Red Chicago

Bush gets tough on immigration

In a signing ceremony authorizing the 32 Billion Homeland security budget, President Bush stepped-up his push for immigration reform saying:

• We've got to stop people from coming here in the first place.
• Secondly, we must improve our ability to find and apprehend illegal immigrants who've made it across the border. If somebody is here illegally, we've got to do everything we can to find them.
• Thirdly, we've got to work to ensure that those who are caught are returned to their home countries as soon as possible.

I would think that this is just talk, but Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff promised Tuesday to end the "catch and release" policy that has allowed tens of thousands of non-Mexican illegal aliens to disappear within the United States.

"Return every single illegal entrant -- no exceptions," Chertoff said in prepared testimony to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on proposals to overhaul the immigration system.

Sound like they are finally taking boarder control seriously

posted by Red Chicago @ 12:19 PM