Thread: Worthless DHS to end 'catch and release' of illegal aliens

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DHS to end 'catch and release' of illegal aliens in October

By Chris Strohm
cstrohm@govexec.com
The Homeland Security Department plans to stop releasing illegal immigrants into the United States by October, a senior official said Friday.

Greg Giddens, program manager for the department's Secure Border Initiative, told Government Executive he has been asked to end the "catch and release" practice by then.

A lack of detention bed space has forced the department to release non-Mexican illegal immigrants into the country if they do not have felony convictions and do not pose a threat to national security. Although these illegal immigrants are given a notice to appear in court for deportation proceedings, most never show up for their hearing.

DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff told the Senate Judiciary Committee last fall that the department is committed to ending the practice.

"Our goal at DHS is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant -- no exceptions," Chertoff said.

Giddens, who previously worked for the Coast Guard's Deepwater program to modernize equipment, said one of his primary goals this year is to develop the overall strategy to end catch and release, which includes decreasing the length of time illegal immigrants are held and increasing the bed space and working out the logistics needed to detain them.

DHS announced this week that it has expanded its expedited removal program to all border regions, which allows immigration enforcement agents to more quickly deport illegal aliens.

The department recently asked private sector companies for help securing the borders. DHS plans to issue a solicitation for that component of the border initiative in late March or early April, and to select a prime contractor by the end of September. The Customs and Border Protection bureau is managing that effort.

"We need a broad and comprehensive approach that addresses all components of border security, including staffing, infrastructure and, of course, technology," said CBP acting commissioner Deborah Spero. "There is no task, no project, no engagement more critical to our national security than this."

Department officials have indicated that the Secure Border Initiative will be a priority in the fiscal 2007 budget, which will be released on Monday.

The fiscal 2006 Homeland Security appropriations bill included $940 million to hire 1,000 more Border Patrol agents and an additional 250 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators, and to pay for 1,920 new beds at detention facilities and eight fugitive operations teams.

I guess that's why they released a bunch of illegals just last Thursday in Houston. How many illegals will there be running loose in the U.S. by October?

DISGRACE: ICE Princess Orders Release of Illegal Aliens


Uh-Oh! ICE Princess Julie L. Myers--barely two weeks on the job--has already subverted her own agents and added to the illegal alien problem.

ICE agents rounded up 72 illegal aliens in League City, Texas--near Galveston. (This report says 62. It's actually 72.) But they were ordered, by ICE headquarters--reportedly, ICE Princess Julie Myers, herself--to release all of them. All were undocumented illegal alien workers, but since ICE was only looking for those with criminal records, they were let go into the great American abyss, perhaps never to be found again.

So what was it that the Recess (Appointment) Princess was telling the Senate about how she will FIX the problems at ICE? Don't hold your breath, despite her PR trip and pics of herself in the internal newsletter, "ICE Update" (in which she pretends to be stepping up efforts to stop illegals). If you held your breath for her buddy/boss Mr. Burns' (DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff) multiple statements of ending the policy of "catch-and-release" for illegal aliens, you'd now be dead.

That's what you get when the cast of "Clueless" is "running" Homeland Security

The Homeland Security Department plans to stop releasing illegal immigrants into the United States by October, a senior official said Friday.

OCTOBER? What is wrong with NOW?

"Our goal at DHS is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant -- no exceptions," Chertoff said.

Aaaaah, October...right....by then they'll have the Guest Worker Program so they can stop the "catch" part thus ending the "release" part which is why the sneaky lawyer said "return every single illegal entrant" but failed to say return them to "where".

Aaaaah, return them to the streets of America.

This man really underestimates our intelligence. But I'll bet the Swine in Congress are already puttin' it on their 2006 campaign flyers to show the Sheeple they did something about illegal immigration!

But even the Serta Sheep could figure out the hole in this mattress!



Seriously....

These globalist clowns know that open borders are part of the FTAA. They plan on giving amenisty so we can be the Land of the America's instead of the United States of America.

Isn't this an old story? I thought it was being ended at the end of 2005. Maybe it's just beginning to end on some sectors of the border, while others are still doing it.

No it is from Feb 03, 2006. It makes me wonder why it would take from now till Oct. Wouldn’t they just need to send out a memo?

MEMO:
NOTICE TO BORDER PATROL
IF YOU CATCH AN ILLEGAL, SEND THEM HOME.

It seems simple enough. If they want to focus on the criminal illegal aliens, then good, because they are all criminals. Unless the law has changed to allow anyone to enter the US without a visa which I am certain it has not!