Posted on 06/05/2011 12:04:10 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Tough. That's the life you choose when you decide to be a criminal.
They’ll let illegales go on the buses, but they won’t let citizens take their dogs or cats.
Exactly!! If you are a criminal then you should be afraid of being detained.
How many criminals is he aiding and abetting. Throw his rear in jail.
Tough....
Tough on all the law abiding US citizens as well - the ICE checkpoints regularly generate traffic delays. In the event of an evacuation there is likely to be very heavy traffic. Common sense would seem to dictate that in such a case the need to get US citizens to safety would override the desire to round up illegal aliens.
Personally, I'd be pretty mad if I was stuck sitting in traffic in the process of trying to escape death from a hurricane because some government official was busy checking everyone's paperwork. There is plenty of time on other days to get to work and enforce the immigration laws.
I suspect that the ICE checkpoints are a bit like the checkpoints in airports - more theater than actual results.
Plenty of room at the S. Texas ICE facility.
Decline in detainee numbers results in layoffs at ICE facility in Raymondville
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2727962/posts
What kind of stupidity is this? By all means check citizenship status! If this is a deterrent to to illegals’ evacuating then let the floods sweep them away.
I agree with the Bishop of Brownsville. Saving lives and a quick getaway from the Hurricanes is the priority here.
Check them when they come back and have the bus’s ready to haul them back across the border.
I wonder if the bishop is more concerned with coming up with any reason to allow his bretheren the illegals to stay in the U.S. than being truly worried about saving lives. Many in the catholic hierarchy have considered themselves above immigration law in the past.
I take it you don’t remember a few years ago when it looked like Hurricane Rita was going to hit the Houston area. People were trapped on roads and Interstates for as much as 24 hours. People died in the traffic jams.
You do not want to do anything to slow the traffic going OUT.
You just check everyone as they filter back IN.
Gee, a liberal Roman Catholic Bishop.
Who’d have thunk it?
This is nothing more than a Jessy Jackson style hyperbole to weaken the current system.
Decline? There’s more coming over every day. There’s more anchors being dropped every day. Obviously, someone isn’t doing their job properly. But we knew that already.
To be clear, the checkpoints are not ICE, they are Border Patrol.
BP comes under CBP. ICE is different agency.
BP Agents are good at recognizing illegals, as are most all people not blinded by PC.
You do not want to do anything to slow the traffic going OUT.
You just check everyone as they filter back IN.
I agree. This sounds like a more sensible way of doing things.
I have an even better idea. Let them start evacuating back over the border now.
Isn't that kinda redundant?
Yes, I concur, one’s criminal status should always be dependent upon the weather.
“I am but a felon north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a crime from a crouton...”
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