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UPDATEBryan reports that Spitzer is releasing violent criminals from prison like it’s going out of style.:

New York parole officials are speeding up the release of hard-core criminals who spent decades behind bars – including violent murderers and cop killers.
Parole boards under Gov. Spitzer are springing jailbirds at a far higher rate than they did during Gov. George Pataki’s administration, state Division of Parole figures show:
Parole Board spokesman Mark Johnson insisted there is no mandate for commissioners to release more inmates and “no directive to tell anybody to behave any differently.”
Yet state figures show that while Pataki’s parole boards released A-1 felons at a 3% to 5% rate between 2000 and 2005, in the first 10 months of this year the release rate climbed to 10%.
Asked to explain the increase, one Spitzer insider said, “The commissioners may feel freer now to exercise their discretion. The only thing we expect of our agencies and our commissioners is to follow the law.”
Senate GOP leader Joe Bruno said reports of a higher inmate release rate “in the first year of the Spitzer administration are disturbing. We support longer sentences for convicted felons, especially for those who kill police officers.”

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Why yes it is! Didn’t Bloomberg say that NY would not run without illegal immigrants? Yes he did. How then, can Spitzer make the statement, “The federal government has lost control of its borders, has allowed millions of undocumented immigrants to enter our country and now has no solution to deal with it,” ? If the states followed the law, we wouldn’t have such a large problem. Yes, the feds have failed to secure the borders, but the states should be working with the feds to clean up the problem. Offering sanctuary and a drivers license is not a workable solution. Spitzer only backed down because of his poll numbers.