Posted on 10/13/2007 8:40:37 AM PDT by vietvet67
The federal government says it has steadily increased the number of illegal immigrants it removes from the country annually, but critics say the effort is still shackled by a critical lack of personnel and detention facilities.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently released its latest data on the number of illegal immigrants deported.
In fiscal year 2007, which ended Sept. 30, ICE deported 221,600 illegal immigrants, including 84,700 who were convicted of criminal offenses. In the previous fiscal year, 204,200 were deported, although a greater number — 89,500 — of immigrants with criminal convictions were deported.
Critics say those numbers are only a small percentage of the nation's undocumented population. They also say ICE still doesn't have the manpower or detention facility space to remove thousands of undocumented immigrants held in local jails.
''Even the most obvious candidates for deportation, people in jail whose sentences are coming to an end, we don't even get most of them thrown out of the country," said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization based in Washington, D.C., that favors limited immigration.
''The majority of criminal aliens finishing their jail time are still released into the community, rather than being deported."
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman did not dispute those claims.
The Department of Homeland Security estimated 302,500 illegal immigrants would be detained in state and local jails in the 2007 fiscal year, according to a report last year by the Office of the Inspector General.
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Got fence?
“...including 84,700 who were convicted of criminal offenses. “
Not enough, but it’s a start at getting crimaliens out of our countries
and neighborhoods.
Now need to get the fence up and working.
15 stinking miles...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fence25aug25,1,1555869.story
The problem is that the federal government cannot do it alone. It should have, and needs the help of these illegals themselves. Rather than rounding the bulk of them up (ie more money, more law enforcement), create conditions for self deportation. They came here, and they can make it back. The “fence”, if it ever happens, should be a one-way valve. Law enforcement should be for illegals that blatantly break the law. Self deportation for the majority of “law abiding” illegals, if you’ll excuse the contradiction in terms.
Deport them all you want, without a lock on the revolving door they’ll be back within two weeks. Right below this thread is one on an illegal who was busted by DEA who’d previously been deported. And then there’s that woman who laughed at officials a few years ago when arrested that she’d been back and forth over 400 times.
That’s great, allow 5,000 illegals to run the border a day and send 200 back each day and the federal govt and the stupids that work for it say they are doing their job?
Build the damn fence.
Round up ALL illegals and send them back from where they came.
Guess it is a waste of time pointing out this to the Always Whining cacus around here. 8.7 million illegals still here thanks to a Clinton appointed Judges.
Judge Suspends Key Bush Effort in Immigration
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909567/posts
Yes. Got a Judge who will let us build it?
Judge Delays Part of Ariz.-Mexico Fence
They aren’t stupid.
I know one good man who came across 3 times, deported each time, the last time, he asked the Border Patrol agents how best to come to work here. It was costing him and his family too much money running by the coyotes and he had a 2 yr old with MS for whom he was trying to provide a living for medical treatment.
They took him over to the recruiter’s office. He signed up for a Navy enlistment. Four years later passed the exams and is now a naval officer and naturalized citizen.
There are legitimate ways of becoming a US citizen.
They are incarcerated for breaking some other law, and their immigration status is purely incidental to their incarceration.
That's what makes this whole thing a travesty. The feds/WH have laughingly forfeited America's sovereignty/future to these savages and our children/grandchildren are going to have to clean up the mess.
Ejecting illegal immigrants is a noble goal, but it’s not enough. I think observant Freepers will agree that it’s time to start exiling the native-born stupid. There are entirely too many out there.
The answer is simple.
Stop listening to the judges, dissolve the current federal court system, all of it below the Supreme Court, via legislation and start anew.
We deserve what we get
The Alaska highway was full of unemployed going South who took them up on the deal.
I wonder what the cost is to deport an illegal.
Maybe the government instead of giving a $5,000 dollar Hillary savings bond to illegals babies just offer each illegal that much money when they check out of the US heading South.
Just the opinion of a red state wannabe.
Only works if the border is enforced and double-dipping carries a huge and almost inevitable penalty. Otherwise, you get $5000 each time you pass "Go". What a country!
Perhaps there is some sort of alternative available than all the fence. May I offer a suggestion.
How about building a large 3 sided prison compound up against the southern border?
We would not have to deport anyone. Just bring them to the gate and deposit. No court system to fight, no La Raza bitching about deportation, no illegals bitching about deportation.
A whole new pot of soup!!
It’s a start.
The Feds should stop handing out work and student visas. Many allow them to expire then hide in our society. We’re not the only source of employment in the world and we don’t have the only schools in the world. If other countries have issues with both, they need to work them out themselves.
The border would be enforced with a fence and new laws making it a felony for anyone to break into the country with mandatory prison sentences picking fruit on chain gangs.
Not only illegals. Use our present prison population to work the fields. We spend 50K a year to care for prisoners and get nothing in return. Make the growers happy and reduce their payrolls at the same time. How bad can it be getting shanked by a cucumber?
It’s a start, but not a great one.
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