When immigration activists say, \u201cour immigration system is broken,\u201d I\u2019m not persuaded by their arguments. \u00a0Their fix for the supposed brokenness is a combination amnesty + guest-worker program. \u00a0Does the \u201cbrokenness\u201d lie in our claimed (I don\u2019t buy it) shortage of workers? \u00a0Or in our failure to enforce immigration law in the past?<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s an example of the actual brokenness of the system: \u00a0our court system doesn\u2019t seem to be able to manage to keep deported immigrants out of the country. \u00a0In today\u2019s news, an illegal immigrant, caught in a sweep of airport workers in 2002 (she was using a fake Social Security number), not actually issued a deportation order until 2006 (!), and finally deported in 2007 after claiming \u201csanctuary\u201d in a church for a year, then leaving for a political rally, returned to the U.S.<\/p>\n
Her journey back to the city after being deported to Mexico in 2007 began last week, when she crossed into the U.S. with her sons, 5-month-old Emiliano and 15-year-old Saul, along with dozens of mostly young deportees near San Diego to protest U.S. immigration laws and deportation practices. <\/p>\n
A two-day detention led to the scheduling of an immigration hearing for September, when she can again plead her case to stay in the U.S., said her attorney, Chris Bergin. In the meantime, Arellano was allowed to travel and arrived in Chicago on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This woman has no case to stay in the United States. \u00a0Sure, she has a son who was born here, and her pitch has been about not separating families \u2014 which would be a pretty neat trick: \u00a0cross illegally into the U.S., give birth to a U.S.-citizen child, and claim the right to stay? \u00a0She\u2019s also brought along her Mexican-born infant, so I suppose if they stay long enough they can play the \u201che knows no other home\u201d game.<\/p>\n
What possible case can she have to stay in the U.S.? \u00a0Her attorney claims that, after her return to Mexico, Arellano became the target of death threats because of her work as an advocate for other Mexicans hoping to come to the U.S. and because of her son Saul\u2019s U.S. citizenship.\u201d \u00a0Why on earth would either of these two things subject her to death threats? \u00a0Is this really enough to merit an asylum claim? \u00a0If so, we might as well open up the southern border, because just about everyone can make a claim to suffering some kind of abuse from the drug cartels or other Mexican dysfunctions.<\/p>\n
Hence \u2014 a true example of the brokenness of our system. \u00a0If we can\u2019t expel these people immediately upon their entering \u2014 RE-entering! \u2014 the United States, then, yes, indeed our system is broken. \u00a0But the fix isn\u2019t to grant everyone amnesty \u2014 it\u2019s to enforce the frickin\u2019 laws, or change the laws if our due process has mushroomed into an entity that is incapable of deporting anyone.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When immigration activists say, \u201cour immigration system is broken,\u201d I\u2019m not persuaded by their arguments. \u00a0Their fix for the supposed brokenness is a combination amnesty + guest-worker program. \u00a0Does the \u201cbrokenness\u201d lie in our claimed (I don\u2019t buy it) shortage of workers? \u00a0Or in our failure to enforce immigration law in the past? But here\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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