Thread: Immigration Priority: "Fugitive Aliens"

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Immigration Priority: "Fugitive Aliens"

Posted by: Michael Medved at 6:01 PM

Whatever we do about immigration reform, the number of “fugitive aliens” has become terrifying. These are people who have already been picked up at least once by authorities and ordered to leave the country—but a staggering 636,000 of them have eluded capture and deportation.

More than 200,000 of these people have actually committed crimes other than immigration violations, but law enforcement still can’t bring them in. Since 2003, the manpower assigned to the task has increased more than four-fold—but officials have captured only 45,000 of the fugitive aliens, less than 10 percent of the total!

These figures demonstrate the urgent need for setting clear priorities in immigration enforcement. Activists dream of deporting millions, but we ought to start by catching hundreds-of-thousands who’ve already been officially deported. Clearly, it makes more sense to focus our efforts on apprehending these fugitive aliens than obsessing over far less dangerous illegals who are working at jobs and raising families.
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ALL these fugitives must be found and DEPORTED! Municipal police all over the country could find them if the cops could just get approval to check on their immigration status.