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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (44478)	1/15/2006 9:01:31 AM
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Open borders you say? We cant fill up the empty houses if we send them away eh? Who will cut your grass and clean your dirty dishes at red lobster? today.reuters.com New program in Texas jails illegal immigrants Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:45 PM ET By Tim Gaynor EAGLE PASS, Texas (Reuters) - A pilot program that jails all illegal immigrants crossing into this Texas border town from Mexico has led to a dramatic fall in numbers attempting the journey, the U.S. Office of Border Patrol said on Friday. A program known as Operation Streamline II, instituted on December 12, is aimed mostly at non-Mexican illegal immigrants who were arrested and released because Border Patrol agents did not have sufficient space to jail them. The blanket crackdown is also being applied to undocumented Mexicans who were previously subject to criminal background checks and released back over the Rio Grande without charges. The U.S. Marshals Service has freed up 1,000 beds in several county jails abutting the Border Patrol region that includes Eagle Pass, Texas, to accommodate the growing number of immigrants. "The message is one of zero tolerance to all illegal immigrants, whether they are Mexican or (non-Mexican) nationals," said Hilario Leal, the U.S. Border Patrol's spokesman for the sector that includes Eagle Pass. "It appears to be getting out by word-of-mouth and through the media south of the border, as the numbers attempting to cross has fallen dramatically." Since the pilot program began around Eagle Pass, 140 miles west of San Antonio, the number of undocumented immigrants picked up by Border Patrol agents has dwindled to 10 a day, down from highs of around 150 a day in mid-2005, officials said. The U.S. Office of Border Patrol said 740 illegal immigrants have been arrested and charged with misdemeanor illegal entry under the program. They are tried in federal court and jailed for up to 180 days pending deportation to their country of origin. "We have lots of space, and we can handle all the prisoners the court sends us," Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Hughes said. "If it grew to an incredible number we could send them out of state." (DO WHAT???) Each year, an unknown number of illegal immigrants, most from Mexico and Latin America, cross the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border from Mexico, seeking a better life in the United States. Last year, almost 1.2 million were nabbed making the journey. A proposal in the U.S. Congress to build a steel fence equipped with lights and security cameras has angered Mexico ...the Texas border is an especially dangerous place for Border Patrol agents, and the 2,000 mile US-Mexico border as a whole is rife with violence and other crime. Agents are subjected to attacks on a daily basis as narcotics gangs join with Mexican Army units to outgun the Border Patrol. The nexus of illegal immigration, drugs, ethnic cleansing of borderland Whites, clandestine Mexican government operations, increasingly violent Mestizo agitation within the US against border enforcement and weak resolve in Washington is chillingly similar to events in the former Yugoslavia immediately prior to the tragic wars which ripped the Balkans apart in the 1990s. The comparison is so apt that some observers refer to the border as "America's Bosnia." GOP politicians are hoping to co-opt grassroots efforts against illegal immigration; similar attempts have been made by system politicians in Europe as well. In France, Jewish Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy pledged expulsions of illegal migrants after massive Islamic rioting led to a steep increase in support for the pro-White Front National. In the United Kingdom the government is now offering cash incentives for illegal aliens and "asylum seekers" to leave, a proposal taken directly out of the pro-White British National Party playbook and an idea that only a few years back would have been dismissed as "racist."