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If one enters a country without following said country's entry and immigration laws, one is an illegal alien. In many other countries, it is a criminal offense.

The real problem is that said illegal alien entered the country illegally. As someone else mentioned, said person may be nice to his landlord and neighbors and still be a wanted criminal, a child molester, or carrying a contagious disease. How often do you see a surprised friend and/or neighbor on the news saying "He was such a nice guy. I can't believe he did that." If we want to go down the road of terrorism, remember that according to reports the 9/11 conspirators were good neighbors and tenants.

Now, let me demonstrate the fallacy of your argument:

Ok, now suppose someone is an illegal alien. Suppose this person forces a developmentally disabled girl into prostitution and rapes her mentally disabled friend in front of her.
Suppose this person is a member of MS13?
Suppose this person is a serial killer?
Suppose this person is a sexual predator?
Suppose this person is a drunk driver?
Suppose this person is raping his 9 year old daughter?
Still think there is no problem?

Do you see the problem with "supposing"? Even if you point to a specific person, it is still cherry-picking.

It's the same theory that " America's Most Wanted " has operated on for twenty years now. At least for them, it seems to work quite well.

To give you a taster, there is no 'arena' like in the movie. The contestent goes out into the world, and everyone is encouraged to report sightings.

It's called America's Most Wanted.

One police officer recounted how he came upon a man who had been shot in the back and was laying there bleeding, when the officer tried to radio in for help he found that he had no radio reception, so he had to wander out into the middle of the street holding his radio up to the sky until he found a spot with reception.

AMW has a site here where you can sign an online petition, and a description of the problem here

Additionally here's a link to the Consensus Plan which is supported by emergency first responders to eliminate interference. Apparently there have been over a 1000 cases of interference nationwide in these states since the first case was reported 5 years ago.

One police officer recounted how he came upon a man who had been shot in the back and was laying there bleeding, when the officer tried to radio in for help he found that he had no radio reception, so he had to wander out into the middle of the street holding his radio up to the sky until he found a spot with reception.

AMW has a site here where you can sign an online petition, and a description of the problem here

Additionally here's a link to the Consensus Plan which is supported by emergency first responders to eliminate interference. Apparently there have been over a 1000 cases of interference nationwide in these states since the first case was reported 5 years ago.

There are so many things wrong with this that I don't even know where to begin.

Then you obviously don't have kids. I don't plan to micromanage my son's life, but I live in Florida, the child-snatching capitol of the US. (woo hoo!) He's 9 and I'd love to be able to afford to have this so I could just know he made it to and from school in one piece. I'd like to know if he's doing 75mph on I-95 south towards Miami at 3:25.

Sure, there are plenty of asshole parents who would hide one under their 17-year-old's bike seat and bitch at them for hanging out at the local 7-11, but there are far, far more parents who would use this for good. I predict this product will do very well even at it's high intro price, and will take off exponentially just like pagers and cell phones did. (Quick recap: Just 10 years ago, pagers for non-doctors were *just* starting to spread, and cellphones were huge, crappy, and $2500. 5 years later, every 17 year old had a pager, and phones were coming down to $100. Look around today...) Most parents would *love* to have one of these, and any parent who has had a child abducted would *kill* to go back in time and have one. Just ask John Walsh.