Two items to raise the blood pressure of law-abiding, hard-working Americans:

1) From the L.A. Times: “San Francisco D.A.’s program trained illegal immigrants for jobs they couldn’t legally hold.”

As she runs for state attorney general, prosecutor Kamala Harris faces questions over a program that trained illegal immigrant drug felons for jobs, kept them out of jail and expunged their records…Harris, 44, was elected district attorney in 2003 and reelected in 2007. She designed Back on Track to help young adults who are arrested once for selling drugs; the goal is to help them avoid falling into a life of crime. Like cities and counties across the nation, San Francisco was already running several programs with that goal.

Back on Track participants agree to plead guilty to a drug felony and spend a year in the program, a mix of community service, employment and life-skills training, family counseling and English lessons for those who need them. While in the program, they are free to live where they wish.

Even natural adversaries of the district attorney have applauded Back on Track.

“It’s very innovative for the district attorney to have a program like this,” said Simin Shamji, a deputy public defender in San Francisco. It might work better, she said, if the D.A.’s office ceded some control and collaborated more with social service agencies.

Over the last four years, 113 admitted drug dealers have graduated from the program, while 99 were yanked for failing to meet the requirements and sentenced under their guilty plea, according to the D.A.’s office.

Harris said graduates of the program are far less likely than other offenders to commit crimes again, but her spokeswoman declined to provide detailed statistics.

And now, the D.A. who hatched the program is running for state Attorney General.

Californians get what they deserve.

2) The Associated Press 跟进 上 New York City public schools nightmare story that pays bad teachers not to teach at a cost of $65 million a year to taxpayers.

Nice “work” if you can get it…