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]

I hope we keep catching them -- preferably at the border.

[dagnabbit]

"I say make it all legal" - GWB

[SevenDaysInMay]

We must have a bounty on these criminals.

[Joe Hadenuf]

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

Send the message, send them all to a certain ranch in Texas.

[FairOpinion]

You are still acting as if Bush is the real enemy.


What do you think Kerry would do about illegal immigration?

Did you see this article about what Dems in LA are doing?

(Los Angeles City) Council creates Office of Immigrant Affairs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1090321/posts

You better get your eye on the ball and stop attacking Bush, or after 8 years of Kerry you will be knee-deep in illegal aliens, excuse me, recent US citizens.

[wolficatZ]

Sure were a lot of helicopters thumping around today..

[South40]

How to report ILLEGAL Aliens

[Nephi]

I'm looking forward to the constitutional amendment requiring Pres. Bush to do his job and enforce our borders.

[dagnabbit]

What do you think Kerry would do about illegal immigration?

About as little as Bush. And if he's President we'll complain about his dereliction of duty just as we now complain about Bush's dereliction.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Read #9

[BlazingArizona]

Sure were a lot of helicopters thumping around today..

At about 5 pm, saw two helicopters with odd-looking equipment attached zoom low over Arizona Mills (Mall, I-10 at Baseline).

[FairOpinion]

"What do you think Kerry would do about illegal immigration?"

"About as little as Bush. And if he's President we'll complain about his dereliction of duty just as we now complain about Bush's dereliction."

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I see -- so you want to get rid of Bush, so someone else can be president, who will do even less about illegal immigration, and on top of it all will sell us out to the UN, make us vulnerable to terrorists, and raise your taxes. Is that logic in Conserva-Land?

[jpsb]

If this president will not defend or borders then unelect him, and if the nezt doesn't then unelect him too, untill the president learns that we want our borders defended and employers of illegals throw in jail.

[lewislynn]

You are still acting as if Bush is the real enemy.

What do you think Kerry would do about illegal immigration?

Nothing...You're right, they are the same

[FairOpinion]

It would be nice if you and others kept up with facts, instead of continuing bashing Bush, even though he IS doing a great deal to strengthen our borders.

Bush budget adds hundreds of immigration enforcement jobs
February 3, 2004
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0204/020304p1.htm

Hundreds of new immigration enforcement jobs, including 236 personnel to find aliens that have defied final deportation orders, would be created under President Bush's fiscal 2005 budget proposal.


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.

[FairOpinion]

"You're right, they are the same"

I did NOT even the vaguest sens imply Bush and Kerry are the same -- for anyone to say that, means they have a serious problem with reality.

And I just posted some info on another thread -- Bush is doing a great deal to stop illegal immigration, for which the so-called conservatives aren't giving him any credit, because their real issue is NOT illegal immigration, but to bash Bush.

Bush budget adds hundreds of immigration enforcement jobs
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0204/020304p1.htm

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.

[jpsb]

yea, yea, yea, like I really believe Bush is going to do anything at all to protect our border and stop the flow of his amigos. Nice try, but Bush has made his position on illegals quite plan. Open borders, amnesty, willing worker, does any of this sound familar?

[lewislynn]

He is confused isn't he. First he wants to give them legal status then he claims to want to spend more money to send them home....

Which is it, Mr President?

[FairOpinion]

So, let's have Kerry, who will really destroy the US -- is that what you are agitating for?

[lewislynn]

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

"Bush is doing a great deal to stop illegal immigration,"...

???