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Posted: 6/24/2004 10:52:46 AM EDT

Saw this story on Fox this morning and it was very nice to see. Of course, the "immigrants rights" idiot says we are terrorizing poor immigrants and we shouldn't be rounding these illegals up.

Immigrant communities in Southern California and New York City are reporting hundreds of immigrants arrested in a series of sweeps in recent weeks.

Rev. Arnoldo Abelardo of La Placita Church in Los Angeles told the New York Times that Border Patrol officers were randomly stopping Latinos in the street and demanding their immigration papers. Over 300 Mexican and Central Americans, “suspected of being illegal immigrants,” were arrested June 4 and 5, most in the inland working class towns of Ontario and Corona, more than a hundred miles from the Mexican border. Fear has spread through these communities, with people staying home, afraid to go to work, to shop, or to let their children go to school.

The raids were conducted by a team of 12 agents out of the Temecula office of the U.S. Border Patrol, according to a report in the Riverside Press Enterprise. The Border Patrol, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, has recently received a major infusion of funding and personnel. People who are stopped by the Border Patrol have a Fourth Amendment right to walk away, BP spokesman Sean Isham told the Press Enterprise. But “if you decide not to talk and it generates suspicion,” the agent could detain a person to check his or her record, he said.

Meanwhile, in New York City, state agents cooperated with the INS to round up 150 immigrants and turn them over to federal authorities for deportation, according to Bryan Lonegan, from the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Unit. Unsuspecting immigrants with arrest records were sent to York County Prison in Pennsylvania after being summoned by their parole officers.

Juan Peguero, had a green card and was no longer on parole when his parole officer called one evening to verify his home and work addresses. The next morning at dawn, immigration agents came to the door to detain him. Peguero has six children. His partner Greicy Rodriguez stated, “The kids don’t know where their daddy is. I told them that he had an emergency in the Dominican Republic and he would come back soon, but really, I don’t know if they will ever see their father again.”

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A reader’s eyewitness report: ‘We call for a stop to these raids’

ONTARIO, Calif. – We have friends who have voiced their fear to step outside their homes since hearing about the raids. For this reason, when I was informed of this demonstration in Ontario by a friend who had read the announcement in La Opinion we traveled 30 miles to join many others at the corner of Euclid and C Streets. There we saw a few hundred people, mostly Latino, gathered with placards calling for a stop on the raids. These same placards also displayed the names of two local businesses which had paid for the printing.

It was announced that we had to march on the sidewalk because there was no permit to march on the street. So two-by-two or -three we began marching, while passing cars honked in support of our efforts and cause. We continued to march for 6.7 miles, passing through the Ontario, Montclair and Pomona communities, where residents spontaneously joined the march. Also, unexpectedly, at some car dealerships the dealers honked the car horns. The Ontario Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at the halfway mark handed out bottles of water. Showing support for our cause, other members of the community went out and bought cases of water to hand out as the marchers passed. By the end of the march we now were several thousand strong, and there was about a mile long line of cars that were honking along side the marchers.

The same coalition of churches, local merchants and several Latino organizations from the Inland Empire who had previously joined together to fight for the issuance of drivers licenses organized the march to call an end to the INS raids that have occurred within the last two weeks in Rancho Cucamonga, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Pasadena and Paramount. As a result of these raids, the detainees are being deported back to their home countries, and families are being split up.

At the end of the march a few people briefly pointed out that today we showed the INS we were not afraid and that we call for a stop to these raids. There was also a call for Bush to stop his do-nothing rhetoric, if he really wants the Latino vote. And how his most recent legislative proposals will not change the current status of undocumented workers.

– Heraclio Cabral

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Posted: 6/24/2004 10:53:53 AM EDT

[#1]

border patrol finally getting active???

everyone hold their breath now....

Posted: 6/24/2004 10:55:41 AM EDT

[#2]

I still advocate shooting illegals as they try to cross the border and leaving their bodes there as a warning to others.

Posted: 6/24/2004 11:05:36 AM EDT

[#3]

Hell, just drive up to any 7-11 about 0630 around here in a white, beat-up van. Have several
INS (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) agents in back. Dollars to donuts, the
van will be approached by a herd of 'workers' looking to do daylabor for construction sites. Have
the agents jump out the back and start checking papers.

Do that with several vehicles, and get some coordination going, it'd be SCHWEET! There'd be
enough cuffing & stuffing going on to keep the agents busy for a while.

I'd even buy them a case of Krispy Kremes, just to thank them!

(It'd be nice to stop to pick up
a drink on the way to work without getting mobbed because they think you're a hiring manager, just
because you drive a pick-up!

Posted: 6/24/2004 11:20:14 AM EDT

[#4]

Well it's about time they started doing something! I report businesses to the local INS office anytime I suspect they are employing illegals. The border patrol has got a lot of rounding up to do, that's for sure. You know, I really think that if we can't build a big enough fence or have enough troops for the border, they ought to use land mines to secure it. That would be a TOTAL deterrent.

Many of these Mexicans are great people, but there's just no way we can support all of them. We're far too crowded already. They need to stay in their homeland and influence economic change down there.

Posted: 6/24/2004 11:28:46 AM EDT

[#5]

I especially love the people decrying this effort for actually arresting illegals! God forbid somebody breaking the law gets arrested. Then there are the people complaining about racial profiling. How exactly do you not use profiling when looking for illegals. They need to quadruple this effort along with actually walling up the borders to have a significant impact imho.

Posted: 6/24/2004 11:38:33 AM EDT

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Quoted:
I still advocate shooting illegals as they try to cross the border and leaving their bodes there as a warning to others.

hell yeah! but booby trap the bodys with Tanerite!

Posted: 6/24/2004 12:04:03 PM EDT

[#7]

I will be more impressed when they start tracking down and arresting the yuppie businessmen who are hireing them.

Posted: 6/24/2004 12:10:35 PM EDT

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Quoted:
Quoted:
I still advocate shooting illegals as they try to cross the border and leaving their bodes there as a warning to others.

hell yeah! but booby trap the bodys with Tanerite!

Make it more of a sport. Setup a "minefield" of Tannerite. Shoot the tannerite as the illegals walk though.

I know, that was really bad.

Posted: 6/24/2004 12:13:23 PM EDT

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I'm a big advocate of moving the live fire portion of NTC, 29 stumps, and yuma proving grounds to the border, hell move the sniper school there too. nothing like moving targets.

Posted: 6/24/2004 12:16:25 PM EDT

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Quoted:
I will be more impressed when they start tracking down and arresting the yuppie businessmen who are hireing them.

As much as I totally agree with that, the problem is those doing the hiring are not to perform as enforcement themselves (lest they get sued). If they are presented with false credentials (and recognize it as such) all they can do is alert the authorities. On the otherhand, not alerting the law isn't a crime, for all practical purposes.

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