Arlington Rewrites The Definition Of “Law-Abiding Citizens”

A law-abiding citizen is a self-explanatory term. AI defines it as a person who always obeys, respects, and follows their society’s rules and laws. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines it simply as someone who does not break the law and is viewed as honest and safe.

Both statements are correct, but it becomes unfair when laws are broken and punished differently. When that happens, one group is still viewed as “law-abiding,” while others are seen as worse.

The Commonwealth Attorney for Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., has a policy specifically designed to protect Dream Act (DACA) recipients. These individuals are illegal aliens who were either trafficked into the United States or arrived as minors with their parents.

Obama, being Obama, gave these illegal aliens a form of amnesty through executive order, which was contingent upon them following certain rules, which he knew at the time would not be enforced.

One of those rules is that you can’t have a certain level of misdemeanor charge. So, given that “loophole,” here’s how Arlington, Virginia, is treating these illegals.

The bottom line is that this is a tiered justice system. If an illegal receives a DUI, which is a Class 3 misdemeanor in Virginia for citizens, the Arlington Commonwealth Attorney’s office, as a matter of policy, downgrades it to a Class 1 misdemeanor to prevent the risk of deportation.

Therefore, DACA status is a factor in the plea resolution, one that an American citizen charged with the same offense cannot invoke. This is the opposite of how it should be. If anyone was going to get a break, it should be the American citizen, and not the person who is here illegally.

The Arlington Commonwealth Attorney’s Office argues that changing the charge from Class 3 to Class 1 is a “lateral shift,” not a downgrade, but that is a lie.

That change means that it won’t show up on the DACA renewal forms. So, rather than facing deportation, they are immune. This provides illegals with a special privilege that is not afforded to Americans.

This is not happening under Virginia law, but because a radical leftist commonwealth attorney’s office is practicing racial/immigration status discrimination against Americans.

This is just another way people who broke the law by coming here in the first place get special treatment. It’s another extension of Democrats installing liberals into the justice system that continuously favors the criminals over the victims. Think about how many criminals are released back onto the streets by Democrats. Every day we hear about light sentences and no sentences being handed out to dangerous criminals.

This office is facilitating the bad behavior of illegals. By diminishing the severity of their crimes, they encourage them to keep breaking the law.

The U.S. Constitution ensures equality through the Equal Protection Clause in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which declares that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Protection under the law not only means being presumed innocent until proven guilty; it also means justice is dispensed equally.

This office is violating that aspect of the Constitution, for no other reason than some leftist delusion of equality. Radicals refuse to recognize that favoritism is not equality; in fact, it is diametrically opposed to that concept.

You cannot favor one group without slighting another. This applies to all aspects of DEI, whether it is in hiring, admissions, or, as in this case, the enforcement of the law.