Yesterday, right in the middle of the Senate’s reconsideration of it’s border security amnesty bill, the Department of Homeland Security made a “big” announcement. Of the 636,000 illegal aliens running around loose that a judge ordered deported, ICE managed to reduce that number by (drum roll) 500 last month:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that for the first time [emphasis added mine], it has reduced the backlog of cases involving illegal aliens who failed to show up for immigration hearings or disappeared after being ordered deported. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers, who heads ICE, said the nation’s fugitive alien population — which grew by an average of 68,184 a year from September 2003 to September 2006 — has dropped by more than 500 names in the past two months.
“ICE has been working aggressively to improve the systems that help us identify, target and remove fugitive aliens from the United States,” Mrs. Myers said. “By apprehending more fugitives and reducing the number of new fugitives, we’re making unprecedented progress. “This turning point is truly a significant milestone and a reflection that we’re headed in the right direction; yet there is more work to be done,” she said.
Read the report closely. ICE acknowledged that, on average, the number of fugitive deportees grows by 68,000 each year. If we fail to secure our borders, at this rate (reducing the number of fugitive deportees by 6,000 per year), the Department of Homeland Security will remove all of them by 2107.
Fed up? Call 1-202-224-3121, ask for any Senator, and politely tell them how you really feel. If you do not know what to say, start with: secure our borders first.