Exportation and Immigration

Kim du Toit covers the deportation a large number of Mexican nationals from the DC area.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention and Removal Officers deported 120 Mexican citizens this week.

Among the 120 deportees, officers said 56 are convicted criminals. The agency said 36 were convicted for violent offenses ranging from malicious wounding to manslaughter, 15 were convicted of drug-related crimes, and six are classified as child sex predators with convictions ranging from child molestation to indecent liberties on a child under the age of 13.

The problem is that thanks to our porous borders, many of these people will be back in the country in no time. The 15 drug runners have incentive and some of the violent felons may be gang members who also would seek to re-enter the US.

Which brings me to my proposal:

1. Lets tighten up border security. How about we build a fence/wall that is actually capable of keeping people out? Or how about we give the border states the freedom to do so at least, since they suffer the worst from illegal immigration.
2. Make it a capital crime for a convicted criminal to re-enter the US after their deportation. That's right a capital crime, meaning if we catch any of those murders or sex offenders in the US or entering the US, they get tried and dead.

I do have some sympathy for Mexicans who enter the US illegally. Most of them are good folks just looking for a better life. This is especially true considering the epidemic corruption along the Mexican border.

The US immigration system is also seriously screwed up. Even if they wanted to come here legally, the hoops they have to jump through are ridiculous. I know this from working with international students in college and grad school. When they got their current visa, the they would immediately apply for the next one. This was because it would take years for the forms to be processed and they couldn't risk their visa running out. If it did run out, it generally be no fault of their own, but they would have to start all over anyway.