Border Insecurity

"(The government) has simply chosen not to enforce the United States’ border security laws.”
__U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen of Brownsville, Texas
Ref: CBS - Houston

Can someone 'splain to poor old DonDiego how this is gonna end well?

obama will find some excuse to let them stay, while our Marine remains in a mexican jail

Step 1) We should 'splain to poor old DonDiego there are better sources of information about immigration statistics than a District Court Judge from Texas....

Step 2) We should show this same exact chart to poor old Speaker Boehner who insists the reason his legislative body can't pass immigration reform is because the current president is too weak on border security and deportations. And then point and laugh.

Actually these are more funny numbers from obamaland.

Prior to obama the US did not count as a deportaion, illegals who were caught at the border and sent back. Now they are counted as deportations, thus articially inflating the numbers over prior years

Which is why the chart counts "removals" instead of "deportations"....and uses the same definition of that word since 2000. But thanks for chiming in !

Customizing the headline just for this forum:

Also...since we are 'splaining things on this thread.

Can someone 'splain to poor, young pjstroh how detained illegal immigrants counts as evidence the border patrol is NOT doing its job? It would seem to me that evidence would draw the exact opposite conclusion.

DonDiego requests forkushV cite DonDiego's lie.

Did pjstroh even read the article which DonDiego linked?

The article is mostly about the recent influx of unaccompanied children.
The last paragraph is about families:
"The government has also been flying families from South Texas to Arizona and El Paso, Texas, and releasing them at bus stations. ICE has only one detention facility for families — an 85-bed center in Pennsylvania."

[pjstroh, please note: "releasing them at bus stations".]

Beyond this article, recently "The Government" has been sending newly illegal immigrants to Arizona and West Texas and releasing them, . . . sometimes giving them a card which says they must turn themselves in in 30 days, sometimes with nothing but the statement:"you are free to go".

DonDiego notes in passing, no one has answered his question: ". . . how 'zactly is this gonna turn out well?"
__If the answer is "It Isn't", then one agrees with DonDiego, so why the argumentative tone?
__If the answer is "It'll be fine, 'splain how, please."

***EDITED TO ADD***
"At issue is Mr. Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which in 2012 allowed some undocumented immigrants who came to America as minors to defer deportation for two years. Last week, the administration announced guidelines for how these immigrants could defer deportation for a further two years."

Hmm, . . . apparently actions, . . . even just Executive Actions, . . . have consequences.

Ref: Christian Science Monitor
n.b. This article addresses the issue's possible political consequences, . . .but nonethless describes the problem.

Oh, and now The Obama is proposing the the Federal Government supply lawyers to illegals to fight their deportation. The world turned upside down.
n.b. DonDiego intentionally omitted any reference; one can Google it, if it matters to one.

Ooohhh...I see. The problem is with illegal immigrant children being reunited with their parents. DonDiego wonders how that could possibly end well. I'll let that question stand on its own feet.

I laughed when I read DonDiego's article that says the president's weak border policy is the motivating factor for people to come to the US. I guess they have trouble reading the same bar graph I posted earlier. Just for their benefit (and DonDiego's)...the big bars mean more people were sent home under the current president (not fewer). Glad I could clear that up for you.

And here's the best part....the president's policy has been to selectively deport immigrants with criminal records and being more lenient with immigrants with clean records. SO not only is the president sending home more illegal immigrants (see those big bars again) - but he is also focusing on the ones most likely to commit crime.

If DonDiego opines we should beef up our big government round-up program to process more illegal border crossings and deportations of those already here....then perhaps he should also opine whose taxes he's going to raise to pay for that great, final solution.