Fri Mar 20, 2015 8:10 am
A House committee just came closer than ever to mass deportation.
Fri Mar 20, 2015 8:44 am
Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:06 am
Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:29 am
cruffler wrote:-First of all, it would make it a federal crime to be in the United States without immigration papers. (It's currently a civil offense.)
-Second, the legislation would allow any state or local law enforcement officer in the country to enforce immigration law.
-Third, it would all but require any immigrant apprehended by local police to be taken into federal custody for deportation.
-Fourth, the federal government would have very little opportunity to decide not to deport someone.
-The purpose of the act is to make all unauthorized immigrants a deportation priority, and to make it as easy as possible for them to be put into the deportation process.
Seems like common sense to me.
Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:06 am
Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:38 am
President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents – less than one-tenth of today's force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.