Is it just a matter of semantics?

 

Maybe it's just a matter of semantics, but this seems awfully backward to me. The state police and federal agents recently conducted an initiative called Sex Offender Alien Removal in Texas. It identifies aliens who have committed sex offenses and other crimes that make them "eligible" for deportation. Eligible for deportation? These people are here illegally! Staying in the U.S. is not an entitlement -- it is a privilege. There shouldn't be any question as to "eligibility" for deportation. They should be assumed to be ineligible to stay until they prove their eligibility -- that they came here legally and haven't broken our laws since arriving. Otherwise, adios, Amigo!

 

What I really can't figure out is why they had to round these folks up. Shouldn't they have been deported while they still had them in custody?

 

"24 immigrant convicts arrested." The Dallas Morning News; September 14, 2012; p. 3B.