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Ever try to put shoes on a reluctant toddler? You can trap their leg under your arm to keep it still, and you can get a good grip on their foot, but when you try to get that shoe on, they can still scrunch up their toes. And of course, the minute you turn your back, the shoes are off again. So it is with federal illegal immigration enforcement.
We can kick and scream and get Congress to pass a law mandating a fence be built. Then they drag their feet, find reasons to not comply, and when the do build the fence, make sure it’s the wrong kind. So we try to get a new law passed. Yeah, that’ll work.
We can demand that locals be permitted to get involved in enforcement, instead of simply accepting the premise that it’s federal law and they’re prohibited from doing so. Then the feds drag their feet and fail to live up to their end of the bargain, offering a multitude of reasons why they can’t do it yet. (Be patient! We’ll get to that soon! Real soon. Trust us!)
A highly touted partnership between the Prince William County jail and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is showing signs of strain, as crowding at the facility has hit an all-time high and federal agents are taking weeks — not the agreed-upon 72 hours — to pick up illegal immigrant suspects, jail officials said.
Detainee Program Strains Va. Jail – washingtonpost.com
Newsflash: they’re never going to have the bedspace to take custody of these folks because they don’t want to have it. They don’t intend to have it. And the irony is that they don’t really need to have it; they could focus on streamlining the deportation process by removing the right to appeal from within the country, and such a law would have more than enough public support to be passed. It would be easy enough to ship people home and let them appeal from there, and paying for transport is far cheaper than paying for housing.
All they need to do is stall and pretend to comply until they can push through “comprehensive immigration reform” which is what they admit they want. And that’s how it’s going to play out.
