It appears the DHS's recent nation-wide sweep of illegal immigrants isn't the only action being taken by the Bush Administration to deal with the nation's influx of non-legal migrant workers. More below the fold...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement('s)..."expedited removal" program began last September in order to cut through the red tape and remove undocumented immigrants from the United States -- not within months or years, as was typical, but within days. The number of flights nationally has already been increased to 12 per week. ICE officials say they've removed 81,000 people in three months this year.
CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez posts this story to Anderson Cooper's blog.
Meanwhile, on the same day Sanchez posted his piece on the "Con Air" one-way flights to points south of the border, Bush tells an audience in Orange County, California this:
"Massive deportation of the people here is not going to work. It's just not going to work. I know this is an emotional debate. But one thing we can't lose site of is that we are talking about human beings, decent human beings."
Granted, some of the deportees flown out of the country are "criminal aliens"--those convicted of crimes ranging from murder to petty offenses--but an unspecified number are simply undocumented workers whose sole crime is being in the country illegally.
Is Bush engaging in glaring self-contradiction here?