Thread: Why Can't We Do This With Illegal Aliens?

Texas busting drunks ... in bars

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/23/texas. ... index.html

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) -- Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said Wednesday.

The first sting operation was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication, said the commission's Carolyn Beck.

Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkenness, Beck said.

The goal, she said, was to detain drunks before they leave a bar and go do something dangerous like drive a car.

"We feel that the only way we're going to get at the drunk driving problem and the problem of people hurting each other while drunk is by crackdowns like this," she said.

"There are a lot of dangerous and stupid things people do when they're intoxicated, other than get behind the wheel of a car," Beck said. "People walk out into traffic and get run over, people jump off of balconies trying to reach a swimming pool and miss."

She said the sting operations would continue throughout the state.

What do you think? We send teams we could call "Counter-Illegals". Randomly pick up foreign nationals because they might become illegal aliens here?? Then detain them at an "undisclosed location" until Chertoff orders them released?

Actually, I think this action by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is a bit much. I'll bet most of the cases get thrown out.

Perhaps they'll start going into people's homes too to check if they're drunk, because who knows, they might leave their home and drive their car drunk? Wow, I never knew that going to a bar and getting drunk was a crime. The jails are gonna get pretty full if this catches on.