[bkwells]

Of the 8,908 notices to appear that the immigration court in nearby Harlingen issued last year to non-Mexicans, 8,767 failed to show up for their hearings, according to statistics compiled by the Justice Department's Executive Office of Immigration Review. That is a no-show rate of 98 percent.

Wow... This has to stop.

[bkwells]

Ping!

[lodwick]

Well done, Jorge.

Your masters are well-pleased.

[joesnuffy]

When you are easy...you get used

[joesnuffy]

Tell the Masons they should add a 55 gal drum of Vaseline
to their statue of the moon goddess Isis in NY harbor

imo

[ozarkgirl]

Once on the U.S. side, the Brazilians scrambled ashore and started looking for the Border Patrol.

Sounds like word has gotten around down there, "America wants and loves illegal immigrants". Hmmm, wonder who told them that?

[aimhigh]

It's time to stock to Rio Grand with piranha.

[Dad yer funny]

Desk Appearance Tickets here in NYC , commonly refered to as Disappearance Tickets

[gcruse]

And yet we compile and maintain no-fly lists for the terrorists too stupid to just walk across the southern border. It's a good thing we're the only superpower. I'd hate to think of a world with two nuclear adversaries this incapable of rational self defense.

[DumpsterDiver]

A Guatemalan arrested late last month in the McAllen sector who gave his name as Hugo said that when word gets back home, "Anyone who has a little money will be coming."

Others with the Border Patrol complained that they are being reduced to little more than gun-toting travel agents in uniforms.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

"Anytime you have temporary facilities, you have a degradation of services, you have anxieties," said Marc Moore, who administers 1,700 detention spaces.

Is Marc Moore speaking for himself or acting on orders? I think that given the fact we're literally being invaded we need to find out.

[adam_az]

Hey Howlin,

I have a good idea.

Why don't you get on this thread and tell a bunch of people who volunteered for GWB's campaign that we hate him, because we are angry about a serious threat to our country that he is ignoring?

I'm sure it will go over just smashingly.

Cheers.

[Travis McGee]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416415/posts

[Iscool]

A couple thousand tents and some wire, doesn't sound that expensive to me...

I wonder how many of the hundreds, if not thousands of Non Goverment advisors that the President has (that we pay for of course) spend any time at all representing American citizens...I don't really wonder...I know none of them do...

[lilylangtree]

Rather than give $1 billion taxpaying dollars to provide free health care for illegals, I would prefer to hire more INS guards to enforce our laws of the land. Deportation is the cry!

[hershey]

I'm so angry. Well, they don't have a clue about America, its values, mores, language, work ethic. As a result, a good many will end up in jail -- so we'll be supporting them forever, one way or another. I hope Bush and the globalist cabal are happy.

[bsaunders]

Let's see here. We have thousands of illegals that we have no holding space to keep them in. We also have numerous failed housing projects throughout the country that are currently closed and empty, many of which are walled communities. Seems they could be converted readily into holding facilities for these illegals thus giving us a considerably increased capacity. Perhaps somebody could look into this as a possible short term solution.

[SwinneySwitch]

Illegal Immigrants Ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

Degrading morale? You gotta be kidding. The "mean green" is the "nice machine"

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

I have emailed my representatives, Senators and the WH ad nausea. So instead of just bitxhing here, I wrote everyone of them a letter. I urge all of you to do so, even if you have done so in the past. Here is a WWW site that will get you all the data you need to write those clowns. http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

[heleny]

The group was detained overnight and given a court summons that allowed them to stay in the United States pending an immigration hearing.
...
...
The problem is that U.S. immigration authorities are short on detention space. ... they must arrange travel documents and flights directly to the immigrant's country of origin. The process, which the U.S. government pays for, takes weeks or even months.

Why can't the hearings be scheduled immediately (the following business day)? At least the detention time could be shortened by curtailing the time before the deportation hearings.

Also, why can't the process to furnish travel documents be expedited? I might understand needing weeks to transport people by ship, but why does it take so long to fly them home?

He got permission from the commissioner of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service to establish a temporary tent city with several thousand beds for detained immigrants. That measure, coupled with an increase in the number of agents at key border crossing points, shut off the flow, Reyes said.

We ought to reuse such good ideas.