Here's a story about protecting our borders from those who wish to wash up upon our "Homeland Shores," courtesy of Jonathan Turley (who just happens to have a link on the side bar of this page). There's a lot of good legal stuff there.
It appears that all of those billions of dollars for Homeland Security has paid off. The Administration has nailed two Canadians on our shores and protected the nation from the Maple Leaf hoard. Jason Haist took a rather novel way to sneak into the country: he drowned himself. The man who tried to rescue him was also arrested. After being released from a hospital, Haist sits in our jail awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge.
Supervisory U.S. Border Patrol agent Jason Ciliberti insisted that this is all proper and right and sees nothing wrong with holding the men at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility until they can appear before an immigration judge: “They’re here illegally.” Well, I guess that wraps it up.
After all, Jason had helped himself to all of that American water in his lungs. He is lucky that he was not charged with theft.
I am curious, however, whether Ciliberti routinely arrested airplane survivors blown off course or other criminal elements. The men may have to wait three weeks for a hearing and the world has yet another story to use in the portrayal of the country as run by a group of circus-reject clowns.
What makes their claims more persuasive is that no rational Canadian would want to sneak into the United States. With the economy crumbling, the value of the dollar crashing, unemployment rising, and crackdown on civil liberties, you would have to be unconscious to want to wash up on this side of the border.
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