[Ajnin]

It is low. As a person tasked with actually hunting these people on the border, I have to laugh whenever I see that only four get away for every one that is caught. That is pure bullsh*t. We keep track of the number of people that get away along the border. I have seen tangible evidence that the number of aliens getting away is far higher than 4 to 1. When we catch 100 aliens in a specific area, yet there are a thousand unaccounted footprints in the sand we can surmise that a thousand people got away.

[Allegra]

When we catch 100 aliens in a specific area, yet there are a thousand unaccounted footprints in the sand we can surmise that a thousand people got away.

Believe me, I know it's the beauracracy that is causing the ineffectiveness of the INS to apprehend illegals. I respect you guys in the field and empathize with your frustration due to weak support from the hierarchy. It needs fixin' and it needs fixin' bad.

[boris]

"It is low. As a person tasked with actually hunting these people on the border"

My suggestion--which might get pulled--is this:

Every time the INS rounds up an illegal, he or she receives a tattoo on their rump. Seal of the INS or something.

"Amigo, we catch you here again with this tattoo, we line you up and shoot you."

Naturally this has to be serious--and followed through. Perhaps it needs legislation. Maybe even a Constitutional Amendment.

(But the Constitution is badly broken anyway; the Fourteenth Amendment needs to be repealed anyhow. We need to base citizenship on blood, not location. If either parent is a citizen, so is the child. If neither is a citizen, neither is the child.)

Please feel free to pass this idea (tattoos) up the line. I am completely serious.

--Boris