Sanctuary Policing? Two Standards, Separate and Unequal? Where's The Federal Government?

"Robert Morgenthau creates immigrant affairs unit"--that's the headline atop an important story in The New York Daily News. Did you know that the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau, pictured at left, believes in separate-but-equal? What happened to Rudy Giuliani's idea of "one standard"? That was a great idea for New York, and for America--even if Giuliani didn't always apply it as mayor; he, too, supported various sanctuary systems.

But in the here and now, let's take note of this outrage. And what will the US Justice Department do about this? Does the Bush administration even care? Here's the whole story--you decide:

Illegal immigrants victimized by crime need not fear being ratted out to the feds by the Manhattan district attorney's office.

Looking to build confidence with city immigrants, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has created a special immigrant affairs unit and appointed an assistant district attorney who left the Dominican Republic when she was 5 to head it.

"This is a city of immigrants, and we want to make sure everyone is given the full protection of the law," Morgenthau said. "They're entitled to it."

Morgenthau said the unit seeks to make immigrants feel more at ease when reporting crimes and scams that target new arrivals to the city. The unit is working with immigrant groups to build up trust.

Daysi Mejia, the assistant district attorney put in charge of the unit, stressed that victims should not be afraid to come forward.

"We're not going to contact the INS," she said. "That's not what we do, and that's not what we are ever going to do."

A chief goal of the unit, Mejia said, is to target criminals who prey on immigrants.

And here's the most interesting of the comments, from hjo4, found on the Daily News' website:

Hey buddy illegal is still illegal.If as American Black man I'm expected to obey all laws or I suffer the consequences it should that way for others,including ILLEGAL ALIENS.The prisons are filled with young Black men who made mistakes, no one says give them a pass, yet the district attorney creates a special office using taxpayers dollars to help illegal alien criminals.Something is wrong with that picture.

I dunno who you are, hjo4, but you're my kinda guy!