[Razz Barry]

"Sue Brown, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said her agency will work with Myrick and other authorities to look into the situation."

The government's always looking into the situation but nothing gets done.

"She said the agency had no record of Gallegos since immigration authorities arrested him in 1998. No details of that arrest were immediately available."

I'm sure he was given a summons to appear in court and just forgot the date, like the rest of them do.

"When we find out that somebody is breaking the immigration law, we don't turn our heads," Brown said.

No, you turn your backs.

[Happy2BMe]

"The government's always looking into the situation but nothing gets done."

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There is a reason for that - a very good one (at least on the part of the government).

[Mind-numbed Robot]

"When we find out that somebody is breaking the immigration law, we don't turn our heads," Brown said.

No, they set a hearing date sometime in the next year or two and release them. They never see them again.

The problem seems to be either a turf battle or a faulty system. If there is no visa question, or even if there is, if there is nothing to debate about overstaying a visa, there is no need for a hearing. The hearing judges are so backed up they can't handle the cases and most of the time the scheduled cases just end in a warrant because the perp didn't show.

90% of those cases need no hearing so the INS could easily just become a transporting agency taking those folks back across the border. The locals catch the illegals, they can't prove they are legal or they admit they aren't, then take them to a collection point, put them in vans or buses, and ship them out. Easy, clean, doable.

[ghitma]

But heaven forbid if you don't have your car inspected every year!