We're on the path to hell

I opened a file on the Safe Neighborhood Act entitled Who is in Our State Prisons? Basically, what they do is provide information about which crimes are committed and data on the prison rate. I have a theory.

The last section is what I found interesting. A pie graph breaking down illegal alien imprisonment shows how California has the most incarcerated illegal people (I would have pasted the graph here but the formatting does not allow me to do so, http://www.safeneighborhoodsact.com/Portals/0/assets/docs/WhoIsInOurStatePrisons-2008.08.19.pdf)

This is misleading and makes it as if illegal aliens were the criminals in the state. As I wrote before, this is simply not true and attacking crime in this manner is not a way of reducing the rate of crime.

For information regarding crime of illegal persons, please visit theUnited States Government Accountability Office website at http://www.gao.gov/index.html

A specific article on this issue is
Information on Certain Illegal Aliens Arrested in the United States
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-05-646R

I feel bad picking apart everything about proposition 6, but I should be convinced before I accept their word for it, right?

What I absolutely loved, though, was part of the closing statement in the Safe Neighborhood Act document I opened that read: "Many people who advocate more offender education and fewer prison cells are, like the path to hell, driven by good intentions."