[dragnet2]

You’ve got to love the McDonald’s Corporation.

What a bunch of sell out bastards they are.

Profits regardless of consequences.

[chaos_5]

ROFL, they have gone form “migrants” to absconders! hahaha

[Man50D]

This sudden push is a direct result of the people pressing their politicians to strictly enforce our existing immigration laws. This is only the tip of the ICEberg. We need to maintain that pressure on the Congress Critters until all illegals have been deported or felt enough pressure to leave voluntarily. Great work Freepers!!

[chaos_5]

But the raids have sparked protests in a frightened and frustrated immigrant community.

Cry me a friggin river, GO HOME!!

[Chani]

I think it’s the gov’t putting on a show for us...smoke and mirrors. They aren’t serious. But of course, any little bit can only be good, as far as I am concerned.

[Graybeard58]

“They’re not criminals. They want to work,” said one protestor.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The government is a joke. All they have to do is dispatch U.S. Army troops to the border NOW, then build a fence and crack down on illegals here under existing immigration laws. The rest of the illegals will take the hint and go the F home. And illegals in prisons serving less than 5 years should be kicked out as well and save some state tax dollars. It’s not rocket science, this problem can be easily resolved within a week.

[txdoda]

For the first time we're beginning to see a reduction in the fugitive alien backlog," Julie Myers, head of ICE, said at a Wednesday press conference in Los Angeles. "We're down now to approximately 595,000 illegal alien fugitives, down about 36,000 from the beginning of this fiscal year.

REDUCTION ??? IIRC in 2002 we were discussing some 350K of these absconders the gov't was going to rid us of......now we *down to only* 595K ???

(Julie's math isn't too good)

[org.whodat]

"And that's why there has been a tenfold increase or more in the number of absconders [fugitive aliens] that we've rounded up and sent back. And that's why there have been dramatic increases in our removals, [and] we've gone from one or two criminal cases five or six years ago to about 800 criminal cases this past year, because we are really pulling out all the stops," Chertoff continued.

Jerkoff is such a dirt bag, when you get to 800 a day you'll be doing something, jerk!. You may even start to earn your pay check, but then it will only take you a hundred years are so to round them all up.

Does the man have any clue how stupid he sounds.

[Travis McGee]

[rockinqsranch]

The question I had after reading the article is simply how come...Why the “Lip Service”?

There are, and have been existing laws regarding Illegal Aliens in this Nation since the beginning.

Chertoff’s department is in charge of enforcing the laws. I don’t believe for a moment that disregarding the enforcement of law is solely the responsibility of the head of the Department in our Government, especially as it has been disregarded since long before Chertoff.

This newfound zeal to enforce the Immigration laws is most certainly due the Power of the People, as we have spoken, but I believe it is simply smoke and mirrors until Government can find a means to circumvent our will.

[Lijahsbubbe]

we've gone from one or two criminal cases five or six years ago to about 800 criminal cases this past year,

Thanks to the increased number of illegals, you dweeb. Think that's something to brag about?

[yorkie]

My question has to do with the title (from MSM):

The first word. “New”.

What is new about it? No new laws have been passed. The invaders have been illegal for years. The laws have not been enforced - but now ‘they are’?

They can put a pig in a summer dress - but it is still a pig.

[MegK]

We all know there are more then 595,000 illegal aliens living in the United States. However, raids are a good thing to show corporations not to higher illegals.

Whoever said this does not look at the big picture; “They’re not criminals. They want to work,” said one protestor. “We want to do things right for them and for this country.”
They are criminals, they broke the law which is coming here illegally. How can they help the country? We have hard working Americans who will jsut lose their jobs because they will not work for as low wages. We hvae to learn spanish in order to survive, basically. They don;’t have o learn English. We are well on our way to becoming a third world country.

[oldenuff2no]

They are criminals. Each and every one of them is guilty of using, stealing, someone else's social security number. That is a form of identity theft!!!!
Why should anyone be allowed to get away with this crime???? Round them up and ship them home!!!!!

[Kevmo]

what do we see when the government gets serious about using all the legal tools available to make the law work and to enforce the law
***All the tools? Nonsense. It’s just enough to generate press coverage. Their hope is that the backlash is enough to change minds about the proposed immigration shamnesty.

[Joe Boucher]

“”They’re not criminals.”
Yes they are criminals, they are here Illegally.
Doing illegal things makes you a CRIMINAL.
If you start out in this country as a criminal it is a whole lot easier to ignore the other laws too.
ROUND THEM ALL UP AND SEND THEM BACK FROM WHERE ILLEGALS CAME FROM.

[RSmithOpt]

Still smoke and mirrors from the government. They have all the tools in place already to round up and deport illegals. The feds still refuse to do anything to finish the fence that was voted into law. Less than 5 miles of the 721 mile fence has been built in a year....so who’s ignoring their own laws again??