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| Deportation cases soar as L.A. jails screen for illegals |
| 2007-02-05 |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 At least the LA illegals aren't starving to death in tents in Phoenix, moose. (They can starve in Mexico due to the high tortilla costs.) |
| Posted by: Phineter Thraviger 2007-02-05 22:31 |
| #6 this is good - I'm all for deportations (the more the better) but we still need a real wall - first and foremost. Then we need to repeal the anchor baby amendment - no more loop holes, no more b.s. Fix your own country or stand in line. We've got enough Americans who need help and jobs before outsourcing that shit to some illegal. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-02-05 21:35 |
| #5 I also might add that 6,000 deportations isn't squat compared to 2M illegals. Agreed, Anonymoose. But the article says that these deportations of illegals from the prisons have doubled and doubled again over the past few years. And, coupled with raids around the country, it's creating an atmosphere in which illegals feel insecure and even threatened enough to simply go back home... and others not to bother trying to come. Before, the flow was competely untrammeled and the Mexican government could look forward to a Reconquista by sheer number of bodies. Now the flow is somewhat constricted, the illegals are finding it somewhat more difficult once they arrive, and community after community is making it clear the situation is unacceptable, no matter that President Bush talks of guest workers and a citizenship track. And then they're all to be DNA tested... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-02-05 21:29 |
| #4 I agree that the border needs to be closed, and with a fence first, which would stop the vast majority, then followed up with other efforts to reduce the rest. However, this bit about the LA jails does NOT show that the typical illegal is an other-than-immigration criminal. The article itself states that illegals are about 40k of 170k of their prisoners, or about 25% of the total. However, Hispanics in the general population of Los Angeles County are about 40-45% of the population. Of this, a rough estimate is that 2,000,000 are illegal aliens. That would mean that only 1 in 50 illegals are in jail, for any reason. Please fact check this with other sources, as I had to cherry pick for the different stats. I also might add that 6,000 deportations isn't squat compared to 2M illegals. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-02-05 21:09 |
| #3 That these people are doing work citizens will not do is total horse crap. There are citizens who will take this work. Juste coming across the border is law breaking. The only way to stop this is by making the people employing them pay and by militarizing the border. everyone who opposes this is a moron. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-02-05 20:10 |
| #2 "The benefit is these people who are committing crimes aren't being released onto our streets to commit more crimes. They are being removed from the United States," YJCMTSU Just another form of catch and release. They'll be back South of the Border and then back into the US in a manner of weeks/months. And since municipalities and states refuse to identify those using their services as illegals, they'll just blend in again somewhere among the usual haunts until another American is killed, maimed, robbed, assaulted, raped, etc. at their hands. The first responsibility of any legitimate government is to provide security for its people. If the 'government' can't or won't then to take a phrase from Jefferson, the citizens have the right to alter or abolish that form of government. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-02-05 19:39 |
| #1 go figure! We were told they were all law-abiding (besides the illegal immigration part, of course) non-citizens, doing the work Americans won't do. Hmmm, maybe, since their very first act in America is breaking the law by entering illegally, they might not have so much respect for our laws? Whoda thunk it? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-02-05 19:13 |