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Neighbors panicky in aftermath of ICE sweeps (San Diego)
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 6-10-09 | Leslie Berestein

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: abouttime; aliens; deportations; enforcement; givethemtheboot; goodriddance; greencard; homelandsecurity; ice; illegalaliens; illegals; immigration; immigrationcustoms; immigrationnaturaliz; ins; lindavista; longoverdue; migra; worker; workerprogram
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To: onyx

Some own homes with special loans.
Since they are use to living several to a cardboard shack,
living several to an apt or home is a major upscale.
Only they turn their home into looking like a cardboard shack shortly.


61 posted on 06/10/2006 4:24:29 PM PDT by SoCalPol (.We Need a Border Fence Now.)
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To: SoCalPol
"And they wonder why we don't want them. They bring their third world ways with them and they refuse to asimilate. They have turned regular neighborhoods into trash holes."

Even one of my liberal work associates has been griping about that fact. (He lives in Linda Vista, by the way)
62 posted on 06/10/2006 4:27:24 PM PDT by Rick Deckard
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To: ol' hoghead; righttackle44
I hope the employers reminded their illegals that they could be replaced in a half an hour.

Many FReepers who favor amnesty are business owners who hire illegal aliens. In other words, they are cheaters who hire cheaters. Or dare I say, they are illegal employers hiring illegal aliens.

Even these illegal employers would threaten their illegal-alien workers with what you suggest. I'm guessing one of the reasons they hire illegal aliens in the first place is because illegals tend to be submissive. But when illegals speak up, it's time for these illegal employers to hire new illegal aliens.

63 posted on 06/10/2006 4:29:51 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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To: Rick Deckard

I support Bush and am not a Bush basher, so for those who think that this is one of those threads, no way.
This is just describing what is going on.


64 posted on 06/10/2006 4:30:53 PM PDT by SoCalPol (.We Need a Border Fence Now.)
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To: SoCalPol
I strongly disagree with the Bush White House stance on the immigration issue. The whole idea of "earned citizenship" runs against the grain of what I believe. If these fine, outstanding people, who are only here to "grow food & build buildings", wanted anything to do with being citizens, they would have knocked on the front door.

That said, I'm not going to call for Bush's resignation or impeachment. The immigration issue is very important, but there are other things to deal with too. Such as killing creeps like al-Zarqawi.
65 posted on 06/10/2006 4:56:04 PM PDT by Rick Deckard
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To: Rick Deckard

I agree with you totally


66 posted on 06/10/2006 5:01:51 PM PDT by SoCalPol (.We Need a Border Fence Now.)
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To: Rick Deckard

Next best thing to deportation is have our imported serf class shitting in their trousers. Eventually they leave but employer sanctions are much quicker

Don't blame me for calling them serfs. Our lazy greedy elites want them, not me. I like America , not Meximerica


67 posted on 06/10/2006 5:05:59 PM PDT by dennisw (We should return to calling them Muhammadans -- Worshippers of Muhammad and maybe Allah)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

"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.."

Ditto. All you have to do is follow the bouncing lawnmowers.


68 posted on 06/10/2006 6:11:14 PM PDT by RR76 (Where have you gone Ronnie, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.)
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To: Rick Deckard

The sad thing is, that could Mayberry N.C. or Walton's Mountain. It's everywhere.


69 posted on 06/10/2006 6:18:00 PM PDT by RR76 (Where have you gone Ronnie, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.)
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To: RR76

So I read & hear. I've got a pal in Virginia that tell me stories. It used to be a problem in the Southwest US & a few urban areas in the east. I think the May Day demonstration in Los Angeles woke a lot of people up. I'm not going to forget it & I've been living in Southern California for 30 years.


70 posted on 06/10/2006 6:28:16 PM PDT by Rick Deckard
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To: Rick Deckard

WAAAAAY more!


71 posted on 06/10/2006 7:18:28 PM PDT by NordP (GWB/Reagan Republican --- JACK BAUER PATRIOT)
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To: Rick Deckard

I have a good in VA and she says the same things. Like southern Cal, we in Texas have seen this coming for a long time. A neighborhood I grew up in in the early 60s is all Mexican, Salvadoran, etal and it's a barrio now. That's why "they must assimilate" is absolutely ludicrous. It will not happen. Period.


72 posted on 06/10/2006 8:09:21 PM PDT by RR76 (Where have you gone Ronnie, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.)
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To: Rick Deckard

That is some parts of Los Angeles.


73 posted on 06/10/2006 8:36:03 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Vincit Omnia Vertas- translation:Truth Conquers All.)
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