Okay.........deep subject........ I encounter this scenario on almost a weekly basis at work. Someone gets arrested for a criminal offense and gets deported by Border Patrol. Most often, they have been "voluntarily returned" before. Then they show up to their Court date a month later. I try to track down BP again when they get to me so I can have them sent back again, thus starting the whole fun little game over again. Because there are no real penalties for most people who cross illegally there is no real risk to doing it. I grew up on the border and its always been this way. Most of them are working, have fake social security numbers and as a result pay FICA and SS into the system, but claim so many deductions that they aren't taxed. I'm all for deporting permanently the criminal element, and finding some legalization process for those who remain law abiding while here. Now if only we could also remove some of our own criminals.....then we could have an exchange program maybe??? We'll take ten hard workers for every scum bag they take of ours????? B