Should Obama grant free passage to illegals who are doing the right thing and leaving?
Question by Typical California Liberal: Should Obama grant free passage to illegals who are doing the right thing and leaving?
There is one issue that open borders advocates and enforcement advocates agree on: Illegals should be granted safe passage out of the country.
It seems that Obama wants to boost his deportation numbers by going after easy targets, plus catching them on the way out might make them reconsider leaving. What do you think?
Illegal immigrants who decide to leave the United States because of increasing enforcement and decreasing job prospects now face one more obstacle: the threat of arrest and deportation by border officers inspecting outbound traffic.
When illegal immigrants are detected trying to leave the country, they are not just ushered across the line, said Bonnie Arellano, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Instead, their information is entered into a database before they are allowed to return to Mexico.
Some immigrant advocates say the CBP policy deters illegal immigrants from leaving the country, even though that’s supposed to be the government’s goal.
“It demonstrates the inconsistency and contradictions within our laws,” said Isabel Garcia, co-chair of Derechos Humanos, an immigrant-rights group in Tucson. “Instead of permitting people who want to leave, we punish them in this fashion. . . . What purpose does this serve?”
Garcia said she believes the objective is to bolster CBP arrest statistics: “It’s all about the numbers.”
Even some groups dedicated to border security and immigration controls are critical of the federal policy. William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, last week called on the government to adopt a “safe passage” program allowing undocumented immigrants to depart without negative consequences.
“We are asking the Obama administration to designate border checkpoints that illegal immigrants can use to leave the U.S. without fear,” he said. “This is about the only situation we would ever advocate that our immigration laws be waived.”
Until last year, the government only sporadically checked vehicles and pedestrians leaving the United States at all Mexican land ports. However, the Obama administration, in an effort to intercept weapons and cartel money, set up full-time checkpoints with barricades on southbound lanes.
Best answer:
Answer by Frank Capoano
It is all about incentives.
I read that some illegals can’t afford the bus pass home as well. I think we should set up a charity that would go to their bus passes back so their exit could be as easy as possible. What is the point of this policy, to scare them into staying? To boost deportation numbers so they don’t have to work as hard going after the illegals that won’t leave on their own?
What do you think? Answer below!