Posted on 12/11/2009 12:54:19 PM PST by SmithL
In the largest such operation in U.S. history, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 286 foreign nationals in California with criminal records in a three-day enforcement surge that ended Thursday night.
Of those taken into custody, 119 were from Northern California and 24 were from the San Jose area.
ICE reported that about 80 percent of the immigrants taken into custody had prior convictions for serious or violent crimes such as rape, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Also arrested were 30 convicted sex offenders, many of whom had been convicted of sexual assaults on children.
At a news conference in Los Angeles this morning, John Morton, the Homeland Security assistant secretary who oversees ICE, announced the results of the special operation, which involved more than 400 agents and officers from ICE, the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as several other state and local agencies.
"Enhancing public safety is at the core of ICE's mission," Morton said. "Legal immigration is an important part of our country's history, and the American dream exists for many immigrants. However, that dream involves playing by the rules, and those who break our criminal laws will be removed from the country.
"Sadly," he added, "many of the people victimized by aliens who commit crimes are other members of the immigrant community who are following the rules."
Of those arrested in the enforcement surge, more than 100 have already been Advertisement removed from the country, said Virginia Kice, an ICE spokeswoman.
She said at least 17 of the people taken into custody will face further federal prosecution, most for re-entering the country illegally after a formal deportation. A felony conviction on that charge carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
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Deport them and they still come back. Enough with the cat and mouse game with these criminals. If you have been deported once and come back, go straight to death row.
Any of them from Kenya via Indonesia via Hawaii?
it’s all a shell game like the war on drugs, war on (insert whatever you please). It’s designed to keep government employees employed and a way to justify larger budgets. Most of these people will be back on the streets doing what they were doing soon enough.
Yeah, but it’s OK cause they were only committing the rapes, armed robberies and assaults American citizens didn’t WANT to commit!
Bad universe.
Transgression of an international border in violation of a formal order of deportation should be a CAPITAL offense, punishable by summary execution. Period.
Transgression of an international border against a formal order of deportation is, rightly viewed, an individual military act, because it constitutes an invasion. Nevermind that it is a single person. The definition of "invasion" is not numerically constrained. An invasion being an act of war, all who perpetrate such acts ought to be shot dead on sight as a matter of national defense.
We have ongoing, and worsening issues in this regard, because we don't have the stomach so act in our own behalf to protect our own citizens.
Deport them?
They’ll be back before Amnesty is introduced next week.
The Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act (Comprehensive Immigration Reform)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405482/posts
“On Tuesday, December 15, Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) will introduce new legislation, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP), to the U.S. House of Representatives. Gutierrez will be joined by members of many different faiths and backgrounds, including the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Black Caucus, Asian Pacific American Caucus and Progressive Caucus.”
ASAP....isn’t that special??? Yes, they want it ASAP, before anyone realizes they’ve done the deal.
No doubt they will be let go somehow only to end up back on the streets.
Only one...What does Barak Obama have in common with Sant Claus....Santa Claus doesn’t have a birth certificate either!
Good news. Second sweep in Northern Ca this month.
The ones that will be deported will be back in a week with a different alias.
Most federal prisoners are Latinos in this country illegally.
Only 29,999,720 left to go. We’re saved! Thanks for actually enforcing an immigration law!
286 foreign nationals... 119 were from Northern California and 24 were from the San Jose areaApparently at least two dozen have heard the song and answered affirmatively.
Santa Claus doesn’t have a birth certificate either!
The market secular driven Santa that is.
Not the real one.
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