[txroadkill]

More than 118,000 "other than Mexicans" failed to appear for deportation proceedings since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to Border Patrol data. The vast majority were from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Brazil. But a handful came from 35 "special interest" countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Yemen.

Mr. Chertoff has vowed that all catch-and-release will end by October, largely through the rapid increase in detention space. In fiscal 2006, Homeland Security's appropriations bill provided for the construction of 1,920 new detention beds. By fiscal 2007, the White House wants an additional $400 million for 6,700 new beds to bring the total to 27,500 by the end of the year.

[txroadkill]

Eleanor Arce of Human Rights First, a New York-based immigrants rights organization, calls expedited removal "a flawed system with no meaningful safeguards to prevent deportation of an asylum seeker with a valid claim." "It essentially gives an immigration officer the power to issue a deportation order, not a judge," she said.

I don't really see the flaw in being able to kick them out of our country faster.

[Publius6961]

To critics, it's a prison by another name and an example of increasing erosion of civil rights for immigrants.

If by critic we mean the opinion of someone who can't tell the difference between an immigrant and a criminal.

My wild guess here is that not a single person involuntarily in that prison has made the required effort to comply with the U.S. laws that are required to allow him to call himself an immigrant.

[HiJinx]

Catch and Release Ping!

So, do we or don't we still have catch-and-release policies? Looks like the answer is that it depends upon where the OTM gets caught!

[Vigilanteman]

Javier Maldonado, a San Antonio civil rights attorney, said the new policy is subjecting "more people than ever" to detention "while the standards for legal relief have gotten stricter."

"For those who make a claim for asylum, the process just grows longer," he added.

Well, Javier, you don't suppose the lengthed process has anything to do with lawyers clogging the courts with bogus asylum claims, do you?

You go on to decry a one-size fits all policy. Yet Liberals are so fond of one-size fits all when it comes to public schools, medical care and a host of other big gubmint solutions.

If it were up to me, we would have a detention camp the full length of the Mexican border with a secure 15 foot high fence on the U.S. side and a 3 foot joke of a fence on the Mexican side.

[swampfox98]

we don't want people to believe they have free access to our borders.

If this statement weren't so sad it would be laughable. That is precisely what our government wants. Every nation on earth has free access to our borders because our treasonous politicians have decreed it. And our stupid citizens who put party before country tell us how good illegal immigration is.

One Mexican professor in Arlington, Texas has already declared that they intend to start with killing off the old white gringos - then go from there. The Mexicans are not here to work they are here to colonize our land. And still the stupid people are silent. Just as long as the Bush family wants it it's OK with them.