What it took to raid a small Arizona drywall company for illegal immigrants ...

Mark Kimble at the Tucson Citizen presents some figures related to last weeks ICE invasion of a small Arizona business for hiring non-documented individuals.

• 16 month investigation involving multiple organizations
• 200 law enforcement officers serving 11 federal search warrants in 37 locations
• 8 arrests of the companies managers and such
• 10 illegal immigrants arrested

As I have said before, this is not the way to handle this problem. First we need reasonable and fair laws and policies. Draconian enforcement does not improve the situation.

What really amazes me is, given the deterioration of the US employment picture in general, people are still coming to this country illegally to get jobs. That says more about the areas they came from than about the U.S. We cannot solve this problem by ourselves nor by enforcement alone (unless we want to turn the US into one big police state; which I, for one, do not).
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