Someone should have gotten this info to Tony Snow before he talked to Bill Bennett. It contradicts all of Snow's claims with respect to enforcement under this administration.
So they're waiting to pass new laws before they enforce old laws? Spoken like a true politician (and the Sacramento Bee laps it up like a good MSM soldier).
THANK YOU JORGE BUSH!!! You are worse than Bill Clinton on illegal immigration. This is the proof. Bush has a policy of appointing idiots, hacks, and connected Republicans to the top immigrations/customs jobs. None of them buck White House policy
But to me, this is an inexplicable dereliction of duty. I would truly hope I am wrong, but the evidence keeps coming. I really want some explanations from this administration. Thus far, I haven't seen any. How can this be with this president?
I wonder how many people here on fr have lost their job to an illegal Mexican alien or even know someone that did. We need a show of hands.
You civilians don't get it do you? The time line for the decline in enforcement, coincides with the creation of the Department Of Homeland Security, the dismantling of the U.S Customs Service and creation Customs and Border and Protection(CBP)... but you still don't get it, right?This was done by both parties in congress to cover up the mistakes of the Immigration and Naturalization Service(INS), and to give the appearance of the clowns in congress as doing something in the wake of 9/11.
The actual results of this action weakened border enforcement, destroyed and demoralized the U.S. Customs Service, and wasted millions of your tax dollars.
Oppose the "One Face at the Border" initiative Email your Members of Congress asking them to oppose the "One Face at the Border" initiative
In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the creation of a new Customs and Border Protection Officer (CBPO) position and the “One Face at the Border” initiative. Under this plan, a new position, the CBPO, would combine the duties of legacy inspectors from Customs, the Immigration and Nationalization Service (INS) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) into a single front-line border security position. With 41,000 employees, CBP is in control of 317 official ports-of-entry for travelers and cargo.
Essentially, the “One Face at the Border” initiative was aimed at unifying the inspection process that travelers entering the United States have to go through. Instead of making three stops – an Immigration Inspector, a Customs Inspector and an Agriculture Inspector – travelers would meet with a single primary inspections officer who was specially trained to do the job of all three.
Consolidating these three organizations has caused logistical and institutional chaos and has taken attention away from critical homeland security priorities. It is true that all three of these organizations deal with front line border and port security, but they do so in very different capacities.
Please email your Members of Congress asking them to oppose the "One Face at the Border" initiative and support a detailed, independent review of the proposal.
"it's time to get serious. They say they'll do so, in an immigration reform bill that so far remains stalled"
Uh, you don't need the immigration bill to enforce laws on the books.
Conservatism today has become "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
Remember how we used to howl at Clinton's lies?
I am sick of bad fisherman. They always think a new boat, a new pole, or a new lure is going to make them more successful. I am sick of bad golfers who think a new set of clubs or switching brand of balls is going to make them more successful.
I am really sick of failed politicians who cannot successfully enforce the laws on the books, but tell us if they just passed a new law everything would be great.
This data here is indictment of all elected officeholders and shows it ain't about the laws or the programs, but a lack of moral will to do what must be done.
The present laws equip them to do the job, to point out where they are lacking in equipment would be rather vulgar, but that would make it no less true.
"It's no wonder that many employers view enforcement as a remote possibility, and any civil penalties as a cost of doing business,"
Pass a law raising the fine for employing illegals to $100,000 for each illegal employed. Give 75% of that fine to any law enforcement agency that catches that employer. Give 25% of that fine to any citizen that rats on any employer they know employing illegals.
Enforcement will no longer be a 'remote possibility'. And the near certainty that employing 9 illegals will cost them $900,000 will make saving a few bucks by paying lower wages not such a good deal.
If $100,000 doesn't produce the desired result then raise it to $1,000,000 each.
Not only would the illegals stop streaming across the border the 12 million here already will start heading south across the border because there will be no jobs available to them.