Thread: ICE TO REMOVE ONLY ILLEGALS THREATENING US SECUIRTY

New ICE policy may be a harbinger of comprehensive immigration reform

Cavin.org
by Christopher A. Guzman



According to new guidelines from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), director John Morton says his agency will use limited resources from Congress to focus on removing only those illegal aliens threatening U.S. national security and posing a public safety hazard.

The finding comes from a lengthy story by The Washington Times, which reported Morton as saying that ICE only has enough resources to remove 400,000 aliens a year. In all likelihood, this concentrated policy is a harbinger of a bill seeking to establish comprehensive immigration reform.

Certainly, the agency’s modified goals are consistent with what Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a leading proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, wants to see in a prospective bill. "Go after those who are a threat, but leave our families alone until this Congress, and very importantly, this president, fulfills his commitment to comprehensive immigration reform, so that we don't have these problems anymore," Gutierrez said when the comprehensive immigration reform movement first started.

As the Obama administration recently won the first round of nullifying the most controversial provisions of the Arizona law, the executive branch agency’s move is certainly a step in the direction of cracking down on crime that is spilling forth onto U.S. soil. The shifted immigration strategy comes even as detainments of illegal immigrants are up under President Obama, and as Homeland Security Secretary admitted recently that the border can’t totally be sealed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/ ... 5205.shtml

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/68494

While ICE is attempting to allocate its resources effectively, there is also a compelling argument from a proponent of implementing Arizona's immigration law. Jan Ting, a Temple University Law professor, makes a thought-provoking case for supporting an Arizona-like immigration policy to counter arguments that a mass deportation isn’t at all reasonable. Particularly, Ting responds to the crowd that says deporting 12 million illegals is wholly unreasonable.

Ting labels arguments from that crowd as straw man in nature. He seems to make a lot sense that politicians on both the right and left are unwilling to make.

“In Arizona, they understand their policy is attrition,â€

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This is from the link above.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/ ... 5205.shtml

Newsmax story; Vote of No Confidence.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ice-no ... ode=A768-1

[quote="HAPPY2BME"]New ICE policy may be a harbinger of comprehensive immigration reform

Cavin.org
by Christopher A. Guzman



According to new guidelines from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), director John Morton says his agency will use limited resources from Congress to focus on removing only those illegal aliens threatening U.S. national security and posing a public safety hazard.

The finding comes from a lengthy story by The Washington Times, which reported Morton as saying that ICE only has enough resources to remove 400,000 aliens a year. In all likelihood, this concentrated policy is a harbinger of a bill seeking to establish comprehensive immigration reform.

Certainly, the agency’s modified goals are consistent with what Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a leading proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, wants to see in a prospective bill. "Go after those who are a threat, but leave our families alone until this Congress, and very importantly, this president, fulfills his commitment to comprehensive immigration reform, so that we don't have these problems anymore," Gutierrez said when the comprehensive immigration reform movement first started.

As the Obama administration recently won the first round of nullifying the most controversial provisions of the Arizona law, the executive branch agency’s move is certainly a step in the direction of cracking down on crime that is spilling forth onto U.S. soil. The shifted immigration strategy comes even as detainments of illegal immigrants are up under President Obama, and as Homeland Security Secretary admitted recently that the border can’t totally be sealed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/ ... 5205.shtml

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/68494

While ICE is attempting to allocate its resources effectively, there is also a compelling argument from a proponent of implementing Arizona's immigration law. Jan Ting, a Temple University Law professor, makes a thought-provoking case for supporting an Arizona-like immigration policy to counter arguments that a mass deportation isn’t at all reasonable. Particularly, Ting responds to the crowd that says deporting 12 million illegals is wholly unreasonable.

Ting labels arguments from that crowd as straw man in nature. He seems to make a lot sense that politicians on both the right and left are unwilling to make.

“In Arizona, they understand their policy is attrition,â€

It's a start, but their families must be deported with them, or else they just sneak back in. The professor makes the best sense. We need to deport all illegal aliens, no matter how long it takes. CIR is not viable, it has failed time and time again, time for it to die once and for all. Enforce the laws we have on the books now.

only 400,000 a year is weak ... if we employed all of our current resources , police , military etc .. we could easily deport millions a year ...

Originally Posted by marquis

only 400,000 a year is weak ... if we employed all of our current resources , police , military etc .. we could easily deport millions a year ...

We should be busting at least that many businesses, government officials, and others that are aiding and abetting them and we would be seeing some of that real change we were tricked into grasping for.

Originally Posted by StokeyBob

Originally Posted by marquis

only 400,000 a year is weak ... if we employed all of our current resources , police , military etc .. we could easily deport millions a year ...

We should be busting at least that many businesses, government officials, and others that are aiding and abetting them and we would be seeing some of that real change we were tricked into grasping for.

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Who is the "WE" and who is the "THEY?"

The whole incentive for illegals to come here is money. The whole incentive for employers to hire them is money.

The whole reason elected officials refuse to arrest and deport them is ...

director John Morton says his agency will use limited resources from Congress to focus on removing only those illegal aliens threatening U.S. national security and posing a public safety hazard.

Anyone driving without a liscence is posing a public safety hazard. No matter what the crime it can be called a public safety hazard.