After just three weeks, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement junked their "Operation Scheduled Departure" where 457,000 undocumented immigrants had the chance to turn themselves in exchange for….not being detained, I guess. The New York Times reports the final tally to be eight people that came clean to the Dept. of Homeland Security’s ICE officials.

The Times editorializes that cynical Bush administration officials designed Scheduled Departure to fail– as they sought to prove that undocumented immigrants are dishonest criminals. Maybe. But it could just be another example of how directionless immigration policy has become. ICE agents are supposed to prioritize undocumented immigrants who may actually have a criminal past and pose a danger. But their raids indiscriminately seek to boost the number of rounded-up immigrants. Unfortunately for ICE, Scheduled Departure didn’t do much to bolster those figures.-MB

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