Border busts coming and going

[intaglio]

Source: LA Times

SAN DIEGO -- U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they're catching them on the way out.

At random times near the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been setting up checkpoints, boarding buses destined for Mexico and pulling off people who don't have proper documentation.

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Vincent Bond, an agency spokesman, said departing immigrants are fair targets.

"If our officers come upon people who are here illegally . . . regardless of whether they're leaving the country, we detain them, make a record of the fact they were here illegally and return them to Mexico," Bond said.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-checkpoint7-2008may07,0,671538.story?track=rss

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Sometimes I wonder ar the shear idiocy of law enforcement; or perhaps at the venality of bureaucrats. The whole idea of this will be to increase arrest figures, and, probably, the value of confiscated goods. Aaaaaarrrggggghhhh!

[Arctic Dave]

1. Got to keep those numbers high so we

can justify that huge budget we want.:eyes:

[Kali]

2. and then what? putting them on a bus and dumping them at the border?

:wtf: