Is US destined to become a refugee camp?

By Shavana Abruzzo
Last Updated: 5:30 PM, February 9, 2010
Posted: 5:30 PM, February 9, 2010

The disgruntled day laborer from Guatemala who, allegedly, in a drunken rage tossed a roll of accelerant-soaked toilet paper into a baby carriage parked in the stairwell of a Bensonhurst building, is a poster boy for all that is wrong with a national immigration system depleted by an estimated 12-to-22 million squatters — how would the real figure even be known? — and hobbled by its tenuous grasp on the law.

In an April 2009 interview with CNN, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano alarmingly stated that “...[illegally] crossing the border is not a crime per se.â€