U.S. Border Patrol agents process apprehended illegal immigrants on Wednesday morning in Douglas. (Bruce Whetten•Wick News Service)
Posted on 03/18/2009 5:04:28 PM PDT by SandRat
City police say it is the largest raid in any single location in Douglas in recent memory
DOUGLAS — More than 50 illegal immigrants were captured and detained today after the apartment they were using was discovered by the Douglas Police Department.
The apartment, located at 337 G Avenue, was discovered as a result of a vehicle check at 7:50 a.m. Wednesday.
Douglas Police Officer Tomas Romero spotted a suspicious vehicle on 19th Street and A Avenue. After checking on the plates of the 1999 yellow Chevy 3/4 ton pickup, it was discovered to be registered to a fictitious address in Mesa.
The truck was later discovered in front of the G Avenue apartment. When Romero began to check out the vehicle, someone came out of the front door of the apartment, and the officer began to question him. At that point, people started running out of the back of the three-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment.
The police picked up as many as they could and kept the others in the apartment. It is estimated that there may have been as many as 70 people living in the house, which had the utilities on and television running.
For Douglas, this was the largest raid of illegal immigrants in any single location in recent memory, according to Markus Gonzalez of the Douglas Police Department.
The illegal immigrants who were caught were loaded onto a bus and taken away for questioning. The pickup was impounded.
The U.S. Border Patrol said it is investigating the incident but had no further comment Wednesday.
The Douglas Dispatch plans to have more on this story in its weekend edition.
Larry Blaskey is the publisher of the Douglas Dispatch, a newspaper owned by Wick Communications Co. He can be reached at 364-3424 or by e-mail at editor@douglasdispatch.com.
U.S. Border Patrol agents process apprehended illegal immigrants on Wednesday morning in Douglas. (Bruce Whetten•Wick News Service)
Border PING
UNAMERICAN
Build the DAMN FENCE NOW
For those of us that don’t know, could you tell us where Douglas is located?
Who is surprised? There are probably 1000 clown houses jammed with illegal aliens as I type scattered all over the country.
Is there anyone out there that hasn't noticed the entire county is crawling with millions of illegal aliens?
Next supreme court justice.
It’s right on the border in the far Southeaster corner of the state.
Arizona...
See #7.
The Speaker of the House is deeply saddened!
Douglas is a border town in Arizona with Aqua Prieta in Mexico. Douglas is also the town the rancher was taken to court for stopping illegals and detaining them with a firearm on his property.
The reason I did not procrate, I saw this coming. TEOTWAYKI!
yes, I'm deeply invested in gold and lead. Yes, I have kids.......adoption. I figured there were enough bastards out there, Maybe I can help these two.
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Going in the East this morning the BPs had a van pulled over at 0610 am.
How soon will we learn that our Secretary of Homeland Security wasn’t told of this?
Its shovel ready!
The caught illegals should be investigated to see if any of them have committed any crimes, their fingerprints taken and the ones that have done nothing criminally here need to be deported back to Mexico NOW!
Thanks!
Hussein say s keeping them out is UnAmerican
337 G Street is within a few hundred yards of the Port of Entry...Ping!
and everyone was worried about an oil man being in the white house.
Actually, I am aware of that, and where Douglas is located.
But thanks.
As far southeast Arizona as you can get. I live there!
Was that an apartment, or did they pull over a "clown car" from a circus?
Mark
Excellent post. Lol, the clowns disappeared from the taxi!
I visited Douglas year before last to check out the border and the illegals.
Douglas is small town America of 1950, still there, still functioning. Douglas is a glimpse of what was and what seem to be basically good.
Douglas is one of the more corrupt towns you can find. It LOOKS like 1950’s small town America in parts, but that is not the case. It is a border town. It has corresponding amounts of crime and corruption.
Interesting.
On the day I was there, kids were riding bicycles in town. Men, cowboys, stopped their trucks on the main street to converse. People were crossing in the middle of the block.
It appeared idyllic
I forgot to mention that I did see a Pontiac Trans Am on fire with two Border Patrol trucks in attendance. Guess that’s what you mean
I guess you just have to be around here for awhile. In the past couple of months, we have had a stolen vehicle, two high-speed car chases in front of the house, drive-by shooting, and there is always property theft and damage. This is just on my block, one of the nice neighborhoods of Douglas. BP and police sirens wail almost every night at all hours, illegal aliens knocking on your front door to use your cell phone (actually happened). Also, border patrol highly recommends that you don’t go out into the desert at night around here (to look at stars, etc.), and it is always wonderful to have to worry when out hiking in the mountains because there are signs that warn about drug smugglers in the area.
We actually like the town here, the people can be very friendly, but it does anger me somewhat that I would have to worry about violent smugglers when camping with my children in the Chiricahua mountains.
Another thing, somewhat unrelated, even the Mexican nationals that I know that stay in Douglas most of the time don’t want to go down to A.P. Mexico anymore because, as one said, “it costs me too much money every time I go down there because of the police.”
By the way, during the day, those things you saw still happen. We had to get used to cars stopping in the middle of the road to let us cross if we even looked like we were going to cross. The culture is really neat, and these are things we like very much about Douglas. It is not all negative living down here, but it is not idyllic either.
My thought at the time was if I had to retire to Arizona, Douglas seemed preferable to Phoenix
By a long shot. You couldn’t pay me enough to live in Phoenix.
/mark
I just looked up the crime statistics in Douglas, and they seem to be really low compared to state average. It’s the first time I had ever done that. I am thinking my perception might be a bit skewed from what has happened around us since moving here, and also from what others have told us.
I talked to a border patrol officer, parole board officer and a police officer about the area shortly after we moved here, mentioning the fact that it seemed like crime was pretty LOW, and they all replied basically the same thing, “well, it’s a border town.” So, take it for what it is worth. As for us, we’re enjoying ourselves down here, but we would anywhere we were anyway.
Hasta luego FRamigo
I would add DNA samples.
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