Rally Planned Against Raids Of Illegal Immigrants

CBS affiliate, Chicago ^ | Apr 20 2006 | Sylvia Gomez

[george wythe]

Protesters are gathering to rally against a new round of raids on undocumented immigrants.

Numerous raids have left Chicago families without their loved ones, and this morning the government is talking about its new policy.

[snip]

But illegal immigrant advocates are calling this action and crackdown immoral and they are outraged. They are planning a protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters and another protest is planned this afternoon.

They are asking immigration officials to halt action until Congress comes up with its new laws because it might allow some immigrants to remain in the U.S.

[george wythe]

Also from Michele Malkin:

Notices of intent to fine employers
for immigration violations:

Year/ Notices 1992: 1,461
1993: 1,302
1994: 1,063
1995: 1,056

1996: 1,019
1997: 865
1998: 1,023 2000: 178
2001: 100
2002: 53
2003: 162

2004: 3

[Paperdoll]

Uh, hello, Whitehouse? Anybody there?

[Marine Inspector]

When Customs and Immigration merged into ICE, the legacy Customs investigators were GS-13's (pay level) while the INS Investigators were GS-11's.

Since the the Feds could not demote the GS-13's, the GS-11's got promoted to GS-13's.

The INS Supervisors the were GS-12, GS-13 and GS-14 got promoted to GS-14, and GS-15 to match the Customs Supervisors.

This cost billions which ICE had to borrow against it's future budgets to get.

It will be a few years before ICE has any real money for investigation other they terrorist stuff.

[george wythe]

Thank you for you contributions to this thread.

You inside insight is quite valuable to keep these discussions at the factual level.

[kjo]

Look lady, if they're here illegally, they ARE criminals.

[plain talk]

Newt was on the tube a few days back and said his main suggestion to deal with illegals is to go after the Companies hard and the problem will take care of itself.

There has to be a smarter way than the brute force method of dealing with illegals one by one. On ants I find that if you use the bait traps they take it back to the queen and everyone dies. Seems there may be something to learn from this.

[Marine Inspector]

Glad to be of assistance.

Thanks for your support.

[Marine Inspector]

Newt was on the tube a few days back and said his main suggestion to deal with illegals is to go after the Companies hard and the problem will take care of itself.

He's 100% correct.

Take away the jobs and take away the welfare and the vast majority of illegals will leave on their own accord.

The rest can be dealt with the hard way.

[jch10]

"Many of those same immigrants were released just hours later "....

What??? They are still releasing them? This is no crackdown on illegals. This is a ruse to fool the public into thinking ICE is really doing something.

[Serenissima Venezia]

Take away the jobs and take away the welfare and the vast majority of illegals will leave on their own accord.

Sounds good. I hope Mr. Newt considers running for the presidency. If nothing else, his common sense and brilliant oratory abilities will raise the debates up a notch.

[Serenissima Venezia]

This is about going after a corporation that systematically helps illegals enter the US and systematically commits Social Security fraud and other federal crimes.

I hope you are right (and assume you are because of your associations!) and that this type of thing continues. However, I'm pretty distrustful of anything dealing with this wussy administration and illegal immigration.

[Marine Inspector]

WIth ICE's lack of cash, I doubt we will see more then 1 or 2 of these a year.

[holyscroller]

The Criminal Inmates are running the Criminal Assylum.

[flaglady47]

"Man, how naive are you?
Do you work for CBP or ICE?
I do. Have you spoken with any agents involved in the investigation and raids?
I have.
Thanks for playing.
Next!"

Now I'm really worried if someone as naive as you are work for CBP or ICE. You still have no response to why they chose this particular week to do the raid, the exact week in which Congress will be reconvening and taking up once again an immigration bill. I don't give a darn on how long it takes to plan a raid. That is not the question. The question is why was this particular week chosen to initiate the raid, and that's where your being naive comes in, if you think this wasn't an intentional choice. Geez, wake up and smell the coffee!

[stopem]

Now they have the audacity to demand we not arrest any of the illegals?
They need to be shown how to respect our laws and our country!
They are not the boss of us!

[Serenissima Venezia]

Does HR4437 - or any of the proposed Senate bills - address that ICE needs funding?

[Marine Inspector]

You still have no response to why they chose this particular week to do the raid

The raid was planned for this month due to the completion of the investigation and the acquiring of the proper warrants by the Justice Department.

This was all in the works long before Congress decided to introduce and work on any immigration bill. The two just happen to coincide, just like the illegals rising up and holding rallies.

Some times shit happens. Wake up and smell reality.

[Marine Inspector]

Does HR4437 - or any of the proposed Senate bills - address that ICE needs funding?

I've not looked at the bill yet, so I can't say.