Caribbean crime wave linked to US deportations

Associated Press ^ | September 25, 2010 | Mike Melia

[fightinJAG]

And we still have a program for employers to legally bring in seasonal agricultural workers if they need them.

Picking lettuce is NO EXCUSE for not securing the border or supporting illegal immigration.

[Marty62]

AGREED!!!!

[Flag_This]

"The United States has deported thousands of convicted criminals to the Caribbean annually since 1996, when Congress mandated that every non-citizen sentenced to a year or more in prison be kicked out of the country upon release."

We wouldn't be returning their trash if they weren't already convicted criminals.

[Flag_This]

“I’m Barrack Obama and I approve this sombrero.”

[The Comedian]

This is terrible.

Everyone knows that now, Americans are the only approved crime victims for Earth-based criminals.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[ridesthemiles]

Why is this a ‘foreign bred criminal?

He came from Grenada.

He was BRED in Grenada. NOt in the USA.

[Levante]

“Too bad we no longer have a huge island somewhere on Earth to serve as a place for a penal colony for those who must be deported from the U.S., but whom are also very unwelcome in their home countries.”

Well, there’s always Antartica. Or Greenland.

[Levante]

“We wouldn’t be returning their trash if they weren’t already convicted criminals. “

Yup.

And yet, if the US executes them, they bitch and moan about that, too.

Eff these MoFos.

[Petruchio]

Too bad we no longer have a huge island somewhere on Earth to serve as a place for a penal colony for those who must be deported from the U.S., but whom are also very unwelcome in their home countries.

How about the Bikini Atoll?

[Pearls Before Swine]

The key to getting the appropriate action here is for both parties to own up to the reality that illegal immigration is a CRIME problem. Here, apparently, and when these people are deported, in their home countries.

It is one of the keys, I agree. Another is for people to understand that the melting pot analogy has its limits. We have a maximum absorption rate. Below that rate, you get the benefits of cultural enrichment and eventually "e. pluribus unum." Above it, you get Balkanization of the country, with separated groups antagonistic to each other and to the whole. Although it is un-PC, it is also obvious that the maximum absorption rate for some cultures is lower than for others. For old-style Islamics it might be near zero.

Hell, even following the melting pot analogy, if you stick too much of a foreign metal into the furnace, you often get precipitates rather than an alloy.

[fightinJAG]

Those are very nice places, I’d imagine.

I still vote for the floating penal colonies!

[fightinJAG]

Those are very nice places, I’d imagine.

I still vote for the floating penal colonies!

[Levante]

“I still vote for the floating penal colonies!”

Until they mysteriously “sink”, ...... :)

Regards from central Europe,
Levante

[fightinJAG]

Stuff happens!