Immigration check-points, while driving, yes, south

That's right. As immigrants are leaving the country, federal agents have been staging check-points and rounding people up. The L.A. Times, reporting from the San Diego-Tijuana border, says that ICE is actually defending this policy. In the article by Richard Marosi, a population-control reactionary argues that immigrants who are arrested as they leave the United States could become "ambassadors of enforcement" once they eventually reach Mexico with their hard-earned dollars. As my mom would say, ¡Ya, esto es el colmo!

But this is the sort of officially defended government inanity and criminally wasteful use of resources that we've come to expect in the Bush Era. It's a long list of outrageous stories that gradually work to erode and disrupt the country's little remaining links to decency and reason, and we can only hope that with a Barack Obama presidency, finally, something might change. Might.

* L.A. Times photo above by Mark Boster.

Comments

[chimatli]

I did a recent trip through the Southwest and I was shocked by how many checkpoints we had to pass through. The border has very much become a militarized zone.

[Johnny Canto]

I came upon this link as I was conducting research for a pre-law report paper. “Military zone” is at best the least form of description. Why in the world would ICE detain a transport bus leaving the US? I agree the monitory recourses allotted to ICE are not being utilized as expected. Lets voice our concern on ICE and the fact that this branch of government is doing minimal to detain and deport the real criminals in the US.

[oscar]

Its impossible how the gobverment is comfusing terrorism with immigration, they are totally separeted issues. They know immigrants are needed for the economy of this country, thats why we have the current crissis. Far from being the land of liberty this is becoming to a enourmeous jall.