Posted on 08/12/2010 11:54:12 AM PDT by AuntB
Federal, state and local law enforcement agents arrested 14 foreign-born gang members and associates Tuesday in Jasper, Huntingburg and Evansville, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Securities Investigations unit.
“Street gangs pose a growing public safety threat to Indiana’s rural communities,” said Daniel T. Dill, resident agent in charge of the ICE-HSI office in Indianapolis. “With each gang member we arrest and remove from the United States, we make a positive impact in our communities.”
Of the 14 men, 12 are being held by ICE on administrative immigration charges and will be placed into deportation proceedings.
Two are in the Dubois County Jail pending local charges. ICE would did not disclose the names of the individuals for privacy reasons.
Nine of the individuals are from El Salvador, three are from Mexico, one is from Honduras and one is from Haiti. ICE said the individuals are members or associates of the following street gangs: MS-13, Sur-13, and Zoe Pound.
The arrests were made under an ICE initiative dubbed “Operation Community Shield,” which targets transnational street gangs and the significant public safety threat they pose.
During the arrest, ICE agents seized two semi-automatic handguns, two machetes and 300 rounds of ammunition.
ICE said that since it began Operation Community Shield in 2005, it has arrested more than 18,000 gang members and associates belonging to more than 900 different gangs nationwide.
Are you concerned that gang activity is on the rise in the area?
Yes 82%
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/aug/11/14-foreign-born-gang-members-arrested-southern-ind/
SO many news stories today! Here's an interesting one.
Feds say store owner lived a double life Son calls Zahid a family man, but agents link 'Z' to meth
Mohammad Zahid owns convenience stores and a home in suburban Sugar Land, and he has two kids in college — one a medical student.
If federal agents have it right, the 54-year-old who emigrated from Pakistan more than 20 years ago also lived a double life.
Far from his family residence on a tree-lined street was a string of younger lovers, a drug habit and a Houston condo, from which he allegedly dispensed wildly addictive methamphetamine over games of pool.
A federal indictment borne from Operation Agent Orange states the man known as "Z" is part of a 35-person plot that connects Houston to Mexico.
All face at least 10 years and as long as life in prison if convicted in the drug-trafficking conspiracy.
"It is a large organization, as large as they come for crystal meth on this side (of the border)," testified Agent John Schwartz, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
The array of alleged conspirators includes rookies and street-hardened criminals.
David Ruiz, 31, served time with the Texas Youth Commission for capital murder. He co-owns and runs a sports bar.
Jesus Pineda, 30, is charged along with six family members, accused of being the Mexico connection and described as keenly street smart and adept at avoiding detection.[snip]
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7146493.html
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Yes
83% (335)
No
16% (68)
total votes: 403
It doesn’t matter how many you throw out. They will just come back in. SECURE THE BORDER!!!!
How the Obama Administration Is Preempting Federal Immigration Law
Two days ago, the Washington Times reported that the union that represents rank-and-file field agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unanimously passed a “vote of no confidence” for the agency’s leadership. The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 7,000 ICE agents and employees, stated that ICE has “abandoned” its core mission of protecting the public to support a political agenda favoring amnesty. The vote, by the Union’s Council, was 259-0.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/08/026976.php
The federal government has deliberately NOT enforced immigration law so that it would become a crisis and then they would be able to rush in and “save” us by “reforming” present law - in other words make millions of new democrat voters.
The republic is in deep doodoo.
One big moat filed with starving crocs.
LOL. No free hospitals in Mexico if you get shot, if you get profiled you get free health care.
My Hometown! I need to Freep this one!! Thanks.
Of course! Remember when 'Undocumented Worker' was in vogue at one time for Illegal Alien?
Best way to deflect the truth is put a smiley-face on the term. This way citizens will not be reminded of another example of lax enforcement of illegal immigration and the following problems attached.
Do the defective Cyborg Leftoids put out newsletters on words to use? /sarc. Rush, et al have played sound-bites from just one day where the MSM sources on a given issue had an identical 'term.' And, as if on cue lately the term you refer to and these below:
Several weeks ago I posted a press release from the U.S. Forest Service. They raided a large grow operation in CA. An illegal alien captured and named with city of residence in Mexico in their announcement referred to him as a...(drum-roll)...Displaced Foreign Traveler!!!....(sound of crickets in background).
Today here in FR an article was posted of a similar event. Though reference was made to Mexican Cartels behind the grow operations in OR and elsewhere, they referred to those guarding them as ...(drum-roll)...Foreign Nationals!!!....(sound of crickets in background).
I say we give Indiana to Mexico....
We do have a Mexico Indiana.
Please don’t give away the whole state.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - A Lafayette man faces gang-related charges following a fight at Wildcat Creek Park last month.
28-year-old Manuel E. Rodriguez, of 3603 Rosslyn Drive, was arrested after two Lafayette men were beaten in the park on Eisenhower Road on July 25.
Prosecutors stated that Rodriguez and approximately six other men attacked the pair after a driving altercation on the way to the park.
One victim told police that Rodriguez had swung a baseball bat at him, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
According to the affidavit, Rodriguez told the victims during the fight that he was a member of the “Sur-13” gang.
Rodriguez is charged with three felonies, including Criminal Gang Activity.
http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/crime/lafayette-man-faces-gang-related-charges
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Two Lafayette men face several felony charges after their alleged involvement in a gang-related burglary.
Charges were filed yesterday against 19-year-old Benigno Astorga-Quiroga and 18-year-old Efrain Antonio Contreras.
According to court documents, a Lafayette man returned home for lunch on January 28, when he found his back door had been broken into and his guns were missing from a locked case. In February, shots were fired at a Lafayette wedding reception by three uninvited males. Police determined the guns used were from the January burglary.
According to the documents, police interviewed Astorga-Quiroga, who admitted he was a member of the Southside 13 gang.
Astorga-Quiroga and Contreras were charged with burglary, theft, conspiracy to commit burglary and criminal gang activity.
http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/two-men-face-charges-after-gang-related-burglary-in-lafayette
“I say we give Indiana to Mexico..”
I say we give you and all you relatives to latino gang members for their amusement.
You are one sick asshole.
Whats the matter? Your thin skin is irritated because Indiana is becoming infested with illegals?
lol.....
Look what’s going on today (well, actually EVERY day) in my old hometown:
Deputies shoot and kill man guarding pot garden (Mexican Cartels)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2569336/posts
LOL!
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