[Reaganwuzthebest]

The INS Criminal Investigators have successfully completed 32,417 cases and the Deportation Officers have removed 81,762 aliens from the United States.

Like I said on another thread, I don't blame you or those in the rank and file of the INS but rather your leadership (Ziggy), and especially Congress who won't appropriate enough money for manpower to deal with this huge problem. 2000 interior agents to enforce laws against 10 million illegals isn't going to do it. And the fact Congress is dragging their feet, even after 9/11 tells me they don't want to confront it.

The "newcomers" we're talking about in this story, in Colorado, home to Tom Tancredo who's been the most outspoken critic of immigration policy, I'd wager are predominately illegal. There's no way the population would be exploding so quickly if they weren't.

If the INS had more field agents and a mandate from Congress, they would be more effective I don't doubt that.

[FreedomFriend]

Yeah, just like Georgia. In 1990, there were very few Mexicans in Georgia. Hey, even in 1995, there were very few Mexicans in Georgia. Now, there are Mexicans all over the place. Furthermore, Spanish signs are popping up. Spanish billboards, etc. In Marietta, up until recently, you'd have daylaborers walking up and down Powder Springs Road looking for work. This created a traffic hazzard, and so the city of Marietta placed signs along the busy five lane road that state that it is against the law to pick people up on the road. Yet, even the non-day laborer illegal population walks along the road wearing footpaths in the grass. Maybe sidewalks are a needed thing, but I'm giving you an example of how bad the problem of illegal immigration has gotten.

There's no way that most of these Mexicans are legal, when we have been flooded in five short years, in GEORGIA? How close is Georgia to the Mexican border? About 1200 miles.

[Marine Inspector]

I understand. I'm just getting fed up with the overall generalization people have of the INS. The top 10% are killing the rest of us. I've been working my butt off, 50 hours a week, and when I read something that says the INS is not doing anything, I get kind of ticked off.