Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Homeland Security To Step Up Enforcement Efforts Against Employers Of Illegal Aliens

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano soon will direct federal agents to focus more on arresting and prosecuting American employers than the illegal laborers who sneak into the country to work for them, department officials said Monday.

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"She is focused on using our limited resources to the greatest effect, targeting criminal aliens and employers that flout our laws and deliberately cultivate an illegal workforce," the official said.

Homeland Security officials emphasized that the department would not stop conducting sweeps of businesses while more structural changes to U.S. immigration law and policy were being contemplated.


OK, so one of the middle steps in the Chad plan is going to be implemented (supposedly - given the nature of the Democrat party I am not sure I believe it yet. I want to see some raids on employers). Let's assume this is for real and not just away for the Obama administration to put off enforcement efforts while "building cases", and there is some concern about that as this guy points out:

Michael W. Cutler, a retired senior special INS agent, said the Obama administration needed to go after workers and employers to send a message that it would not condone illegal immigration.

"Who is more responsible for prostitution, the hookers or the johns? It is a shared responsibility," said Cutler, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, a group opposed to illegal immigration.

He said it would be "dumb" to "go after employers and not the illegal aliens. That means they are going to make very few arrests. And the message that sends is that if you can make it across the border, you're home free. No one is going to be looking for you."


Then it would be a good first step. Now let's get to work on improving border enforcement and deporting criminals.

Speaking of deporting criminals. We need some of those intestinator things like in the movie Fortress so that if a criminal crosses the border again his guts explode. But I digress.

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