Illegal Immigration Insanity
HARLINGEN, Texas - Several times a day, a chain-link gate rolls open and dozens of illegal immigrants stroll out of the U.S. Border Patrol station here, blinking into the hot Texas sun as they look for taxis to the bus station and a ticket out of town.
Each holds a piece of paper that Spanish-speakers call a "permiso" -- permission, courtesy of the U.S. government, to roam freely anywhere in the country.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, more than 118,000 undocumented migrants who were caught after sneaking over the nation's borders have walked right out of custody with a permiso in hand.
They were from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Brazil. But also Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, the Philippines, Yemen -- among 35 countries of "special interest" because of alleged sponsorship or support of terrorism.
These are the so-called OTM, or "Other Than Mexican," migrants too far from their homelands to be shipped right back. More than 70,000 have hit U.S. streets just since this past October.
The Border Patrol is catching them -- hundreds each day, riding inner tubes across the Rio Grande, trekking through farm fields and across deserts. But the government has no place to put all the "OTMs" while they await deportation hearings, so they are released with a notice to appear in immigration court.
Over the years, thousands have failed to show up -- disappearing, instead, among the estimated 10 million undocumented migrants now living in America.
This is why border security is so important. If these people don't make it across the border we don't have a problem with detaining them until they can be deported.
Why don't more people get this?
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