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A lesson in open-borders math
MICHELLE MALKIN
The New York Times is always ready and willing to serve as lead public
relations staffers for the open-borders movement. On May Day, the day of
mass illegal alien protests across the country, the paper saw fit to print a
front-page sob story decrying rising illegal alien deportations.
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, facing intense political
pressure to toughen enforcement (read: do their jobs), removed 221,664
illegal immigrants from the country over the last year," the Times reported
ominously. That's "an increase of more than 37,000 - about 20 percent - over
the year before, according to the agency's tally."
221,664. Big number. It certainly sounds like we're getting serious about
immigration enforcement, if you believe what the Times tells you.
But you know better than that. It's what the paper didn't tell you that
provides the truly alarming news. Far from a nation that takes its
immigration laws seriously, we remain in a shoddy, dangerous state of
immigration non-enforcement nearly six years after the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks - chaos that will only worsen if Congress and the White House join
hands on a "comprehensive" illegal alien amnesty plan.
In March, the Homeland Security Department's inspector general disclosed the
feds have lost track of 623,292 fugitive illegal aliens. These "absconders"
were apprehended by immigration officers, placed in the immigration court
system, ordered out of the country and released. Never to be seen again.
221,664 "removed" illegal aliens vs. 623,292 released illegal alien
fugitives.
In other words: There are nearly three times as many officially designated
illegal alien fugitives freed by the feds as there are illegal aliens who
have been removed over the last year.
This inconvenient truth was glossed over by the Times.
So was this: Despite more than $204 million earmarked since 2003 for 52
special fugitive operations teams across the country, the "backlog of
fugitive alien cases has increased each fiscal year since the 'fugitive
apprehension' program was established in February 2002." The DHS inspector
general's office explains that thousands of illegal aliens ignore orders to
appear at their immigration hearings. Of the 460,000-plus immigration judge
decisions and administrative closures issued by the Executive Office of
Immigration and Review between 2001- 2004, 39 percent were issued to illegal
aliens who had been released but later failed to appear at their respective
immigration hearings.
And the total number of aliens failing to appear is increasing. In fact,
according to DHS's Detention and Removal Office, 85 percent of the illegal
aliens released that have been issued final orders of removal will abscond.
That goes not just for illegal aliens from Mexico, but for illegal aliens
from terror-friendly and terror-sponsoring nations. Homeland security? What
homeland security?
Compounding the danger: The federal Detention and Removal Office estimates
that in 2007, "there will be 605,000 foreign-born individuals admitted to
state correctional facilities and local jails during the year for committing
crimes in the U.S. Of this number, the office estimates half will be
removable aliens. Currently, most of these incarcerated aliens are being
released into the U.S. at the conclusion of their respective sentences due
to the lack of DRO resources." That's upwards of 300,000 convicted criminal
aliens who will walk out of their cells and onto the streets. Never to be
seen again.
Just doing the context-setting and number-crunching the rest of the
mainstream media won't do. Now, back to your regularly scheduled, emotion-
driven, one-sided coverage of America the Oppressor. Over to you, New York
Times.
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