illegal imigrants

[special ED]

now that jobs are so hard to come by and people are taking anything they can find {according to the news reports} do you think that time has come to start shipping illegal imigrants back to their homeland or should we just leave them alone?

[logical]

Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) DOES send illegal immigrants back when they are caught.  However, DHS doesn't have an endless supply of $$ to go after every illegal immigrant that is in this country.  Bottom line it comes down to money.

[Loctavious]

I heard that there was a report a few evenings ago about migrant workers working in border towns were out of work now too and were heading back to their homes ( some lived in South America ) to look for any sort of work.  Thus one more silver lining of the bad economy to follow lower gas prices.

[Stand Alone Defense]

I work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and we do Deport Illegal Aliens everyday.  We have a whole department called DRO (Detention and Removal Operations)that is their sole purpose.  The numbers for last year ICE removed a record 276,912 illegal aliens, including voluntary removals, from the United States.  I will say that we concentrate on Criminal Aliens before Illegal workers,  but we do a lot of work site enforcement also.  Work site enforcement though is not a highlight of the new administration and is running a risk of (in my opinion) being cut all together.  They are saying that it is unfair to target the Illegal Aliens like that.   It's not a big problem in Vermont but to give you an idea of how bad it is in some areas.  There was a raid on a Tyson chicken factory in Virginia and over 500 illegals were working there.  That's a lot of American job and that is just one example.  Here is something that came out yesterday.  cut and paste.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/18/pelosi-tells-illegal-immigrants-work-site-raids-american/