Illegal Immigration - Still Stuck on Stupid

The recent executions of 3 college students in Newark, with a fourth seriously injured, underscores the arguments that conservatives have made about the illegal immigration situation in this country. While the crime was perpetrated by several people, the man believed to be at the head was an illegal alien from South America. What makes this crime particularly galling is that this man had been in custody for multiple crimes, and had repeatedly been released on bail. Never was his illegal status reported to immigration officials. One of the charges he faced before this latest crime was sexual assault of a minor.
Not all illegal immigrants are going to be sexual predators and murderers. But the very fact that they are here illegally is a crime. And that so many officials at every level of government have ignored enforcing laws that are already on the books is simply reprehensible. America is already teeming with its own homegrown criminals. Surely we don't believe now that crime is also a "job" that normal Americans won't do, and thus we must allow illegals to come here to perpetrate crimes that are beneath legal citizens? While I can at least understand the economic arguments for allowing illegals to stay here to bolster the workforce, by what stretch of the imagination must we harbor those who are not only here illegally, but commit heinous crimes in our midst?
Action is required. While cracking down on employers will help, and tracking down on fake social security numbers, along with building the fence will discourage the workers, more can be done. Pressure needs to be put on state and local governments that flaunt the law. Certain federal funds need to be withheld from these governments that set up "sanctuary" laws, restricting law enforcement officials from reporting illegals to immigration authorities. Additionally, pressure must be brought to bare on any municipality that releases out into the general public someone who is arrested for a crime and verified as having entered the country illegally.
I know that those more "enlightened" than me will view my ideas in this area as a sign of my inherent racism and my being anti-immigration, but to those who think this way, I can only shake my head at your lack of intellectual agility. I support immigration of the legal kind. I fully support those who enter the country legally and strive to become productive, assimilated American citizens. It is what has built this country into the great nation that it is today. My opposition is to the illegal variety that today threatens to tear down this country. To say that being opposed to illegal immigration is akin to being anti immigration and immigrants would be logically the equivalent of saying that my opposition to theft indicates a greater opposition to capitalism. The two are completely different concepts. I oppose illegal weapons trafficking, but support the right to legally keep and bear arms afforded by the second amendment. I am opposed to murder, but support capital punishment for those who do murder. To say that my opposition to illegal immigration is merely an opposition to immigration in general is both vapid and asinine.
Finally, is it really wise for the Democrats to hitch their political future onto hopes that the Iraq War will end in our miserable defeat and surrender? But this is what they are doing. That is why, even now that members of their own faction are defecting away from the view that this war is not winnable, their leaders like Senators Feingold and Reid continue to champion this view. They have let it be known that they will not accept any positive reports from Iraq. God himself could appear on the streets of Baghdad and singlehandedly eradicate the terrorists and the sectarian violence while simultaneously setting up a celestial government, and they would still look the American people in the eye and say that the war is lost. You see, they have to. All of their political hopes and dreams are tied to this operation being a failure and their having the final proof, in their minds, of just how evil George W. Bush really is. But who really wants to stand behind a group so wedded to the idea of American inferiority?