Jail Time Curbs Immigration Along Border

[GaryC 7]

(CBS News) EAGLE PASS, Texas Texas rancher Dub Cunningham can drive right up to the front line of the immigration war. For decades, he's watched illegal immigrants flood across his land, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports.

"Some of them, you want to cry when you see them. Others, you want to cut their throats," Cunningham says.

In the past few years, they've been crossing by the hundreds every day, keeping border patrol agents so busy they had little time to chase the drug runners who worked this territory as well. It was so bad, Cunningham wouldn't show his face when he spoke with CBS News seven years ago. Times have changed.

"Definitely seen a dramatic improvement. The numbers have decreased so much," Cunningham says today.

That's because the days of being captured — then released — are over. Now, every man or woman caught crossing the border illegally here is prosecuted and put behind bars.

Instead of an overnight stay in a detention center, illegal immigrants have spent anywhere from two weeks to six months in jail. Then they're sent back to their home country.

Maria Tovar came looking for work as a maid. She says she won't try to cross here again because she was treated like a criminal.

The word seems to be out. These days, this stretch of the Rio Grande is quiet.

In Eagle Pass, apprehensions have dropped 71 percent in one year, and with agents spending less time chasing people, drug seizures have jumped more than 300 percent.

"We have gotten to the point where we have a very safe, controlled border out here that we didn't have in the past," Border Patrol agent Randy Clark says.

The strategy could be a model for other parts of the border. It works along this stretch because they have jail space and judges who can handle the workload. Even so, Dub Cunningham worries illegal immigrants will eventually find another way in.

"You got to understand that we're sitting next to a country that's over-populated, under-employed with a corrupt government and you can't blame one of them for leaving that situation," he says.

Still, he's thankful for the peace this program has brought to his land.

http://kdka.com/national/topstories_story_060025659.html

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

imagine that

[William33 110]

We need more border vigilante's

Protect our borders I say.

Why should we allow a daily breach of the border, yet we all (citizens) go through hell at every checkpoint?

Edit to add: Good to see you Gary. Where have you been?

Edited March 15, 2007 by William33

[beameup 0]

I'm sure that the ACLU will be filing a lawsuit against these "gunslinging" Texans.

And when Ted Kennedy and the Liberal Democrats get wind of this I'm sure they will cry "foul!" and demand

reparations for these "downtrodden" souls.

(CBS News) EAGLE PASS, Texas Texas rancher Dub Cunningham can drive right up to the front line of the immigration war. For decades, he's watched illegal immigrants flood across his land, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports.

"Some of them, you want to cry when you see them. Others, you want to cut their throats," Cunningham says.

In the past few years, they've been crossing by the hundreds every day, keeping border patrol agents so busy they had little time to chase the drug runners who worked this territory as well. It was so bad, Cunningham wouldn't show his face when he spoke with CBS News seven years ago. Times have changed.

"Definitely seen a dramatic improvement. The numbers have decreased so much," Cunningham says today.

That's because the days of being captured — then released — are over. Now, every man or woman caught crossing the border illegally here is prosecuted and put behind bars.

Instead of an overnight stay in a detention center, illegal immigrants have spent anywhere from two weeks to six months in jail. Then they're sent back to their home country.

Maria Tovar came looking for work as a maid. She says she won't try to cross here again because she was treated like a criminal.

The word seems to be out. These days, this stretch of the Rio Grande is quiet.

In Eagle Pass, apprehensions have dropped 71 percent in one year, and with agents spending less time chasing people, drug seizures have jumped more than 300 percent.

"We have gotten to the point where we have a very safe, controlled border out here that we didn't have in the past," Border Patrol agent Randy Clark says.

The strategy could be a model for other parts of the border. It works along this stretch because they have jail space and judges who can handle the workload. Even so, Dub Cunningham worries illegal immigrants will eventually find another way in.

"You got to understand that we're sitting next to a country that's over-populated, under-employed with a corrupt government and you can't blame one of them for leaving that situation," he says.

Still, he's thankful for the peace this program has brought to his land.

http://kdka.com/national/topstories_story_060025659.html

[Reba 2]

still lots are getting through though!

Illegals detained, released

By Todd Huffman

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Burke County Sheriff's Deputy Chase Foss watches over 11 illegal immigrants found Wednesday morning traveling on Interstate 40 near Jamestown Road.

Todd Huffman (The News Herald)

Morganton - A Burke County deputy stopped a car he says was carrying 11 illegal immigrants on Interstate 40 Wednesday morning.

The U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement had no place for the people, so deputies released them, they say.

Deputy Brandon Crotts says he was driving on I-40 near Causby Road when he saw a Chevrolet Suburban with a license tag he couldn’t read.

He says he pulled the vehicle over near the Jamestown Road exit, where he says the driver admitted to being in the country illegally.

Crotts says he saw three Hispanic men in the cargo area of the Suburban and one woman with a 1-month-old infant among the people crowded into the vehicle.

“They were very cooperative,” Crotts says. “I asked the driver if they were illegal, and he said yes.”

He says the driver told him they had pooled their money to buy the vehicle in Arizona two days ago and were traveling to New York to look for work.

“I don’t know how they’re going to get there,” he says. “They didn’t have $100 between them.”

Crotts and another deputy detained the 11 people and called the immigration and customs office in Charlotte, he says.

Initially, he says he was told the agency would accept the 11 people for deportation if Sheriff’s deputies could deliver the group. Crotts says a supervisor called him back and said the agency had nowhere to put 11 people.

Instead, Crotts says he was told to release them. “It’s frustrating,” he says. “We stop them, that’s all we can do.” Crotts says seeing illegal immigrants on I-40 is nothing new. “We see them all the time,” he says “Just not this many at a time.”

Detention Sgt. Sam Crump says the two Burke County jails didn’t have the necessary space to detain the 11 people, either.

Sheriff John T. McDevitt says this isn’t the first time this has happened. “(Immigration agency) is overworked and underpaid, too,” he says. “I don’t doubt it when they say they couldn’t handle them.” Crotts gave the people their identification cards and told them they were free to go.

Deputy Chase Foss even took time before they left to properly install a car seat that the infant was riding in.

Edited March 15, 2007 by Reba

[peejay 327]

still lots are getting through though!

And that is the basis that the Mexican government and misguided American bleeding hearts use as a basis for blanket amnesty and a free ride for illegals. They constantly bleat that when illegals get 100 miles from the border they should get a free ticket and no interior enforcement of immigration laws because they are "established" here.

That is about as lame and retarded as letting a burgler or any other thief keep their ill gotten gains because they successfully fled the scene of the crime.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

Maria Tovar came looking for work as a maid. She says she won't try to cross here again because she was treated like a criminal.

[almaty 19]

I'm sure that the ACLU will be filing a lawsuit against these "gunslinging" Texans.

And when Ted Kennedy and the Liberal Democrats get wind of this I'm sure they will cry "foul!" and demand

reparations for these "downtrodden" souls.

(CBS News) EAGLE PASS, Texas Texas rancher Dub Cunningham can drive right up to the front line of the immigration war. For decades, he's watched illegal immigrants flood across his land, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports.

"Some of them, you want to cry when you see them. Others, you want to cut their throats," Cunningham says.

In the past few years, they've been crossing by the hundreds every day, keeping border patrol agents so busy they had little time to chase the drug runners who worked this territory as well. It was so bad, Cunningham wouldn't show his face when he spoke with CBS News seven years ago. Times have changed.

"Definitely seen a dramatic improvement. The numbers have decreased so much," Cunningham says today.

That's because the days of being captured — then released — are over. Now, every man or woman caught crossing the border illegally here is prosecuted and put behind bars.

Instead of an overnight stay in a detention center, illegal immigrants have spent anywhere from two weeks to six months in jail. Then they're sent back to their home country.

Maria Tovar came looking for work as a maid. She says she won't try to cross here again because she was treated like a criminal.

The word seems to be out. These days, this stretch of the Rio Grande is quiet.

In Eagle Pass, apprehensions have dropped 71 percent in one year, and with agents spending less time chasing people, drug seizures have jumped more than 300 percent.

"We have gotten to the point where we have a very safe, controlled border out here that we didn't have in the past," Border Patrol agent Randy Clark says.

The strategy could be a model for other parts of the border. It works along this stretch because they have jail space and judges who can handle the workload. Even so, Dub Cunningham worries illegal immigrants will eventually find another way in.

"You got to understand that we're sitting next to a country that's over-populated, under-employed with a corrupt government and you can't blame one of them for leaving that situation," he says.

Still, he's thankful for the peace this program has brought to his land.

http://kdka.com/national/topstories_story_060025659.html

since when is bush a democrat, he supports this type of illegal sh!t..kissing the azz of the mexican president

[Peikko 1,575]

Let me ask you this, how difficult is it for you to obey the law? How often do you have to say to yourself, "I really shouldn't be doing this, it's illegal?" My guess is, your most challenging daily legal challenge is whether to obey the traffic laws on your way to and from work. Yet, you sit there and congratulate yourself for being an upright and law abiding citizen.

Now, ask yourself how law abiding you would be if every morning you woke up wondering how to legally get enough food to feed yourself and your family and every day you struggle to survive? Maybe you live amongst many people who are in the same position. Maybe because you are with others in this position you are able to tell yourself, tomorrow, things will be better, an opportunity will come along. But maybe because you can see the vast inequality between your life, your struggle for subsistance and the lives of others who have everything to survive and the opportunity, tools and resources to go forward beyond subsistance and have luxuries as well, just maybe at that point you might struggle with chosing to do what is legal, but brings no relief, and something that is illegal but could bring you some quality into your life.

To compare these people with burgalars and the like is quite frankly ludicrous.

I am not for one minute suggesting that any single citizen is personally responsible for all the suffering that goes on in the world, or that the US is the only country that should take ownership for welfare of the world, but to sit there and mock those who are in pitiful circumstances when you don't even know what it's like to be faced with anything like this kind of situation is repugnant.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

It's not at all difficult to obey the law if you're not putting yourself in the position of breaking it everyday by being somewhere you have no right to be. They are burglers; they've broken into our home and now feel free to demand that we serve them.

You know what I really don't know what it's like to be? An arrogant, demanding, international thief and lawbreaker who comes into someone else's space and reviles you for not allowing them to stay and suck off of you and yours. They and those who support them are who's repungnant. You want to be angry with someone? Be angry at the socio-economics where they come from that rather kick them out than allow them to prosper. Have you EVER considered making some demands of them to stand up to their government rather than standing up to ours?

Mexico is a rich country. It's not like they have no money or means down there. They are corrupt and don't care about their people. Now, our government is becoming much like theirs; it doesn't give a sh!t about us either. So, what we have now is the US caring more about illegals than its own citizens, Mexico caring more about illegals than what its doing to US citizens, and people like you who go by their feelings rather than reason.

We have feelings too, only we put those who are here legally first. Anything else is foolish and not in our best interest.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

It's not at all difficult to obey the law if you're not putting yourself in the position of breaking it everyday by being somewhere you have no right to be. They are burglers; they've broken into our home and now feel free to demand that we serve them.

You know what I really don't know what it's like to be? An arrogant, demanding, international thief and lawbreaker who comes into someone else's space and reviles you for not allowing them to stay and suck off of you and yours. They and those who support them are who's repungnant. You want to be angry with someone? Be angry at the socio-economics where they come from that rather kick them out than allow them to prosper. Have you EVER considered making some demands of them to stand up to their government rather than standing up to ours?

Mexico is a rich country. It's not like they have no money or means down there. They are corrupt and don't care about their people. Now, our government is becoming much like theirs; it doesn't give a sh!t about us either. So, what we have now is the US caring more about illegals than its own citizens, Mexico caring more about illegals than what its doing to US citizens, and people like you who go by their feelings rather than reason.

We have feelings too, only we put those who are here legally first. Anything else is foolish and not in our best interest.

[Peikko 1,575]

As for Bush, I suspect a lot of it has to do with him worrying about his 'legacy' as president.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

If advocating illegal behavior is his legacy, you are a cheerleader for him.

[Peikko 1,575]

It's not at all difficult to obey the law if you're not putting yourself in the position of breaking it everyday by being somewhere you have no right to be. They are burglers; they've broken into our home and now feel free to demand that we serve them.

You know what I really don't know what it's like to be? An arrogant, demanding, international thief and lawbreaker who comes into someone else's space and reviles you for not allowing them to stay and suck off of you and yours. They and those who support them are who's repungnant. You want to be angry with someone? Be angry at the socio-economics where they come from that rather kick them out than allow them to prosper. Have you EVER considered making some demands of them to stand up to their government rather than standing up to ours?

Mexico is a rich country. It's not like they have no money or means down there. They are corrupt and don't care about their people. Now, our government is becoming much like theirs; it doesn't give a sh!t about us either. So, what we have now is the US caring more about illegals than its own citizens, Mexico caring more about illegals than what its doing to US citizens, and people like you who go by their feelings rather than reason.

We have feelings too, only we put those who are here legally first. Anything else is foolish and not in our best interest.

You are either extrememly stupid, or you deliberately choose to misinturpret what's written to satisfy some need you have that I simply can't comprehend.

if advocating illegal behavior is his legacy, you are a cheerleader for him

The jury is out as to which it is.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

You are either extrememly stupid, or you deliberately choose to misinturpret what's written to satisfy some need you have that I simply can't comprehend.

If you can't comprend it, you're calling the wrong person stupid.

Edited March 15, 2007 by Green-eyed girl