View Full Version : Crackdown on Imigrants?
Fiona
02-17-2005, 06:15 PM
one could only hope this will continue and be effective. I'm sure this one person used as an example is paying the price for more serious offenders, but the point is, you are here illegally OR you break the conditions of your Visa... You are outta here... and that I agree with. Sad, but true.
I don't know if you can see the aol article (http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050217094409990019) without AOL so I found it also at USAtoday.com (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-02-16-illegals-deportation_x.htm)
She's paying the appropriate price, IMO. What do you mean by being used as a example? You mean in the article? That it's trying to create some sort of sympathy for her? Or by the government to show they are doing 'something'?
Stiofán
02-17-2005, 09:30 PM
157,000 deported. Considering the estimate of illegals crossing into the US annually is about 3,000,000 that means we sent back roughly 19 days worth. That's like running a DUI checkpoint outside a bar 19 days out of the year and saying you are really stopping the drunks out on the roads. Just don't drive the other 346 days because you're likely to get slammed by the other drunks. Don't we feel good now.
Fiona
02-18-2005, 02:57 PM
She's paying the appropriate price, IMO. What do you mean by being used as a example? You mean in the article? That it's trying to create some sort of sympathy for her? Or by the government to show they are doing 'something'?Yes, the extrememly slanted article, seems to be trying to gather sympathy for her... on AOL there was a poll right beside it as to whether or not we think she should be let back in... grrrr
Fiona
02-18-2005, 03:00 PM
157,000 deported. Considering the estimate of illegals crossing into the US annually is about 3,000,000 that means we sent back roughly 19 days worth. That's like running a DUI checkpoint outside a bar 19 days out of the year and saying you are really stopping the drunks out on the roads. Just don't drive the other 346 days because you're likely to get slammed by the other drunks. Don't we feel good now.No- I know it's just a token and paraded especially for the media. But hey! 19 days is not a bad start. It's sumpthin- no? And it does make an example in another way. Perhaps those who are here legally will think one more time about committing that crime? maybe? huh? well- it's better than nothing. :)
Sacchiridites
02-19-2005, 06:37 PM
USA Today Article, "Illegals going back by the planeload," (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-02-16-illegals-deportation_x.htm) ........She was ordered to appear at a deportation hearing, but she skipped it..........
.........ICE expects the number of deportations to increase again this year. In his 2006 budget, President Bush has requested an additional $170 million above the $1.4 billion that ICE's Detention and Removal program will get in 2005......
It's not the principle of this matter that bugs me, it's the principal of the matter. It costs SoooOOOooo much. :cry: First, the court costs. Then the 'removal' fees.
Yes, the extrememly slanted article, seems to be trying to gather sympathy for her... on AOL there was a poll right beside it as to whether or not we think she should be let back in... grrrr
I wasn't sure what you meant. Unfortunately we can't deport the husband...he's one of 'ours' and will just have to keep going in and out of jail. :(