While "bipartisan" approaches to letting the roaches have amnesty yet again percolates through D.C., the upgraded enforcement along our southern border has had the effect of creating a boom in the lucrative business of smuggling. In many cases, what once was seen as a discretionary expense is now viewed by would-be illegal aliens as an absolute necessity. It's also spawned open warfare among competing smugglers.
"Leaders" of the "bipartisan effort" to further ruin our country include Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and John McCain, R-Ariz. On the House side, Reps. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Obviously, Flake is appropriately named. You'd think that the flakes from Arizona would have at least a degree of understanding of the havoc that illegal aliens cause in the USA, but you'd be wrong. They're clueless.
Meliton Aurelio Sanchez presents a wonderful example of what's wrong with American border security:
Over a two-week span he tried to cross four times in groups of about 20 people, but the Border Patrol nabbed him each time. After being dumped back into Mexico, Sanchez would return to the bustling border boomtown of Altar, a 90-minute drive from the Arizona state line. Mexicans who are arrested are typically freed within 24 hours, after a quick stop at jail for fingerprints. (Sanchez eventually got across. In a later phone interview from Durham, N.C., where he landed a $10-an-hour carpentry job, he said he paid $1,800 to a smuggler to be guided across the Rio Grande near Laredo, Texas, and be shuttled to Chicago by van and bus.)
In technical parlance, this is known as "catch and release", and while it may be a praiseworthy practice for fishermen, it's a stupid approach to border control. It'd be much more cost-effective to fly these folks to Mexico's southern border and turn 'em loose down there. Certainly, you wouldn't find the same folks trying to cross our border illegally four times in a two-week time-frame. They may even give it up entirely. Make it harder, and you at least slow them down. The present approach is just silly.
