One the Largest Illegal Immigrant Busts Yet. (Phoenix, Arizona)

KPHO.com ^ | March 3, 2004 | AP

[FairOpinion]

Nearly 200 illegal immigrants found in drop house

(Phoenix-AP) -- It's getting to be a weekly occurrence. A drop house discovered in the Phoenix area crammed with illegal immigrants.

Phoenix police today discovered nearly 200 illegal immigrants inside an upscale property Wednesday.

About 100 to 150 people were inside the south Phoenix home and an additional 20 to 30 in a guest house on the same property, said Phoenix police Detective Tony Morales. Up to 50 additional people fled the scene.

The group in the drop houses included men, women, teenagers, a child, and a pregnant woman who was taken to a hospital as a precaution, Morales said.

Officers went to the home about 7:15 a.m. after getting a call from a neighbor about suspicious activity. The caller reported vehicles and large groups of people going in the house and said it happened every Wednesday, Morales said.

Trash was littered inside the drop house and the stench of urine and feces permeated, he said. No food or furniture were found inside the home, which is surrounded by a tall block fence.

Offices also discovered at least five passenger vans on the property, some with California plates, Morales said.

Phoenix police have discovered at least six drop houses in the last two weeks, he said.

"Once again it shows the magnitude of the problem," Morales said. "These are the ones that we're finding. Thankfully, citizens are calling police."

Drop houses get the name because illegal immigrants are dropped off there by smugglers to await transportation.

[FairOpinion]

"Does he promise, much less, deliver all I want? NO. Is he better than his opponent? YES!

I am a firm believer in voting for the lesser of evils. Politics is all about compromise, not to mention INCREMENTALISM.

Incrementalism is how we got the Liberal culture of death, and is how we will get rid of it; NOT by demanding a 30-year development to be reversed in one election cycle.

Republican rule #1: is our candidate electable? If yes, run him. If no, like Bob Dole: HELL NO!"

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You are extremely sensible. If we could only bottle it and give it away to those who need a good dose of it. I figure we need to re-elect Bush and get a filibuster-proof Republican majority into Congress for the next 20 years, to get rid of the activist liberal judges and change the tide. You are absolutely right about incrementalism -- it crept up on us, and we need to change it the same way, because it's not possible to put the genie back into the bottle -- at least not in one day.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Not TOO far off the mark, but would you rather go down the drain quickly, or slowly? Pick one.

So if we go down the drain tomorrow night instead of tonight, does that mean we win?

[Dec31,1999]

I think you're ALMOST right, but not quite. I do see a fair amount of discord here. Consider that a lot of those people were banned in '02 in the great purges here on FR. But it still comes up with "old-timers". I don't know, I don't have any statistics, but I do feel that we MUST hang together or we shall surely hang apart.

As I have said many times before, I will hold my nose and vote for Bush AGAIN.

Does he promise, much less, deliver all I want? NO. Is he better than his opponent? YES!

I am a firm believer in voting for the lesser of evils. Politics is all about compromise, not to mention INCREMENTALISM.

Incrementalism is how we got the Liberal culture of death, and is how we will get rid of it; NOT by demanding a 30-year development to be reversed in one election cycle.

Republican rule #1: is our candidate electable? If yes, run him. If no, like Bob Dole: HELL NO!

[oldironsides]

The increase in this type of activity will happen before a presidential election. Democrats need voters.

[Pa' fuera]

The budget would add staff to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention and removals branch, which expels illegal aliens from the United States. The unit extradited 142,008 aliens in fiscal 2003, but faces a daunting backlog of immigration cases. Roughly 400,000 aliens have fled after receiving a final order of deportation from an immigration judge.

The Bush budget would fund 30 new fugitive operations teams, which are dedicated solely to apprehending and deporting alien absconders. ICE currently has 18 such teams. It also would provide 269 new immigration enforcement agents for the institutional removal program, where criminal aliens in federal and state prisons are released into ICE custody. Because of staffing shortfalls, ICE now taps its criminal investigators to help staff this program.

If he were truly concerned about combatting the problem, then he wouldn't be in harmony with immigrant exporter in chief Vicente Fox and he wouldn't, via his rhetoric, be encouraging illegals to come north seeking his amnesty, overwhelming all these resources he has just put into place. He's setting these programs up for failure by trying to play both sides of the issue.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Who is checking to see if these criminals are committing only misdemeanors, frauds, or serial felonies, in this time of Terror War with corruptly open borders?

Mexico has planned the reinvasion since their invading El Presidente saved his own cowardly skin given the honor of Gen. Sam Houston in 1836. The Reconqista to recapture the mythical Aztlan is both foreign invasion and RICO sedition.

With tens of millions of 3rd Worlders engaging in this growing invasion of our Republic, millions intentionally breeding at our expense - thousand$ per birth at the least, choking hospitals, schools, jails, and other social services, engaging in employment and license document frauds including motor voter election outcomes, at least 1,000 Mexican, Central and South American gangs stealing retailers and homeowners blind, with the Reconquista invasion assisted by the government of Fox & Amigos, and many reports of M.E. suspected terrorists crossing at will among criminal latinos with or without drugs, you bet there should be bounty with deadly force at the ready for those who resist.

We must stop this criminal invasion. We need border security as tough and effective as Texas Rangers.

Our nation is at war with terrorists, while we're crowded with 3rd World foreign criminals bringing crime and barrio slums with them. If we are to protect American citizens and mitigate this conventionally un"win"able religious/cultural war of islam, our borders must be secured by whatever means necessary to protect our way of life.

Would you accept 50,000,000+ 3rd Worlders illeagally "immigrating" into your neighborhood because they want to?

[PRND21]

Would you accept 50,000,000+ 3rd Worlders illeagally "immigrating" into your neighborhood because they want to?

Ridiculous premise, and I live in L.A.
And bounties for misdemeanors is still absurd.

[SevenDaysInMay]

You must not know your felonies usually committed by "undocumented workers" and their parasite families.

Just how many criminal foreign aliens do you want in your neighborhood? Your local and state and federal tax jursdictions?

Bounties will happen even if not sanctioned by law. The Reconquista invasion swarms are devestating our tax districts and social services and destroying private property which no cop is willing to protect and serve.

These 3rd Worlders have no right to be here, but are criminals for being here if they do nothing but stand in the water of the United States.

[PRND21]

You must not know your felonies usually committed by "undocumented workers" and their parasite families.

We were talking about illegal border crossings...non felonious.
Now you want bounties for what they might do? Achtung, baby.

[Dec31,1999]

Yes, but only for a night. Enjoy. :)

Choose one. The time has passed for a third, and better party in this election cycle. It behooves you to get working at the grass root level for the next one, though.

It's not like you didn't have any warning after the 2000 election, though, is it? Well 2008 is not too far away. the years pass quickly.

Meantime,...Vote for an honest man. Vote for Bush!

[Dec31,1999]

Thanks a lot. I do try. I care about our great nation. And my greatest hope is that we can maintain our own liberty, AND export desperately needed freedom to others, as well. I've always said this.

FReegards. -Dec

[Dec31,1999]

But many people here are blaming Bush for the illegal problem, as if it hadn't existed for the past 20 years or more. Bush inherited a major problem, he also had a great deal of more urgent matters to attend to, such as going after the terrorists to keep us alive, and get the economy out of recession, yet people are bashing him, even though he has been making progress, but it's not a problem that can realistically be solved overnight.

Very true. And your subsequent comment about how the Bush bashers seem to be of the crowd that NEVER voted for him seem to ring equally true. Hmmm.