Posted on 03/19/2005 10:28:12 AM PST by Willie Green
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To paraphrase George Orwell, "all illegals are illegal, but some are more illegal than others." As — well, Orwellian as that may sound, it's actually the way federal immigration authorities do business in Arizona.
People who enter the United States illegally from Mexico, whether on foot or in a vehicle, and get caught soon after they've crossed the border are loaded onto buses by immigration agents and driven back across. No staying in El Norte for them, even if they hadn't been involved in any other sort of misbehavior.
But illegals who have been so involved — and end up in the Maricopa County jails for their pains — need have few concerns about deportation. Unless U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement places a hold on the prisoner, based on factors including criminal history, severity of offense and previous deportation orders, a non-citizen inmate will simply get kicked loose when he either makes bail or serves out his sentence. No deportation, no bus ride to Nogales, no nuttin'.
And ICE holds are only applied to about 10 percent of non-citizen inmates in Maricopa County jails, the Tribune's Ray Stern reported Friday. The rest — more than 1,700, of whom an ICE spokesman estimated some 1,400 are illegals — just walk out onto the American streets where they were arrested.
The ICE cites resource shortages to explain this. With about 70 agents in its Phoenix office, it hasn't the manpower to depart all the illegal alien offenders and thus must concentrate its efforts on those with the nastiest records.
This only makes sense. But it surely makes no sense whatever to spend whatever ICE spends on those southward bus rides in the southern part of the state to expel illegals apprehended for nothing more than being here, while skimping on efforts to expel illegals apprehended for having committed offenses over and above their mere presence.
It is bad enough that Maricopa County residents must pay for these offenders' incarceration, the cost of which ought to be remunerated by the federal government. But it adds insult to injury for the feds to just turn them loose on us after their sentences are up, free to commit more (and possibly worse) crimes.
Money ought to be found to ensure these jailbirds are sent packing — all of them.
The problem with deporting CRIMINAL (those who have committed crimes-felonies) IS THAT THEY WILL JUST COME RIGHT BACK OVER THE BORDER AND COMMIT MORE FELONIES --- thanks to Washington's DO-NOTHING ABOUT THE INVASION OF OUR COUNTRY policy.
I can fit four of them in my Dodge Intrepid and I live 11 hours from Mexico. I'll pay for the gas if someone can tell me where to pick them up at.
I am sure we can get enough volunteers for the other 2,999,996 of them.
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Let them deport themselves. If they are not allowed to work, most of them will leave.
....or prey on those that do work.
These are known criminals we're talking about here. Most criminals I've heard of do not support themselves with normal jobs. Aunt Minnie in Phoenix is more likely to get robbed - or worse. THINK man!
These are known criminals we're talking about here. Most criminals I've heard of do not support themselves with normal jobs. Aunt Minnie in Phoenix is more likely to get robbed - or worse. THINK man!
Sorry - my computer hic-cupped.
Ny definition jail inmates do a year or less. I'd like to see all of the illegal ones deported as a matter of national policy.
BY definition
Have any of the rest of you noticed the lack of Open Borders advocates on these latest immigration posts?
We used to have some real lively exchanges. Most of the posters who want to give our country away for free and without a fight have gone underground, or so it would seem.
If we have won the discussion on the FR, that is a great start.
Now we need to win with the rest of the people and, of course, the politicians.
This week I saw a homeowner on my block mowing her own yard! Bless her heart!
All illega aliens can be and should be deported. Also, our borders should be secured by fences, high tech devices, more border patrol as well as make use of volunteers. Our military should be on the borders instead of dying in Iraq.
Well, it IS Saturday...
Perhaps their employers have cut back on overtime pay.
I agree with everything you said,get rid of them all---they broke the law and that's it!
I smoke. I live in a non-smoking state. There are even park benches where I can't smoke. If I light a cigarette on certain park benches in a city where I have paid property taxes for 44 years I will get a stiff fine and if I refuse to pay the fine I will get arrested.
The illegals have more rights than I do and it's no wonder that people are angry.
Illegal aliens have also been given special perks not available to citizens. In some states they are excempt form out-of-state fees at colleges, free medical care, etc.
Yeah,that in-state-tuition for illegals really irritates me.
I live in Massachusetts and if my kids had wanted to go to URI instead of UMass Amherst(they are about the same distance from home)they would have to pay out of state tuition rates but an ILLEGAL living in RI would get the lower tuition. It boggles the mind.
I hear the medical costs to the taxpayers in Southern California,Texas,and Arizona are off the wall because of the illegals.
George Bush has been a very big disappointment to me as far as the immigration issue goes. he got his votes and then just dropped the ball----no wonder so few people vote in the USA anymore---the politicians just don't care.
Hahahaha! That's still the Maricopa County residents paying and the rest of us too. If federal money is to be spent, send it to the border for REAL enforcement so the illegals don't get to the cities in the first place. What a joke.
FMCDH(BITS)
Saturday maybe, but I haven't seen them in weeks.
Could it be we have won?
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