Our Genius Plan For Immigration Enforcement
You won't believe this. We're telling illegals they should just...turn themselves in! Hernan Rozemberg writes for the San Antonio Express-News:
Scheduled to be unveiled next week, it was announced Sunday by Julie Myers, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in an interview with a Spanish-language television network.Myers told the network that "Operation Scheduled Departure" will allow illegal immigrants without criminal records a chance to literally "self-deport" by turning themselves in to her agents.
She said the idea derived from a common complaint voiced by immigrant detainees: If given the opportunity, they'd rather just go home than be holed up in immigration prisons.
Well, duh! They're saying this while in jail!
Under the new program, those still walking free will have the chance to walk into ICE offices, be processed and get a few weeks to arrange their affairs, pack their belongings and ship out of the country without being detained."The program basically gives an opportunity to those seeking an organized way to self-deport," Myers told Univisión anchor Jorge Ramos.
Myers said the program would allow immigrants to avoid the increasing risks of being picked up in a raid at home or at work, but would offer no additional incentives to turn themselves in -- no chance at qualifying for an amnesty, for example.
Look, I'm all for hiring the retarded and helping them lead productive lives, but can't we place people like Myers in a job at a bakery or something?
Wow, yeah, people who enter illegally are really just gonna say oh, sorry, didn't realize where I was, didn't mean to intrude, and turn around and go back. Yep. Uh uh. This guy brings new meaning to the words moron and gullible (since he's buying the sweet talk of people in jail who want to be released, duh, so they can swim the river again and I don't mean in a southerly direction).
T's Grammy at July 31, 2008 9:59 AM
Who pays the 'plane ticket', taxpayers? I suppose this might lure a few odd stragglers who wanted to leave ANYWAY ... then they can point at the numbers and proclaim "some success".
David J at July 31, 2008 11:41 AM
This has about as much chance of succeeding as the wall idea did. Where do we find these morons, and who put them in charge?
Sandy at July 31, 2008 1:05 PM
You know who her daddy is?
jerry at July 31, 2008 2:57 PM
Ironically, in Mesa, AZ, illegal immigrants are being blamed for neighborhood blight. What's ironic about that you ask? It's because they are leaving due to the poor economy and no one is filling in the apartments they used to rent.
To some degree, the immigration problem may solve itself with the poor economy.
This is one reason why a strong border is needed as well as an emphasis on making sure there is a strong economy in Mexico and other nations.
The notion of there are jobs Americans won't do is nonsense. There are jobs Americans won't do for the wage being offered, and yes, illegal aliens with little alternative WILL take those jobs. But that doesn't mean some sort of fair market pricing is at work.
Provide the illegal aliens here with a right not to stay, and provide the illegal aliens here with a strong economy at home, and THEN see if they'll take those crappy wages.
So I think that a strong border is needed, and I think we should do what we can to make sure there is a strong economy (democracy and labor rights) south of the border.
I am not as interested in breaking up families, or imprisoning whole families, or kicking kids out of school, or shipping college aged kids to Mexico who can't speak a word of Spanish. We've done all of that.
As I said, I think the real issue is the crappy economy there, and employers here using illegal immigrants to cheat on the market.
jerry at July 31, 2008 3:07 PM
"Provide the illegal aliens here with a right not to stay,"
What I think I meant was, "Provide illegal aliens here with the right TO stay..."
And I'm not advocating that, I am saying that since they need the money, since the economy is crappy at home, since they fear deportation, they have no ability to participate in a fair market over a fair price for their labor.
If they had the ability to walk-away, something everyone needs in a negotiation, than they would probably not be so ready to take those jobs at those wages.
jerry at July 31, 2008 3:10 PM
You can't afford to let 'em go and don't want 'em to stay.I know : convict labor !
Reality check for anyone who cares
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/slammed-the-coming-prison-meltdown.html
Keeping those damned marijuana-smokin' hippies safely away from decent people takes up a lot of space too.
You know it's a racket when use of a native medicinal weed is the excuse to lock up people. Plus poor and blacks and homeless.
There'll be lots of those presently.
opit at July 31, 2008 8:37 PM
I do remember that, in France, they pay the Roms if they want to leave. The Roms love that. They get the money, leave and then come back with their entire family.
How many illegals will use the trip as a travel home for the holidays only to return after?
Toubrouk at August 1, 2008 6:24 AM
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