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11/23 "US to end 'catch and release' at Mexican border"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051123/pl_nm/usa_border_loophole_dc
Finally!
\_ So does this mean the population of Mexicans has recovered enough
that they are no longer endangered? What's the per-day limit?
\_ In other news, poor growers can't get enough cheap labor. :..(
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112101357.html
"There are just some jobs people don't want to do" --- gee, maybe
you should try /paying/ them asshole.
\_ Dang, I first read this as "There are just some Johns people
don't want to do."
\_ Yermom's done dozens of guys and isn't too picky, but
remember, she doesn't take American Express
\_ There are no Johns that people don't want to do. -John
\_ I certainly don't want to do HEIL GERMAN Johns.
HEIL GERMAN JOHN!!! |
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| news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051123/pl_nm/usa_border_loophole_dc Reuters US to end 'catch and release' at Mexican border By Bernd Debusmann Wed Nov 23,12:12 PM ET LAREDO, Texas (Reuters) - The United States is closing a legal loophole w hich has allowed tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to slip into th e country and join the estimated 11 million undocumented foreigners alre ady here. Under long-standing procedure along the US border with Mexico, illegal crossers of nationalities other than Mexican -- dubbed OTMs by the Borde r Patrol -- have been entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge before they could be deported. Because of a severe shortage of space to hold them until the hearing, the y were released after being fingerprinted and given a "notice to appear, " a document stating they had agreed to show up at court at a certain da te. The notice serves as a travel document allowing its holder past Border Pa trol checkpoints on the roads leading from the border to the interior. M ost OTMs do not show up for their hearing and meld into the population. Known as "catch and release," the practice has become part of an increasi ngly acrimonious debate over immigration policy and border security, an issue likely to loom large in Congress, next year's mid-term elections a nd the 2008 presidential poll. Michael Chertoff said last month his department's aim was to "return every single entrant -- no exceptions" but gave no deadline. Mexicans ar e usually returned immediately -- and most of them try again, some withi n hours. Along the border, agents say ending the practice will take time and depen ds on how quickly the government can build additional detention space to ld hold OTMs before they are sent to their home countries. OTMs were a relatively minor problem until 2003, when word of the loophol e spread and triggered a growing flood -- including thousands of Brazili ans inspired by a popular soap opera, "America," whose sultry star plays an illegal immigrant who swam the Rio Grande and made good in the Unite d States. APPREHENSIONS SET RECORD IN 2005 According to Border Patrol statistics, apprehensions of OTMs tripled from fiscal 2003 to fiscal 2005, which ended in October, from 49,545 to 165, 175. The Brazilian rush northwards highlighted the complex nature of internati onal migration patterns. Apart from the lure of emulating soap opera sta rs, Brazilians were taking advantage of easy travel from Brazil to Mexic o, which abolished visas for Brazilians in 2000 to promote tourism and b usiness. After flying into Mexican airports, the Brazilians would head north to cr oss over the river or the deserts further west. "Catch and release" is gradually being replaced by "Expedited Removal," a process which cuts out the hearing before an immigration judge and allo ws border patrol agents to decide whether an illegal crosser should be d eported. In one of the many quirks of the complicated US immigration rules, some one who crosses illegally, manages to get 100 miles beyond the border an d stay undetected for more than 14 days cannot be subjected to Expedited Removal and is entitled to make a case for staying on to a judge. Administration officials stress that faster deportations and tighter bord er controls alone are no solution to illegal immigration. "We are going to need more than just brute enforcement," Chertoff told the Senate Judi ciary Committee recently. President George W Bush has been pushing a guest worker plan that would allow foreigners working in the US illegally to get three-year visas, renewable once. After tha t, they would have to return to their home countries and apply for a new permit. The Bush plan appeals to part of the president's support base -- employer s who want cheap labor -- but falls short of the demands of conservative s who say that even with the additional measures now being implemented, border security is not nearly tight enough. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. |
| washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112101357.html -> www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112101357.html Manage Your Newsletters Shortage of Immigrant Workers Alarms Growers in West Stricter Border Control, Working Conditions Cited as Fewer Mexicans Cross for Harvest By Sonya Geis Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 22, 2005; Workers usually swarm streets near the border crossing in the early morning hours, but today Clunn and other l abor contractors looking for farmworkers found a crowd half the size the y had been hoping for. Now, he said, the foremen say, "Hey, man, we have plen ty of generals, but there's no Indians." Farmworkers cross back into Mexico after working in San Luis, Ariz. Growers say they could be 32,000 short of those needed this winter. Farmworkers cross back into Mexico after working in San Luis, Ariz. Growe rs say they could be 32,000 short of those needed this winter. The construction industry is booming, luring workers with year-round jobs offering better pay. US Border Patrol agents have been cracking down in nearby Arizon a, leading many of those who pick the crops -- almost all of them Mexica n and many, by all accounts, illegal aliens -- to avoid the lettuce-grow ing border counties. With the lettuce harvest beginning, farmers in the $1 billion winter vege table industry are panicking about getting their crops out of the ground . Vegetable growers estimate they could be 32,000 workers short of the 5 4,000 they need for the winter harvest, which runs until March. Last yea r, local farmers left hundreds of acres of lettuce in the fields because they lacked the manpower to harvest it. Worker shortages have swept the Western agriculture industry, bringing $3 00 million in losses to raisin growers in California's San Joaquin Valle y in September and causing consternation about this winter's harvest fro m the Christmas tree farms of Oregon to the melon fields of Arizona. "Today I have approximately 290 people working in the field," Jon Vessey said recently. Vessey runs an 8,000-acre winter vegetable farm with his son, Jack, near El Centro, Calif. The Western Growers Association, which represents 3,000 farmers, is lobby ing the Bush administration to make it easier for farmers to tap the lab or pool just below the border. Labor Department statistics show that about half of the nation's 18 mill ion farmworkers are in the country illegally. Tom Nassif, the associatio n's president, said growers try to check workers' documentation but many have falsified papers. Nassif said a better approach would be for the US government to allow M exican citizens to live here while working in the fields and return to M exico when the work is done. His long-term goal is to see passage of the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act, or AgJobs. "There are just some jobs people don't want to do," Nassif said. "It's th e most developed nation in the world using a foreign workforce, and peop le need to recognize that. Jack Vessey said he listed openings for 300 laborers at the state office of employment last week to prepare the lettuce fields for harvest. But Grossman said the labor short age "is largely of their own making." |