Wednesday - January 24, 2007

A Drop In The Bucket

There are approximately 11 million illegal aliens in the country today and more coming in every day. Of those, 600,000 have ignored deportation orders and 3,000 are sitting in prison for various crimes committed since they invaded - at least that’s the ones we actually know of.

Now the feds have managed to capture 761 of them and actually deport 450 in the last week. ICE is proud of the fact that they have managed to grab 13,192 illegals in the last nine months.

I’m sorry but the numbers just don’t add up. What the hell is our government up to if all they can do is grab a very, very small percentage (0.12%) of the illegals and send them home. It’s a pity the Internal Revenue Service isn’t that “efficient”.

No, I’ve about had it with the feds on this issue. They gave the illegals “amnesty” twenty years ago and 2 million invaders got to stay and become citizens at no extra charge. Now we’re back to square one - except there are more of them this time ... 9 million more than last time.

And what are our politicians doing about it? Well, John McCain and Teddy Kennedy want to grant them amnesty again. Democrats in Congress don’t give a damn because they are concentrating on nothing but driving Bush and the Republicans out of Washington. Republicans are wandering around in circles with their heads up their butts wondering how to get out of Iraq without losing all credibility.

Employers across the country are hiring the invaders with only a bare minimum background check and the invaders then take their pay and funnel it back to outside countries (most notably Mexico) to pay for more illegals to invade. The rich elite from Hollywood to the Hamptons don’t care - as long as they get their cheap maids and gardeners.

That is the sorry state we find ourselves in at the start of the 21st century here in America. Civil war between liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, outside insurgents pouring across the border to commit crimes and drain the economy ... the only thing that is missing is suicide bombers and IED’s and we’d be in the same boat as Iraq. Well almost ... at least the Iraqis have our military to help them.

Hundreds Deported After LA Sweep
_{LOS ANGELES - January 24, 2007, 8:46 AM EST}

Hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested over the past week in one of the biggest U.S. stings have been deported, but some are being held for possible criminal prosecution.

Federal authorities announced Tuesday the results of a weeklong series of raids in the Los Angeles metropolitan area that targeted illegal immigrants who had previously been deported for crimes or defied final deportation orders.

Of the 761 people arrested in a five-county region since Jan. 17, more than 450 have already been removed from the country, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

More than half of those arrested in the sweeps were already in jail and are being turned over to federal authorities as their sentences expire, an ICE official said. At least one person, however, was hit with a criminal case instead of being placed in civil deportation proceedings.

Erik Omar Galindo-Vazquez, a Mexican national taken in during the sweeps in Orange County, was charged with illegal re-entry to the United States after felony deportation—a federal crime than can carry up to 20 years in prison.

ICE officials said Galindo-Vazquez was deported in October 2005 after being detained in Arizona and was convicted six years earlier in Orange County for assault with a deadly weapon, a felony charge.

While federal law makes it a crime to enter the country illegally, only a fraction of the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants caught every year are ever prosecuted under criminal laws. There just aren’t enough agents, prosecutors and prison space.

So authorities go after serious offenders such as Galindo-Vazquez, whose rap sheets combine past deportations with convictions for crimes such as assault, murder and drug trafficking.

“We have to focus on the worst of the worst,” said Jim Hayes, director of the Los Angeles field office of ICE, whose agents are readying about 12 other cases for criminal prosecution stemming from the sweeps. “We can’t prosecute every single individual we come across.”

The raids made public Tuesday were a major push within Operation Return to Sender, a crackdown that has resulted in 13,192 arrests nationwide since late May. Immigration officials have also identified 3,000 inmates in state and local jails who will be deported.

An estimated 600,000 illegal immigrants who have ignored deportation orders are still at large, said Virginia Kice, an ICE spokeswoman.

Posted by The Skipper     on 01/24/2007 at 09:11 AM   
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