Posted on 08/10/2004 4:49:19 PM PDT by Spackidagoosh
U.S. to Give Border Patrol New Powers to Deport Illegal Aliens By
Filed at 3:37 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday it will speed up deportations of certain illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico to improve U.S. border security.
"This announcement today ... is a border security effort," Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson told reporters. "Those who choose to break our nation's immigration laws will be promptly removed from the United States."
In the past 16 months, U.S. officials along the Southwest border caught 42,000 illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico. In the past, these would have been sent to an immigration court where cases take an average of one year to be processed. Now, these immigrants will be immediately returned to their home nation.
Mexicans are already sent back immediately, and the faster deportations already have been in use at seaports, airports and land immigration checkpoints in the United States since 1997. Hutchinson said the change would expand their use to those apprehended along the U.S. border.
Hutchinson said the change seeks to increase security at land borders. He said terrorists may try to enter the country along the vast land borders as security has been stepped up at other points of entry.
In a second change, Hutchinson said Mexicans with a special border crossing card will be allowed to make temporary visits along the Southwest border for up 30 days, up from the current limit of three days.
"It's designed for tourism, business and travel," he said of the increased time limits. "We want to send a clear message that those individuals who follow legal immigration procedures will benefit."
About 425,000 Mexicans who have the border crossing cards could benefit from the time extension, Hutchinson said.
Watch out illegal Swedish grandmothers!
well ding dong! Malkin is making a difference.
Why not make it 3 years? It's not like they have any capacity to track those people once they cross the border anyway.
Yeah...hey all you out-of-control Ozzie BBQ lovers, here we come! We mean business!
Sure hope they do this but I don't believe them. It's a logistics problem that the Border Patrol is too discombobulated to solve. The would need to charter numerous flights to send these invaders back home to Central America, Brazil and Latin America.
Deporting to Mexico is much easier. You just put them on a BP bus back to Mexico.
or people who overstay their visa time limits for that matter....
The AQ North American country is CANADA....!
What's up?
U.S. to Give Border Patrol New Powers to Deport Illegal Aliens
Good first step.
Now, bring the National Guard home to protect Americans on American Soil.
"Those who choose to break our nation's immigration laws will be promptly removed from the United States."
Unless you're Mexcian, evidently.
Mexican, that is.
Too little too late, they are already here in the millions and pro-creating millions more to congest highways, land and govt. resources.
Immigration has started a cancer that is spreading and will destroy America as we know it.
"illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico"
Notice the OTHER THAN ??
I do believe we (as in the US govt) does have a deal with Vincente on the southern border.
Add the article "The US must help build the Mexican Middle Class" and several other minor items but they all add up ....
Mexico WILL be the first partner in the new North American Alliance which will be the forerunner of the American Alliance (North, South, & Central America) which is the pre-stage along with the E.U. which will probably include Russia, and the Eastern Alliance India, China, etc.
Australia, NZ ? They will probably be absorbed into the Eastern Alliance by then.
The Muslims? They are the wild card in the game of "World Domination" as James Bond would say. They have no intention of sharing anything. They may be the ones that run the EU soon.
Interesting that we may end up with a religious TRI-LATERAL world? Christian (Americas) --- Muslim (E.U.) --- Buddist etc (Eastern)
How was that for a quick conspiracy theory that takes everything in at once?
Did I forget any?
I'll reserve judgement on this and wait to see if the number of Illegals here in the Carolina's drops dramatically.
Somehow I doubt it will tho.
This is only one step .... we need to seal the borders then find EVERY illegal alien and get them out of here!!!!!
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