Gotcha!
It appears that while the whole issue of immigration is hot, the Department of Homeland Security and other related organizations are suddenly deciding to push the idea of actually enforcing the existing laws against, say, employers of illegal immigrants. Goodie. Are they going after the guys who employ non-Hispanic illegal immigrants as well? I wonder. Here are a couple of choice elements:
But in all of these cases, the situation was that they could have been doing this level of enforcement for years and years, but they haven’t. They’ve always said in the past that they didn’t have the resources, and Congress never made it a priority to fund them and Presidents never pushed the matter to get the resources to enforce any of this. It’s all temporary window dressing. See also this State Department review on Chinese Illegals, why the Chinese government isn’t repatriating a lot of them, and what’s involved in the efforts to emigrate.
- The massive raids on Wednesday netted 1,187 arrests, more than all illegal immigrants arrested last year.
- Atlanta recently saw the arrival of 70 extra federal agents to clear a backlog of naturalization requests, some going back 10 years.
But in all of these cases, the situation was that they could have been doing this level of enforcement for years and years, but they haven’t. They’ve always said in the past that they didn’t have the resources, and Congress never made it a priority to fund them and Presidents never pushed the matter to get the resources to enforce any of this. It’s all temporary window dressing. See also this State Department review on Chinese Illegals, why the Chinese government isn’t repatriating a lot of them, and what’s involved in the efforts to emigrate.