Virginia Kice of ICE. "They make people enter the US illegally,"
Posted on 12/29/2005 3:12:46 PM PST by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US immigration authorities said they discovered 25 undocumented migrants from Latin America being "held hostage" by human smugglers in a Los Angeles neighborhood.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents went to a home in Riverside, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) east of downtown Los Angeles, where they found 25 migrants crowded into two of the upstairs bedrooms.
The migrants, who came from Ecuador, Guatemala, and El Salvador, said they had been held for more than a month and fed only once a day, said ICE spokesman Virginia Kice.
"They make people enter the US illegally," said Kice. Then they "hold them in so-called drop houses where they make arrangements for the relatives to pay the balance of the smuggling fees."
But the smugglers then typically "double the price and ... contact the relatives to extort more money.
"They were essentially held hostage in this house," she said.
ICE agents arrested two Guatemalan men who served as "enforcers" when they raided the house early Wednesday.
The two are to face federal human smuggling and hostage taking charges, Kice said.
The 25 migrants are still being interviewed, and some are expected to remain in California as material witnesses in the smuggling prosecution, Kice said.
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"They make people enter the US illegally," said Kice
They MAKE? them enter Illegaly?
Build a wall from Coast to Coast. Guard it with the national Guard.
Yeah, I noted that. So, these people are VICTIMS! -- they're FORCED to enter the US illegally.
"They make people enter the US illegally," said [ICE spokesman Virginia] Kice. Then they "hold them in so-called drop houses where they make arrangements for the relatives to pay the balance of the smuggling fees."
ICE spokesman Kice needs a good whomp upside the head for saying that.
We all noticed the same thing. (See my Post 6.)
Naw....she needs to lose her job at ICE.
Note the now routine use of the word "migrant" instead of "imigrant". Like they are just people who move from place to place, not people who move from one country to another. After all, borders are just lines on a map that mean nothing, right? Mexico and the USA are just regions, not really seperate countries. Or so says the Mexican foreign minister.
I was just thinking that same thought. I've been noticing this now for the past few week's.
I don't believe that is true. They take advantage of them after they enter the US illegally of their own volition. It's not at all the same thing.
susie
And Mine It.
They're just doing a job that Americans won't do.
Kidnapped in Guatemala, gun to their heads, threats to their families, forced to go north and apply for welfare...
Right.
Sounds like Al-Queda tactics.
Hostages-for-cash.
Virginia Kice of ICE. "They make people enter the US illegally,"
So, how do we vote HER out of office.... :(
susie
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Here's an address and telephone number to go with it. (No e-mail address that I could see.)
Western Region Consisting of: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington
Regional Communications Director: Virginia Kice
Jurisdiction: Southern California (Greater Los Angeles area), Northern California, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah, Alaska, Oregon and Washington
Office Location:
24000 Avila Road
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 30080
Laguna Niguel, CA 92607-0080
Phone: 949-360-3096
Fax: 949-360-3139
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