But not where you think.
The United States has announced that it is planning to help Egypt build a border fence along the Gaza-Egypt border. Washington transferred $23 million worth of special aid to the North African nation as part of its assistance in locating smuggling tunnels.
Because there is no way we could put $23 million to use on a US border to control smuggling.
Now that fingerprinting is used to identify and segregate illegal immigrants apprehended in the Tucson Sector, a great deal more is known about many of the illegal immigrants crossing the border.
“The Tucson Sector gets a lot of sex offenders and we average at least one or two a week throughout the sector.” Gonzalez references a man wearing a blue t-shirt. “He served 2 1/2 years in jail for sexual conduct with a minor.”
Agents knew that because they ran his fingerprints. “He could have told us whatever we wanted and that’s what we have to go on. But with his fingerprints you can’t hide that,” said Gonzalez.
I have always said that the importance of an secure border and enforceable immigration laws is based upon the need to know who is coming into the country and whether or not we want them here. We have enough of our own sex offenders in the United States without importing them from other countries.
I spoke yesterday that the “illegal” in illegal immigration doesn’t seem to mean anything to anyone on either side of the issue anymore. It never really had much meaning from the leftists, and has been diluted to a great extent now on the right.
Well, another phrase seems to have taken on this same semblance of androgyny on the issue of illegal immigration - “Zero Tolerance”. Now, I cast no dispersion whatsoever on the men and women protecting our borders day-to-day. They do a fine job with the resources and policies they are handed. This is a policy matter.
Roughly 1000 illegal immigrants are apprehended everyday in the Tucson sector. This is, by vast amounts, the most active area for illegal border crossers. Most of those apprehended are provided with the “catch-and-release” policy of “voluntary return to Mexico” - thus allowing them the opportunity to actually enter the country legally without repercussions. However, the Tucson sector bureaucrats will now be prosecuting 40 per day of these illegal entrants to show that they mean business, as a part of their “zero tolerance” program.
I understand the cost of prosecuting illegal entrants. I understand the burden this places on the court. However, there are two points I would like to make:
Every traffic court in the state handles dozens of cases everyday and no one blinks an eyelash about the burden on the court system. There are prosecuting attorneys there, but no defense attorneys appointed by the court for the benefit of citizens.
Forty indictments per day is not “zero tolerance” It is 960 tolerance.
Update: This is why the “catch-and-release” policies are a bad idea. Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
Santana Batiz-Aceves, 39, a twice-deported illegal immigrant with a history of drug charges, was arrested about 11:49 a.m. Friday at his Chandler home near Arizona Avenue and Ray Road. He was booked into Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue Jail on suspicion of 25 felonies, including kidnapping, child molestation, sexual abuse, sexual conduct with a minor, aggravated assault, burglary and trespassing.
Here is a headline to consider:
Migrant activists manage few wins
So here are a couple of questions:
The article for the above headline reveals a great deal about these questions. Apparently, a migrant activist is someone who promotes breaking laws they see as unfair. They are considered heroes for this by the media and a small minority of voters. They cannot generate enough support to make any changes to the law, so they openly break them or advocate same.
Along this line of thinking, consider the following as new terms for some other law breaking industries:
This is supposed to be a nation of laws, yet a “win” for “Migrant Activists” consists blocking the following legislation:
…adding new roadblocks to the U.S.-Mexico border fence and delaying the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, Democrats used their majority to block proposals to punish sanctuary cities, to add more funding to go after smuggling-observation posts on U.S. soil and to expand workplace enforcement. They also refused to withdraw funding from an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit challenging the Salvation Army’s English-in-the-workplace policy.
But what could Democrats have been doing with their majority instead of blocking legislation designed to make the borders more secure, expand enforcement, and deter smugglers?
Democrats did not secure an expansion of temporary work visas for programs such as the H-2B seasonal foreign-worker category, and he said they failed to deliver any broader agreements to decide the status of illegal aliens or streamline current legal immigration.
If Congressional Democrats put the kind of energy into expanding the guest worker programs already in existence, instead of using their considerable power to perpetuate a dangerously porous border, there would be no need for “migrant activists”. These Democrats and the migrant activists are perpetuating the deaths in the desert. Rather than work hard to create a means by which seasonal workers can come through border checkpoints in air-conditioned buses, they advocate the need for people to enter the country, illegally, through the grueling, hot desert.
Citing an inevitable “climate of fear” among illegal immigrants, Alex Navidad, an immigration lawyer and illegal immigration advocate, makes the following threat to the City of Phoenix:
Changing Phoenix police’s immigration-enforcement policies will create a climate of fear in Phoenix that could lead to multimillion-dollar lawsuits and even riots, speakers said Thursday at a raucous town hall.
And
Don’t let Phoenix become the next Watts, the next LA riots,” Alex Navidad, an immigration lawyer, said in an impassioned plea to the panel. “That’s what’s going to happen. A community that’s fearful, with loads of police, can only lead to tragedy.”
So, create a climate of fear through threats of lawsuits and riots simply because the city wants to institute a policy which allows them to ask a simple question during their interactions with people requiring police attention. The question is, “Are you a US citizen?”
