Thread: Only 275 deported although recent raids nabbed 1187 illegals

The rest were given notices to appear at immigration proceedings. Like they are going to show up for their deportation hearings. I knew these raids were all for show, I bet most of these illegals are back at work already.

From NYPOST.COM Website:

A 'CRACKDOWN' THAT WASN'T
DUBYA'S IMMIGRATION ARRESTS
By JOHN O'SULLIVAN

April 25, 2006 -- IT happened last Wednesday, and it was nicely timed.
One week later - about now, in fact - the U.S. Senate was scheduled to reconvene to discuss an immigration bill. The bill proposes to amnesty most of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and to admit millions more legally as guest-workers. The controversial measure is strongly promoted by the White House and both party leaderships in the Senate - but opposed by most Republican congressmen and a large majority of voters.

Something was needed to break the log-jam of opposition.

And last Wednesday federal agents "swooped" on plants in 26 states belonging to IFCO, a U.S. subsidiary of a Dutch firm supplying wood pallets and plastic containers to industry, and arrested 1,187 illegal immigrant workers. Seven former and current IFCO managers were also charged with employing illegal aliens. The next day, Homeland Security czar Michael Chertoff held a press conference to stress that such tough enforcement of immigration law, internally as well as at the border, would now be the rule.

Having established its willingness to crack down on illegality, the administration's political machine crossed its fingers and hoped that this display would now help passage of the "Not an Amnesty" law.

All this was not only timely; it was powerfully symbolic. What it symbolized, however, was not the tough enforcement of immigration law but its colander-like leaky ineffectiveness.

For even before Chertoff had spoken (but not before blogger Michelle Malkin had predicted it), four-fifths of the illegals arrested had been . . . released.

Two hundred and seventy-five of them were deported. The rest were sent away in return for a promise to return for a court hearing. Many, probably most, will disappear. And since the government's computers were "down," their brush with immigration enforcement may not even be officially recorded. They are home dry - well, dry anyway.

I recently suggested - wrongly - that there had been little or no enforcement of employer sanctions since the passage of the 1986 amnesty law; that, once an illegal reached a major city such as Los Angeles, Phoenix or Chicago, he was safe from official interest and could work unmolested. That was not quite accurate. The Clinton administration in fact managed some (albeit patchy) "internal" enforcement of employer sanctions. For instance, the period 1995-1997 saw 10,000 to 18,000 worksite arrests of illegals a year. Some 1,000 employers were served notices of fines for employing them.

Under the Bush administration, however, worksite arrests fell to 159 in 2004 - with the princely total of three notices of intent to fine served on employers. Thus, worksite arrests under President Bush have fallen from Clintonian levels by something like 97 per cent - even though 9/11 occurred in the meantime.

In this dramatic relaxation of internal enforcement is the explanation of the rapidly rising estimate of immigrants living and working illegally in the United States - up by more than a million in just the last year. For if people know that they are likely to be safe from enforcement once they escape the border area and reach L.A. or Chicago, then they'll keep trying even if they were caught and returned to their country of origin any number of times.

Porous borders are not only the cause of uncontrolled immigration; they are its result. You cannot control the borders, however many patrols you hire or fences you build, if you grant an effective pardon to anyone who gets a hundred miles inland. It's as simple as that.

Some supporters of the "Not an Amnesty" bill cite this history as a reason for the Congress to allow all or almost all of the estimated 12 million illegals to remain in the country. President Bush himself, having helped to make the problem much worse, said yesterday that we simply could not deport millions of people, since the U.S. has no stomach for workplace raids and mass deportations.

That argument sits oddly alongside two facts. First, his own administration officials just rounded up 1,187 illegals precisely because it thought the move would be popular, and thus likely to smooth the path of an unpopular amnesty law. Second, the U.S. now deports (or insists on the "voluntary departure" of) about 1.2 million people a year.

Most of these are people apprehended and returned at the border. But about 100,000 illegal immigrants are removed from the nation's interior every year. And most Americans support this law enforcement rather than regarding it as a policy of "Gestapo" tactics.

If the law were enforced more uniformly - rather than with the current 159 worksite raids and three employer fines - then the number of people deported would rise substantially even if (as last week) only one-fifth of those detained were eventually sent back over the border. It would send a message to those considering illegal entry that they could no longer depend on legal immunity and secure employment once inside America. Those illegals already here, finding their opportunities drying up, would have an incentive to return home legally even if only to increase their chances of legal immigration later.

These changes would occur gradually, allowing businesses to adapt to the tighter labor market. And the border would, seemingly by magic, become less porous as interior law enforcement reduced the incentive to cross it.

This is called "the attrition strategy" by Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies. It is far more practical than the either an amnesty or a guest-worker program. And it requires neither legislation nor official game-playing to implement it.

By contrast, every time the unpopular Bush-Senate "compromise" bill meets an obstacle, Karl Rove will have to pick up a telephone and utter the famous line from "Casablanca": Round up the usual suspects.

Gee, what a shock

Here's another question that begs to be answered. If Jorge Bush's claim that we can't possibly deport 11-12 million illegals were true, then how was his administration able to arrest over 1100 illegals? If they were able to keep that pace for a good solid year or two and actually deport who they arrest, wouldn't they at the very least make a huge dent in that 11-12 million number? Lets say you arrested and deported 2,000 illegals a day for 30 days a month for a whole year. You could rid the country of over 720,000 illegals for the year. Wouldn't that be a great? That's 720,000 less moochers, job thieves and criminals we wouldn't have to worry about and provide for. Lets see besides the 720,000 that would be arrested and deported that the familes of the deportees would have to go back home with them. Lets say on average 4 per family. 720,000 plus average 4 family members per deportee. That would be 2.88 million illegals either deported or self deported for the year. I would take that anyday of the year. That's 2.88 million less moochers, job thieves and criminals we wouldn't have to worry about and provide for.

Tell me the rest of the illegals wouldn't self deport if we did this knowing how serious we are to enforcing our immigration laws. Hell just the mere rumors of worksite raids being conducted has them scared and fearful, just imagine if we actually got serious and did what I suggested. We don't have to deport all 11-12 million at once (I know it's actually more than that) like Bush would have you believe is the only other option to amnesty (only because he's a OBL moron). Lets just start off by deporting a couple thousand a day and start a policy of attrition. We have the resources to do this, it's not that hard and we know where they are. If the government can find a terrorist hiding in some cave in Pakistan with a heat sensing satellite, then we can find where millions of illegals are and hell I bet tons of our finest citizens would be more than willing to help in that cause.

We have to find out who the rotten employers that blatantly hire illegal workers are and send them off to jail and cease all of their assets. We don't have to nail every single one. We just have to nail a few of them and the rest will jettison their illegal workers and avoid them like the plague out of fear of punishment.

Lack of enforcement is why we have this huge problem today. We have lack of enforcement because we have a bunch of lying criminals in our government. What government would just simply release criminals back out onto the streets and give them a notice to appear in court and trust the integrity of the lawbreaker knowing full well he won't show up (would you if you were in their shoes?). Gee I could just show up and get deported or I could hide and continue to thumb my nose at our laws knowing that nobody is going to be looking for me. Gee that's a tough choice there I tell ya.

Jorge Bush and his cronies know that enforcement will work, but they are too addicted to cheap labor and the advancement of their NWO agenda to enrich their corporate fat cat masters who want to enslave us.