BOSTON -- The federal government is falling far short of its post-Sept. 11 goal of removing nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants from the United States over the following six years.
The $10 million approved in April for nine new federal enforcement teams has been released, but the positions have yet to be filled. No new money is proposed for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.
An internal immigration agency document estimated it will take 240 new teams over the next four years to round up foreigners who have ignored orders to leave the country.
"The numbers are growing at an alarming rate -- for every 10 final orders (of deportation) issued, we're removing six people," said Anthony Tangeman, director of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention and removal operations in Washington. "We don't have the capability to remove all the removable aliens. We're not going to get to where we need to go in my lifetime, or at least in my career as director of this program."
The 19 hijackers involved in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, traveled to the United States on valid visas; two were in the country illegally at the time of the attacks.
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Of the estimated 8 million illegal immigrants, about 400,000 have been identified and ordered deported. It is the job of Tangeman's bureau to find them.
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Mark Krikorian, executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that wants to curb immigration, praised what he called a rare positive immigration effort.
"We wouldn't have nearly as many absconders, and it wouldn't be as hard flushing them out, if we didn't have such a permissive system for illegal immigrants in general," he said.
Two thick black binders rest in deportation supervisor Jim Martin's bureau office in Boston, and they are filled with hundreds of wanted posters. The crimes listed under some photos include rape, child sex abuse and drug dealing, but many fugitives are guilty only of refusing to go home.
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The Boston office, which controls all of New England, has arrest warrants for about 1,000 illegal immigrants -- a fraction of the 400,000 nationwide. But the office is considered a model because of the systematic way the unit targets, investigates and gets the fugitives. Nationwide, 110,000 illegal immigrants have been deported in this fiscal year, about 71,000 with criminal convictions.
Still, nothing has stopped the stream of illegal immigrants coming into the country, overstaying their visas or evading deportation orders.
Is this kind of information available in Canada? Or would it be unavailable because of the privacy rights of Canada's illegals, criminals and assorted deportables? And what is being done to stop our stream of "illegal immigrants coming into the country, overstaying their visas or evading deportation orders"? Link to the story of one of them Deported Iranian admits he lied by Stewart Bell, National Post, Sept. 13, 03.
The deportation of Mansour Ahani was, in the end, remarkably swift. On the night of June 18, 2002, immigration officers escorted the Iranian, deemed a security threat to Canada, from his jail cell in Hamilton to a chartered plane for the flight home to Tehran.
But it had taken nine years of epic legal battles to get him on that jet. Backed by refugee and human-rights lobby groups, Ahani fought his deportation in appeal after appeal, eventually before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Describing himself as a defector from the Iranian intelligence service, he argued he knew secrets the Islamic republic would not want divulged. In his refugee claim, he wrote: "I am dead if I return." His Toronto lawyer said he faced "summary execution." The rallying cry of his supporters became Deportation Equals Death Sentence. Since returning to Iran, activists assert, Ahani has disappeared.
They are wrong.
Ahani has not disappeared, nor has he been killed, nor is he imprisoned. He lives with his parents and siblings in a two-storey house in the Naziabad neighbourhood of southern Tehran, where he grew up.
My Commentary:
Note those last three sentences, that Ahani lied, and this:
***Mansour Ahani gained the support of human rights activists with his tale that he would be tortured if he was deported to Iran.***
The National Post was denied a visa by the Iranian government for a reporter to go to Iran to investigate so The National Post paid an Iranian reporter to interview Ahani.
Guess who paid for his appeals? For the chartered airplane to take him to Iran? Supported by pro-immigration "refugee and human-rights lobby groups" who believed his lies, and by taxpayer largesse, Ahani lasted through NINE YEARS OF APPEALS. Meanwhile, our schools, hospitals, and countless other services need money. It is wasted on so many of these characters. Read the whole article. It is an eye-opener.
