Feds cracking down on illegals

They may not do it in Atlanta, but at least they're taking care of it back home:

Authorities detain 30 Hispanics

Federal immigration officers arrested at least 30 Hispanic people in three suburban cities near Birmingham in what authorities said Thursday was a crackdown aimed at fighting gangs.

The U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not say, however, whether any of the people who were detained were suspected of committing crimes aside from being in the country illegally.

Well, good. Being in the country illegally is crime enough. Rationalize it any way you feel you have to, guys...whatever will keep the lunatic left off your backs.

Officers from the agency swept through apartment complexes and trailer parks in Hoover, Pelham and Alabaster arresting Spanish-speaking people.
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Bourgeois said immigration officials have "got people scared."

"A lot of people around here are packing up and leaving," she said.

In April 2004, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 27 day laborers in Hoover, describing them as illegal immigrants. A federal official said three of the 27 may have been suspects in crimes.

Good. They ought to be scared. The very fact that they are here illegally proves that they have no respect for the laws of our country. I'm not surprised that some are suspects in crimes; here in Atlanta, they've killed cops, molested children, and formed gangs around the drug trade. I say get rid of all of them. Doubtless someone will call me "insensitive" or even "racist" for having such an attitude, but they don't share my concern for national security (or my respect for our laws and our borders). I've said many times in the past that I have no problem with people immigrating legally--no one should. But these people who swim across the Rio Grande or run across the highway near San Diego have no respect for our law. They don't want to become Americans; they come and set up their own pocket communities--mini-Mexicos, if you will--and they make no attempt to integrate into our society. But this is acceptable among the "progressive" crowd; this is what multiculturalism has done to us.

I'm glad to see that, at least in my home state, we're still making an attempt to preserve the rule of law.