[forest]

"... restrict U.S. Border Patrol's arrest of illegal aliens ... failed to consider the 'sensitivities'... ." "Sensitivities" be damned. What are we, chopped liver here?

ICE only has 2,300 agents to find 80,000 criminal aliens. Which also means that no one is bothering to round up the other few million illegal immigrants permanently camped out here and sucking up our tax dollars in services.

According to authorities, over 1.2 million people attempt to cross US borders illegally each year. Some are from nations defined as state sponsors of potential terrorism and/or even nations that have produced large numbers of al-Qaeda militants.

[nathanbedford]

The greatest disappointment of the Bush administration.

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

ARIZONA BORDER PATROL APPREHENSIONS* 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004** Total Afghanistan 9 1 10 Albania 4 8 1 13 Algeria 1 1 2 Angola 2 2 Argentina 3 14 17 10 44 Armenia 1 1 2 Australia 1 1 2 Bangladesh 1 1 2 4 Belarus 1 1 Belize 1 2 2 1 6 Bolivia 1 8 14 5 12 40 Bosnia - Herzegovina 1 1 Botswana 1 1 Brazil 94 385 688 1,709 1,451 4,327 Bulgaria 37 46 6 8 97 Burma 1 1 Cambodia 1 1 Canada 4 1 2 2 2 11 Chile 7 8 3 7 7 32 China 77 48 13 31 142 311 Colombia 21 17 11 22 13 84 Costa Rica 55 84 41 100 134 414 Cuba 21 29 14 22 8 94 Czech Republic 3 3 Czechoslovakia 2 8 2 12 Dominican Republic 13 33 30 71 29 176 Ecuador 128 241 187 135 154 845 Egypt 2 16 6 1 25 El Salvador 802 1,088 1,134 1,188 1,389 5,601 Eritrea 1 2 3 Ethiopia 3 3 France 1 1 2 4 Georgia 1 3 4 Germany 1 2 3 Ghana 2 2 Guatemala 631 685 1,107 1,530 1,543 5,496 Guinea 2 2 Haiti 10 1 7 29 47 Honduras 392 394 471 818 862 2,937 Hungary 2 3 2 2 9 India 33 105 19 4 6 167 Indonesia 3 2 2 7 Iran 5 1 1 7 Iraq 1 1 1 3 Ireland 1 1 Israel 4 1 4 1 5 15 Italy 1 1 1 2 5 Jamaica 5 10 8 10 33 Japan 1 1 2 Jordan 1 1 2 Kenya 1 2 3 Korea, North 2 1 3 Korea, South 1 1 36 38 Kuwait 1 1 Laos 1 1 Latvia 1 1 Lebanon 1 3 2 6 Liberia 1 1 Lithuania 2 2 1 3 2 10 Malaysia 1 1 2 Mali 1 1 Mexico 716,412 516,362 371,503 396,374 438,519 2,439,170 Moldova 1 1 Morocco 1 3 4 Nepal 1 1 New Zealand 1 2 3 Nicaragua 16 18 21 44 59 158 Nigeria 1 1 Norway 1 1 Pakistan 1 8 2 11 Panama 1 3 4 Papua New Guinea 1 1 Peru 36 31 49 49 165 Philippines 4 5 3 2 1 15 Poland 113 144 85 112 75 529 Qatar 6 1 2 9 Romania 4 5 4 1 4 18 Russia 7 5 2 1 15 Saudi Arabia 6 6 Sierra Leon 1 1 Slovakia 2 7 5 1 2 17 Somalia 1 1 Spain 2 2 Sri Lanka 11 14 1 26 St. Kitts - Nevis 1 1 Sudan 1 1 Syria 2 2 Tanzania 1 1 The Gambia 1 1 2 Turkey 1 1 2 Ukraine 37 15 4 2 4 62 United Kingdom 1 2 1 1 1 6 Unknown 1 1 Uruguay 2 3 5 Venezuela 10 2 3 8 8 31 Vietnam 4 1 5 Yemen 2 3 1 6 Yugoslavia 2 3 3 1 9 Total 719,016 519,868 375,516 402,318 444,556 2,461,274 Total OTM's 2,604 3,506 4,013 5,944 6,037 22,104 * The above apprehension numbers are from the Tucson Secotr and the Arizona Offices of the Yuma Sector

[Old Professer]

Seper had the Clinton's nailed to the outhouse door; first at the Times and then again in The Nation, but the political squalls blew them free, landed Seper on the wrong side of Foggy Bottom and he's just now resurfacing to attack the current administration with smooth, flat river rocks that will skip harmlessly downstream?

What's next, a David Brock style epiphany?

[xJones]

Sensitivities" be damned What are we, chopped liver here?

Ain't that the truth?! We're taxpaying nobodies supporting illegals draining our social services while male illegals are supporting Mexico's economy as their #1 source of income.

[gitmogrunt]

...if there ever was a reason for payback.....

[Ajnin]

ICE only has 2,300 agents for interior-enforcement. As The Times reports, those agents are tasked to finding the "80,000 criminal aliens on the nation's streets and 320,000 foreign nationals known as 'absconders,' who fled after being ordered deported

Not all ICE agents are proficient in Spanish. Only legacy INS and Border Patrol investigators have the ability to detain and process illegal aliens. Legacy Customs does not. So there's probably less than a thousand ICE agents that have the experience and resources to pursue illegal aliens. Legacy Customs investigators need to be sent to school to learn Spanish. They have to be given access to ENFORCE and they have to be taught how to do the paperwork. Legacy INS and Border Patrol investigators should run anti-smuggling operations at least until Customs learns how to do it. Will this happen? I doubt it.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Damn..damn..damn.

[He Rides A White Horse]

ILLEGAL ALIEN PROBLEM WORSENS

Who is surprised by that?

[DoctorMichael]

....ICE only has 2,300 agents for interior-enforcement....

(1) Recall ALL Peace Corp Volunteers from overseas
(2) Conscript ALL AmeriCorps Volunteers
(3) Immediately give them all training in riflery
(4) Spread them out along the border facing South and tell them to shoot anything that moves

[TheLion]

Someone might think Clinton was still running the government, as to the border issue.

[gilham]

Do you want to know something outrageous? This is the best example of how our Government does not care at all about this serious problem. I have a sister in-law and niece who came up to visit from Uruguay on a tourist visa (3 months). They came up with the intention of staying, and working.
My sister in-law bought some documents for $200.00. The documents have all the information of a real legal person, but have my sister in-laws picture. Last spring she had to go to the hospital for an emergency, she racked up a bill of $3054.00. She works at the same hospital, (a State University hospital) under an assumed name, but gets free medical service under her real name. Her daughter has received free public assistance and goes free to a public school.
The clincher, I have given documented information to the FBI, Immigration criminal investigations, the State Attorney Generals office, the University Police Department, and the State Hospital employee relations office. Guess what? NOBODY CARES! Even with all the documentation to prove that she is here illegally, that she has committed a felony (identity theft), and she has defrauded the University Hospital of over $3000.00............WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON? IS OR GOVERNMENT STUPID OR DO THEY WANT ILLEGALS TO STAY HERE AND WORK ILLEGALLY WHILE THOUSANDS ARE TRYING TO COME HER LEGALLY.

FRUSTED...............................