Immigration prosecutions hit record levels

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Immigration prosecutions hit record levels

U.S. Border Patrol agents stand guard over immigrants taken into custody near Laredo, Texas, in January 2006. Under Operation Streamline, criminal prosecutions have risen.

Critics say increased use of criminal charges is straining legal system REALLY? Well I say strain it to the limit! Lock up as many as we can!

Federal law enforcement agencies have increased criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to record levels, in part by filing minor charges against virtually every person caught illegally crossing some stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, according to new U.S. data.

Officials say the threat of prison and a criminal record is a powerful deterrent, one that is helping drive down illegal immigration along the nearly 2,000-mile frontier between the United States and Mexico. Skeptics say that the government lacks the resources to sustain the strategy on the border and that the effort is diverting resources from more serious crimes such as drug and human smuggling.

Before Operation Streamline, as the program is known, most Mexican nationals caught at the border were fingerprinted and returned to Mexico without criminal charges. Since 2005, people other than Mexicans are generally held until removed.

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The Law says

A person who enters and lives in a country in violation of that country's laws.

Illegal immigration refers to immigration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. Under this definition, an illegal immigrant is a foreigner who either has illegally crossed an international political border, be it by land, water, or air, or a foreigner who has entered a country legally but then overstays his/her visa. In politics, the term may imply a larger set of social issues and time constraints with disputed consequences in areas such as economy, social welfare, education, health care, slavery, prostitution, crime, legal protections, voting rights, public services, and human rights. Illegal emigration would be leaving a country in a manner that violates the laws of the country being exite

Sheriff Joe Run Out Of Arizona

From crimefilenews.com

Friday, April 18, 2008

Sheriff Joe Run Out Of Arizona Town Before Sundown--Not Quite.

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Just a little Southeast of Phoenix Is the Town of Guadalupe. The town has a population of poor and ignorant Hispanic and Yaqui Native American Indians. Since America’s Drug War began there has always been an over abundant population of Illegal Aliens here along with a high crime rate.

Guadalupe has a local government with a history of corruption. They had their own police department run by criminals and the local magistrate could and would fix anything.

After a law enforcement crises in the 1980s they disbanded what was left of their police force and contracted for law enforcement services with the Maricopa County Sheriff.

Recently, Sheriff Joe Arpaio known for being America’s Toughest Sheriff has been attacked by town politicians, clergy and citizens for enforcing the law of the land. The town’s politicians want to select what laws will or won’t be enforced.

I have my own issues with the sheriff about the treatment of prisoners in his jails who have yet to be convicted of anything. That’s the people accused of crimes who are unable to post bail and be released during the one to three years it takes to get their day in court. Often the lies of supposed victims and witnesses are exposed at trials and the former suspects are set free. Sheriff Joe punishes everyone in his jails.

The other issue I have is Arpaio’s publicity stunts are often over the top. Examples are the pink underwear, prison stripes and chain gangs. Again being tough on innocents accused along with convicted criminals is wrong.

The latest rhubarb is over Immigration Law violations. Guadalupe’s politicians think Arizona is part of Mexico. Of course they demand welfare, education and medical benefits meant for American citizens and lawful aliens.

Guadalupe wants Sheriff Joe to turn his head and wink at the violations while taxpayers are soaked paying for medical care, schools, food and imprisonment of dangerous felons who sneaked across our borders.

Sheriff Joe has given the town 180 days to find alternative police services to their liking.

I’m firmly with Sheriff Joe on this one. Guadalupe deserves what they get.

The following is a press release from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office:

Recent actions and statements made by the Town of Guadalupe against the Sheriff's Office are unjust and ignore the professional law enforcement services provided by the Sheriff's Office for the past 30 years. These criticisms are not only a disservice to the deputies serving the Town but reflect poorly on the community as a whole. The current law enforcement contract provides 1.66 beats which includes patrol, responses to emergency calls, arrests of suspects, traffic enforcement and accident investigations, investigation of alleged crimes, property and evidence safekeeping, up to date reporting systems, dispatch and police communications services for a total charge to the Town of $1,186,000. At no additional cost, the Sheriff's Office provides canine, SWAT, posse and helicopter search and rescue. As with all law enforcement contracts, the Sheriff's Office only charges the Town for actual cost recovery. Neither the Sheriffs Office nor Maricopa County profit from the payment received for law enforcement services to the Town.

The Office has provided the community with proactive crime suppression enforcing all laws of the State of Arizona on a quarterly basis. These additional enforcement activities have been successful in reinforcing the safety of the community. Our recent activity resulted in 45 individuals arrested and booked. Of the 45 arrests, 18 individuals were warrant arrests (a total of 28 warrants were cleared); 6 individuals were arrested for drug violation; 9 individuals, after being interviewed, were determined to be illegal immigrants; 12 individuals were arrested for miscellaneous other charges. In addition, 22 misdemeanor citations and 120 traffic citations were issued.

The Sheriff's Office is not a sanctuary law enforcement agency. The Office does not pick and choose which laws it will or will not enforce. The Sheriff's Office is totally committed to enforcing all laws fairly and equitably. Statements made by you and the Phoenix mayor reflect a disturbing discrimination and selective enforcement agenda that certain laws passed by the legislature and voted upon by the citizens of Maricopa County should not be enforced. As the position of the Sheriff's Office is one of dedication to full law enforcement and the Town's position is one of selective and self serving law enforcement, the Sheriff's Office has decided to invoke the termination clause of its law enforcement agreement with the Town of Guadalupe.

This letter will serve as the 180 day written notice. This should give the Town sufficient time to study and research the law enforcement needs of the community and explore other law enforcement alternatives.

Sincerely,
Joseph M. Arpaio. Sheriff

Starve to Death You Goof - From SCC

From second city cop

Starve to Death You Goof

Can't keep a dumb idea down:

• A Mexican migrant-rights advocate deported from the U.S. said she began a hunger strike Friday to push her government to demand its citizens receive better treatment north of the border
• Elvira Arellano, a former illegal migrant who took sanctuary at Chicago's Adalberto United Methodist Church for about a year in defiance of a deportation order, said she would starve herself "because I want our government to listen, to act, to defend our migrant families."
• "Is Mexico prepared to receive all of these deported people and their families?" Arellano said on the opening day of the "First Parliament of Mexican Migrant Leaders Who Live in the U.S."

We certainly hope Mexico is prepared to receive more of its citizens back. Then they can get to work on improving their inadequate social net instead of printing up directions on how to take advantage of ours. Republican candidates are getting a ton of traction on this issue and the Democrats are taking a beating.

Arellano starving herself to death would just be icing on the cake.

Security at its finest, the Chicago way

Workers arrested at O'Hare in alleged fake ID scheme

Tribune staff report

More than 20 workers were arrested today at O'Hare International Airport after authorities said employees at a suburban staffing agency used fraudulent security badges to gain access to unauthorized areas of the airport.

Many of the workers arrested were illegal immigrants, authorities said.

The eight-month investigation led to the execution of a search warrant today at Ideal Staffing Solutions, 170 N. Pine Lane in Bensenville, and the arrests of two managers there: Mary Gurin, 36, of Carpentersville, and Norinye Benitez, 24, of Franklin Park, according to a statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Each was charged with one count of harboring illegal aliens for financial gain and one count of misuse of Social Security numbers for allegedly assisting the workers in obtaining unauthorized access to secure areas of the airport, including the tarmac, the statement said.

Working with the Cook County sheriff's office, federal officials arrested more than 20 of the staffing agency's workers at a warehouse close to O'Hare, the statement said. Those workers, whose names were not released, are facing felony charges of possession of fraudulent identification in the form of airport security badges and those suspects identified as illegal immigrants will face deportation, federal officials said.

"If we are to ensure public safety, we must know who has access to the secure areas of airports," U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald said in the statement. "A fundamental component of airport safety is preventing the use of false identification badges, and punishing those who commit or enable such violations."

Gurin, a corporate secretary at Ideal Staffing, hired Benitez and signed her airport badge application, despite knowing that she was an illegal immigrant from Mexico, authorities allege.

According to criminal complaints unsealed today, Ideal Staffing managers told workers they needed identification to work at O'Hare, but that the documents did not need to be legitimate. Federal authorities allege more than 100 temporary workers employed by the agency were in possession of fraudulently obtained airport security badges, which allowed the workers to gain access to secure areas of the airport while loading pallets, freight and meals for companies doing business at O'Hare.

Today's raid echoed a 2002 federal crackdown at O'Hare in which 25 workers were arrested, including Elvira Arellano, who went on to become a well-known activist, and took refuge in a church for more than a year before she was deported.

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Statistics from Los Angeles Times

1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.

2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.

4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.

10. In L.A.

Federation for Immigration Reform

Should an illegal alien receive financial aid for college expenses? Or better yet, in-state tuition benefits?

That is exactly what is going to happen if we do not stop the Senate from supporting the DREAM Act.

Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) announced from the Senate floor earlier this week that he plans to press for a vote on the DREAM Act as an amendment to the FY08 Department of Defense Authorization bill. And from what we are hearing from our friends on the hill, amnesty backers are not stopping until they get their way. Even if they have to do it piece by piece.

FAIR has sounded the alarm and we have begun to organize our field staff and activists across the country to once again stop mass immigration proponents dead in their tracks. In the last two days our staff has given 21 radio interviews, 2 newspaper interviews and interviewed with a syndicated broadcasting company that plans to use our expert information on their television stations across the country. In addition, FAIR had the lead blog yesterday on the Capitol Hill Blog, and our members are making phone calls to their representatives.

Please take these two actions NOW to STOP the DREAM Act from becoming law:

We are doing our best to get the word out to the American public that this amendment is just another attempt by amnesty proponents to get their way but this time through the back door!

This is evidenced by the fact that, in addition to in-state tuition benefits and financial aid benefits, Durbin's amendment provides amensty to illegal aliens over the age of 16 and enrolled in college for a two-year period. Even worse, illegal aliens who are granted amnesty under those conditions can petition to have their parents granted legal status!

The DREAM Act was originally part of the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill. But even though that didn’t pass by the American people unnoticed, amnesty backers are hoping the public will not notice that amnesty legislation has been slipped into the DREAM Act, a bill that plays on America’s heartstrings and is intended to support funding for our military.

Why should you, a taxpaying citizen, not be entitled to receive in-state tuition benefits for yourself or your child in states other than the one you live . . . while a person living illegally in the U.S. can receive these tuition benefits in any state in the U.S.?

Moreover, why should you pay, through your tax dollars, tuition for ANY illegal alien to attend college?

This is just another attempt to reward these lawbreakers and further encourage illegal entry into this country! What better inducement could there be for illegal immigration than a green card and a subsidized education?

We must act now! There is not much time. Amnesty proponents, including the President’s office and The National Council of La Raza, admitted they underestimated the will of the American people when they tried to pass the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill earlier this year. Let’s show them that they have underestimated us again and, any way they offer it, we will NOT accept amnesty. Not now and not in the future.

Please help FAIR spread the word to the American public and to stop this bill dead in its tracks by providing your most generous contribution, and by contacting your elected representatives. Your support was critical in defeating the Bush-Kennedy bill, your support will make the difference in the outcome of this new amnesty fight. Thank you for your support!

Most sincerely,

Dan Stein
President

Legal Immigration the real way

Real immigration of immigrants who respected the laws of the country they sought to immigrate to.

From ChicagoTribune

War brides recall their bittersweet journeys
Foreign spouses of WW II GIs gather-some for the final time-to share

Kirby last saw Chicago in 1947, when she traveled to the U.S. from Belgium to reunite with an American soldier who had helped liberate her homeland from the horror of Nazi occupation.Kirby, who married the soldier after falling for him at a dance, recalled spending 16 days at sea with hundreds of other European war brides, losing 10 pounds during the journey. She finally boarded a train in New York that took her to Chicago and then to her final destination, San Francisco.