How do all the OTMs get into Mexico to begin with?
Thank you El Presidente Jorge!
My tagline says it all (with ongoing thanks to SteveMcKing for letting me snag it).
At least the USD should be our new North American Union currency, and not the Looney or Peso!
Surreal, so-called "Compassionate Conservativism".
And yet anyone in a position to know concedes that at least 2 out of 3 illegal crossers get through. That's not what I'd call effective.
"In the past six months, 57,312 non-Mexican migrants - commonly referred to as OTMs, for "other than Mexican" - were apprehended by Border Patrol agents in the United States, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Of those, 52,644 were caught along the southern border, said Salvador Zamora, spokesman for the department.
Compared to the six-month period from October 2004 to March 2005 - when 54,207 non-Mexican migrants were arrested, 49,828 of them along the southern border - apprehensions of non-Mexican migrants is up 5.7 percent, Zamora added."
What Global freaking War? ???
"Homeland Security Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's promise of ending the "catch and release" practice still hasn't come to fruition. The department contends that there is limited bed space and facilities to hold the non-Mexican migrants who are not able to return to their country of origin."
Chertoff = Arbusto's sock puppet.
Catch and release?
We have the same rules in PA on some fly-fishing streams.
"We are working to see if we can address this (issue of OTMs) through the courts," Chertoff said in March. "We're also working for prospective legislation that would address this issue and allow us to begin the process of expedited removal for all categories of non-Mexicans."
Considering what past POTUS' have gotten away with during war, this is an absolute non-starter, copout line of bovine scatology.
"Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center For Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based immigration think tank, said ignoring border security to focus on a guest-worker program may have damaging future consequences."
Unfortunately, the Chief Executive and his RINO cohorts in the Senate disagree. To all our peril.
"James, who resigned from the Border Patrol two months ago, said his job, like those of his colleagues, was little more than a sham. Enforcing the law was the last thing the Department of Homeland Security wanted, he said."
Our tax dollars at work.
The buck stops WHERE?
Old news.
I guess Homeland Security figures you can walk around the desert in the US all you want. They will guard NYC and Wash DC on site. :^)
I think this says it all.
Did you all see this?
BTTT for this find Norm!
Since October, 205 people from Middle Eastern nations, some with terrorist ties, have been apprehended, according to the data.
Have you seen this article?
FYI:
This is from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report For Congress entitled: Border Security: "Apprehensions of "Other Than Mexican" Aliens, September 22, 2005 (PDF file).
The number of OTM apprehensions remained relatively stable from 1998 to 2002, averaging almost 37,000 a year over the six-year time period. Apprehensions increased by 33% from FY2002 to FY2003, and 52% from FY2003 to FY2004. Roughly three-quarters of the way into FY2005, OTM apprehensions have increased by 58% from FY2004. Indeed, over the last three years OTM apprehensions have more than tripled, increasing by almost 220%. This trend is in stark contrast to apprehensions of Mexican aliens, which have remained relatively stable over the same period.
Country | FY2002 | FY2003 | FY2004 | thru 7/11/2005 | %Change FY02-FY05 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Honduras | 9316 | 14491 | 24420 | 36118 | 288% | |
Brazil | 3100 | 5240 | 8859 | 27396 | 784% | |
El Salvador | 7036 | 9602 | 16974 | 27317 | 288% | |
Guatemala | 6021 | 7728 | 11628 | 14866 | 147% | |
Nicaragua | 581 | 765 | 1460 | 2498 | 330% | |
Cuba | 1541 | 1303 | 1406 | 2144 | 39% | |
China | 688 | 576 | 1096 | 1653 | 140% | |
Ecuador | 664 | 521 | 679 | 989 | 49% | |
Dominican Republic | 1183 | 2057 | 2023 | 969 | -18% | |
Costa Rica | 233 | 382 | 450 | 700 | 200% | |
Canada | 1836 | 1611 | 1497 | 697 | -62% | |
Peru | 312 | 366 | 370 | 388 | 24% | |
Colombia | 347 | 368 | 335 | 308 | -11% | |
India | 345 | 316 | 378 | 235 | -32% | |
Jamaica | 287 | 269 | 215 | 162 | -44% | |
Bolivia | 48 | 59 | 140 | 161 | 235% | |
Albania | 167 | 115 | 117 | 155 | -7% | |
Argentina | 207 | 252 | 168 | 138 | -33% | |
Haiti | 295 | 324 | 165 | 131 | -56% | |
Poland | 228 | 205 | 231 | 122 | -46% | |
Romania | 42 | 58 | 85 | 103 | 145% | |
South Korea | 143 | 218 | 161 | 98 | -31% | |
Pakistan | 167 | 228 | 164 | 91 | -46% | |
Venezuela | 69 | 126 | 132 | 88 | 28% | |
Israel | 103 | 109 | 91 | 68 | -34% |