Doomsday is here: Government enforces immigration laws

Would that it were true. The Detroit News reports that since September 11th the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the State Department have (gasp!) actually been enforcing some of this country’s immigration laws and regulations. Many recent immigrants, the paper continues, are put off by the more stringent attitudes they now face from a once supine bureaucracy. It seems that in the laisser faire world that U.S. immigration has been for decades, the enforcement of such simple requirements as filing forms on time or providing proof of employment comes as a something of a shock. While immigrant spokesmen make a show of understanding the reasons for the increased vigilence, their real animosity for America peaks through. Thus Noel Saleh, an immigration lawyer from Detroit, acknowledges that “certainly there is a threat to our [sic] country, so inconveniences are not totally unwarranted.” Then he adds: “We have not gotten to internment camps, yet. But I am also not certain that we can’t get to something like that, and these incremental steps are what get us there.”
Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 18, 2002 02:54 PM | Send