The Crack-Dealer Amnesty :: New York Sun Editorial
Even as national immigration reform is stalled out in the face of accusations that it amounts to "amnesty" for illegal immigrants, the risk is rising in Washington of an amnesty for a genuinely dangerous set of convicted lawbreakers — those who have been convicted of possessing or dealing crack cocaine. The United States Sentencing Commission, a federal panel, is considering making retroactive a rule change that equalizes the sentences for crack and powder cocaine. The effect would be to release thousands of convicted crack dealers and users, many of them violent, onto the streets of American cities.
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