Lost amidst all the stories of massive benefits fraud and fraudulent mass voting are the stories of mere individuals who’ve gamed the system, illegally of course. Here’s one such example, sent to me by Alert Reader Mike L.:
A Colombian woman living illegally in Boston has been convicted of identity theft and voter fraud after living under a stolen identity for over 20 years.
In a news release from the Department of Justice, 59-year-old Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez obtained a Massachusetts Real ID and eight other state IDs, fraudulently received over $400,000 in federal benefits, including rental assistance, Social Security, and SNAP benefits. She also used the stolen identity to cast a fraudulent ballot in the 2024 presidential election.
One’s immediate reaction to this incident might be to toss the bitch out of the country and ship her back to Shitholia.
I would disagree.
She needs to be incarcerated for at least twenty years — the period she lived here illegally — while working at a prison job that earns money which can be used to repay as much of the defrauded taxpayer money as possible. Yeah, “slave labor”, cry me a river.
Assuming she’s still alive at this point, she should then be removed from jail and sent back to Shitholia — i.e. immediately escorted from the prison gate to a U.S. Marshals Service bus en route to a nearby airport and waiting plane.
And just to show that I’m not completely heartless, she can take the money she earned during the final month of her confinement back with her.
I’ve long been a fan of Incarceration with Restitution rather than incarceration with vacation.
Yes, you can get blood from a turnip, the IRS has been doing it for decades.
This must have been a big part of the penitence the convicted criminal was supposed to experience in the decades before Franklin Roosevelt and his phalanx of “Experts” turned everything upside down.
The old (Not that old, really, dying at age 35 from tuberculosis) Blues singer, the “Singing Brakeman” Jimmie Rodgers, recorded a song, “Nobody knows but Me.” The Refrain contains the phrase, “For after I’ve paid for the liquor I’ve stole
I’ll leave this place worth my weight in gold”
Clearly, restitution was part of the program of making the convict contemplate the error of his ways and make the wrong he committed as right as possible (You can’t make restitution for a murder unless you have the powers of Jesus when he raised Lazarus).
That the prisons were very often called, “Penitentaries” indicates that inducing repentance and contemplation by the convicted criminal when the system was first devised in Colonial New England by the Puritains.
And are we ever messed up now. Nobody knows that was the original concept. So many generations of the underclass who have no clue that’s what they are in prison for. Not for lifting weights and making muscle and contacts for greater crimes once they are again outside.
“You can’t make restitution for a murder…”
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The restitution would be paid to the victims survivors for their loss. (wife loses husband, kids lose dad, etc.)
I’ve heard people say you can’t put a dollar value on a human life but insurance companies do it all the time.
Black’s Law Dictionary says, “The primary reason for justice is to make the victim whole”.
Restitution attempts to do 2 things, make the victims whole, and to deeply embed into the criminal the penalty for the error of his ways.
The current justice system does neither and is simply one more “make work” system that employs people incapable of earning an honest living in the free market – in other works, just another criminal gov’t enterprise.
Such slave labor is not prohibited by the plain words of the Thirteenth Amendment. “Except as a punishment for rim whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Clearly such restitution as you suggest to be extracted from the convicted criminals was contemplated by the framers of the Thirteenth Amendment.
how about a compromise, ship her to a somali prison?