Chertoff vows to end Immigrations “catch & release”
Well, it’ll be good news if it’s true. Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff has vowed to end the practice of catching illegal immigrants and releasing them into America with a stern warning that they’d better show up at a future court date. It’s a warning that goes almost completely unheeded. Chertoff is suggesting that this practice end completely and that 100% of illegals caught get detained and sent back to the country they entered illegally from.
I’m all for it. I think it’s ludicrous to do otherwise and that’s even without the additional security concerns of the post-9/11 world. Let’s see if Chertoff and President Bush really mean it.
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[...] Perhaps Mr. Chertoff can explain this action in the face of his vow in October to stop this very practice. The illegals being released are promising to show up for their immigration hearing but that’s just such a patently obvious lie it’s obscene that anyone’s even letting them spew it. We saw the results of trusting these people to show up as the law requires here in Northern VA last year. The results are that they lied through their teeth when they promised to show – did anyone actually expect them to keep their words? – and we now have 11 more illegals than we did before living in our community. [...]
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[...] I approve of the President’s call for mandatory english as part of the normalization plan. I approve of the end of the “catch-and-release” methodology, although one has to wonder how this call for the end of the program will differ from Chertoff’s vow to end the same practice in October of 2005. [...]
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