Stepped-up immigration enforcement is overloading U.S. immigration courts and undermining the ability of judges to rule fairly because they are under growing pressure to decide cases quickly, experts tell the Arizona Republic. The flood of cases is creating backlogs that may take years for judges to decide whether immigrants facing deportation can legally stay in the U.S
The long waits could aid some immigrants with weak cases who hope immigration reform arrives arrives before their hearings do, for many others the delays also can hurt their cases. A witness could move, or a family member with ties to the U.S. could die. The consequences aren't so simple as just being forced to return to their home country. Deported migrants can be separated from wives and children in the U.S. Those denied asylum could face persecution, torture or even death.
Posted by chis palomares
Friday, March 05, 2010 03:36
Both of you are so stupid… all of those statistics that you got are wrong….. it looks that you dont know anything about illegal immigration. Stop being racist, immigration will never end just accept it because we are all immigrants. do your research with legit sources..
Posted by Brittancus
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 07:21
Talk about self inflicted wounds? Should the rigid immigration laws pass in the state of Arizona? Look out California—THE SANCTUARY STATE. Millions upon millions of more decrepit, desperate illegal immigrant families will be heading your way? Think of it! Your utra-Liberal assembly ruling the roost in Sacramento, will have to borrow even more money from Communist China, just as our derelict political old mens club in Washington have done Your need to loan that extra cash, with astronomical interest to pay for even more “Anchor Babies” welfare. Be assured Illegal aliens know all the loop holes, to get at all that public welfare cash. and government entitlements. Arizona said enough is enough and while their own congregations of poverty stricken population, have have been cut back (just as California) on welfare subsidies to share with illegal immigrant families. The people of Arizona frustrated with the lying garbage from Washington, have taken their immigration laws into their own hands at last, while California still dishes out billions of dollars a year. We are told illegal aliens don’t get food stamps, low Income housing or many other government entitlements. Why do you think Pregnant women sneak across the border, to siphon off taxpayers dollars.
* The Urban Institute estimates that the cost of educating an estimated 800,000 illegal alien school children in the nation’s seven states with the highest concentration of illegals was $3.1 billion in 1993 (extrapolated to $4.6 billion in 1996 by FAIR), but this estimate does not at all take into account the additional costs of bilingual education or other special educational needs.
* It is estimated that the number of children born to illegal aliens each year is 165,000. This figure is based on the crude birth rate of the total foreign-born population (33 birth per 1000) and the size of the illegal alien population (five million).
* In 1994, California paid for 74,987 deliveries to illegal alien mothers, at a total cost of $215.2 million (an average of $2,842 per delivery). Illegal alien mothers accounted for 36 percent of all Medi-Cal funded births in California that year.
* TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THIS WAS 1994-1996. CAN ANYBODY EVEN MAKE A CONSERVATIVE GUESS OF WHAT CALIFORNIA IS DISHING OUT? DON’T EVEN THINK FOR THE ACCOUNTING OF EVERY OTHER STATE? CALIFORNIA IS BROKE.
The joke is going to be on California when countless numbers in Arizona, pack up their possession and head for the neighboring state. Perhaps Governor Richardson will welcome these lawbreakers with open arms, as we already know he issues drivers licenses to them. Of course Utah and the great state of Texas may receive additional occupancy as well, who will expediently offer them welfare like the once Golden State. It’s a crying shame that foreign nation get preference over our own pregnant mothers our sick and infirm. What excuse do politicians have to sell American jobs overseas, while importing discount labor. Enact amendment to the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill, don’t use propaganda to say the laws were broken—when never enforced. Tell your Washington and state Senators and Representatives what—YOU—want, and not—CONSPIRE—with the special interest lobbyists? Here’s the Capitol Switchboard number 202-224-3121 ONE LANGUAGE, ONE FLAG AND DEPORT—ALL—ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. IT CAN BE DONE WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF E-VERIFY.
Posted by jmacintosh
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 06:43
If they enter the country illegally, they are law breakers period. That in and of itself should be a disqualification for being allowed to remain. Let people use the legal process. There are way to many illegal immigrants drawing away the limited resources of this country.