No More “Catch and Release” For Illegals
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Good Decisions, The WorldThat’s what Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, is saying.
Thousands of “Mexicans who are caught entering the United States illegally are returned immediately to Mexico. But other parts of the system have nearly collapsed under the weight of numbers. The problem is especially severe for non-Mexicans apprehended at the southwest border,” Chertoff explained.“Today, a non-Mexican illegal immigrant caught trying to enter the United States across the southwest border has an 80 percent chance of being released immediately because we lack the holding facilities,” he added.
“Through a comprehensive approach, we are moving to end this ‘catch and release’ style of border enforcement by reengineering our detention and removal process.”
A more robust border security is needed. I’m glad Chertoff is finally doing something about it.
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October 19th, 2005 at 11:17 am
This is good news. However…
The way things have gone so far with this administration, I’ll believe
it when I see it.
October 19th, 2005 at 1:53 pm
All that and then some….
Chertof is really swimming against the current with this one. Employers will wear their Congresswhores out if their flow of illegal labor is interupted. Many people crossing the border, and intercepted, are not crossing for the first or the fifth time; they are just returning to jobs they already hold. This move is bound to tick off abunch of employers.
And simply returning people to their source countries will not do much when it involves Mexicans on the Southwest Border. They wait a day and come back. It might make a difference if they were sent to southern Mexico, but that isn’t the policy.
What he needs to push is some system of getting all this labor into the country legally and safely. That means a collapse of the alien smuggling market along the border, and he can expect some kind of Congressional resistance from the drug/alien smuggling cartels’ bitches in Washington. That means consulates to grant visas in tiny podunk towns in southern Mexico, and Mexican passports for all these indios, like they were real citizens. Then these workers will be in a position to bargain their labor freely. Everyone wins except people trying to use la Migra to take advantage of them.
October 19th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Agreed.
The illegal issue is a difficult one. True, they made the decision to come here illegally, but we do very little to stop them, and our economy would take a significant hit if they all left. Some say the positives and the negatives balance each other out, and I tend to agree, but what’s the solution? The only thing I can really think is create a massive border control program that covers the entire border with Mexico, and then after 5 years (or so) when the problem has been stemmed significantly, offer illegals living in this country amnesty.
The consulate idea is an intersting one too, but I think it ignores the larger problem of getting rid of the flow into the country.
Thoughts?