Posted on 02/03/2004 9:05:32 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Hundreds of new immigration enforcement jobs, including 236 personnel to find aliens that have defied final deportation orders, would be created under President Bush's fiscal 2005 budget proposal.
The budget would add staff to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention and removals branch, which expels illegal aliens from the United States. The unit extradited 142,008 aliens in fiscal 2003, but faces a daunting backlog of immigration cases. Roughly 400,000 aliens have fled after receiving a final order of deportation from an immigration judge.
The staffing increases would be the first for the office in two years, according to Anthony Tangeman, director of detention and removals in ICE. "If we continue to prove our worth to the Congress and the Office of Management and Budget, hopefully our program will grow over the years," he said Tuesday.
The Bush budget would fund 30 new fugitive operations teams, which are dedicated solely to apprehending and deporting alien absconders. ICE currently has 18 such teams. It also would provide 269 new immigration enforcement agents for the institutional removal program, where criminal aliens in federal and state prisons are released into ICE custody. Because of staffing shortfalls, ICE now taps its criminal investigators to help staff this program.
The budget also would fund 60 positions to oversee ICE's intensive supervision appearance program, an attempt to encourage aliens to appear at their immigration court hearings. ICE will hire a private contractor to run this program, which is set to start in eight U.S. cities later this year. The new ICE positions will provide oversight for the contractor, according to Tangeman. The agency expects to award a contract for the program soon, he added.
Despite the backlog of absconder cases, Tangeman's strategic planning efforts won kudos from OMB, which labeled his office "moderately effective" in a review using its Program Assessment Rating Tool. The Bush administration has said that PART ratings help inform its spending decisions.
All told, ICE detention operations received a $108.2 million spending hike in the Bush budget.
The budget also provides $78 million in new funds for ICE's investigations branch, providing more staff for the compliance enforcement unit, a headquarters office that analyzes data from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System and the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System.
The budget also funds construction at 12 Border Patrol stations, many of which are located along the U.S. Canada border. The Border Patrol is part of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, another Homeland Security Department agency.
Nothing listed for the Mexican border.
No mention of additional Border Patrol agents or equipment.
Not a syllable about workplace enforcement.
Meanwhile, the Border Patrol's latest released figures for my area show that illegal alien traffic here in the Naco Corridor is up 114% over the same time last year. That's right, folks, one hundred fourteen percent. Details here.
And no, the Naco Border Patrol Station did not receive reinforcements in agents or equipment. Apprehensions are up because the traffic levels are skyrocketing.
Apparently those businesses ignoring laws, hiring illegals instead of citizens, to avoid paying taxes and minimum wage or benefits will continue to have the big advantage over their more honest competitors. The honest guy can lose his business --- all that seems important is the greedy and corrupt have a way to make their huge profits.
This deplorable situation is covered in excruciating and infuriating detail in Michelle Malkin's "Invasion." No one can read that book or her columns and conclude that this Administration was doing enough to secure our borders even before that damnable January 7 amnesty proposal.
IYO...everything costs the President the election!
Amnesty: Boycotting an election.
Appear before a US Court judge for determination of what the penalty should be, the same as every American CITIZEN must do.
Mr. President, why don't you show every American CITIZEN some compassion and announce that you will either charge the illegal aliens with the crime they have commited or evict them from America.
You have shown the world that there is no reason to respect American law if you are a citizen of a foreign country. Come to America illegally by sneaking across our borders and there shall be no punishment, only rewards.
Ask a Republican Senator to write a Bill removing all immigration laws from the US Code of Justice saying it was wrong and that they never should have been enacted nor enforced.
Sincerely, a man who hopes you will understand our frustration with your amnesty proposal.
Although T. cruzi is not difficult to find in both North American triatomine insects and their mammalian hosts (e.g., raccoons, opossums), the incidence of Chagas' disease in humans is extremely low, though in Central and South America, it is of genuine epidemiologic concern.[11] However, North Americans still need to be aware of the disease as infected immigrants enter the country and transmission has also occurred through blood transfusion.[11]
The president authorized 8,000 U.S. National Guard troops to work in airport security around the country, which is good. But that is not where the real war needs to be fought. These forces need to be deployed where the real invasion is occurring - our border with Mexico - not at airports.
This was FY2003's Homeland Security Budget.
Had the president been serious about stopping the migrant invasion, he would have allocated the necessary resources there to go after the employers who are fueling the invasion. It didn't happen.
Any accountable, valid, and effective immigration reform law to seal the border and stop the migrant invasion appears doomed.
To enforce border integrity is political suicide. To not enforce it is national suicide.
With weak and patronizing actions not sufficient to stop the migrant invasion at the border, Bush is playing Russian Roulette with all barrels loaded and the gun pointed straight at heart of America.
A Democrat in the White House would only expedite the invasion.
We have no power or governing body with the necessary authority or influence willing to oppose the current regime and apply the necessary force to defend our border and preserve our American way of life.
We have been sold out.
That sums it up nicely.
No. We haven't. This is just "compassionate conservatism" at its finest. Bush is great and his strategry is a winning one.
Don't believe me? Just try and post a contrary position on one of these threads.
Much better to think about baby kittens. Don't make me post pictures.
Wanna bet? Loser leaves FR forever. Put up or shut up
Wonder what gubmint will be around in 30 years to collect the money?
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