perfidy

Homeland Security Honcho Chertoff has said that he wants to kick out all the wetbacks. Well, he didn't say it that way, that was me paraphrasing. He did say this:

Our goal at DHS (Homeland Security) is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions. It should be possible to achieve significant and measurable progress to this end in less than a year.

Today, a non-Mexican illegal immigrant caught trying to enter the United States across the southwest border has an 80 percent chance of being released immediately because we lack the holding facilities. Through a comprehensive approach, we are moving to end this 'catch and release' style of border enforcement by reengineering our detention and removal process.

Well all right. I have no problem with legal immigration. Within limits, I would actually support raising the number of people legally allowed in this country. I am for lowering requirements for entry from anglophone nations along the lines of Jim Bennet's sojourner concept. But there should be no tolerance of illegal immigration.

I posted a while back on Jerry Pournelle's idea for running a scheme to rid ourselves of illegal immigrants. But that's just one way to do it. Another way to relieve the pressure that led to the catch and release policy is to lower the numbers of people in prison, and use that money. Seeing as over half a million people are in jail for pot possession, that gives us more than a little wiggle room, even if some of those reeferheads actually deserve to be in prison. Decamillions of illegals is just a mockery of the rule of law and good public policy.