Mass deportations coming for jailed illegal immigrants

Houston Chronicle ^ | April 10, 2008 | JAMES PINKERTON

[GOP Poet]

estimated 300,000 to 450,000 illegal immigrants locked up each year in jails and prisons.

This number actually looks really low. My guess is it is probably closer to a million, but as anything with illegals in this country even in numbers estimates there is a complete sense of denial and low percentages compared to reality.

Whatever the number they can't deport these illegals quick enough for me. My only concern is how long will it take them to just cross back in. For many . . . maybe just hours. But it is the country's effort and message that counts here more then anything.

When will we change laws regarding the anchor babies and the citizenship? That has been the largest travesty to our country.

[Dark Wing]

FYI

[fr_freak]

I think we're missing out on a huge economic opportunity here. Rather than bothering with all of this border security, what we should do is set up several entrance points along the border, and advertise that anyone who wants to come into the US can come through one of these entrance points with no ID check, no questions asked, except for a fee of, say, $300 per person (or whatever the amount that coyotes normally charge). The people coming through simply have to make a verbal statement that they are not entering illegally. Then, we step up enforcement of immigration laws within the country, where all law enforcement are authorized to check immigration status of anyone arrested or ticketed, and sweeps are still done of employers and day labor sites. We deport anyone we catch, as soon as possible.

It would be a financial boon. We keep deporting them back home by the truckloads, and they keep paying $300 per person to get back in. If there are only 20 million illegals here, we could be deporting them all once a year and getting our $300 per person back. That's $6 billion a year.

The illegals wouldn't have to make the dangerous trek through the desert, or worry about being kidnapped by coyote slavers, and we would get money. Everybody wins.

[Cedric]

Well. we beat back W when he tried to sell us amnesty, and we trust McCain a lot less than we did W, so I think the red flags will come out much quicker the next time around.

And, having prevailed once, we are more likely to win again.

[Liz]

They’re your problem, not mine-—and you can put that in your taco and smoke it.

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[kellynla]

Excellent news.
Thanks for posting it, “mdittmar!”

Of course, unless & until the Feds secure BOTH borders, many of these criminals will be back like a bad check!

[kellynla]

Thanks for the ping, “Hijinx!”

Excellent news!

[HiJinx]

We seem to be seeing good news on several fronts.

Then, there’s people like VillaRaigosa.

[Redbob]

"''We can do something few law enforcement agencies can do: Not only ensure criminals are off the streets, but ensure they are removed from the country," said ICE spokesman Tim Counts."

Texas does that - a few dozen per year, down in Huntsville...

[GOPJ]

Curtis Collier, president of the U.S. Border Watch in Houston, said illegal immigrants should only be deported after completing their sentences.

Why ask us to pay room and board for these lowlifes?

And for years?

Send 'em home.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"I hope this is not coming too late."

It is never too late to hope for the recovery of this nation to some semblance of 'normal'. I only wish that I were not so doubtful of the government's enthusiasm for actually doing what they say they will do, and how effective the deportations will be if the border remains the sieve that allows illegals to arrive any time they please. As it stands now, an illegal that is apprehended for a violation of the law is likely to have been deported multiple times already.

Let us keep our fingers crossed that this is a glimpse of good things to come.

[apocalypto]

Lets deport them all.

[TheLion]

Unless we stop them from coming across again, this may be a stupid move. It will make many more American victims of their future crimes.

Congress critters should be smart enough to figure this all out and to see the logic of never allowing them in the country in the first place....oh I forgot, they are beholden to interests that aren’t in our best interest.