24th Time's The Charm!
It isn't that we just ignore illegal immigration. After you get caught illegally crossing the border, oh, 24 times, we get a little fed up and finally do something.
Teri Figueroa writes for the LA Times:
A career smuggler nabbed while guiding four immigrants through the Otay Mountains last year was sentenced Friday to five years in prison.U.S. Border Patrol agents had caught Efrain Delgado Rosales with undocumented immigrants 23 times in less than 17 years, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
...Federal prosecutors said agents have apprehended Delgado 24 times since 1999, and in all but one instance, he was found with at least two and up to 46 undocumented immigrants.
via @OfficerDunphy
Should have put a chip in him first, tracked his movements, and let him lead us to the big guys.
I know, illegal but (sigh) it be nice to have a handle on things instead of letting guns/criminals just disappear into a black hole.
Bob in Texas at March 28, 2016 7:23 AM
My message to Ms. Figueroa at LAT:
Interesting story, it clearly implies that the Feds were clueless, but it doesn't say whether, the first 23 times, the subject was incarcerated; charged; acquitted (apparently he was never convicted). What happened?
If she answers I'll post.
DaveG at March 28, 2016 8:11 AM
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