Today's latest not-so-fun story comes from Kansas, where an illegal migrant, Nicholas Martinez, had pled guilty to cocaine possession and endangering the welfare of a child after being caught in a police sting. His plea bargain was rejected by the judge in the case, because she noted that the probation recommendation (which means obeying all state and federal laws) was already moot since he was in the country illegally. She sentenced him to a year in jail.
Unfortunately, it didn't end there:
But on appeal, a three-judge panel threw out the sentence, based on an apparent contradiction in U.S. law. While it is illegal to enter the country without the proper documents and permissions, it is not necessarily illegal to be in the country.What the ____ ?
Are you kidding me?
And so, the drift towards anarchy continues.
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