Why do you think our government is refusing to enforce Federal immigration laws?

Question

The government and politicians just are not acknowledging that our current laws are not being enforced. They go off on tangents like "we need new laws." Why pass new laws when the borders are not secure and there is little to no attempt to enforce the existing laws?

kapute2: Atty Gen Gonzalez admitted on live TV, CSpan, that 20 human traffikers had been caught as many as 9 times, just at one border patrol station, yet in the past year his office has declined prosecution of even one of these criminals. This is NOT enforcement.

r1b1c: The last immigration reform laws were passed in 1986. Amnesty was given to the illegals. That is hardly half a century.

Answer 1

Maybe this has something to do with the non enforcement of our nations laws against illegal aliens....Just food for thought..

President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.

Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.

President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed.

The blueprint President Bush is following was laid out in a 2005 report entitled "Building a North American Community" published by the left-of-center Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR report connects the dots between the Bush administration's actual policy on illegal immigration and the drive to create the North American Union:

At their meeting in Waco, Texas, at the end of March 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin committed their governments to a path of cooperation and joint action. We welcome this important development and offer this report to add urgency and specific recommendations to strengthen their efforts.

What is the plan? Simple, erase the borders. The plan is contained in a "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" little noticed when President Bush and President Fox created it in March 2005:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965

If there are going to be no borders why bother with enforcing laws? Bush is pure evil.

Answer 2

Because their ultimate goal is to make the US, mexico & Canada into one nation....called the North American Union. There is evidence of this in many things the government is doing...the Trans-Texas Corridor which will eventually go from the border to Canada.....at Fort Sam Houston they changed the patches on the uniforms to show all of North America rather than only the USA - they now call themselves USArmy-North. If this happens Americans will no longer be protected by the constitution!

Colorado has passed what they call Referendum K which is a law suit against the federal govt. to take them to court to make them enforce the immigration laws....they are trying to get other states to "go in" with them...everyone needs to contact their governor & attorney general to try to get as many states as possible to join in.....

Answer 3

you're being disingenuous, we ARE enforcing our laws, just not consistently, and we always give the illegals a court date and trust them to show up. by saying we don't enforce the laws you make it seem as if they can go into a court and say they're here illegally with no repercussions, which is not true. I do agree we should make the consequences more sever when they're caught

Answer 4

The government DOES enforce immigration laws, every day -- that's what the Immigration Service does, and what the people at the border do. So your question really comes down to, "Why don't we enforce immigration laws MORE?"

The answer is, "Because Congress has determined that it's not as high a priority as other laws." Congress has to decide where to spend limited resources, and spending a billion dollars on rounding up illegal immigrants has a lower priority than spending the same billion dollars on any one of hundreds of other worthy projects. Congress' real job is to decide priorities for spending -- hence the border fence along the Mexican border is gettnig built, because it's relatively cheap -- but hiring thousand more people for immigration enforcement just isn't worth it, Congress has decided.

Anti-illegal immigration advocates often say that we should crack down on companies that hire illegal immigrants, or other methods where we don't have to hire a lot of new immigration enforcement agents. What those laws would really do is shift the burden of enforcement to companies from a government agency. The cost would be the same -- it would just be paid by companies (and their customers, which means us) rather than by the government (and the taxpayers, which means us). The cost of enforcement is more or less the same by either method.

I would oppose any laws that try to get companies to enforce immigration laws, because it converts companies into police, and I don't want to live in a police state. Given the choice, I'd rather have government-hired immigration police than make every person who hires anyone into half-police.

My bias is that I also oppose most other immigration enforcement. I'd rather see our resources spent fighting against violent criminals than against people who don't have the right papers to work here. It's fine to deport illegal aliens who are caught committing other crimes -- that's enough enforcement for me.

Answer 5

because they are afraid if they enforce the laws some people will call them racist and not vote, so they have to change the laws so that no one will be offended....

I say enforce our laws, protect our borders.. and send illegals home.

Answer 6

They want the Mexican's votes when they become citizens, ahead of the other people in line.

Answer 7

I sort of agree with monreda,cept the part about after the elections they will something,they wont,its just another campaign effort.

Answer 8

They get paid by lobbies not to enforce them.

The lobbies are for companies that use the cheap labor produced by the illegal immigrants (can pay them less than min wage). One of the lobbies is probably the USDA itself.

Answer 9

We need laws that address the issue of those that are already here, and we need laws that reflect our reality today, not half a century ago.

Answer 10

they will do something after the elections. they want them votes. one side will play with the americans. and the other side will play with the illegals and legal family members. after votes, they will do something.