August 22, 2008, - 1:21 pm
ICE Shocked-Shocked!: Voluntary Self-Deportation Program a Complete Failure, Dumped After 3 Weeks
By Debbie Schlussel
The incompetents who head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are shocked–shocked!–that only nine people out of about 500,000 illegal aliens with final deportation orders turned themselves in for a voluntary, self-deportation program.
“Operation Scheduled Departure” is now off the schedule and has ended after three weeks of complete failure.
That’s not shocking. You don’t have to be Einstein to predict–as I did–that this would fail. Who–in their right illegal alien mind–would voluntary leave America, when they know their chances of being arrested and deported is slim to none? Only an idiot. And apparently there were either eight idiots or eight people who planned to leave anyway and wanted America to help finance the trip.
What is shocking is that ICE officials are shocked it failed:
A pilot program allowing illegal immigrants to surrender to authorities and have more control over their deportation has been dubbed a failure.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it is ending its “Scheduled Departure” program when the three-week trial concludes Friday. Only eight people participated in the program, officials said.
“Quite frankly, I think this proves the only method that works is enforcement,” Jim Hayes, acting director of ICE’s detention and removal operations, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Ya think? Boy, this guy Hayes is a regular rocket scientist. Duh. This guy needed this wasteful, “genius” Julie L. Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess” to prove this obvious point.
The eight volunteers included an Estonian man in Phoenix, a Guatemalan man and Indian couple in Chicago, a Salvadoran man in Charlotte, a Mexican woman in San Diego and a Guatemalan man and Lebanese man in Santa Ana, according to ICE.
One illegal Lebanese Hezbo-supporting alien down, a gazillion to go.
ICE claims it only spent $37,000 on advertising the program, but don’t believe it. ICE wasted a lot more than $37,000. They advertised on Hispanic (but not Muslim or Arabic) radio stations and other media outlets and printed up fliers. ICE “accounting” is very good with faking the numbers, better than Tony Soprano.
Now what we really need is volunary taxes.
c f on August 22, 2008 at 3:38 pm