Border busts coming and going

LA Times ^ | 5.7.08 | Richard Marcosi

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they're catching them on the way out.At random times near the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been setting up checkpoints, boarding buses destined for Mexico and pulling off people who don't have proper documentation.

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

Does this give Catch-22 (no pun intended) new meaning?

[steel_resolve]

I like this because the next time they step foot in the US it is a felony (i believe - strike 2)

[gubamyster]

ping

[elpinta]

“....designed to make life so difficult for immigrants in the U.S. illegally that they’re forced to leave...”

This moron thinks that THAT is wrong???

[DesScorp]

Good, this is progress.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

It’s a good idea. Fingerprint them, get their photos and even DNA if possible. Then any attempt at entering the US with new identities in the future will fail.

[Man50D]

The pressure is slowly but steadily mounting. Be afraid illegal aliens. Be very afraid.

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

Illegal immigration is hell:

Gotta sneak IN....gotta sneak OUT.

[Oatka]

He said apprehended immigrants who returned home to Mexico would become "ambassadors of enforcement" and might help deter illegal immigration.
"Each one of these people will then report increased enforcement to family and friends when they do get home, and that will give them second thoughts about sneaking back into the U.S.," he said.

Key sentences.