Posted on 06/18/2006 6:14:00 AM PDT by nj26
On June 1, the three Ordaz-Valtierra brothers from Mexico illegally crossed the Rio Grande with the same dream that so many other Latin American immigrants have: head north from the border, get jobs and start sending money home.
Their journey, instead, ended in a federal courthouse here, where, dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, each was charged with the federal misdemeanor crime of entry without inspection. Each pleaded guilty and was sentenced by a U.S. magistrate judge to 15 days. Under guard of U.S. marshals, they were put in shackles and bused to a West Texas jail to serve their time and await deportation home.
"I'm sorry," Juan Carlos Ordaz-Valtierra, 27, said through an interpreter as he stood before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis G. Green. "I didn't think it was this difficult to cross into your country."
It wasn't. But this year, a 190-mile stretch of riverbank that includes the small border cities of Eagle Pass and Del Rio became a "zero-tolerance zone." If apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol, illegal immigrants are prosecuted by federal authorities for a misdemeanor, sent to jail for 15 to 180 days and then deported. If they are caught illegally entering the country a second time, they are eligible for a felony charge of illegal entry and as much as two years in federal prison.
"Catch and release" -- in which Mexican citizens are returned promptly to Mexico, but citizens of other countries are given a notice to appear in immigration court at a later date, set free and never tracked down by authorities -- would end here. "Catch and remove" would start.
....This federal experiment, called Operation Streamline II, has shown what it takes to stop the flow of illegal immigrants: aggressive enforcement of the laws on the books.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Mexicans will not buy used things (except vehicles) due to the risk of getting cheated. They almost always buy new and they learn (as much as possible) to fix things themselves. Welcome to the new paradigm.
It is not only Del Rio and Eagle Pass that are playing hardball. Along the Big Bend of the Rio Grande illegls are hauled into Alpine, tried, fined, do time, and then for an additional punishment are driven by bus to Del Rio where they re-cross the border -- often hundreds of miles from where they started. Consequently, illegal crossing is very low in the region of the Big Bend national park. For those who visit that lovely park there is now an almost daily problem, smog from Mexico blanketing the region.
Go talk to emergency room folks just for starters.
The crap that's been written about immigrants has been written forever. And has been crap forever. And, oh yes, this country was a) built on immigrants
And most all of those immigrants came to assimilate not to convert the US to the "old country."
and b) most screwed up when immigration was effectively closed.
When was that?
My cousin lives in Mexico and he says the very same things about the Mexican's culture. They are all out to screw each other. They don't trust each other. Corruption and dishonesty is part of the Mexican culture. Nice neighbors.
Well we have been reading everyone's pet opinions passionately defended for weeks. It is nice to see that the scientific method and rational problem solving are alive and well testing a hypothesis with a pilot program before committing billions on the basis of who shouts the loudest.
Well, hello. Just sign up today, we see. Welcome to Free Republic.
Welcome to FR, lover of ILLEGAL activity.
An estimated 240,000 + illegal alien sex offenders in the country with more coming every day.
http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html
I guess it's alright when it's somebody elses wife, daughter, sister etc.
Also, what's always omitted from the 'immigrants' built America canard, is that ...
Go back to the DU.
Grew up going to the big bend... LaJitas was new and we would cross there and go into Mexico for dinner. Nice part of the country...
C
"I'm sorry," Juan Carlos Ordaz-Valtierra, 27, said through an interpreter as he stood before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis G. Green. "I didn't think it was this difficult to cross into your country."
So sorry for your inconvenience.
ping
EXPERIMENT?
Kudos to this Magistrate, Court, and BP--for all "doing there job" and enforcing The Law.
However, what is there to "Experiment" about? JUST DO IT and KEEP DOING IT!!
Or, said the skeptical me, is this meant to lull us into believing something is being done and this "experiment" WILL END ON NOVMEBER 3RD?
this federal experiment, called Operation Streamline II, has shown what it takes to stop the flow of illegal immigrants: aggressive enforcement of the laws on the books.
That is what I was going to say...experiment? Finally someone is just enforcing the laws. Do it across the whole border and I will believe them. And quit calling it a dam experiment!
Which results in almost NO economy. As a result, many come up here for opportunity. However, they bring their values (lack of) with them and we're going to end up exactly like Mexico.
The "experiment" is one in zero tolerance against border crossing, and an end to catch and release.
The results? IT WORKS.
"hey are, said Randy Clark, the agent in charge of field operations in the Eagle Pass Border Patrol office, "the most dynamic results I've seen in my 19 years in the Border Patrol."
As of June 5, apprehensions of illegal immigrants in Eagle Pass, where Operation Streamline II began Dec. 6, were down 51 percent, and they were down 32 percent in Del Rio, compared with the same period a year ago. Apprehensions of drug smugglers increased substantially between Dec. 6 and June 5, because agents were no longer tied up processing illegal immigrants, Clark said. Since the program began, the value of narcotics seizures has increased 309 percent to $13 million in Eagle Pass and by 176 percent to almost $40 million in Del Rio, he said."
Who'd a thunk.
ping
We can provide the "will" to the pols this november by decimating the rats and rino's that support the illegal invasion.
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