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2006-03-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

Wicked Witch of the West solves immigration problem

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Posted by Korora 2006-03-28 0:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Translation: her connectedness defends lawbreaking and accepts the security dangers inherent to uncontrolled immigration.

Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-03-28 01:56|| 2006-03-28 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I"MA CAPS LOCKED AND MY HEAD HURTZ>

Posted by RD 2006-03-28 02:06|| 2006-03-28 02:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Pre-legal? I'm surprised my ol' hometown paper, the Arizona Repulsive, didn't come up with that one yet.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-28 06:45|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-03-28 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 I've never been a fan of hers, quite the opposite. But this seals her fate. Espousing this shit means the end of her ambition for Prez. Over. Done. Kaput.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-03-28 11:37|| 2006-03-28 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 So her bill allows one to stay illegaly forever right? I doubt this hurts her chances though. You ever own a garden? weeds always come back.

Posted by luusbueb 2006-03-28 11:43|| 2006-03-28 11:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Roberto Pimental isn't as quick on the draw as he likes to think he is, DB...

Posted by Pappy 2006-03-28 11:48|| 2006-03-28 11:48|| Front Page Top

#7 shameless, absolutely shameless. I would ask Mrs. Clinton to come down to Southern California and live here for just 3 years and then ask her if she still feels the same way. These greed-infested politicians (Republicans and Democrats) are not going to help the West, not as long as they can achieve power by further allowing it to be raped and plundered. If this problem is to be solved, it will be a grass-roots, Minutemen-styled solution with the help of like-minded Mexican-American cooperation. Bottom line is the Southwest has to solve it's own problems. If D.C. looked like East L.A. then they would tell us it would be "every American's duty" to get involved, but since it doesn't, it's our problem. So, let's deal with it. Are there any Westerners with good ideas?

Posted by banned from rantburg 2006-03-28 13:32|| 2006-03-28 13:32|| Front Page Top

#8 You don't need to go to California to see illegal aliens.
I live in NEw Jersey.
They are everywhere. Standing on corners providing cheap labor.
We don't need that cheap labor. The jobs these men do are fillable with American Citizens. However citizens expect to be paid a reasonable rate.
Beyond the obvious labor and employment ramifications there is
a major problem here.
As a citizen of New Jersey and a born-here American, I am required by law to carry valid ID at all times. I must carry my drivers license even while walking.
If some part of my auto documentation is off or out of date,
the police take my car away.
Illegal Aliens,by definition do not possess valid ID.
They all have fake ID's and at ;east one county in NEw Jersey had it's county records office closed for selling birth certifcates.
If you were born in Hudson County, your birth certificate is worthless.
Somehow though, enough heads are turned that these illegals are driving cars and owning homes and working with false documents.
This is supposed to make me happy because supposedly they are paying taxes which I will get as Social security payments. That is a laugh.
Their children suck away my child's education by channeling more and more resources to teaching their children english and how to live in a cvilized society , which frankly most claim they are uninterested in and will tell you flat out that they only want to make some money and go home (after 20-30 years at the US teat)
Thus the second largest money making enterprise in Mexico is payments sent in form illegal workers here in the US.
This is an enourmous drain on our economy.
When they get sick they go to a hospital and get treated in an emergency room, the highest priced medical treatment for which the rest of us get the bill.
When found out, they are quite willing to abandon everything and start again in some new location.
Why should I feel sympathy for them?
My ancestors waited in line, came in legally and expressed their LOYALTY to their new nation and their desire to be American citizens.
Their loaylty to our nation runs strong in our immigrant family values.
This is not an attitude promulgated among the ranks of illegal aliens.
Immigrants, migrant workers, and illegal aliens are three different things.
Sneaking in is not immigration.
That your father snuck in , is not an impressive credential.
Meanwhile I need a passport to renew my drivers license.

Posted by Jim#6">Jim#6 2006-03-28 14:01|| 2006-03-28 14:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Very well said 6. The United States offers legal citizenship each year to more immigrants each year than all other countries combined. Why can't we just follow the rules and the law and get'r done.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-03-28 14:11|| 2006-03-28 14:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Non-Mexican migrants 'rent a family' to avoid deportation

By Jerry Seper

THE WASHINGTON TIMES
March 24, 2006

Migrants sneaking illegally into the United States from countries other than Mexico are renting families -- mostly small children -- to ensure that if they are apprehended, they won't be deported, but released back into the United States, a top immigration official said yesterday.

The "rent-a-family" scheme, said John P. Torres, director of the Office of Detention and Removal at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is being used by alien smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border -- mainly in Texas -- to circumvent a new expedited-removal program for non-Mexican aliens, whose arrest under existing deportation policies had become known as "catch-and-release."

"They are passing themselves off as a family, paying to have children smuggled with them across the border, because the smugglers know we're not going to break up a family for the deportation process," Mr. Torres said. "They're renting babies -- the younger the better -- including those not yet of speaking age.

"They get processed as a family and released together, under the law, pending an immigration hearing," Mr. Torres said.

He said the cost to the migrants for renting a family is in the "thousands of dollars" -- in addition to the $1,500 to $2,000 they are paying per person to be taken across the border.

Mr. Torres said the children are being rented out by families along the border, and authorities are not sure how they are being returned after crossing into the United States. But, he said, some of the children are being rented more than once.

He said immigration authorities also are concerned that as the summer months approach and the temperatures in the border areas climb, the children could be in increased jeopardy.

Because of a lack of detention space, most of the other-than-Mexico migrants, known as OTMs, caught illegally entering the United States are given notices to appear at immigration status hearings and allowed to stay in the country legally until their hearing.

OTMs must be flown back to their home countries, a process that often takes months.

But only about 12 percent of OTMs who receive the notices show up, with U.S. Border Patrol sectors in Texas reporting no-show rates as high as 98 percent. The expedited-removal program, as mandated by Congress, is available for non-Mexican migrants apprehended in this country within 14 days of entry and within 100 miles of the border, providing they have no criminal record.

Mr. Torres described the expedited-removal program as a legal process that allows ICE to remove illegal aliens without a formal hearing before an immigration judge if they have no credible claim to asylum or any other relief from deportation. He said non-Mexican migrants who are detained are placed into streamlined proceedings, allowing the government to deport them in an average of 32 days, nearly three times faster than the previous deportation process.

Illegal aliens from Mexico are usually returned across the border within hours if they have no criminal record, and while U.S. immigration authorities -- facing a flood of illegal aliens -- have not been hesitant to subject individual OTMs to the expedited-removal process, they have been reluctant to break up non-Mexican migrant families because of a lack of detention space to house them as a unit.

"This rent-a-family scheme is simply an effort to defeat the expedited-removal program because it is working," Mr. Torres said.

The numbers of OTMs illegally crossing into the United States has increased steadily in the past several years. More than 160,000 were apprehended last year, Mr. Torres said, compared with 75,000 in 2004. He noted that ICE has about 20,000 detention beds to house the aliens, each costing the government an average of about $95 a day to maintain.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-03-28 15:43|| 2006-03-28 15:43|| Front Page Top

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