Illegal Crime

Although several months old, this article still terrifies me, a lover of SoCal: http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
The government itself is eagerly crippling its own ability to enforce the most useful and necessary laws against those who are ex officio criminal in the first place. Maybe it neglects all of their crime because they aren't paying enough taxes to enjoy the dubitable privileges of the police state now afflicting the rest, which police state might actually turn itself to at least some benefit in this case. I'm disgusted with this suicidal mentality. Too many Americans seemingly esteem themselves for self-despisal.