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  Why stop at deporting Salvadorans, when there are also millions of others here illegally?

  GovExec.com reader Posted September 7, 2006 2:53 PM
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  I agree with DHS chief Michael Chertoff to immediately eliminate the injunction preventing deportation of Salvadorans. I do not agree with the comment by Taxpayer, the Salvadorans have had 26 years of protection already, no more extensions. If they have been here over three years and have not become a US citizen, deport them. They've had their chance at freedom, now it's time to face the music. The free ride is over. If the Salvadorans are here illegally, deport them. If they commit a crime, too bad, we do not need them. The same should be true for Mexicans or any other illegal immigrant.

  GovExec.com reader Posted August 30, 2006 10:19 AM
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  No-- if and when the government locks up everyone in a bunker it is not to make us safe, it is to make the government safe.

  Rented an interesting movie last week: V for Vendetta. Way too violent for kids but its message regarding freedom and civil liberty should be mandatory in every school in America.

  Mike's view of liberty, which throughout history has been the view of those in power, can only be countered by education and by shining a bright line on it. But I do fear that eventually Americans--like the British in the movie above, will trade their liberty for the comfort of security. Our Founding Fathers recognized this danger and set the system to counter it but our system is breaking down in the face of FEAR.

  GovExec.com reader Posted August 28, 2006 8:03 AM
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  More shallow dialogue from DHS. This is nothing more than window dressing to make it look like Chertoff is on top of the game and taking affirmative action. The sad fact is that, once again, it is too little, too late. Back when legacy INS still existed, the powers that would be, namely Doris Meissener and her band of cronies, kept extending the application deadlines for TPS and ABC for the El Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and whoever else was jumping on the scam-wagon to get into the country. The so-called "war" was long over even then, the hurricane had long blown through, but "come one, come all" was still the battle cry. Needless to say, we were bombarded with a mass of frivolous claims from people who had no more right to be here than Bin Laden. On top of that, those who were already in here had due notice that there was a deadline approaching and they had until said date to get their paperwork in order but they blew it off and, when the deadline was up, instead of taking the stance that they had their chance and screwed up, our illustrious leaders boo-hoo'd with them and gave them more chances. (by the way, they missed them too).

  You want to get tough on these guys, Mike? Start rounding up all the mopes who've been bouncing around the country on pending status for that last 10 years or so, whose cases haven't been adjudicated because they ignore the law, and tell them "Too bad, so sad..." while you're stuffing them into C-130 airlifts out of here. Actually, that should go the same for all illegal aliens, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sexual preference or other politically correct tag you can think of who are scamming around the U.S. with no authorization to be here and no claim to stay.

  GovExec.com reader Posted August 25, 2006 8:42 AM
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  What's fair, what's just? Our current immigration laws provide so many loopholes that the old INS was a madhouse. Victims of persecution claim asylum, Cubans get to stay, Haitians don't, etc., etc. We must get a national consensus on this issue or we will(if we haven't already)become the Divided States of America. But central to this discussion is recognition that illegal 'immigration' isn't really immigration, it's INFILTRATION. Unless and until that fact is acknowledged, this "nation of laws, not men" will continue to erode, as have many other great societies, eventually collapsing from within.

  GovExec.com reader Posted August 25, 2006 5:47 AM
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  Uncle Mike Chertoff is about as serious in keeping illegal aliens out of this country as he is in trying to remove Salvadorans. This is a well planned political move before the mid-term elections. Why didn't he propose this idea when he became Director of this Sinking Ship months ago? Shameful and Disgraceful, our entire Immigration Policy!

  GovExec.com reader Posted August 24, 2006 2:42 PM
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  Taxpayer. You forgot to add the most important one.

  You will be in the safe bunker alright but you will have required reading from your bible also.

  Then you are safe.

  GovExec.com reader Posted August 24, 2006 11:38 AM
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  When are they going to start deporting the Cubans? There is no civil war there. There was only Castro throwing out the Gambino family and the other mafia. Many Cubans in Florida haver kicked up a fuss because they lost their ability to make illegal money.

  GovExec.com reader Posted August 24, 2006 11:04 AM
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  Chertoff told reporters. "I would like to see it passed before the midterm elections... the civil war in El Salvador is over."

  Yeah Mike, and the one in Iraq is not a civil war either! If Congress passes the requested law - El Salvador's immigrants to the United States should be grandfathered so it only impacts those that immigrate after 2010. That way the people in El Salvador will have several years to get to the United States if they wish and those here will not have to worry about being deported. Mike wants to make life uncomfortable for everyone. He makes me take off my shoes if I fly! What a crock!

  The only way Mike knows to protect us and or freedom is to take away our freedom to make us safe. Eventually the government will have us all locked in solitary confinement in a bunker many stories below the ground -- then we will be safe!

  Taxpayer Posted August 24, 2006 7:10 AM