The Washington Post catches up with one of my heroes, New Ipswich, N.H., police chief Garrett Chamberlain, who is using trespassing laws to get a handle on illegal immigration in his town. If only we had more DHS officials who…

…Clearly, there is an emergency situation that needs to be addressed. Not only do we need to be worried about the ramifications of economically-driven illegal immigration, but in this post 9-11 world, there is a genuine danger that the next terrori…

You know, this lack of enforcement of our immigration laws is one of the subjects that pisses me off about the Bush administration. Last week 10 illegal immigrants were released because US Immigration didn’t want them. here’s an excerpt on…

You can find countless stories from Consular Officers who have refused visas to bad-looking, would-be immigrants only to have letters of “Congressional Interest” showing up in their mail (as well as the mail of their bosses and the Secretary of State) threatening job-loss if the visas aren’t issued, pronto.

Congress leans like a redwood on bureaucratst who take (proper) actions that result in constituent letters of complaint. It doesn’t matter if the bureaucrats are State, FBI, CIA or ICE. Congress interferes remorselessly if it becomes a matter of a constituent threatening to withhold a vote.

Don’t trust me: ask around.

Which federal agency investigates UFO aliens? According to the story line, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)!!!

But the best part was when the DHS agent says, “We are not the police. We are Homeland Security.”

If, in real life, DHS has as much success in stopping UFO aliens as they do with illegal aliens, then we all had better pray that the UFO aliens are vegetarians!

Given the number of illegal aliens that attempt to cross the border (and the many that succeed in making it to the interior).

How would the enforcement of immigration law change if 1 percent of the aliens were armed? With the manpower of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs Border Protection (CBP) combined, do you think the armed illegal aliens could be stopped?

What would you do differently in your job?

I think the main reason that the invading illegal aliens are not armed is because of the gun control in Mexico.

Once here it is not that difficult for the illegals to get guns.

If you were an illegal alien here in the United States with your family and you knew deportation would endanger the lives of your wife and children, would you resist?

And if your reponse is that they should go back to Mexico and come in legally, that you really don’t understand the visa issuance system. The poor hard working Mexican without education, family, or influence won’t qualify for even a visiter’s visa.

There is a reason ICE does not conduct massive interior sweeps. It is because if ICE did, then it could cause unified resistance and ICE does not appear to have the leadership or the resources to respond to such an internal threat. So they would lose that authority and funding.

What happened to the CBP Managers in California after Asa Hutchingson stopped the sweeps?

Did you know that we, the old INS and now called Customs and Border Protection release illegals into our country every day? If you are from a country other than Mexico we refer to you as an OTM (Other than Mexican). If you jump the fence and we catch you we put you in a holding cell. We then enroll you in our system called IDENT. We fill out some paper work, take down an address where you tell us you will be staying and then we give you a notice to appear (NTA). The notice to appear is for an IJ (Immigration Judge), you are supposed to voluntary appear before this IJ and then when he deports you you are supposed to leave.

Can you guess what percent of these people never show up for their hearing? No one knows for sure but it’s over 90 percent.

It’s not hard to get into our country illegally, really, its not.

I look forward to your next Radio Visit to KSFO560 in San Francisco. Thank you for keeping up on this story as well. I guess we shall see how it goes.

It’s the immigration courts that need to be overhauled – right now, if an illegal alien wants to stay, evne a criminal, all they have to do is demand a hearing. Due to the backlogged court system, too few judges and a willingness to put off hearing cases by liberal judges holding out for potential benefits the illegal might qualify for at some later time or a change in law, an illegal can screw around in the court system with continuance and appeals for 4-7 years – longer in some cases – and avoid deportation. Plus, if all else fails, there always asylum to claim, no matter what country you are from. Depending on what judge you get, you might have a good shot if your story is good enough, and you have a do-gooder lawyer to help whose main mission in life is to ensure every illegal alien – criminal or not – stays firly planted in the US. All becuase illegals have the “right” to due process. Yep, see deportaliens.com on how this farce plays out every day.

Just in one Arizona Border Patrol Sector alone, they release an average of 80-100 illegals (non-Mexicans) a week with a promise to appear at their court hearing a year down the road. How many show up? Maybe 10%. How many of these graduate to crime while they are hanging around or after they have blown off their court hearing?

And Mexicans get the advantage of voluntary departure – those not convicted of a felony get to choose the option of voluntary departure – immeidate transport to the border, where they get to try again,and again to return right back – and with no penalty if caught again. Even if they were released from jail and are awiating a court date for a felony offense. As long as you aren;t convicted, you can qualify for voluntary departure. Unlike a deportation, which is a felony upon reentry after a formal deportation – a voluntary departure contains no penalty and no threat of prosecution or jail time. But there aren’t enough judges or ICE personnel to deport -or evne prosecute – everyone. So the US and its immgiration system gets made into a mockery every day.

The community might want something done about the millions of illegals – but the way the current system is, not until they commit some heinous crime (and in many cases, until they are convicted of a crime) and make the newspapers. The reaility is that politics and budget constraints ensures that there really is no enforcement in interior enforcement. Reactive, not proactive.