....We have expelled over 6 million illegal aliens since Bush took office - that is "nothing" to you? Even Hitler only got up to 13 million....
Oh for crying out loud we have a turnstile at the border, they are apprehended, sent south, then walk 100 yards east or west and enter again, get real. There are less apprehensions than before Bush and that is because more are staying for amnesty than before. How many are caught and released? How many show up for their "hearings"?
Your statistics are deceptive. You fool no one but yourself.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/border/125854
Senate Floor Speech
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
March 16, 2005
In Detroit, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani was indicted in the Eastern District of Michigan on one count of conspiracy to provide material support to Hezbollah. Kourani was already in custody for entering the country illegally through Mexico and was involved in fundraising activities on behalf of Hezbollah.The two groups of Arab males were discovered by patrol guards from Willcox, AZ. One field agent said:
These guys didn't speak Spanish, and they were speaking to each other in Arabic. It's ridiculous that we don't take this more seriously. We're told not to say a thing to the media.
This is a field agent for the Border Patrol.
* * * ...When I first came to Congress, we doubled our Border Patrol agents from 3,000 to 6,000. We were a country that was porous, both on the borders of Canada and Mexico. But, clearly, we have had more and more influx of illegal aliens that have become a burden in many parts of our country, and now we have a security threat from people who do not live on our borders but are using our borders as a conduit to come into our country. The examples that Senator Ensign and I have just mentioned, where we are finding Muslim prayer rugs and instructions in Arabic on how to cross the border of the Rio Grande River, are just wake-up calls that we cannot avoid. So we are, hopefully, going to have the support of Congress to add a full 2,000 Border Patrol agents.But as important as it is to catch these people, we also need to be able to detain them. Today, many times, because we have no detention facilities, we will say to the people: You must promise to come back in 60 days for your hearing on illegally entering this country.
Well, guess how many come back. Ten percent come back for their hearing. What happened to the other 90 percent? We are finding them in places such as Vermont, New York, and Detroit, MI. That is what happened to them.
I wouldn't say "deceptive" - you can hardly dispute that Robledo Sandoval in that article should count as TWO apprehensions - it would be TWO separate crimes. The real questions are did he make it the third time, was he caught yet again, or did he stop trying?