Posted on 06/10/2006 8:29:20 AM PDT by Rick Deckard
An eerie quiet has descended over the past week on Fulton Street, a stretch of weather-beaten apartment buildings in eastern Linda Vista that is home to a large number of recent immigrants, some of them legal residents, others not.
Some people have skipped work. Others have skipped doctor appointments. Children are walking to school more frequently by themselves, neighbors say, because their parents are afraid to accompany them outside.
“Today the migra was here,” explained Jose Cardenas, 30, one of those here legally, on a gray afternoon this week when the sidewalks were empty and the street deserted save for passing cars. “People hide, and they don't come out.”
Last Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego launched a six-day special operation to seek out immigration fugitives or “absconders” who have failed to comply with deportation orders, haven't shown up at immigration hearings or have committed a deportable offense.
It was part of a stepped-up nationwide effort since last fall to target an estimated 590,000 immigration fugitives in the United States, about 5,400 of whom are thought to reside in the San Diego area.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
I read an article yesterday that said about 2000 bricks a week are being received in D.C. sounds like we need to step it up a notch.
Send more bricks!!!
It is about time!
I was up in Linda Vista last Friday. The shopping center on LV Rd & Ulric St was conspicuously deserted as far as "day laborers" go. There's usually 25 guys hanging around there.
I'm encouraged to hear that there is such a thing as a 'deportable offense' in the US. Who woulda thunk it?
"Some people have skipped work. Others have skipped doctor appointments. Children are walking to school more frequently by themselves, neighbors say, because their parents are afraid to accompany them outside."
Ahh. Sweet music to my ears. Here in Phoenix, just after the mob demonstrations, the illegals were going into their employers demand raises and benefits.
Wonder how much Vicinte Fox pays in benefits?
It's clear you care only about bashing Bush, not about immigration.
All we have to do is keep this up - show all of Washington (it's not a one man show) that WE WANT ILLEGALS DEALT WITH, and EVENTUALLY, they'll have to get the message. Yes....it may take a while, but it'll be worth it!
"What part of ILLEGAL is it that these people do not understand?"
The part that says deportation is meaningless until a wall is built and our border is secured?
"Six million in five years....12 million in 10 yrs."
Deny them jobs and welfare (housing, medical, food stamps, cash, etc), as suggested by Tancredo, they'll deport themselves and it won't take 10 years!
Good they are afraid. Step up these operations and make them so afraid they will go back to Mexico or whatever other hellhole they came from.
I am going to send them a note to please, please, please hit my town soon. We are overrun with illegals.
Same in California. Illegals line the streets waiting for work...AND THEY CAN'T FIND THEM! I rerally wonder if there is hope for this country.
Better yet, they should just leave.
In California the illegals have been left alone and coddled so long that it actually has to be IN the neighborhood to make any of them afraid.
Tooche!
Great news. I don't like it when law breakers feel completly untouchable and feel like they can walk the streets with impunity.
DOH!
"Finding illegals here in Texas is about as difficult as tracking an elephant in a snow bank..... The problem is that no one will do it....local police never ask...no wonder it has gotten out of hand.."
Here in Vegas I could find you a hundred in a day without breaking a sweat.
Another creative solution {though not as good as deportation!}
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