US Border "Control"

US Border and Immigration (des)control

"Let's face it, part of the issue of the border is it is kind of a balloon. When you squeeze one part, another bulges," said Thomas Frost, assistant inspector general with the Homeland Security Department, commenting on the investigations of corruption by Border Patrol agents who collaborate with people smugglers (Archibold, Randal and Andrew Becker. "Border Agents, Lured by the Other Side" The New York Times. May 27, 2008).

Inland things are not going much better:

“To my knowledge, the magnitude of these indictments is completely unprecedented. It’s the reliance on criminal process here as part of an immigration enforcement action that takes this out of the ordinary, a startling intensification of the criminalization of immigration law,” said Juliet Stumpf, an immigration law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, formerly a senior civil rights lawyer at the Justice Department, commenting on the sentencing of 260 undocumented workers at meat-packing plant in Iowa (Preston, Julia. "270 Illegal Immigrants Sent to Prison in Federal Push." The New York Times. May 24, 2008).