August 27, 2009 2:13PM 

# This I Don’t Get 

By [Juan Carlos Hidalgo](https://www.cato.org/people/juan-carlos-hidalgo) 

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While the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency constantly raids factories and workplaces looking for peaceful and hard-working undocumented immigrants to kick out of the country, the same federal government agency [*brings* to the U.S. dangerous Mexican drug traffickers](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/26/AR2009082603768.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR) who—while continuing their criminal activities in Mexico and the U.S.—also serve as informants to the federal authorities in their war on drugs.

Can someone explain this to me?

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