US Illegal Immigration: Two Responses

Judge Rules: If Feds Won't Enforce Immigration Laws, Locals Must Not by Mac Johnson, Posted Aug 15, 2005

[. . . . ] In a case well publicized by the national media, Chief Garret Chamberlain, a police officer in the town of New Ipswich, N.H., encountered Mexican citizen Jorge Mora Ramirez broken down on the side of the road. Ramirez, though unable to speak much English, admitted that he was in the country illegally, was in possession of forged Massachusetts identification bearing a fictitious Social Security number, and was illegally employed in a construction project in a nearby town.

In a move that the media is still grasping to understand, Chamberlain then called the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Division of the Department of Homeland Security (formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service or INS), with the idea that they might want to, say, apprehend and deport the unknown foreign national in possession of forged government documents and investigate the matter as a violation of so-called “law.”[. . . . ]

Brave new world! Would this type of thing account for the news that the Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist is running to replace Christopher Cox in Congress? He wants to fix the problem of illegal immigration and the insecurity which that involves.



Illegal immigration laws on books but not enforced — There's a way, but no will, experts say -- Convention featured Tancredo, Horowitz, Gilchrist, others Los Angeles Daily Bulletin, Aug. 26, 2005

Nearly four years after Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government still lacks the commitment and the political will to enforce its immigration laws on a day-to-day basis, immigration specialists and politicians said Friday.

"Not only do the complexities and gray areas of immigration law make it difficult to enforce, but there's been a severe lack of resources and policies over the last decade to deal with them effectively," said Janice Kephart, a former counsel to the 9/11 Commission at a conference titled "Illegal Immigration: Its Impact on America" at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. [. . . . ]

Does Canada have any who, while running for elected office, would state the obvious -- what has been reported for a long time about the insecurity of our borders and ports? And then vow to do something about it. Nah! The usual suspects might yelp "racism".

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