Hmm this is interesting. Well, I can see why the Border Patrol isn’t too concerned about these women— they are not trying to stay in the US, not using government services, are obviously not a threat and are not taking jobs away from anybody who belongs here. According to the article the local businesses don’t even mind them. So, I can understand why the Border Patrol doesn’t want to spend their resources chasing them around when there are dangerous people and illegal immigrants who are keeping them busy. The police ignore quiet panhandlers all the time because they have more serious things to attend to. It’s really just the same thing. I think the Border Patrol would pay more attention if they were stealing money or dealing drugs or kept trying to move here. I don’t think they’re necessarily falling down on the job here.
A 2nd illegal entry IS a felony. We are a nation of laws. Those laws are not left optional and for the Border Patrol to decide. If we pick and choose which felony will and which felony will not be prosecuted, as in the case of illegal immigration, then we give more legal rights to illegal alien felons than American citizens, who, when arrested/imprisoned for a felony, would have NO choice but to be separated from their own children. Time and again we hear excuses being made for them. They steal our jobs, steal our SSNs, steal our federal benefits, including education and medical care and we are expected to swallow the excuse that they just want a better life for their families...that they are just doing the jobs Americans won't do anyway. When we aren't being blamed for allowing it to happen all these years, we are accused of being racist xenophobes. If we don't draw the line at punishment for a felony, where do we draw it?
Not using government services? Isn’t the Border Patrol transit service a government service? And BTW, if the Border Patrol is going to run a transit service (and clearly this is a regular transit service like a city bus line and not a necessary but tangential part of the Border Patrol’s duties) are they allowed to discriminate on the basis of ethnicity? I thought Rosa Parks ended that.