The United States government does not want to deport any more illegal aliens than they are absolutely forced to deport. From the presidential administration to the lowest level bureaucrat in the descending chain of multiple agencies, this policy may not be written down in black and white, but it would be impossible to make it any clearer. This policy has not changed much in thirty years and despite which party controls the congress or the oval office, it has remained relatively consistent. Not only does the federal government not want to deport the illegal aliens, they don’t want to even think of such a thing, because the fact of the matter is, they couldn’t do it if they wanted to.
There is no federal agency of the United States government that hunts down illegal aliens and deports them.
The widely dispersed Border Patrol is charged with keeping illegal aliens out of the country along the border, however, the fact that approximately 8,000 illegal aliens successfully enter the country without authorization every day is not exactly a testament to the Border Patrol’s competence, and it should come as news to no one that the low morale of the Border Patrol agents is the result of giving too big a job and to too few people in a top-heavy agency with an over-abundance of poor quality, empire building, narcissists, politically appointed management control-freaks attempting to enforce on the rank and file agent, an operational policy that is entirely contrary to the express purpose for which they were created, and that is, the detection and prevention of the illegal entry of aliens and smuggling of illegal contraband into the United States across either the northern or the southern borders. Once an illegal alien is past the Border Patrol’s area of surveillance, they are pretty much home free. Unless they are caught committing a crime in one of the few scattered areas where the local police check the immigration status of those they arrest, they can go where they want without fear of being apprehended.
The Office of Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) is responsible for promoting public safety and national security by making certain through the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws that all removable aliens depart the United States, however by their own admission, they are not very good at what they do. DRO is one of several support divisions in the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DRO does not actively pursue the illegal aliens on their list and most federal and state law enforcement agencies along with the Social Security Administration and the IRS absolutely refuse to give them any assistance or information on the people they are suppose to be looking for. The DRO merely waits until some other law enforcement agency apprehends one of their listed illegal aliens for a crime, and if by some miracle, they are notified, or they hear about one of their charges in the newspaper after he got drunk and ploughed his broken-down, uninsured car into a mini-van full of kindergarten children, then they can take action (such as it might be). If they are not notified because of sanctuary policies or for some other reason, they are SOL. Despite there being more than 20 million estimated illegal aliens currently in the country, this agencies list has less than 900,000 names on it.
The Compliance Enforcement Unit (CEU) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is dedicated to the enforcement of nonimmigrant visa violations. Their job is to monitor the millions of foreign students, tourists, and temporary workers present in the U.S. at any one time and identify those that violate the rules of their immigration status or overstay their visa. The lack of resources and massive snags in their software development has rendered this group fairly inoperable. Of the estimated 500,000 Visa violations recorded every year CEU manages to deal with approximately 3,000 cases.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has the overall responsibility for identify and remove illegal aliens, however, beyond the illegal aliens that make it to the DRO list of what the federal government considers to be a “criminal alien,” and those who would be listed by CEU if they had software that actually worked as it should (which they don’t), ICE is amazingly unconcerned about the growing number of illegal aliens. Until they recently started stirring things up the news media and the liberal Democrats with sporadic workplace immigration raids, few people had even heard of ICE. Despite the sensational news coverage their raids get in the press, at the rate they are now going it would take ICE more than 300 years to deport every illegal alien in this country. Their effectiveness couldn’t get much lower, and “total incompetence” fails to adequately describe their performance.
Hunting down illegal aliens and deporting them is not the Border Patrol’s job, it is not the job of the Office of Detention and Removal Operations, the Compliance Enforcement Unit will get back to us on what their job is once they get their software to work so they can figure it out, and ICE has so many different jobs that all they can do is dabble with immigration enforcement like it was a passing hobby. So in our vast system of government who’s job is it to hunt down illegal aliens and deport them? It’s nobody’s job and the U.S. government wants to keep it that way.
Julie Myers, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is doing her part to convince the American people that it is far too costly to realistically consider the deportation of 12 million illegal aliens. Ms. Myers’ publicly guesstimated that it would cost the federal government approximately $94 Billion dollars to find, detain and remove the 12 million illegal aliens her department estimate are in the United States today. In all honesty, Julie Meyers is wildly exaggerating. It would cost much more than what she has estimated. The U.S. government has never before faced a problem of this magnitude and there is no specific group within the U.S. government that is designed to handle something of this nature.
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower initiated “Operation Wetback,” to address the issue of an influx of illegal aliens from Mexico into the southwestern United States. In a letter to Sen. William Fulbright, Eisenhower quoted a report in The New York Times that said: “The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican ‘wetbacks’ to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government.” Eisenhower was becoming increasingly concerned that profits from illegal labor led to corruption. An on-and-off guest-worker program for Mexicans was operating at the time, and farmers and ranchers in the Southwest were becoming far too dependent on the additional low-cost laborers that the guest-worker program supplied. “Operation Wetback” began in California and Arizona and coordinated 1,075 Border Patrol agents along with state and local police agencies to mount a crackdown. There were police raids of Mexican-American neighborhoods, random stops and ID checks of people who appeared to be of Mexican descent in a region of the United States where many Native Americans and native Hispanics then lived. Illegal aliens were deported along with their American-born children and the police were stopping people in the streets asking for identification papers. 750 agents targeted agricultural areas with a goal of 1000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, 1954, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Approximately 488,000 people fled the country for fear of being apprehended. By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and the INS estimates that 500,000-700,000 people had left Texas voluntarily. Those who were deported were put on buses and trains and taken deep into Mexico before being set free to discourage their return. Thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio and ferried from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south. In a bit less than one year approximately 80,000 Mexican nationals had been deported and another 500,000 to 700,000 illegal aliens had voluntarily repatriated themselves to Mexico to avoid apprehension.
The United States currently has twenty times the number of illegal aliens that motivated former President Eisenhower to implement his program back in 1954. The farmers and ranchers in the American Southwest have become even more dependent on the low-cost illegal alien labor than their predecessors were in 1954 but in the last 53 years the associated agricultural industry has gained significant political power that they didn’t have in 1954. Today they openly flaunt the immigration laws of this country and ignore the government’s attempt to regulate guest workers. The openly encourage illegal aliens to enter the U.S. and recruit illegal farm workers in rural areas on both sides of the border. If the United States granted full amnesty to the estimated 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S. today, the farmers and ranchers would get rid of the newly legalized aliens working for them and recruit new illegal aliens to come to the U.S. and go to work for them. The newly legalized aliens would expect a higher wage along with their change in legal status, they would expect to be covered under Worker’s Compensation, and they might even begin to organize themselves into collective bargaining groups as they did after the 1986 amnesty. The simple fact of the matter is that American farmers and ranchers will not use legal workers because it cuts into the profits they make and they know that as long as they continue to lobby Washington and dump money into the campaign coffers of American politicians they will be allowed to continue doing business the way they see fit and until the American people force their representatives in Washington to deal with the employers who are the root cause of the illegal alien problem, the problem will continue to grow.
Former President Eisenhower clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of strong and aggressive enforcement and despite what Julie Myers would like the American people to think, the federal government cut significantly cut down the number of illegal aliens in this country for a lot less than $94 Billion dollars. The mass deportation of 100,000 illegal aliens from the U.S. would throw every illegal alien in this country into a state of panic and hundreds of thousands would voluntarily leave the U.S. at their own expense. According to Julie Myers’ own calculation the cost of deporting 100,000 illegal aliens would be around $4 billion dollars. Another alternative would be to aggressively prosecute and imprison the owners of the top 1000 companies in the U.S. who hire illegal aliens. When the consequences of running an illegal business outweigh the potential benefit few will be willing to take the risk, and when the employment opportunities for illegal aliens are gone, the illegal aliens will be gone as well.
Regadless of how it is implemented, enforcement of the law is the one solution to the illegal alien problem that can guarantee success, doing nothing will only make the problem worse.
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