[gubamyster]

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[AAABEST]

Alien Laws - We have rules. Why aren't we enforcing them?

Very easy answer to the rhetorical question.

Because politicians in all 3 branches of government - especially the executive - care care more about keeping their lame useless asses in office then they do about the country they serve, the laws they have sworn to uphold or the people that elected them.

[janetgreen]

Gosh, a Republican Senator who has common sense? I wish the President did.

[Map Kernow]

It's not that our immigration laws don't work---it's just that no one's seriously tried to enforce them for the past 10 years at least. Are we supposed to let our local police department withdraw all personnel from an area, have crime skyrocket as a consequence, and then tolerate arguments from them that the criminal law "doesn't work" and "has to be changed" in order to "recognize the reality of the role violent criminals play in our community"?

[longtermmemmory]

because immigration services are divided into three parts. One part just processes forms, then you have the immigration courts which process appeals and deportations, and lastly the federal district courts which hear appeals from the rejection from the imigration courts.

The beareacratic part is basically form pushers looking with very little scrutiny. (otherwise they would really scrutinize the marriages a bit more.)

[onedoug]

We have rules. Why aren't we enforcing them?

Hey! He's a Senator!

[spodefly]

This article is obviously correct, and reminds me of an Orwell quote:

“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” -- George Orwell

[Sabertooth]

If we are not enforcing current immigration laws, the question naturally arises: Why would we be any more likely to enforce new laws? Without a clear, firm intent to enforce existing laws, what would discourage more illegal immigrants from entering the country in hopes of yet another "guest worker" or amnesty bill in the future? Will we be sending the signal to others that, if they can get into the United States and lay low for a few years, they too could gain legal status (even citizenship) in the United States? These are the sorts of questions and concerns policymakers must be prepared to address at the beginning of debate on new immigration proposals.

Uh huh...

Voted in committee to rewarding illegal aliens with in-state tuition and amnesty in 2003

Sen. Kyl voted as part of the Judiciary Committee in favor of S. 1545, the so-called DREAM Act. S. 1545 would would grant in-state tuition and amnesty to illegal aliens under the age of 21 who have been physically present in the country for five years and are in 7th grade or above. Such a reward for illegal immigration serves as an incentive for more illegal immigration. S. 1545 passed the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 16-3.
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