Clarification/Follow-up by kindj on 08/11/05 7:57 am:
At the risk of being seen as a blind loyalist, I have to have faith that there was more to the story than that. If DHS wanted an easy, soft target, there were certainly thousands of better ones to choose. I don't even pretend to know the whole story.

However, I do have the luxury of having worked for the gov't in the policy enforcement area, and have many friends and family members who still do. I can say with one hundred percent certainty that the public rarely if ever gets the whole story. Quite frankly, if they did get the whole story all the time, most Americans would wet their pants and never come out from under the bed. That, or mass panic, anarchy, and vigilantism would be the order of the day, and I don't feel that I'm exaggerating one little bit.

It's good to be critical of the system. It helps keep them as honest as politicians can be. However, to be critical to the point of believing they're complete incompetents and the Keystone Kops would do a better job is going too far, also. These agents are very, very good at what they do. Sure, there's screwups (ie, Waco, Ruby Ridge) and those should be handled very sternly. But there's also countless times when they've made a seemingly innocent (to us) bust that has quite literally staved off disaster. There's no noise, no fanfare, and no hero's parades. The only ones who know how close it was were the participants.

Trust me, I think that's the way we want it.

Be critical, yes. But also remember that this isn't a Hollywood conspiracy novel. These people have just as much at stake (families, homes, friends, etc.) as you and I do.

Now, these comments weren't aimed specifically at you, but were just general thoughts I wanted to toss out there, so please, please don't eat my head.

DK

Clarification/Follow-up by powderpuff on 08/11/05 9:56 am:
They missed some court dates back in 1996 which may or may not have been an honest mistake? Don't know....

I'd feel better if I was reading that people who had more suspicious backgrounds were the ones being deported. Instead, I read banks are loaning illegal aliens money to buy property here and the Department of Homeland Security are raiding and deporting what looks like people I would like for my neighbors.

Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 08/11/05 12:22 pm:
The story doesn't say why Mrs. Jung was arrested and not Mr. Jung, since it was Mr. Jung who applied for the student visa . Why was she arrested? What are the charges? Why wasn't Mr. Jung arrested as well?

Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 08/11/05 12:32 pm:
re The Brits

On Rush today one of the callers asked if the Supreme Court will look for guidance from the Brits (as some of the Justices have suggested that laws from other countries should help steer some of their decisions)regarding immigration and deportation laws .Good question !