Posted on 03/02/2008 11:19:45 AM PST by BGHater
Phone trees among tools used to thwart federal agents
RESEDA, Calif. - When federal immigration officers visited over three days last October looking for an illegal Salvadoran immigrant, a neighborhood watch kicked into action each time.
Dozens of immigrants, legal and illegal, phoned one another, warning of a raid.
"I called my sister in the building next door and another sister in this building," said Maria, who said she is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and has two children who are U.S.-born citizens. She asked that her full name not be used. "They came and knocked on doors, but no one answered."
Angelita Pascacio, an organizer of Madres Contra Redadas (Mothers Against Raids) who has since moved from the 16-unit apartment building, described the surveillance by immigrants as clumsy at first, but effective. "Thanks to our being organized, they didn't take anyone away," she said.
As the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency beefs up home-visiting teams seeking illegal immigrants, doubling arrests in each of the past two years, migrants and advocates are initiating countermeasures to make legal and illegal immigrants aware of tactics such as not answering their door or remaining silent.
The grass-roots efforts try to help many immigrants who live in fear and ignorance of the law, but an ulterior goal is to stymie agents' door-to-door hunts and thwart "collateral" arrests--illegal immigrants who are discovered accidentally in a questioning for someone else who has absconded from a deportation order.
Immigrants and advocates say they are trying to save families from being cleaved when an illegal immigrant parent is caught and removed from the U.S., leaving behind children or a spouse who are legal residents or citizens.
Dual claims of success
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
"Thanks to our being organized, they didn't take anyone away," she said.
-Beyond Mad.
Maria, who said she is an illegal immigrant from Mexico... asked that her full name not be used.
Angelita Pascasio and author Michael Martinez should be arrested for obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting at the very least. The Chicago Tribune should be fined heavily.
Amen
Aren’t these folk aiding in the commission of a crime?
I owned a house in Reseda for 29 years. I don’t miss it a bit. The neighborhood was getting bad when I lived there, and it has gotten 10 times worse since I left in 1993. I have made a couple of trips to area for wedding, etc, but was warned by friends NOT to go down my street and see my old house. When I was there, it was all single family houses, occupied by no more than 6 people at most.
Note to ICE: In all future Sweep and Pick-Up Operations cut all land-line and Cell Phone Communications for the area and time of the operation.
ICE can use old fashioned Walkie-Talkies among themselves and base.
Problem solved.
California is gone, the rest of you better protect yourselves.
These people are beginning an organized resistance to our nation’s laws. This also means that they prefer to have their own criminals living with them instead of being brought to justice. Their identification with their group supercedes their identity as Americans. They are hostile to America and should rightfully be expelled from the USA. Our own government allows this to stand, which means that the government is no longer willing to carry out the will of the people. This government must be replaced with one which will act to carry out our will.
Isn’t obstructing justice a crime in and of itself, and can it not be prosecuted?
Yes, especially when they admit to it in a news article.
These actions are common among many different types of criminals. The mob does it - bank robbers do it - what’s so odd about criminals warning each other?
HELP ELECT TED HAYES TO REPLACE MAXINE WATERS!
http://www.tedhayestocongress.com/
(note, I do not know if the RNC helps others with filing fees)
Republican Leadership Refuses to Help Ted Hayes Again!
He filed to run for Congress as a Republican in the 35th District against Maxine Waters.
In years past, the Republican Party Leadership in the County and State as well as the Republican National Committee had paid the filing fees for Republican Candidates in races where only one Republican candidate is running to avoid the embarrassment of not even fielding a candidate against a Democrat incumbent.
Because Ted Hayes is the only Republican who pulled papers to run in District 35, a request was made for his $1,600.00 filing fee to be paid by the Republican Party.
After submitting requests for help at the County level, State level and National level, Mr. Hayes contacted Los Angeles County Republican Party Chairman Linda Boyd and asked for help.
“We support you Ted, but there will be no help with the filing fee” was the response.
Adding insult to injury does not even come close to describing the feelings held by many of Ted’s supporters.
As is his nature, Ted accepted the refusal for help and is moving forward.
On Friday March 7th the filing period will close. If Ted Hayes is to be on the ballot, if he is going to be able to provide the first real challenge to Maxine Waters in too many years, it will have to be with the help of those who believe in him enough to help financially.
Why doesn't Mexico take care of its own people? Why do they instead encourage their poor to leave Mexico and invade the United States? Nature provides a parallel that is instructive.
Some species of birds thrive not by carefully rearing their own young, but by pawning that task off on adults of other species. The European Cuckoo, whose distinctive call is immortalized in the sound of the "cuckoo clock," is the bird in which this habit has been most thoroughly studied. Female European Cuckoos lay their eggs only in the nests of other species of birds. A cuckoo egg usually closely mimics the eggs of the host (one of whose eggs is often removed by the cuckoo).
The host may recognize the intruding egg and abandon the nest, or it may incubate and hatch the cuckoo egg. Shortly after hatching, the young European Cuckoo, using a scoop-like depression on its back, instinctively shoves over the edge of the nest any solid object that it contacts. With the disappearance of their eggs and rightful young, the foster parents are free to devote all of their care to the young cuckoo. Frequently this is an awesome task, since the cuckoo chick often grows much larger than the host adults long before it can care for itself. One of the tragicomic scenes in nature is a pair of small foster parents working like Sisyphus to keep up with the voracious appetite of an outsized young cuckoo.
You're right about that...
They do it because 1. their elites are amoral 2. it's a lot easier to dump undesirable citizen than reform a system that benefits corrupt Mexican elites 3. because we're stupid enough to let them and 4. because they can get away with it.
I live in Reseda. The worst part about it is that all 3 top Presidential candidates are encouraging this. If only the rest of the country could see what has happened to this city.
Because when the alleged obstructers are legal US citizens, they wind up like Randy Weaver or David Koresh. When they are illegal Mexican nationals, the Feds shrug their shoulders and move on.
There is a double standard and it favors the invaders.
...and 5. it’s profitable. Check out just how much of Mexico’s economy comes from remittances.
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