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Bill Calls for Illegals to Be Dumped at Offices of Congressmen
Texas State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst has proposed a measure that would allow any law enforcement agency that has custody of an illegal immigrant to take the illegal to "the office of a U.S. Senator or Representative" and leaving them there. From the article: "The measure doesn't specify what the Senator or Congressman is supposed to do with the illegal immigrant, but calls on the law enforcement agency to 'maintain a record of each illegal immigrant released or discharged who is not transferred to the custody of the Untied States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.'" I'm not sure Kolkhorst understands what might happen if the bill passes. Illegals have already taken over our much sought after picking vegetables for a pittance jobs. What if they start doing staffer work for $20 a day?
What if they start doing staffer work for $20 a day?
How about if they start doing Congressman work? Congressmen get an astounding $174,000/year, not to mention all the bribes and kickbacks they (wink, wink) never, ever get.
At $20/day, we could hire 35 immigrants to do the job of each Congressman.
That's over 15,000 reps we could have for our money! It would be like crowdsourcing the government on a medium scale.
Could 15K hungry immigrants possibly do any worse of a job than the total scumbags we have now?
First thing I pictured as a big drop box in front of their offices with a huge slot that reads "drop illegals here", much like a book return.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
Put enough of these in front of Bill Clinton and he'd find something to keep his cigars humidified with.
And I'm sure that the other party's Senators (Representatives? Who apart from Americans would care?) would themselves find ways to abuse such free gifts. It's in the nature of being a politician.
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According to TFA, the sponsor of the bill admits this is a "Cry for help"... Texas obviously spends a good deal of money, compared to other non-border states, on illegal immigration issues, and this is simply a way to point the problem out to the federal government, who should be handling border security.
Although not covered in the article, the implication is that ICE doesn't accept every illegal immigrant and that leaves local law enforcement with the dilemma - do you release the person knowing they are here illegally, or do you pay to continue to incarcerate locally... Obviously, allowing law enforcement to bring them to a US Senator or Representative's office places the burden of deciding to release on them...
Largely symbolic at best, a publicity stunt at worst, the bill is clever in that it is definitely a CYA for local law enforcement - a clever way of having to release not on your own record.
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So essentially what happens is that it is then clear whether the Senators and Representatives are turning the illegal immigrants in? If all of those who are "dropped off" don't show up in ICE records, then it is clear that the politicians turned a blind eye towards a violation of immigration law. They are then, presumably, labeled as "soft on immigration" and run out of town. Sneaky and evil. Also a gross miscarriage of justice, and damagingly distorting to the political process.