Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff said Tuesday following an evening tour of the Mexico-U.S. border that solutions to illegal immigration problems won't come easily.
Oh really? Well, here's a good start!
Posted on 11/02/2005 8:35:04 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
EL PASO, Texas -- Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff said Tuesday following an evening tour of the Mexico-U.S. border that solutions to illegal immigration problems won't come easily.
"It's not going to be solved in a day, or a week, or a month," Chertoff said at an El Paso park overlooking the city and neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. "It's been building for a long time."
Following his first nighttime tour of the border in El Paso, the Homeland Security secretary said a host of solutions, including temporary work programs, should and will be looked at in trying to solve a problem that he said has gotten out of control.
"We are not in control and are not where we need to be," Chertoff said.
He also said changes need to be made in a so-called "catch and release" program that has allowed thousands of illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico to be released after agreeing to appear in immigration court.
The secretary said he has already implemented an expedited removal program and hoped that a new "catch and remove" plan would better serve as a deterrent to illegal immigrants.
A pilot program earlier this year that focused on quickly deporting Brazilian immigrants, Chertoff said, already has made an impact. He said he also would not limit changes to traditional ideas and programs already in place.
"We're open to any creative approach to this problem," Chertoff said.
Chertoff made his tour just a day after volunteers with the Minuteman project finished a month-long border watch. They had pledged to do the job that federal agents weren't doing. Chertoff said he had no idea the group had been at the border but reiterated that the job of protecting the border should be left to trained law enforcement.
The secretary is scheduled to visit Houston on Wednesday before heading to a meeting with a class of Border Patrol recruits in Artesia, N.M., later in the day.
Chertoff didn't know people were at the NOLA Convention Center, and didn't know about the whole Minuteman Project? Buh-bye, Chertoff, YOU'RE FIRED.
It won't be solved at all if these flap jaws sit around and yak about it all day.
Hey Mike, shut up and get to work on the fence.
"Chertoff says porous border problem won't be solved quickly"
Well sure... it's a long border and it's gonna take awhile to build the wall and we have a lot of our helicopters tied up in Iraq....
Here's a way to get it to happen immediately: Declare a total tax holiday - the feds may not collect taxes of any type during this period - until the border is secured.
36 hours or less and the border will be airtight.
Chertoff says porous border problem won't be solved quickly
A politician tell the truth, with double speak.
Interpretation---
We aren't solving no border situation.
Here is a creative idea. Put troops on the border. The majority of the hemorrhaging could be stopped in 30 days.
The only reason that this problem will take a long time to reverse is because the powers that be have no desire to reverse it.
you are correct
the only thing that motivates some of these clowns
is money.
National Security be damned if there's some money on
the other side.
He had no idea about the Minutemen? What planet has he been living on for the past few months?
Oh, man! He's really on the ball.
... but reiterated that the job of protecting the border should be left to trained law enforcement.
Then the moron says:
"We are not in control and are not where we need to be," Chertoff said. "It's been building for a long time."
... the Homeland Security secretary said a host of solutions, including temporary work programs, should and will be looked at in trying to solve a problem that he said has gotten out of control.
I don't like Chertoff. With that said, tomorrow Duncan Hunter and Virgil Goode will be holding a press conference to announce their immigration reform bill. Have to wait and see how that pans out. (There's no bill number yet.)
Unfortunately, Bush seems just as clueless. His aides brag that he "doesn't watch TV," which is why he had NO IDEA what was going on in New Orleans until it was too late. Jees. I voted for him twice, but for God's sake, let's get someone who's a little more plugged in in 08. You know what's coming with the media's love fest with that bee-yatch Hillary.
Temporary work program. Uh huh. Translation- we'll solve the problem of illegal aliens by saying "ok, you're legal now!"
I like the way you think.
My personal preference is the invisible electric fence. It saves on bullets
Easy for me to see he hasn't been paying any attention to border issues, even a little attention on his part and he would have known about the recent Minuteman project.
More lip service to the border problems.
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