Included in President Obama’s litany of immigration enforcement’s purported demerits is the claim that crimes will go unreported. That is, fearing deportation if they come forward as witnesses, illegal immigrants will not cooperate with the police.

But as Dan reported here several weeks ago, the Obama administration has indicated that its immigration agents will not process the illegal aliens referred to them by the state of Arizona. Meantime, the Obama Justice Department dismisses a voter intimidation case that it had already won, and the president himself tells Muslims he wants to loosen restrictions on Islamic “charitable giving” (translation: stop arresting people for providing material support to terrorism through donations to charitable fronts).

What could possibly cause more crime to go unreported — what, indeed, encourages more commission of crime — than government signals that law-enforcement agencies will not enforce the law?