Okay, so as everybody knows, this is a very tough economy. The job market is lousy. Millions have been laid off work, and for every open position you have hundreds if not thousands clamoring for employment.
I suppose it surpasses even the more esoteric irony then that in San Francisco’s District Attorney started a training program that included illegal immigrants who were convicted drug felons. The program trained them for jobs they couldn’t hold legally in the United States. Of course when the convicted felons had completed their training, their criminal records were expunged. Their criminal slates were wiped clean.
Upon reading the related news article in the Los Angeles Times I thought at first that the city district attorney’s office was not conducting adequate background checks on its employment training candidates. Apparently, this was not the case. In fact, the convicted felons were deliberately selected for job training in order to keep the undocumented felons out of prison.
In some cases it backfired. Some of the trainees, upon completing the course, went out and committed additional violent crimes. Not good. District Attorney, Kamala Harris, who prides herself, apparently, on training undocumented workers for jobs they can never hold, is currently running for California’s State Attorney General. She termed her allowing these felons to be trained for jobs, “a mistake.” The program has since been modified so that illegal immigrants incapable of holding these jobs are no longer admitted to the program.
In fairness, Back on Track, has been praised, overall, even by some of Harris’ detractors.