Amnesty is their reward...
Posted on 03/07/2005 4:34:54 AM PST by ZeitgeistSurfer
LAS CHEPAS, Mexico -- An ancient blue school bus pulled up at Erlinda Juarez Martinez's house one recent afternoon, and 20 poor farmers wearing jeans and baseball caps hopped off. They had traveled for days to reach this village of crumbling adobe homes, separated from the United States by nothing but a few strands of barbed wire and a dirty desert breeze.
Every hour, mud-caked buses and pickup trucks dropped off other new loads of travelers, their backpacks filled with tortillas and toilet paper, their heads filled with dreams of America. For them, Las Chepas was a locker room of illegal immigration, a place to find food, water, traveling companions and a guide.
U.S. Border Patrol agent Jack T. Jeffreys, at rear, with a group of men who were stopped from entering the country illegally from Mexico. If the apprehended immigrants do not have a criminal record in the United States, they are driven back to the border and released into Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I thought the San Salvadore gangs were controlling the Mexican Border to the USofA.
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Enforce the laws against hiring illegals and raise the penalties. If 1 illegal worker cost an employer $25k and jail time when caught, they wouldn't hire them. If the illegals could not get jobs and benefits, they would quit coming.
Too simple of a solution for our legislators I guess.
Don't be fooled. They aren't THAT stupid. All branches of government know how to solve the problem. They have ZERO political wall to fix it, for to their minds it isn't a "problem" at all. Dirt-cheap wages paid to illegals curbs inflation, and that's all they're looking at.
I don't for one minute believe they are that stupid. They have all forgotten, or just don't care, why they were elected......to represent the American citizen.
Amnesty is their reward...
This idiot needs to lose his job:
"What we're doing is not working,' Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on immigration and border security, said in a telephone interview. 'I don't believe you can build a wall high enough or wide enough to keep out people who have no hope or opportunity where they live."
Reread the penultimate sentence. WE NEED A WALL all across the border. Israel's wall has worked quite well for them. WE DON'T KNOW if a wall will work or not since we haven't tried it!! This guy sounds like a lame, passive DEFEATIST, which is NOT what we need in Congress.
Too bad I'm not in charge of things; I would have every one of those criminals shot on sight as soon as they enter the country.
Bump!
Agreed.
Can we say that Bin Laden ISN'T in Texas?
No, we can't because we don't know who the h is here and who isn't.
Love the pres helping to secure the borders of Lebanon, while insurgents poor across ours.
Our politicos are bought and sold. They make me ill.
This thread deserves a bump.
Anyonw willing to go to WPost.com and read the story, please post any interesting paragraphs.
I refuse to register there or even use bigmenot.com
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