Why is detention, detention, detention so important?
If the United States actually is going to deport illegal aliens and criminal alien residents, the aliens need to be detained throughout the deportation process. Period. If the aliens are not kept in INS custody, there is no guarantee that the government will ever see them again — regardless of the outcome of their Immigration Court case. The deportation system of the EOIR is broken. If the INS continues to catch and release aliens as they are entering the country for the first time, the charade of EOIR Immigration Court hearings actually creates new illegal aliens every day. As long as the process is focused on litigation bureaucracy, rather than on detention and deportation, the EOIR process will remain open for business as an institutionalized amnesty machine.
