No worries for illegal residents - INS chief: It's not 'reasonable' to enforce law

Human Events via World Net Daily ^ | June 3, 2002 | Joseph D'Agostino

[sarcasm]

In a little-noticed statement, Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner James Ziglar has said that most of the millions of illegal aliens living in this country do not have to worry about the U.S. government enforcing the law and deporting them.

"No one likes the idea that people came into the country illegally, but it's not practical or reasonable to think that you're going to be able to round them all up and send them home," Ziglar said at a May 23 press conference that he held with Javier Moctezuma Barragan, the Mexican undersecretary of population and migrant services, and Felipe de Jesus Preciado Coronado, commissioner of Mexico's migration institute. The press conference was held at the Tucson, Ariz., Border Patrol office.

Estimates of the number of aliens living illegally in this country vary from 7 million to 11 million. The INS estimates 7-8 million.

An INS spokesman said that Ziglar merely repeated what other INS commissioners, including Clinton Commissioner Doris Meissner, have said in recent years.

"I haven't heard any controversy over his remarks," he said. "Commissioner Ziglar was recognizing the long-standing reality. The priorities for our 1,950 internal enforcement agents are deporting criminal aliens, combating trafficking. ... We don't have the resources to pull those agents away from those priorities."

The Arizona Daily Star, the only newspaper to report Ziglar's comments, paraphrased the INS director as saying that deportation of all illegal aliens would "have too severe an impact on the U.S. economy."

Spokesmen for congressional Republican leaders on immigration – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., House immigration subcommittee Chairman George Gekas, R-Pa., and Senate immigration subcommittee ranking member Sam Brownback, R-Kan. – had no immediate reaction to Ziglar's comments during Memorial Day week, which Congress took off. The spokesmen were not aware of Ziglar's comment.

Barragan said at the press conference, "The mobility of people has been a reality throughout human history. Only by recognizing that reality, through agreements, through laws, can we avoid what is happening."

Ziglar said that he wanted to make policing the border more efficient to free up resources to focus on the most serious threats to the United States.

"We need to set up a regime where we don't have to spend so much of our time and effort in enforcement activities dealing with people who are not terrorists, who are not threats to our national security, who are economic refugees," he said.

Ziglar discussed the installation of six 30-foot beacons in the Yuma area that illegal migrants can see from up to 5 miles away. The beacons would allow the illegal immigrants to call for help from the Border Patrol – which could then deport them. Though the beacons have been up for several months, no one has yet used them. Since Oct. 1 of last year, the Border Patrol has discovered the bodies of 124 dead migrants in the mostly desert regions of its Yuma and Tucson sectors.

Ziglar also announced the use of pepperball launchers by Border Patrol agents. The weapons are supposed to disable violent migrants without hurting them, he said.

The next day, at an appearance in San Ysidro, Calif., Ziglar said that the INS would establish more commuter lanes to help people who make daily trips across the border. "If it's hard for people to move across the border fluidly, that is going to have a severe economic impact on the economy of this community," he said. He said that a system of rapid entry, with minimal inspection times, for Mexican trucks would be expanded around the country.

[Sabertooth]

Compassionate Conservatism
Meets Illegal Aliens

"We must do a better job of stopping those who seek to come into our country illegally.
I support strict border enforcement programs such as Operation Hold the Line,
which concentrate border patrol officers and resources at known border-crossing points.
I believe it is far more compassionate to turn away people at the border
than to attempt to find and arrest them once they are living in our country illegally. "
Source: "A Charge to Keep", p.237. Dec 9, 1999
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[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

Yea...while that may be a nice sounding quote from a speech written for him, the practice is 180 degrees away from that statement.

[Sabertooth]

Estimates of the number of aliens living illegally in this country vary from 7 million to 11 million. The INS estimates 7-8 million.

What do you think the odds are that the INS underestimates how badly they do their job?

Or to put it another way, if they stink at their day jobs, how good can the INS be at estimates?

[Sabertooth]

Yea...while that may be a nice sounding quote from a speech written for him, the practice is 180 degrees away from that statement.

You have evidence of deportations from the American Interior?

[sarcasm]

Is your cat extinct? It doesn't seem to be loading.

[brat]

"....but it's not practical or reasonable to think that you're going to be able to round them all up and send them home,"

Baloney! Add up the hidden costs in education, food stamps, welfare assistance, hospitalization and it would be much cheaper to hire AMERICANS to get the job done!

[agitator]

Ya gotta love that "Can Do!" government attitude!

[sarcasm]

We can't deport all of these future Republicans.

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

"You have evidence of deportations from the American Interior?"

No I sure don't - I read the second highlighted line too fast and missed the point. I guess I saw the word "compassionate" in the first line and assumed that I was being sold cloaked liberalism once again (which causes short term blindness due to blood pressure spike). My mistake.

[Sabertooth]

We can't deport all of these future Republicans.

What if we just scared them really bad?

Just tell them the media might be mean to them.

Works great with the current Republicans.

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

"We can't deport all of these future Republicans."

Yea, that's right - I forgot. Man, I'm gonna make a fortune distributing pinatas shaped like elephants to all these new Repubs. (note to self- stop putting business plan on FR!)

[Ronin]

If this jacka$$ thinks its unreasonable to enforce the law, I suggest he be removed from Government and given a job working for the ACLU!

WHAT IN THE NAME OF NED ARE WE PAYING THESE PEOPLE FOR???

[glc1173@aol.com]

For Washington's elites - including Jorge Bush, evidently - it's only "reasonable" to actually force people in the U.S. to obey the law if they are native-born Americans with tax liens or have endangered species found on their ranches!

No profiling of aliens from Moslem nations wanting to fly - just feel up every native-born grandma instead. No denial of visas to further visitors from the Moslem world - even as our "allies" there like the Saudis openly finance terrorists from those who did 9/11 in Manhattan to paying families of "martyrs" in Israel.

Send Jorge Bush a message - dump Jeb. Florida Freepers, help elect Jackboot Janet in a landslide.

IMMIGRATION resource library: public-health facts, court decisions, local INS numbers!

[kcvl]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO), chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, officially called today for the immediate dismissal of the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) Commissioner James Ziglar.

"In light of the complete inability of the INS to carry out its responsibilities to the American public, I believe it is appropriate for the INS commissioner to be removed," said Tancredo. "It would not only be a symbolic act, but a substantive one because it would be the first step in a much needed major overhaul of the INS."

[kcvl]

ZIGLAR: "I AM A LIBERTARIAN"

Speaking to students at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., INS Commissioner James Ziglar discussed his experiences after a half-year on the job.

Ziglar said that he opposed Congressional reorganization plans, and also opposed an effort by Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to create a comprehensive Border Security Agency that would comprise the INS, Customs, and other agencies. Ziglar also said he and President Bush support "regularization" [meaning a from of amnesty] and an extension of Section 245(i) (which allows illegal aliens to become legal residents after paying a $1,000 fee).

Regarding his personal opinions, Ziglar told the audience he was a libertarian, and struggled with the conflict between his beliefs and the INS mission.

(Ziglar's FAX number is 202-307-9911)

CONTACT THE PRESIDENT
TELL HIM TO FIRE INS COMMISSIONER ZIGLAR

PHONE: (202) 456-1414
FAX: (202) 456-2461

CALL CONGRESS TOO...
Call Congress: (877) 762-8762 -- (800) 648-3516

WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME

Glenn Spencer

[Lion Den Dan]

What a great opportunity. The rest of the government is contracting out its various functions. Why not contract out the roundup and deportation of illegals. Vehicle search and interdiction could be contracted as well. I think it would be a real growth industry.

[Brownie74]

Ya gotta love that "Can Do!" government attitude!

LOL!! I bet you can't walk into your bosses office and tell him that it's not reasonable for you to do your job. You would get fired in a heartbeat.

Why do you think Bush put an open border Libertarian in that position in the first place? Unfortunately Ziglar is untouchable.

[Robert Drobot]

Sabertooth; sarcasm; kcvl Do what Mexico does to criminals invading their southern border. Shoot them on sight. Or, if the media is watching, return them to the border - then shoot them.

Speaking of shooting, I don't see our marxist congress, our mextex president shooting their mouths off over mexicans with guns crossing our borders - taking shots at our Border Patrol personnel!!!!!!!

Why not??????????

I'm hearing radio spots attempting to recruit personnel for the Border Patrol. What American would give a rats as about enlisting as a moving target for anyone who crosses our border intending to shoot at Americans. By their actions mexican military have labeled themselves our enemy.

This whole scenario SUCKS; from the White House, to Congress, to the INS.

Anti-American, pro-NAFTA, pro-NWO bastards! One and all.

[Brownie74]

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