Several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were having a meeting Tuesday at a 7-Eleven parking after an unsuccessful search for illegal immigrants who had been ordered to leave the country, when they were approached by a group of day laborers looking for work. The day laborers admitted they were in the country illegally after they asked the ICE agents whether they needed workers. 24 criminal aliens were taken into custody in all.
ICE spokesperson, Marc Raimondi said, “Today’s operation was not planned, but nevertheless, when we encounter immigration status violators, our mandate is to enforce the law.”
ICE has reported that 6 of those arrested had criminal records in the United States; 8 had previously either been deported or escorted back to the border to leave the country voluntarily, but had reentered the country yet again; and 1 had already been caught six times trying to enter the country from Mexico prior to this arrest. As for the nationality of those arrested, 10 are from Honduras; 8 from Mexico, 5 from El Salvador, and 1 is from Peru.
Of course some Hispanic advocates have condemned the arrests, and accused ICE of unfairly going after day laborers that appear to be of Latino descent. “They focused on people who look like me,” said Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA. “We believe that is unacceptable. It is discrimination.”
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January 25th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Maybe the next time you run a story like this, you should post it under a Confederate flag banner.
Imagine that. Hard working people trying to earn a living. They will ruin our country!!
January 25th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
let me get this straight, ICE arrested …
people who came to this country ILLEGALY,
without security checks
who don’t pay taxes
who use other people’s social security numbers, and commit identity theft
who work for businesses that blatantly break the law
who consume healthcare and other human services without paying for them
who bring diseases like anti-biotic resistant TB into the country
and who commit a huge percentage of crimes in this country
not to mention drive wages and job prospects down for USA citizens …
what were the ice people thinking?
January 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Lisab-Thanks for saving me the time. Well said.
January 26th, 2007 at 4:19 am
Blog Hole: huh?
Let’s see now, they come up to an immigration service car, they say they are here illegally and ICE is supposed to do what? Perhaps they could have had them clean their car, do their household chores, slipped them a couple of $20’s and sent them merrily on their way.
Thanks Lisab – as Joe said – you summed it up pretty nicely. Perhaps the next post on middle eastern islamic terrorists could elicit the same response from you, Blog-hole.