Enforcement of laws is cutting down on illegal border crossings
The bad news keeps piling up for the open-borders crowd. In Texas, increased enforcement of laws prohibiting illegal border crossings has resulted in significant declines in those crossings.
A strict policy to arrest, prosecute and jail illegal aliens who cross into the U.S. has shown significant success in reducing crossings and crime along the Texas border, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials said this month.
The first 45 days of Operation Streamline — a collaborative effort of local, state and federal agencies in Texas — has resulted in decreased illegal border crossings and crime since its implementation Oct. 31 compared with last year’s numbers, said Laredo Border Patrol Sector chief patrol agent Carlos X. Carrillo.
“As more and more illegal aliens are prosecuted and incarcerated under Streamline-Laredo, the word is spreading quickly that illegal entry has its consequences,” Mr. Carrillo said. “Those found guilty of violating this statute face penalties that can include fines and up to six months in prison.”
During the first 45-day period of Operation Streamline in the Laredo sector only 2,833 illegal entries were reported, compared with last fiscal year, when 4,424 illegal entries were reported during a similar period.
Yeah, God forbid we enforce our nation’s laws - it just might do some good.
In another positive development…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would be blocked from filing lawsuits against businesses that require workers to speak English on the job as part of legislation introduced recently in the Senate.
“In America, requiring English in the workplace is not discrimination, it’s common sense,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican and sponsor of the Protecting English in the Workplace Act of 2007.
The former secretary of education tried to amend an appropriation bill for the Justice and Commerce departments earlier this year to stop such lawsuits by the EEOC, but it was blocked by Democrats. He introduced the stand-alone bill before Congress adjourned this month.
Such lawsuits by the federal government are on the rise. Last year, the EEOC filed more than 200 lawsuits against employers that use English-only rules.
Although the bill states that it is not against the law for employers to require their workers to speak English on the job, it would not apply to designated work breaks.
“This bill is not about affecting people’s lunch hour or coffee break, it’s about protecting the rights of employers to ensure their employees can communicate with each other and their customers during the working hours,” Mr. Alexander said.
He said he was prompted to draft the bill after a discrimination lawsuit was filed in March by the EEOC against a Salvation Army thrift store in Framingham, Mass., where two employees were given a year to learn English. They were fired after they refused.
“Our greatest accomplishment as a country has been uniting our magnificent diversity, and one way we have done that is by all speaking a common language, English,” Mr. Alexander said. “I believe this is a gross distortion of the Civil Rights Act and a complete misunderstanding of what it means to be an American.”
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