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ICE Raids Target Austin, Texas
International Business Times ^ | March 30, 2017 | Chris Riotta

Posted on 03/30/2017 8:18:46 AM PDT by BradtotheBone

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deliberately targeted Austin, Texas after talks between the agency’s officials and local authorities went awry, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin said during a public court session Tuesday. Immigration officials reported at least 50 people were arrested in Austin – typically described as a sanctuary city for its welcoming stance on immigration – early last month after a federal crackdown began following President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The raids began after Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez met with an ICE field office director to discuss the federal government’s new immigration guidelines under Trump.

Instead of working with federal agencies to comply with an increase in immigrant detentions and deportations nationwide, Hernandez created a policy limiting the cooperation between local law enforcement and immigration officials.

The judge said he was warned by immigration officials that the city "could expect a big operation, agents coming in from out of town" that was "a result of the sheriff’s new policy, that this was going to happen" when questioning ICE agent Laron Bryant Tuesday.

"That’s the one we heard about where 50-some-odd people were arrested," Judge Austin said. "My understanding is, what was told us is, one of the reasons that [the raid] happened is because the meetings that had occurred between the field office director and the sheriff didn't go very well."

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1 posted on 03/30/2017 8:18:46 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

There’s the problem in three words: SHERIFF SALLY HERNANDEZ!


2 posted on 03/30/2017 8:23:46 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (God, Guns, and Trump will save the USA)
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To: BradtotheBone
so?

yahoo posts a photo of this:

The ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents detained a woman at Danny's Family Car Wash in Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 17, 2013. Photo: Reuters

to supplement an ICE raid in Texas in 2017 - solid !
3 posted on 03/30/2017 8:24:21 AM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

LOCK. HER. UP!


4 posted on 03/30/2017 8:26:06 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: BradtotheBone

In your face ICE, you will do almost NOTHING in Austin and get away with it. Empty words, little action.


5 posted on 03/30/2017 8:27:44 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Not tired of winning; thank God for this miracle and pray without ceasing for wisdom, understanding, and knowledge for President Trump and all his team to protect and defend our nation that we may live in peace and safety to worship God and bless our neighbors in this country and throughout the world.


6 posted on 03/30/2017 8:28:25 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: BradtotheBone

This may make it hard for the Bolshies to get elected in Austin if all of their voters are deported.


7 posted on 03/30/2017 8:36:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain has got to go. The boy is crazy.)
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To: BradtotheBone

This whole “sanctuary city” think can be easily handled by using linguistic legerdemain.

Just make it clear that “Sanctuary City”=”ICE Magnet.”

Get the word out there is a direct correlation between a city’s reticence to cooperate and the feds and the scope and size of the federal enforcement efforts there.

They will flee.


8 posted on 03/30/2017 8:40:25 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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To: BradtotheBone

Make it 50 per week now, and then 50 per day soon - for Austin, TX, and for many other cities. We need to rack up large numbers continuously to get to 11+ million.


9 posted on 03/30/2017 8:50:38 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: BradtotheBone

Conduct raids AND cut off federal funding.

I don’t know how many federal dollars go to Austin or where. I expect a significant amount go to the University of Texas at Austin, and also to the city itself. So stopping the flow of dollars may get the attention of the offending parties.


10 posted on 03/30/2017 8:52:07 AM PDT by ChessExpert (It's not compassion when you use government to give other people's money away.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Sanctuary city takes beating news gets better by the day.


11 posted on 03/30/2017 9:05:50 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: unixfox; All

She’s probably an illegal herself.


12 posted on 03/30/2017 9:12:41 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Keeping Sanctuary Weird


13 posted on 03/30/2017 9:16:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BradtotheBone

I just hope that, as they are sending these people out of the USA, they are checking their names/addresses against every list of entitlement benefits, to make sure their food stamps, Medicaid, rent assistance, free cell phones, etc. are stopped IMMEDIATELY. If so, we should see the costs of those programs dropping very soon.


14 posted on 03/30/2017 9:22:58 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

“There’s the problem in three words: SHERIFF SALLY HERNANDEZ!”

Beat me to it.

I remember a time before America lost its mind.


15 posted on 03/30/2017 9:23:27 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: unixfox

SUE SALLY HERNANDEZ


16 posted on 03/30/2017 9:24:34 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Put the sheriff behind bars.

Austin schools were handing out pamphlets on how to avoid ICE. Put every one who aides and abets in jail.


17 posted on 03/30/2017 9:34:50 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: BradtotheBone

“target rich environment”


18 posted on 03/30/2017 9:35:10 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: BradtotheBone
Thank you, ICE

As a Texan, I invite you to come back to Austin, every day, if you want to.

19 posted on 03/30/2017 9:36:19 AM PDT by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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To: Pollster1
A comment on the eleven million number.... I do not know who made up that number, but it represent perhaps 20% of the real number of Illegals.

Someone posted recently about 23% of the school students were foreign (read illegal). Just look at the temporary buildings at most schools.

I live in the DC area and I think eleven million live in the DC area alone.

20 posted on 03/30/2017 9:36:22 AM PDT by sleepwalker (The future is so bright, I gotta wear shades)
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