Saturday, May 31, 2014

ICE in Action

What if I were to tell you that when illegal aliens caught crossing the border into Texas from Mexico were being put on Greyhound buses and sent to places like Phoenix, New York and Maryland, where they were dropped off to fend for themselves? You would say I was making it up, right?

Read on.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/31/officials-under-fire-for-dumping-illegal-immigrants-in-us/?intcmp=latestnews

What say you, Jeh Johnson?


"Uh, I think I heard about it."



This is a mess that people on all sides of the issue can agree on. It is outrageous. In a normal world, since these are Central Americans who traveled through Mexico to get here, the right thing to do would be to turn them over to Mexican authorities at the border. There's just one problem: We all know that the Mexicans are not going to shoulder this problem and transport them back to the their countries of origin. We don't even want to think about what the Mexican authorities would do. At best, they would put them on a bus to Mazatlan or some other place and let them fend for themselves, which is what we are doing.

So what's the solution, Fousesquawk?

Secure the border.
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3 comments:

  1. elwood p sugginsMay 31, 2014 at 9:16 AM

    Is this is not almost a little bit like back in the day when, after the slave trade was "abolished", our Federal government would seize slave ships and then, you got it, the cargo would be sold to U.S. slaveholders to remain slaves??

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  2. Gary FouseMay 31, 2014 at 10:20 AM

    That I don't know, but we did make it illegal to import slaves before we abolished slavery itself.

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  3. elwood p sugginsMay 31, 2014 at 1:58 PM

    I was just pointing out the apparent/obvious inconsistency with what I would understand the mission of ICE to be.

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