Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Immigration Immigration and Customs Enforcement Teams Blew $625 million Arresting Non-Violent Immigrants While Ignoring Fourth Amendment
Posted by PJ Tobia on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:00 AM
"...agents who found no one home at an address specified in a deportation order simply knocked on other doors until one opened, pushed their way in, and arrested residents who acknowledged that they lacked legal status."Nearly three-quarters of the 96,000 people apprehended through the program had no criminal convictions. This is problematic for a number of reasons. The idea that armed federal agents could knock on my door and start asking questions--just because they are in the neighborhood--is repulsive to me. These kinds of operations are also very different from how this program was sold to congress. ICE was supposed to use our $625 million to track down dangerous immigrant fugitives. Instead, they created teams of shock-troops who literally rounded up any immigrant they could lay their hands on. Maybe the next $625 million will be used to build boxcars and train tracks, heading due south.
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I see you are pimping for the slave masters again, Tobia.
Since when has a "knock and interview" been illegal? Cmdr Nash's boys do it quite often in East Nashville. It has resulted in quite a few dumb criminals saying, "Come on in and look around." Then they get arrested for leaving their drugs, guns, stolen property, ect lying on the coffee table.
These illegal criminals need to study a little Con Law OR learn to speak enough english to say, "Sorry, we are not interested." Or both.
Either way, that is nearly 100k jobs created directly by ICE. How many jobs were freed up by the chilling effect of these raids?
Probably pretty tough on the slave masters in the areas affected. I bet they had to pay a couple of dollars extra an hour for labor.
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Actually, anonymous, as the unemployment rate goes higher, illegal immigrants are self-deporting. I know for a fact via hearing it directly from people who are here illegally, that they plan on going home. Why? Not because of increased border patrols, windbag conservative megalomaniacs, or billions of dollars to create special ICE teams. It is because of the economy. That's right, 100K deportations by ICE is not creating 100K jobs. You go and try to find a job in construction (in a good pay scale) and report back how that goes. Nashville homebuilders aren't suddenly going to go hire naturalized anglos. This is all free market economics actually. The undocumented flock to cities like Nashville when the times are good and local companies can't fill jobs using just legal citizens and they go elsewhere when the jobs dry up.
And one other thing, I have yet to talk to an undocumented worker who is afraid of ICE. Some of them go back and forth across the border without ever getting caught.
