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This Just Makes No Kind of Sense : Catching the Undocumented Leaving the U.S.?

15:44 H | Topics: Immigration - Politics

Is the anti-immigrant movement so desperate to up it's numbers of undocumented that they have resorted to catching undocumented immigrants when they are leaving the U.S. into Mexico? Seems so. SAN DIEGO -- U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they're catching them on the way out.

At random times near the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been setting up checkpoints, boarding buses destined for Mexico and pulling off people who don't have proper documentation.
Vincent Bond, an agency spokesman, said departing immigrants are fair targets.
"If our officers come upon people who are here illegally . . . regardless of whether they're leaving the country, we detain them, make a record of the fact they were here illegally and return them to Mexico," Bond said.

Um. OK. With people all up in arms of how much "illegal immigration" is costing the country, does this seem like a good use of resources?

But they have a good reason!!! The U.S. wants to deputize! R

ick Oltman, spokesman for Californians for Population Stabilization, said he hoped that the crackdown on departing illegal immigrants would be expanded to other exit points across the country.
He said apprehended immigrants who returned home to Mexico would become "ambassadors of enforcement" and might help deter illegal immigration.
"Each one of these people will then report increased enforcement to family and friends when they do get home, and that will give them second thoughts about sneaking back into the U.S.," he said.

Did you just laugh a little? I did.

Via / Latino Pundit and LA Times
Image Via / MPR

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