ILLEGALS RISK ARREST LEAVING U.S.

ONE'S SEES HOW UTTERLY ASSINE OUR OPEN BORDERS SITUATION IS HERE! OUR GOV HAS PERMITTED 38 MILLION ILLEGALS INTO OUR COUNTRY AND JOBS, AS WELL AS HOSPITALS TO GIVE BIRTH TO THEIR KIDS, AND THEN 18 YEARS OF WELFARE, YET WE ARREST THEM WHEN THEY'RE HEADED BACK TO NARCOMEX?!?!?!?!

LET THEM GO HOME AND TURN MEXICO INTO A DUMPSTER!

Illegal immigrants
also risk arrest
leaving U.S.

Posted 54m ago

By Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY

NOGALES, Ariz. — Undocumented immigrants who
decide to leave the United States because of
increasing enforcement and decreasing job
prospects now face one more obstacle: the threat of
arrest and deportation by border officers inspecting
outbound traffic.

Bonnie Arellano, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, said that when illegal
immigrants are detected trying to leave the country,
they are not just ushered across the line. Instead,
they are processed and formally removed.

The consequences of an arrest can be harsh: Those
deported for unauthorized presence in the U.S. may
be barred for 10 years from seeking legal immigrant
papers. In addition, a later arrest for illegal entry
may be prosecuted criminally.

Although the scrutiny was designed to catch
smugglers delivering currency and firearms to
Mexican cartels, immigrants with otherwise clean
records sometimes get caught in that net, said
Guadalupe Ramirez, director at the Nogales port.
Port inspectors use discretion in deciding whether a
person should be allowed to accept voluntary
removal, he said.

"The whole idea is there are going to be
consequences now for people who come into the
United States with the sole purpose of doing illegal
activity," Ramirez said. "Our job tells us if we find
somebody at a port coming or going that is in
violation of our laws, we are going to document it."

Arizona's immigration law would have required
police to question the immigration status of anyone
stopped for another suspected offense if there was a
"reasonable suspicion" the person was in the U.S.
illegally. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled last week
that key portions of the law could not go into effect.

For the past year, border officials have conducted
round-the-clock screening of southbound traffic
out of the USA. Some advocates for immigrants say
the policy deters illegal immigrants from leaving,
even though that's the government's goal.

"It demonstrates the inconsistency and
contradictions within our laws," said Isabel Garcia,
co-chairwoman of Derechos Humanos, an
immigrant rights group in Tucson. "Instead of
permitting people who want to leave, we punish
them in this fashion."

Even some groups dedicated to border security and
immigration controls are critical of the policy.
William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal
Immigration, last week called on the government to
adopt a "safe passage" program. "We are asking the
Obama administration to designate border
checkpoints ... illegal immigrants can use to leave
the U.S. without fear."

The Obama administration — in an effort to intercept
weapons and cartel money — set up the full-time
southbound checkpoints.

"On a weekly basis, we make multiple seizures and
pick up people who have warrants for rape, child
molestation and murder," Ramirez said.