The war on immigration is not a reality and I don't know anybody who wants to
deny LEGAL immigrants access. The government will definitely try to use the
problems caused by illegals to implement something of that kind. Fortunately I
believe most people are just a little bit more intelligent then the government
gives them credit for and won't accept anything like the real ID act.....We'll
see.
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January 24, 2008
"Your Papers, Citizen. . . Sorry, Not Good Enough"
Posted by Anthony Gregory at January 24, 2008 06:02 PM
The government can't do anything right. "Thomas Warziniack was born in
Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an
illegal immigrant from Russia. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held
Warziniack for weeks in an Arizona detention facility with the aim of deporting
him to a country he's never seen. His jailers shrugged off Warziniack's claims
that he was an American citizen, even though they could have retrieved his
Minnesota birth certificate in minutes and even though a Colorado court had
concluded that he was a U.S. citizen a year before it shipped him to Arizona."
"The immigration agents told me they never make mistakes," Warziniack said in
a phone interview from jail. "All I know is that somebody dropped the ball."
This is nothing anomalous, apparently. "U.S. citizens who are mistakenly
jailed by immigration authorities can get caught up in a nightmarish
bureaucratic tangle in which they're simply not believed. An unpublished study
by the Vera Institute of Justice, a New York nonprofit organization, in 2006
identified 125 people in immigration detention centers across the nation who
immigration lawyers believed had valid U.S. citizenship claims."
How many illegal immigrants does the US fail to catch? Millions. But of the
many thousands harassed and put in detention centers (where, unlike on the free
market, they get food and clothing paid for by the taxpayer) it looks like a
non-negligible number are citizens. Hmmm. As messy as things are with the
unsatisfactory status quo, I shudder at the thought of what a real crack down
on illegal aliens would look like.
Thanks to Jason Ditz for the link.
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