Let this be a Lesson to...?

FROM: http://www.aseonline.org/

Since last July, Federal authorities have boarded planes at Houston's
Bush Intercontinental Airport and removed and arrested at least five
people as illegal immigrants. Nice work, you say? Well, it seems these
five had boarded planes in order to get out of the U.S. and go back home
to Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador. Federal public defenders in
Houston are calling it a waste of money and resources. But U.S. attorney
Don DeGabrielle said that if authorities allowed illegal immigrants to
leave without punishing them, it would undermine government efforts to
control the border. He described the five as repeat violators of U.S.
immigration laws. "We feel it's definitely worth the resources to hold
these people accountable," he said. But assistant federal pubic defender
Michael Herman said, "They are self-deporting, but they wind up in
shackles and chains when these people have . . . heeded the cry of the
public for them to leave."
Source: The Houston Chronicle 2/25/08