[pikachu]

Until some personnel managers and COOs/CEOs get jail time PLUS BIG PERSONAL FINES, nothing will change.

[Roccus]

That will never happen. Forget about tipping points, we're already over the edge.

[evets]

[IamConservative]

I would like to see a follow up on this news coverage. I would like to see how many of these illegals are back at work on Monday. I doubt they were driven much more than out of camera shot, had their name and address recorder and were then released.

I would really like to know. Then we would know if we're having our collective you know what's pulled or if the administration is serious. If they aren't being deported, it is YET ANOTHER waste of taxpayer money on this issue.

[RandallFlagg]

Rules.

[just a dude]

Here's some fine print:

Page 36 GAO-05-813 Immigration Enforcement:

⁵⁹These data on worksite enforcement criminal arrests for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 do not include data on the number of worksite enforcement administrative arrests for those fiscal years. Fiscal year 2004 and 2005 data cannot be compared with data for previous fiscal years because the way INS agents entered data on investigative work-years into the INS case management system differs from the way ICE agents enter such data into the ICE system. Following the creation of ICE in March 2003, the case management system used to enter and maintain information on immigration investigations changed. With the establishment of ICE, agents began using the legacy U.S. Customs Service’s case management system, called the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, for entering and maintaining information on investigations, including worksite enforcement operations. Prior to the creation of ICE, the former INS entered and maintained information on investigative activities in the Performance Analysis System, which captured information on immigration investigations differently than the Treasury Enforcement Communications System.

ref: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05813.pdf

[Rakkasan1]

High Court to Enter Illegal Worker Debate in RICO Case
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1145442295449

[trubluolyguy]

Michelle I love ya but I don't care WHY they are doing it, I simply love it happening at all. That being said, I expect to see the CEO's of Dell computers and Tyson's chicken to get frog marched out of their offices very soon. I would have tears of joy because finally, FINALLY someone is listening.

[Marine Inspector]

The investigation started almost a year ago and the raid took months to coordinate.

Damn those Agents are good. How did they know a year ago that these rallies would be happening?

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.
"Until some personnel managers and COOs/CEOs get jail time PLUS BIG PERSONAL FINES, nothing will change."

So, are you telling me that after Skilling and Lay go to prison the CEOs and CFOs will see the light and become honest businessmen?

Maybe. I think crooks will allways be crooks and we can only punish the ones we catch.

Michael Frazier

[daivid]

Michelle Malkin wrote this article before finding out that this was a catch-and-release bust.

The illegals were let go hours after the raid.

Malkin's common sense was right on the money