Posted on 08/04/2006 9:28:04 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
BUMP
Area law-enforcement officials say they have no plans to change the way they handle illegal aliens despite a move by the Bush administration to implement the immediate catch-and-removal of non-Mexican illegals nationwide...
... Local officials said they are "aware" that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff last week said immigration agents along the Southwest border essentially have eliminated the catch and subsequent release of non-Mexicans who sneak across the border. The intent was to have them return later for deportation proceedings. Mr. Chertoff attributed the policy change to a $1.9 billion boost in funding for extra detention beds, the deployment of National Guard troops and a quicker turnaround time for securing travel documents, which has enabled immigration agents to more readily detain, then swiftly deport, illegal aliens from Latin American countries. Catch-and-release has not applied to Mexicans, who are returned to their country immediately. Michael Keegan, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said the new approach does not yet apply to the D.C. area., but that the goal is to end catch-and-release nationally. ...
Yeah, right!
"They are here in the country, illegally, but where do you take them, the jail? Immigration won't pick them up. They will just sit there forever," Veina said. "
Let 'em.
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