Routine immigration violators prosecuted

Houston Chronicle ^ | September 19, 2005 | James Pinkerton, Rio Grande Valley Bureau

[one more state]

The judge, noting the teacher had a college degree and should be held to a higher standard, sentenced her to a year's probation, a $250 fine and 50 hours of community service in Galveston.

Maybe her school district has a policy of not employing felons. They should be able to dump her for inappropriate conduct.

[one more state]

"All we're doing is keeping a spinning door spinning. We're not making an impact," complained one federal prosecutor, who asked not to be identified.

Just another dog and pony show till they secure the borders.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It isn't cut and dried.

[ncountylee]

Put them in labor camps that are as self sufficient as possible building the wall.

[Happy2BMe]

Finger in the dike with a Katrina on the other side - ping.

Federal, local, and state prosecutors in border states are devastated by the sheer number of illegal aliens coming in from South America.

This is a major reason why so many illegals run free - there is nowhere to put them once arrested and the system to prosecute them is broken down from exhaustion.

The Feds are begging for amnesty just to get relief from enforcing laws they have neither the funding, manpower, nor facilities to enforce.

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"The problem is systemic," said Harlingen immigration attorney Jodi Goodwin."And until there is some kind of comprehensive immigration reform — a way for people to come and work temporarily or to reunite with their families — I don't think the stream of people will ever stop."

[dennisw]

Entering the USA illegally is only a misdemeanor. Unfortunately. But re-entering after being deported is a felony and I'd love to see this law widely enforced. Put them all in tent city prisons and feed them two baloney sandwiches a day until they get booted back to Mexico or put on a ship back to Central America.

Central America is just as filthy as Mexico. Has the same white Spanish racists on top of the food chain. They inundate us with illegal aliens

[wolfcreek]

Jailing them cost more than letting them live here on welfare.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's not something that has an easy solution.

[Happy2BMe]

Hundreds harm themselves in immigration camps
Borsa-Italia.Net, Italy - 1 hour ago
About 900 detainees held in Australia's controverisal immigration detention camps harmed themselves during the past three years, department of immigration ...

[Regulator]

Central America is just as filthy as Mexico. Has the same white Spanish racists on top of the food chain. They inundate us with illegal aliens

Yup. 500 years of misery and desperation at the hands of self-impressed trash - Spain's gift to the New World.

It would be funny to watch their countries implode, if it weren't for the fact that we have to bear the brunt of the side effects.

[dennisw]

I couldn't say it any better than you.

[ConsentofGoverned]

Thanks for the Ping. You are doing a great job on this issue..just seems to fall on deaf ears in the Bush Whitehouse and GOP in congress..this is a federal problem dumped on the states..I still withhold all donations to GOP until this issue is FULLY addressed and a plan is in place to secure the border.

[William Terrell]

Bush's fault.

[Leatherneck_MT]

They people they should be hauling into those court rooms are the people that Hire Illegals that encourage them to come here.

Prosecuting these people doesn't make good sense.

[Travis McGee]

It's all a joke, until we build an effective border fence system.

A fence system like this would cost less than what we spend on illegal aliens every month.

[RSmithOpt]

Simple concept. The US and the states need to pass a law. If you are caught in this country illegally for the 2 nd time, etc., you get a mandatory 1 year forced labor sentence. Building the southern border security wall, hauling, shoveling, spreading sand back onto the eroded beaches, picking up trash, landscaping public property, forest work, cleaning up hurricane debris, washing windows on public buildings, etc., etc., call it community service for shelter and food, otherwise the offender is placed into an open compound with water only, no shade, no shelter.

It seems cruel, but, 'it'll break the dog from sucking eggs."

[gubamyster]

ping

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!

[Labyrinthos]

It's not something that has an easy solution.

Yes it does:

First, change the the law that gives citizenship to any person born on U.S. soil.

Second, eliminate all State and Federal benefits to any and every person who is not in the county legally, with the exception of acute medical care in life or death situations only.

Third, do not release illegal from custody with an appearance ticket to appear in INS court a year down the road. Either they are sent back across the border immediately or they are sent to a prison camp with minimal facilities while they await an INS hearing.

Fourth, deduct $10,000 from our annual aid package to Mexico (or some other predetermined amount) for each illegal that comes across the Mexican border, and put the money into a special fund to offset the cost of prosecuting illegals and...

Fifth, ...building an Israeli style wall across our southern border from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.