A new federal program dubbed “Operation Scheduled Departure” hopes to get illegal immigrants to turn themselves in voluntarily to authorities for deportation. No one followed that suggestion in five cities ? including Charlotte – that launched the program yesterday, according to the AP.
The plan’s big problem: It offers no real incentive for illegal immigrants to turn themselves in. One man from Honduras put it succinctly in the story: “To turn yourself in so you can go home and live in a village with no work? If I wanted to do that, I would have stayed in my village. I wouldn’t have risked my life to come here in the first place.”
