A new office is being created to help crime victims–but only the victims of immigrants. It’s called Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement, or Voice. This is a smart move on the Administration’s part because it’s far less costly than helping all victims of crime. In fact, it will help the smallest group of victims. That’s because, according to the CATO Institute, citing many studies, “With few exceptions, immigrants are less crime prone than natives or have no effect on crime rates.”
I’m not sure how this office will work. I assume it would provide extra law enforcement to go after the immigrant perpetrators, then deport them. I guess this will give victims some sort of “closure.” Although it does help ICE, the agency it’s housed at–it should lead to discovery of more “Illegals” and their families so they can be deported. Their hotline might be helpful to victims, although it doesn’t seem to me any different from calling the police. It will provide jobs for 48 people (21 community-relations officers and 27 victim-assistance specialists).
They haven’t figured out a budget for it yet, but I’m confident that it will be cheap enough for all the good it will do.