[Snickering Hound]

Well publicized raid yesterday was merely catch and release.

[martinidon]

What is so hard about charting a plane and taking the illegals directly to the airport. They can set the flight up to make several stops. This should be our policy; daily flights back to your homeland!

[concerned about politics]

"Just for them to come in here and to just throw them back to where they go. That's not right for them,"

Yes it is. Just try climbing over the White House fence and see what happens. Politicians have no tolerance for American citizens who trespass.
(Darn. I did it again. Non-citizens are trespass exempt. Crap. We get screwed again!)

[BMC1]

This is the way catch and release should work. Bring in buses load them up with illegals and drive them to the Mexican border and release them on the Mexican side.

[tumblindice]

So these feds with college degrees are wading in this swamp (that they refuse to drain, in a manner of speaking) not even swatting the skeeters but catching them like fire-flies, then releasing them.
Maybe if we told them the illegals were members of a religious cult, or were taxpayers, or had just been a to a gun show. Why then they'd be on them `like white on rice'.

[hershey]

Clearly the govt. thinks we'll see the headlines and think something's being done about porous borders. We're being played. Again.

[Jarhead1957]

S O S

Same Old, Same Old, different party.

I guess we are suppose to be impressed by the stern action of Homeland Security

Homeland Security, Is that a Oxymoron?

[tobyhill]

Illegal Immigration or Undocumented Worker is a legal term which means that if law enforcement is going to charge the individuals with a legal statute then the charged has a right to adjudication (trial by judge or jury) and being the charges are only a misdemeanor, law enforcement is limited in the amount of time they can hold an individual pending trial. Unless the President suspends habeas corpus, it's not up to the accused to prove who they are or aren't, it's up to law enforcement and prosecutors to prove who they are or aren't. This legal standard is going to be the hardest thing Congress will deal with because there is Constitutional bounds that will definitely make it's way to the Supreme Court.

[IamConservative]

Ah, so now not only do we exploit the illegals for economic gain while forcing them to live illegally below the social radar, we now use them for political props.

Seal the border and create a legal means to bring this labor in if we indeed need it.

I am not anti-immigration. I am all for immigrants coming to the US, contributing and paying taxes. I am however very strongly against the creation of an illegal second class of citizen that works for pennies on the dollar at the expense of willing American workers trying to raise families.

[hershey]

'Immigrants'. Sure, drop the illegal part. It's judgmental to call them 'illegal'.

[Centurion2000]

Many of those same immigrants were released just hours later

WTF? Why do we have a federal government again?

[SuziQ]

Well publicized raid yesterday was merely catch and release.

The article didn't say that the agents WANTED to release these folks; they were forced to do so. Not quite 'catch and release' in YOUR sense of the term.

[humblegunner]

"Just for them to come in here and to just throw them back to where they go. That's not right for them," said Gomez.

Gomez should be deported for butchery of the English language.

[sheana]

boiling mad......can't speak........BS!!!!!!!!!!

even though I knew it was a "dog and pony show" and expected it.

[wallcrawlr]

[Americanwolfsbrother]

Last night I said I'd watch this development with interest. I've now lost interest. I don't care to watch another dog and pony show. Looks like we are right back to square 1.AWB

[Marine Inspector]

The Mexicans that do not want to cooperate in the investigation against the corporation, are removed to Mexico. The non-Mexicans that do not want to cooperate in the investigation were paroled into the US until there deportation hearing, which they won't show up for; and the non-Mexican illegals that will cooperate and help the government go after the corporation will be promised a resident card.

[Proud Conservative2]

""They are not criminals. All they're here for is to work for their family," said Mariz Gomez. "

They ARE criminals and if the INS is aiding and abetting these illegals then fire them and bring charges against them too!

What's the point in having laws on the books if no one has the courage to enforce them?

This country has some fine young men and women sacrificing their lives for this country, yet we have some real gutless wonders working in our government. The enemy within....

[citizen]

But did they also release the owners/managers of these plants? This can still work out if they swiftly prosecute the crooked businesses horing the Illegals.

[Pessimist]

Anybody here really surprised?

[george wythe]

"I was surprised by the quick release,"

LOL! DHS Chertoff is really a tough guy... with American citizens