DOJ adds immigration prosecutors, promises to finally do their job

Speaking in Santa Fe, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez promoted "comprehensive" immigration "reform", and also said that the Department of Justice will add twenty new federal prosecutors in the border region to handle immigration cases. Five new prosecutors will handle drug-related crimes.

And:

Gonzales said over the past six years, the Justice Department has boosted the number of federal prosecutors along the Mexican border by 29 percent, to 561. During the same span, he said immigration prosecutions have increased about 40 percent, and about 30 percent of all new criminal cases involve immigration crimes.

Of course, speaking at the NCLR convention a few weeks ago, Karl Rove admitted that on Bush's watch 6 million illegal aliens have entered since 2001. It's results that count, and it's clear that Bush is not doing his job.

Bill Richardson also popped by and said that he supports Bush's position on immigration.

UPDATE: The 7/22/06 article "Gonzales stumps for Bush immigration reform plan" by Jesse Mangaliman describes a remarkably similar appareance by Gonzalez in Santa Clara. And, it helps illustrate that no matter how far left Bush is on immigration, the GOP can always be undercut by those even further left:

Outside, about 20 members of the Raging Grannies and anti-war protesters held up signs that declared, ''No War on Immigrants, Iraq, Iran.'' An hour after the address, a couple members of the group chanted in the hotel lobby as the crowd left the room, ''Immigrants Have Human Rights/Grannies join in the fight.''

Since Republicans will always be underbid on the far-left, perhaps they should try the American side instead.

Immigration · Tue, 08/01/2006 - 09:35 · Importance: 1