[Perhaps this is really what the President meant when he spoke of "immigration reform" at the start of the year?]
"U.S. to Give Border Patrol Agents the Power to Deport Illegal Aliens"
By Rachel L. Swarns | NYT | August 11, 2004
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 - Citing concerns about terrorists crossing the nation's borders, the Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday that it planned to give border patrol agents sweeping new powers to deport illegal aliens from the frontiers with Mexico and Canada without providing them the opportunity to make their case before an immigration judge.
The move, which will take effect this month, represents a broad expansion of the authority of the thousands of law enforcement agents who patrol the nation's borders. Until now, border patrol agents typically delivered undocumented immigrants to the custody of the immigration courts, where judges determined whether they should be deported or remain in the United States. [Story continues...]
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On the bright side, this would prevent aliens from being held in jails for months or years, waiting in line for an immigration judge. I'd rather go back to Honduras than sit in a Border Patrol jail for a year. If I thought that this would cause people from Sudan to be wrongly deported back to that place, I wouldn't be in favor of it, but I doubt that many Sudanese have the resources for that trip in the first place. I don't see this affecting anybody other than Central Americans and Middle Easterners, which really doesn't get me too worked up.
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