Politicians want illegals. Those of you that still support any conventional politics need to wake up. The resources needed are quite small compared to what is wasted on so many other things.

Searches for fugitive immigrants face limits

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.16.2007

MIAMI — Immigration officers pounded on Veronica Ruiz's apartment door in West Miami-Dade near dawn, their arrival marking the culmination of painstaking work to find a fugitive fleeing a final deportation order.

Ruiz, from Colombia, hid with her husband and two children that February morning and never opened the door. The officers left, and Ruiz again went into hiding.

Ruiz is among more than half a million immigration absconders in the United States. Her case illustrates the difficulty in expelling fugitives in a perennially underfunded and understaffed system.

…. But even if the immigration agency were able to double the number of fugitives it expels — as it insists it will — from the 17,817 deported in fiscal year 2006, it would take 20 years to return the 632,189 fugitives already identified. That doesn't account for the thousands more judges would order deported during that time. Since September 2003, the fugitive list grew by an average of 68,184 a year.

In making his case for the immigration bill, President Bush called it an impossible task to deport the nation's estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn't given up on deporting those who have been ordered to leave. …

Recently retired immigration officers say drastic changes in enforcement would be needed to find and deport all absconders.

"It's impossible," said Frank Parodi, a senior ICE official who retired in October after 34 years in Miami and Washington. "They would have to enlist the aid of every police officer in the country to do it."
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for more of this long and interesting article
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/191913

Yes, they should enlist the aid of every police offcier in the country, and in a few months almost all the illegals would be gone.
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