Our broken immigration policies

[LilOlLady]

OUR BROKEN IMMIGRATION POLICIES

We don’t have a broken immigration system. We have broken immigration policies. We have too many incentives that exacerbate the immigration problem and keep them coming. We have a generous legal immigration system that allow almost a million to immigrate legally each year. Plus asylum seekers and refugees. Our immigration laws works if they were enforced, but are not because of businesses greed for cheap labor and corrupt politicians that use illegal aliens for their own selfish gains. If we wanted to we could fix the illegal immigration problem almost over night by taking away one incentive. Jobs. We do not need 20 million illegal aliens to do jobs Americans will not do. If the E-Verify system was enforced they could not work and they would leave and they would not come. Automatic Birthright Citizenship is another incentive that should be repealed retro-active that give welfare to Illegal Alien families. This is going to be our Achilles heel down the road. Minor and inexpensive actions would solve all our immigration problems and save this country billions.
Obama’s latest immigration policy that gives temporary legal status and work permits to some will explode the immigration problems and cost trillions. And Romney would take it even further. Who will get serious about our immigration problem and what will it take? I don’t see a snow ball chance in hell that we will ever get our immigration problem under control. Our legal immigration policies are way to generous also.
If we concentrated our concerns on the welfare of our own citizens as much as we do Mexico’s we would not be a hell of a lot better off economically and socially. Take care of our own children and they will take care of the future of this nation.
How the hell do we fix our immigration problem with policies like ‘do not deport” “do not detain at the border” “giving the legal status and work permits?” How do we do a back ground check when we cannot even get a name?
We have got to have the worst immigration system in the world.
Mexico would not have a drug problem if they controlled their southern border from drug smugglers. We would not have a drug problem if we controlled our southern border. If druggies could not get drugs we would not have drug problem.
Before we can fix our immigration problem and Mexico fix theirs, both have to fix their corrupt governments. If we fixed our immigration system, Mexico would have to fix theirs'. Mexico and U.S. both are enabling each other with their greed and corruption. We let them come here and stay because of greed and Mexico let them come here and stay because of greed.
We spend billions putting border patrols on the border and they are not allowed to control the border? What the hell do we pay ICE for anymore?

We cannot afford to round them up and deport them, but we have plenty of money to educate their children and create jobs for them, we can spend $6 billions a year on anchor babies, 726,000 born each year, and they are receiving billions in tax credits and for children living in Mexico. What kind of FS it that?

 

[waltky]

Foxes watchin' the henhouse...

GAO: 144 Border Agents Charged with Corruption, Smuggling Aliens and Drugs Since 2005
January 10, 2013 – In the last seven years, 144 officers and agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been arrested or indicted on corruption charges that include smuggling illegal aliens, smuggling drugs, and bribery, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

“In particular, there have been a number of cases in which individuals, known as infiltrators, pursued employment at CBP solely to engage in mission–compromising activity,” the report said, offering two examples. In 2007, a CBP officer in El Paso, Texas was arrested for conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States from June 2003 through July 2007, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison after conviction. The Office of Field Operation reported “that she may have sought employment with CBP to facilitate drug smuggling.”

A Border Patrol agent station in Comstock, Texas was arrested in 2008 for conspiracy with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana. The agent was convicted in 2009, sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $10,000. “From fiscal years 2005 through 2012, a total of 144 employees were arrested or indicted for corruption related activities, including smuggling aliens or drugs, and 125 have been convicted,” the GAO report says. “About 65 percent (93 of 144) were employees stationed along the southwest border.”

The bulk of corruption cases were for serious offenses, according to the GAO. The report also cited 2,170 cases of what the CPB called “misconduct,” which is illegal behavior outside the workplace, such as domestic violence, driving under the influence or substance abuse. That’s in contrast to 144 cases of “corruption,” which the CPB describes as delinquent behavior affecting the job. The agency divides corruption into two categories. From 2005 to 2012 there were 103 cases of “mission-compromising corruption” that would include more serious charges of smuggling, bribery and allowing illegal cargo into the United States, versus 41 cases of “non-mission-compromising corruption,” which could range from stealing money from the station site to losing a badge.

Overall, corruptions cases – both mission compromising and non-mission compromising – peaked at 29 in 2009, according to the GAO. The highest rate of mission compromising corruption cases was in 2005 – 23 cases. After a two-year decline, there were 18 cases of serious corruption in 2008 and 19 cases in 2009. The peak for less serious corruption cases was 10 cases in both 2008 and 2009. The GAO report was released to the public on Jan. 3, but was prepared in response to a request from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who received the report on Dec. 4. Starting this month, the Customs and Border Protection are required to polygraph all job applicants, which means a lie detector test, which was part of the Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010.

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