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A REAL Proposal to Mend our "Leaky Borders"
04/10/05 | vanity

Posted on 04/09/2005 5:30:56 AM PDT by genefromjersey

Some have proposed the addition of thousands of new Border Agents,and the deployment of Global Hawk surveillance drones to combat the increasingly burdensome tide of "undocumented residents" (illegal aliens) flowing across our borders-especially our border with Mexico.

I think it would be cheaper in the long run to construct adequate detention facilities near the border(s),so that those captured by the Border Patrol could be held for a few days (or weeks) until they could be "re-patriated".

I would also add more Hearing Officers,and have them set up shop right inside the detention facilities.

My home county did this (they called it "have gavel,will travel")and it was an enormous success: There was no need to assign deputies and vehicles to transport detainees to court (unless the detainee was actually going to trial).

Lawyers actually had greatly improved access to their clients. Case backlogs were cut to a fraction of what they had once been.Security,it goes without saying,was terrific !

The present system,in which the detainee is given an appearance ticket and released,seems much of the reason for the immigration problem: 85% of those so released never come back for their hearings !

Deal with the immigrant "forthwith": have him/her loaded on a bus for Mexico before the expectant can give birth,and before the border crosser can vanish into the American heartland !

It would cost a lot less than thousands of new Border Agents ,and /or fleets of Global Hawks,and would probably be a lot more effective.

This assumes,of course,we as a nation are willing to do something useful about the problem; that we actually consider it a problem.

I've heard it said-by people from the Left,the Right,and the Mainstream-Corporate America does not consider illegal aliens a problem:it considers them "bounty from Heaven" , and will fight tooth and nail to maintain access to low-cost,non-union labor...at taxpayer expense .

If this is true,and BOTH parties are dancing to this tune,we might just as well tear down the fences,send the Border Patrol home,and wait for the inevitable.


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To: InvisibleChurch

A classic and totally meaningless, stupid reaction. You have plenty of company.
It's the "Let Someone else solve the problem-Approach". Meanwhile the Problem has Changed.
Over Ten Million Illegals Are Already Here! You Idiots!
(Even that number,as high as it is, may be low.)
None of these "silly solutions" would solve anything. Period.
There are no prisons,detainment centers, busses,stockyards,toilet paper,staff, anything...sufficient to "handle" or solve the PROBLEM.
While you were waiting for the terrorists to explode a nuclear device, they took advantage of our "loopholes'" and flooded our country with zillions of poor aliens and now their operatives are using our legal system to defeat and confabulate our bewildered government officials at every turn as they try mightily to "sweep this problem under the rug".
CHECKMATE!
Finding a whipping boy? Won't help. Bush? Fox? Nah!
Still want to dig trenches? Erect barbed wire fences? Sign a Proclamation?
The war is over. We lost. And you. (Yes you Bug Eyes)you lost it for us.


41 posted on 04/09/2005 7:32:12 AM PDT by CBart95
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To: genefromjersey
Mexicans are immediately bussed back to Mexico 99% of the time. They do not contest deportation because this would mean they get fingerprinted and entered into a database. They go back and try again.

All others who cross our Mexican border are home free. They are detained a few hours or days then released and told they must come back for a hearing. They are also given legal permission to work while awaiting their hearing. Few show up for the hearing.

So if you come from some pit in Central America you are in like Flynn. Simply due to the logistics of sending you home by airplane. What are needed are much larger detention facilities and a much better organized system of flying illegal aliens home. Or possibly sending them home by ship.
42 posted on 04/09/2005 7:42:22 AM PDT by dennisw ("Sursum corda")
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To: CBart95

Start penalizing employers and half the illegals will self deport.


43 posted on 04/09/2005 7:43:37 AM PDT by dennisw ("Sursum corda")
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To: MizSterious

Don't forget the illegal Central Americans. They are the next largest group of illegal alien invaders after the Mexicans


44 posted on 04/09/2005 7:47:05 AM PDT by dennisw ("Sursum corda")
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To: worst-case scenario
Actually, Mark, Genefromjersey said his "home county", not "home country." Reading fast, eh? Or just typing fast? ;)

I'm a "Speed Freeper!" That means that you reply without actually reading the original post.

That way I make sure that the rest of you out there are paying attention!

BTW, my Mea Culpa is in post 29.

Mark

45 posted on 04/09/2005 7:51:08 AM PDT by MarkL (I've got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!!)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

They run across I-10 every morning in El Paso.


46 posted on 04/09/2005 7:58:15 AM PDT by csmusaret (Urban Sprawl is an oxymoron)
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To: MarkL

I saw that! I must be a secondary Speed Freeper - I hit "reply" before I read the whole thread! My bad.


47 posted on 04/09/2005 7:58:43 AM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: genefromjersey
You mistakenly believe the federal government has any desire of stemming the flood of illegals flowing into this country. A position that has been proved false on many occasions.

Until there is another act of super-terror that can be linked directly to the open borders, there will be no action. There will be none then unless the citizens react with sufficient outrage to frighten the federals into thinking their jobs aren't safe.

The Minutemen have come closer to securing the border (yes, a short section, but more than was being secured) than either political party has been, or will be willing to do until we force them. All the greatest plans in the world won't do a thing until we take our alleged leaders by the throat and shake some sense into them.

Power rests in sufficient numbers of outraged and motivated citizens standing up and saying "This Ends Now!" That's the only way to secure the borders. Until then, the No Borders traitors will continue to control the floodgates
48 posted on 04/09/2005 8:00:29 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (This tagline brought to you by Islam. Islam, only the best of the 12th century for you and yours.)
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To: csmusaret

"They run across I-10 every morning in El Paso."

Er... eh... Peace and love. FReegards....


49 posted on 04/09/2005 8:02:12 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: peyton randolph

Like this???

50 posted on 04/09/2005 8:02:37 AM PDT by Sarajevo
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

What about the prison tent camp the Sheriff in AZ put up a few years ago ... now, that did not seem to be a very pleasant place to hang out.


51 posted on 04/09/2005 8:04:08 AM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: dennisw

"They do not contest deportation because this would mean they get fingerprinted and entered into a database."

For crying out loud!!!!! We don't even fingerprint all of them? What a joke! DNA, fingerprints, photographs, and we could even have ankle bracelet-enforced detention jobs for them. For goodness sake.


52 posted on 04/09/2005 8:04:44 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: zeaal

Tents might work if you have ankle bracelets. But they don't provide much protection. God knows what the more thuggish types would do to the ones who came to work. They should be shackled for their own safety, I guess. But the left would complain about marks on the wrists. That's how wimpy America has gotten.

Sad FReegards....


53 posted on 04/09/2005 8:07:35 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: genefromjersey

Your idea won't work. It makes too much sense. So those in power will automatically reject it. It is a good idea, though, and I would love to see it done. When I was under forty I thought of the same thing. Ship them back posthaste and bill the Mexican government for the costs of catching them and returning them. We could take it out of the foreign aid each year.


54 posted on 04/09/2005 8:08:01 AM PDT by lifelongsoldier (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.)
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To: Bernard

I'm becoming cynical about the Mexican economy. Perhaps we should let it go it's own way, without any propping up. Then after the commies take over and get unpopular, we oust the commies. It would be painful. Many would die. But if they drag down the USA, who will be their sugar daddy then?


55 posted on 04/09/2005 8:10:04 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: Condor51

Like your ideas too, but we need to eliminate the "Club Fed" concept and confine them at hard labor. Much less appealing. Most of those jackasses would welcome a few years at "Club Fed".


56 posted on 04/09/2005 8:11:51 AM PDT by lifelongsoldier (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.)
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To: lifelongsoldier

"Ship them back posthaste and bill the Mexican government for the costs of catching them and returning them. We could take it out of the foreign aid each year."

Now there's an idea! And ship them to the southernmost point of Mexico, AFTER getting DNA, mug shots, and fingerprints-- which we normally don't do right now.


57 posted on 04/09/2005 8:12:56 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: peyton randolph
Create a DMZ like between the Koreas and fill it with mines. Put four heavily guarded entry points between the two countries: one in California, one in Arizona, and two in Texas (Brownsville and Laredo).

You sound like what my father proposed, ironically, he was stationed on the DMZ between the Koreas back around 1955/56 at Camp Casey. We were talking about this and for "craps and giggles," I suggested dumping nuclear waste there too, my father upstaged my joke and he added, "at least at night, they'll glow and you can see them." B-) We also liked the idea of a moat loaded with sharks, electric eels and of course alligators. We had a good time with that one. B-D

I actually like Glenn Beck's idea where you take a three sided fence, face the open side to Mexico but when they cross, they will not be able to enter the US or at least go any further since the three sides prevent them so, so the other thing they can do is go back south. I know if I tried to break into most countries illegally, I know and would be expect to be detained and flown/driven back unless the guards were nursing a bad case of acid reflux and I end up getting shot.
58 posted on 04/09/2005 8:14:37 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian - Any Questions?)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
For crying out loud!!!!! We don't even fingerprint all of them? What a joke! DNA, fingerprints, photographs, and we could even have ankle bracelet-enforced detention jobs for them. For goodness sake.

I spoke too soon. The BP *might* fingerprint them but they are not entered into the Justice system in the sense that if they contest immediate deportation (which is rare) and lose they can be sent to prison if nabbed a second time crossing over.

59 posted on 04/09/2005 8:16:09 AM PDT by dennisw ("Sursum corda")
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To: Ben Ficklin
***let me tell you what every third-grader knows. First, EOs apply only to the Executive Branch of the federal govt.***

Then you must have skipped 3rd grade as the following EO's for example are (or were) law and do not pertain exclusively to the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Executive Order 12566 (Safety belt use requirements for Federal employees).
Executive Order 12561 (Delegating certain functions of the President relating to Federal civilian employee and contractor travel expenses).
Lastly and this is an easy one, Executive Order 12564 (Drug-Free Federal Workplace)

As to the Treasury and 'impounded' funds.
For one, if the 'sanctuary zones' like NYC, Chicago and LA were declared illegal - which they are in fact to begin with but more importantly enforced by the Federal Government, withholding funds would not be illegal. Countless 'strings' are attached to federal funding to cities and programs. Issuance or withholding funding as a condition of compliance with Federal Law, regulation and or statute pertaining to said funding is a 'no brainer' (that is, unless one skipped 3rd grade).

BTW, you might want to read about an EO issued by RR that redefined 'Federalism' and how Clinton was going to 'slightly' revise it. That is until Congress found out the contents and went into an uproar. BJ's EO would have given him unheard powers as POTUS. For instance he could have declared Marshal Law at the snap of a finger. Thankfully do to Congress he never signed it.

60 posted on 04/09/2005 8:18:52 AM PDT by Condor51 (Leftists are moral and intellectual parasites - Standing Wolf)
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