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| Overwhelmed courts need $40 million for border plan |
| 2010-06-30 |
| President Barack Obama's $600 million border security plan seems to have it all: More than 1,000 agents, seven gunrunner teams, five FBI task forces and more prosecutors and immigration judges. But it doesn't include $40 million to help the already overwhelmed federal courts along the U.S.-Mexico border that will likely be inundated with additional drug and other criminal cases, a judiciary official tells The Associated Press. Increased patrols will mean more arrests and more cases sent to the five district courts on the border, from California to Texas. The courts handle cases including drug trafficking and illegal immigrants charged with other serious crimes. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #5 Good point, but I figure the current administration can control ICE about as well as the last one. If ICE wants to do it, they'll do it. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-06-30 18:08 |
| #4 Doc, do you really trust the current administration enough to allow them that kind of authority? Do you really believe they would actually do something to end illegal immigration? Do you think they won't find a way to screw everything up, force the courts to a halt, and do everything in their power to see that this is all smoke and mirrors, with no substance? I don't, either. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-06-30 13:31 |
| #3 Routine border violations need not be a judicial issue. It could be defined as an administrative issue and thus handled by the executive branch without burdening the courts. To whit: an illegal alien, stopped and identified as such, could be deported without recourse to the courts. Obviously some safeguard is needed to prevent American citizens and legal aliens from being deported, but that again could be an executive function, not a judicial one. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-06-30 12:26 |
| #2 "You're overloading the system and it has to break somewhere." Can you sayÂ…Cloward-Piven? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2010-06-30 11:00 |
| #1 So without court capacity it's just a bigger catch and release program. There is a different solution but I am sure it won't even be considered - shoot first, arrest later. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-06-30 07:35 |