Posted on 07/05/2002 4:25:39 AM PDT by Pythagoras
In a little-noticed statement, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Commissioner James Ziglar has said that most of the millions of illegal aliens living in this country do not have to worry about the U.S. government enforcing the law and deporting them.
"No one likes the idea that people came into the country illegally, but it’s not practical or reasonable to think that you’re going to be able to round them all up and send them home," Ziglar said at a May 23 press conference that he held with Javier Moctezuma Barragan, the Mexican undersecretary of population and migrant services, and Felipe de Jesus Preciado Coronado, commissioner of Mexico’s migration institute. The press conference was held at the Tucson (Ariz.) Border Patrol office.
Estimates of the number of aliens living illegally in this country vary from seven million to 11 million. The INS estimates seven to eight million.
An INS spokesman said that Ziglar merely repeated what other INS commissioners, including Clinton commissioner Doris Meissner, have said in recent years. "I haven’t heard any controversy over his remarks," he said. "Commissioner Ziglar was recognizing the long-standing reality. The priorities for our 1,950 internal enforcement agents are deporting criminal aliens, combating trafficking. . . . We don’t have the resources to pull those agents away from those priorities."
The Arizona Daily Star, the only newspaper to report Ziglar’s comments, paraphrased the INS director as saying that deportation of all illegal aliens would "have too severe an impact on the U.S. economy."
Spokesmen for congressional Republican leaders on immigration—House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.), House immigration subcommittee chairman George Gekas (R.-Pa.), and Senate immigration subcommittee ranking member Sam Brownback (R.-Kan.)—had no immediate reaction to Ziglar’s comments during Memorial Day week, which Congress took off. The spokesmen were not aware of Ziglar’s comment.
Barragán said at the press conference, "The mobility of people has been a reality throughout human history. Only by recognizing that reality, through agreements, through laws, can we avoid what is happening."
Ziglar said that he wanted to make policing the border more efficient in order to free up resources to focus on the most serious threats to the United States. "We need to set up a regime where we don’t have to spend so much of our time and effort in enforcement activities dealing with people who are not terrorists, who are not threats to our national security, who are economic refugees," he said.
Ziglar discussed the installation of six 30-foot beacons in the Yuma area that illegal migrants can see from up to five miles away. The beacons would allow the illegal immigrants to call for help from the Border Patrol—which could then deport them. Though the beacons have been up for several months, no one has yet used them. Since October 1 of last year, the Border Patrol has discovered the bodies of 124 dead migrants in the mostly desert regions of its Yuma and Tucson sectors.
Ziglar also announced the use of pepperball launchers by Border Patrol agents. The weapons are supposed to disable violent migrants without hurting them, he said.
The next day, at an appearance in San Ysidro, Calif., Ziglar said that the INS would establish more commuter lanes to help people who make daily trips across the border. "If it’s hard for people to move across the border fluidly, that is going to have a severe economic impact on the economy of this community," he said. He said that a system of rapid entry, with minimal inspection times, for Mexican trucks would be expanded around the country.
In a little-noticed statement, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Commissioner James Ziglar has said that most of the millions of illegal aliens living in this country do not have to worry about the U.S. government enforcing the law and deporting them.
I read the article and I didn't see either of these statements made. Here is what I read...
"No one likes the idea that people came into the country illegally, but it’s not practical or reasonable to think that you’re going to be able to round them all up and send them home,
The functional words in this quote are "round them all up". No where does it indicate the policy of the INS will change regarding the deportation of illegal aliens. Not one President, including Nixon, Reagan, Bush or Bush, has advocated "rounding them all up". There are plenty of instances and events to be uhappy with in this issue, but manufacturing bogeymen or attributing clearly false significance to apparently benign statements smacks of hysteria, desperation and a weak argument.
It's at moments such as these that, for my BP's sake, I must remind myself of what I told folks back before the election when they would ask what the difference would be between the 'D' and the 'R' presidential vote?
I replied that Princeling Albert would take us off the cliff at 140 mph...
...while Princeling George will only take us off at 80.
The trick is to just always remember to fix your stare out the side windows ... NEVER glance at what's approaching up ahead.
Now, doesn't the ride feel a bit better Comrade? ... except of course, when we hit these little reminder bumps.
I think you should make a speed correction. Possibly 120 mph
I guess we can shut down INS now and use the INS billion dollar budget to support the illegals.
Disband INS! All talk! No action!!
Ok.. This is the Onion, right?
Gee...let's do a little substitution, and see if we like the results?
"No one likes the idea that people came into the country illegally rob banks, but it’s not practical or reasonable to think that you’re going to be able to round them all up and send them home recover all the money,"...
"No one likes the idea that people came into the country illegally are rapists, but it’s not practical or reasonable to think that you’re going to be able to round them all up and send them home give relief to the victims,"...
"No one likes the idea that people came into the country illegally kill other people for the slightest thing, but it’s not practical or reasonable to think that you’re going to be able to round them all up and send them home and see that the families of the victims get justice,"...
So why have laws, or ANY Law Enforcement? After all, the police and COURTS tell us that the police have no responsiblity to actually respond to an emergency call, or stop crimes as they occur, right? And now we are told that enforcement is "not practical or reassonable"?!
I want a refund on my taxes then...if we are being taxed for Federal AND State law enforcement, and they REFUSE to actually DO the enforcement....that's fraud and a probable RICO violation!
[[11 Million illegals, it would take years just to find them and begin deportation proceedures.]]
Years to find them? What planet do you live on? They are everywhere. Go to any construction site and you can find 50 to deport at any given time. Walk around any mall. There are closer to 20 millions of these parasitic criminals spounging off of the US taxpayer (yes, I'll bet even you are a US taxpayer). Once the word got out that the roundup was on, you would see many of them scatter like cucurachas on their own.
China defends her borders.
Russia defends her borders.
George Bush Sends $15 billion to Africa while we run up an $8 trillion debt and gives $2000 debit cards to welfare groupies.
Some nations have proper priorities--some don't. Some national leaders believe in national sovereignty--George Bush does not.
Dear US Government officials,
The next time you're surprised with the sheer number of scofflaws in the US, you might think about this...
When people see the government ignoring it's own laws, they begin to hold most laws, and that government in general, in contempt.
The simple fact is that if you refuse to uphold the laws that you took an oath to uphold, you're a bunch of liars, and those laws aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
All I have to say is that I'm disgusted with the entire lot of them in DC. The word "contempt" doesn't even begin to cover the depth of feelings I have towards most elected and appointed government officials.
Mark
They don't make `em like Bill Jordan any more.
Mark
It's official alright...
The Bush Administration formally advocates the invasion of the United States of America and abdicates our sovereignty to Mexico.
The article is from 2002.
Just in case YOU missed the news ;-)
FOTFLOL! I see I must have missed it. I can't find a post of mine... or yours...lol.
L
See?? This important revelation slipped by BOTH of us.
Posted on 7-05-02 --- we were hungover?
Tired from 4th of July?
On vacation?
>>>"No one likes the idea that people came into the country illegally, but it’s not practical or reasonable to think that you’re going to be able to round them all up and send them home."<<<
Of course not. They should be rounded up, placed in secure camps, and rented out by the government to business and industry for 10-15$ per hour. After 10 years of paying off their debt to society, they will be deported to their home country. Each additional time they enter the U.S. illegally, they serve and additional 5 years (that is, 15 years for the 2nd offense, 20 years for the third, etc.). That will get the criminal businesses off the hook -- those who hire illegals to get by on the cheap -- and it will satisfy those who want our laws enforced and borders secured.
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