorist" back to their country of origin, contradict any "war on terror". Murder suspects and terrorists have more in common than immigrant status or nationality bestows insofar as a basis for National rejection.

Ron Mark has a limited view of Justice and is burying his head in the sand. If a criminal wants to go out and kill people by irresponsible use of a vehicle, it is not a crime against New Zealand. It is a crime against humanity and it is our responsibility to deliver proper justice, be that prison or freedom, to offenders.

To force the problem to be exported is to lose the war on terror as criminals are returned to freedom and creates an impossible environment that forgives criminal actions proven as such by our quite expensive legal system.

More expensive than our politicians, the New Zealand First party founded on suspiciously racially motivated fundamentals. That, we, as New Zealanders should put ourselves ahead of immigrants. In a country populated only by immigrants, it is a little silly and self-important.

Ron Mark's use of the perjorative, "these people", is an instance of lumping together all immigrants as potentially instantly deportable. Good one, Ron. The trick is to bring criminals under jurisdiction and make friends with other Governments in the process.

Not give them the expensive problem of expedient Justice. Our legal system is the only tool that separates terrorists and criminals from the rest of us. That form of segregation protects its clients with a legal system to ensure that the innocent are not jailed. If you release the innocents, you will jail a greater percentage of the guilty, but when you start confusing the innocent with the guilty then justice has lost its way.