175 illegals arrested/held in California

[tomywishbone]

It's funny, last week we hired 175 undocumented workers to trim the palm trees in our front yard. They did good work.

175 held in Calif. immigration sweep Fri Jun 22, 11:28 PM ET



SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Mexican man wanted for murder and a convicted child molester were among 175 people arrested for deportation in sweeps through Southern California this week, federal authorities announced Friday.

The sweep was part of an operation aimed at capturing immigration fugitives nationwide. Teams operating in Southern California have made more than 1,600 arrests in the past nine months, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This week agents concentrated their efforts in Orange County. Those arrested included 27 people who have criminal records and are in the country illegally and 26 fugitives who ignored deportation orders by judges, ICE said.

"Foreign nationals who violate our laws and commit crime against our citizens should be on notice that there are serious consequences for their actions," said Jim Hayes, field office director for ICE detention and removal operations in Los Angeles.

Some of those arrested could be charged with illegally re-entering the United States. They could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the felony.

Most of those arrested this week were Mexican nationals but some came from other countries, including India, Kenya and the Philippines, authorities said. They were subject to immediate deportation, and more than half of those arrested have already been sent out of the country, ICE said.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: tomywishbone
Topic Title: 175 illegals arrested/held in California
Topic Summary: Our problems are solved

175 of them anyway.

 

[tomywishbone]

WYD, we speak the same language. What's the answer? I really don't know.

bush is a madman.

 

[trenchfoot]

these arrests show just how serious pres. bush is about protecting our nation from only those illegal immigrants who are deemed unemployable (thus unexploitable) by his buddies in big business.:disgust: just the usual showboating for votes again.

seems like bush can't make up his mind. he wants to arrest and deport all these illegals to keep his conservative base happy, yet he wants to grant these illegals wide open border access and amnesty for all who want to enter to keep his business buddies neck deep in cheap exploitable labor.

only 12 million (and rising) more to go. yayyyy

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: tomywishbone
Some of those arrested could be charged with illegally re-entering the United States. They could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the felony.

So now we get to support them anyways, and when their sentence is up, they will have learned to become arch criminals in jail and will be released back into our midst.

We need to make them go to Mexican jail, don't drink the water.

 

[Socio]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: tomywishbone
Topic Title: 175 illegals arrested/held in California
Topic Summary: Our problems are solved

175 of them anyway.

LOL!

175 is a freaking joke when you have 3000-8000 a day coming here that 175 was replaced in about an hour.

This is really just a dog and pony show to make it look like they are doing something when in reality they are doing as little as possible and wasting a whole lot of time and taxpayer money in the process.

 

[Rainsford]

I have a slightly different take on why these numbers are so low...catching illegal immigrants is not something that needs to be artificially avoided, it's actually pretty difficult in a free society. You "deport them all" folks seem to think there is some magical police power to find and arrest all these people, but I'm not sure that belief reflects reality. Think about your average day, how many times do you have to prove you're a citizen? Assuming you WERE an illegal immigrant, how long would it take for the police to figure it out?

The alternative is to set up immigration checkpoints all over the place, stopping every person they see and verifying they are here legally. Personally, I'm not a big fan of that...regardless of how you may feel about illegal immigrants, a police state is not the answer. And don't kid yourselves, given how many millions of illegal immigrants there are in the US, a police state is what it would take to ferret them all out.