GOP bill to make it tougher for illegal aliens to 'disappear' after being released

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) will be introducing a bill aimed at preventing illegal aliens, who are detained once crossing the border, from disappearing into the country due to overcrowding in detention centers.

The Oklahoma senator said the U.S. detention facilities release thousands of illegal immigrants into the country every year and provide them with a court date, [which is really ridiculous since few ever return]. 

They broke the law to come here, so why would they honor the law to be put out of the country?

"What they should do is send them back to the country they came from until their court date," Inhofe told the Washington Examiner. "But as it is now, they just give them a court date and they turn them over to church groups and others and they just disappear and they end up in our society" [and sanctuary cities give them more rights than those of American citizens].

Inhofe met with officials at the Port Isabel Service Processing Center in Los Fresnos, a 1,200 bed facility that receives illegal immigrants who cross the border. He said facility officials couldn't provide information about the illegals it releases to prevent overcrowding when new illegal immigrants are delivered to them and the beds are needed.

Senator Inhofe will introduce a bill that would call for processing asylum seekers in Mexico before they cross the border. This would ensure applicants will appear for their hearings before they enter the U.S.

A second bill Inhofe wants to introduce would limit where illegal immigrants can go once released from a detention center. [How they can ensure this is unclear, unless they make them swallow a GPS pill.]

In 2017, a former Miami immigration judge, Mark H. Metcalf, wrote a report claiming almost one million illegal immigrants may have disobeyed deportation orders and have remained in the United States. The report, written for the low-immigration advocacy group Center for Immigration Studies, says the immigration courts have a huge backlog.

Metcalf says 46,000 illegal aliens fail to appear for court cases each year and are probably living in the U.S. 

However, many virtue-signaling leftist groups for immigration rights oppose expanding detention facilities. They say conditions are inhumane for the future Democratic voters and the cost to taxpayers is too high--something they never worry about unless it fits their political agenda.

President Trump wants immigration detention facilities to be expanded but the American Civil Liberties Union wants them abolished altogether in spite of the fact that illegal immigrants aren't Americans nor are they privy to the same rights and benefits as Americans.

"The 'lock 'em up' approach to detention is contrary to common sense and our fundamental values," ACLU officials wrote on their issues blog. "In America, liberty should be the norm for everyone--and detention the last resort."

This obviously makes the case for a serious border wall. Then there would e no need for detention facilities and all immigrants, legal and illegal, would have to wait their turn to enter the greatest country on Earth. 


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