Peter Brimelow, editor of VDARE.com, once noted that "one of the few rational justifications for writing books is that you get to quote yourself." Though I'm not an author, I’ll offer my own (still timely) quote from March, 2002, which was published by Michelle Malkin in her book, Invasion:

"Between the incompetence of the INS, the complete lack of alien detention center space, and the bureaucracy of the EOIR, our system for deporting known illegal aliens and criminal alien residents is a sad joke. But no one is laughing.

"If all of the illegal aliens and deportable resident alien criminals were rounded up tomorrow, the system would not be capable of handling them. It would be an absolute disaster. The INS and EOIR wouldn’t have the foggiest idea of what to do with them! The aliens would all be released back out on the street on immigration bonds and go back right where they were as if nothing happened, while their cases would grind on through the system of Immigration Court hearings and endless appeals."

Yes, the same problem exists today with the EOIR [Executive Office for Immigration Review within the Department of Justice] and the new Department of Homeland Security’s three-headed bureaucracy.

And that’s why real deportation enforcement -- through summary removal of illegal aliens and criminal alien residents -- and the success of the California Border Police initiative in California are inextricably linked together.

The grass-roots blaze will erupt when people start finding out what really happens to removable aliens after being arrested in droves by a brand new state-level "Border Police." For what happens: see quote (above).

Get the full story in my latest column on VDARE.com -- 08/29/05 - Guard The Border But Don't Forget Deportation Enforcement!