Considering all the current hue and cry with regards to “too many immigrants within the U.S.,” it appears weird that CBP would actually interfere with those that needed to leave. A lot of of the individuals stopped were going to visa meetings at the United States Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to obtain adequate, legal documents and come back “the correct way.”
The concern was raised, “How should further complicating the life of an individual trying to adhere to the law by leaving America enhance our security?”
As unusual as it may seem, this ‘new’ policy is probably an off-shoot of one of the more effective concepts in the “border enforcement” way to countrywide security
In comparison, rounding up and deporting several 100 or a couple of million undocumented individuals can be counter-productive. It just raises the demand for, and the earnings from, the cartels’ services. Not to mention shooting our economy in the foot by depriving it of required personnel, need for goods and services, tax revenues, and so forth.
Apart from comprehensive immigration reform (which would take away the requirement for illicit ‘underground’ options of entrance), reducing the earnings and reducing the firepower of the human- and drug-smuggling cartels would be one of the most efficient ways to keep the U.S. protected from a ”threat.”
For this reason “complicating the life of folks attempting to adhere to the law” [by leaving the U.S.] is really part of a rational immigration plan.
Unfortunately, CBP’s effectiveness with this “outbound interdiction” role will be greatly decreased, if they don’t try to get it done without terrorizing or alienating the overall society of migrants and other travelers. Imagine the influence on accurate “border security,” if all visitors can see CBP as “the good guys, trying to keep us all safe, from the true bad people.”
For additional information about Arizona immigration law, get in touch with the Mesa immigration lawyers at Gunderson, Denton, & Peterson at 480-655-7440.