Sanctuary Cities, USA (Is your city on this list?)

Ohio Jobs & Justice PAC (OJJPAC) ^ | August 17, 2006

[WatchingInAmazement]

Miami is just a bastion of virtue!! It's even a "sanctuary city".

Immigration and the Alien Gang Epidemic: Problems and Solutions

In September, 2003, the Miami police arrested a Honduran visa violator for seven vicious rapes. The previous year, Miami cops had had the suspect in custody for lewd and lascivious molestation. Pursuant to Miami’s sanctuary law, however, the police had never checked his immigration status. Had they done so, they would have discovered his deportable status, and could have forestalled the rapes.

The Miami Police Department will join with ICE only on high-level gang cases.

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mac_donald04-13-05.htm
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From the book, "The Reapers Line" from an account of justice--and injustice--on the Mexican border by a retired U.S. Customs special agent


"Douglas and Cochise County are one of the main pipelines for drugs coming into the U.S., second only to Miami."
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=88713
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Gonzalez-Hernandez, 38, and Noel Lopez, 32, were arrested on Aug. 15 aboard a 25-foot boat after 20 Cuban nationals, including a pregnant woman and a 1-year-old boy, came ashore at the north end of the Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge at Marco Island.

They are charged with conspiracy to bring aliens into the United States. A subsequent indictment on Sept. 13 charged the men with "knowingly and willfully" bringing illegal aliens into the U.S.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/nov/13/judge_deny_request_cuban_smuggler/?latest
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Sports agent indicted in smuggling scheme for Cuban baseball players

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15895990.htm
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Two leaders of a nationwide employee-leasing conspiracy, that leased out hundreds of illegal aliens throughout the United States, pleaded guilty before US District Judge Kenneth Marra in the Southern District of Florida, while a third defendant was sentenced, according to the US Justice Department.

"In using illegal aliens to generate their profits, the defendants not only took advantage of these individuals, but also potentially compromised the safety of our citizens," he added.

"In this case, the defendants laundered roughly $20 million and failed to pay $6 million in taxes as part of this illegal employee leasing scheme," said Julie Myers, Department of Homeland Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=13603
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The unions love the illegal aliens in Florida!

IMMIGRANTS IN FLORIDA
Unions want to bring illegal immigrants into fold


That 180-degree shift in strategy provides a wealth of recruitment potential in bellwether states like Florida. Only about 6 percent of the Sunshine State's total work force is unionized. Only 2 percent of its all-important construction industry is organized compared with 13 percent nationwide.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/BUSINESS/

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200 Haitians Scramble From Boat in Florida

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E0DE133FF933A05753C1A9649C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fI%2fIllegal%20Immigrants

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Hundreds of Haitian Illegal Aliens Invade Miami
MIAMI – An estimated 200 Haitian illegal aliens aboard a 50-foot coastal freighter jumped into Biscayne Bay and waded ashore Tuesday on the Rickenbacker ...
www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/29/180422.shtml

[Howlin]

Just damn.

[spintreebob]

The irony is that alleged conservatives support big centralized government control over local control.

This started under Nixon. Prior to Nixon, state and local government routinely asked the immigration status of a suspect. They extradited and deported with no involvement of the INS.

Then, under Nixon, the INS made a bureaucratic power grab. The INS issued an edict that only the INS could ask a person's immigration status. Both the FBI and state and local government, including law enforcement, schools, welfare agencies, etc could not directly ask about immigration status. They had to fill out the paper work to ask the INS to get involved and determine status and report back to the local agency.

The real Mayor Daley of Chicago fought this in Federal court and lost. The federal court found some penumbra that empowered the INS to unilaterally impose this edict on local government with no act of Congress, or even Executive Order. (Does the court order only apply to the district in which it is issued?)

Now, the chickens come home to roost. The Nixon era INS edict needs to be reversed by ICE/ congress/ courts/ whomever. We need to empower local government to ask a person's immigration status and act accordingly. We should not tie the hands of local government. If the citizens of a local government do not like what is being done by their local politicians, that is for them to deal with.

In the long run, centralized big government is the problem, not the mistakes of isolated local governments.

[traditional1]

Isn't this in the realm of "aiding and abetting" a criminal? Local/State/Federal law somehow should provide that those who approved this harboring of fugitives should be tried for law-breaking themselves, not the worst of which would be TREASON (where it can be shown that at least ONE TERRORIST could be identified in the zone of protection)?

If an escaped felon were to be allowed safe passage, would you not be guilty of such a violation?

[NathanR]

I am surprised that Santa Ana is not on the list.

Talk about a prosperous North Mexican town, that is it.

[ImpBill]

Cut them all off from Federal and State funds. Jail their leadership.

Hell Fire ... Let's have a Revolution!!!!!

Whew, I'm ok now. Just had to get that out before I got back on my medications, provided by the "nanny state", BTW.

[EveningStar]

I noticed. It looks like Cypress is the only OC town on the list. Of course, the list is unverified and over 3 months old.

[King of Florida]

Ever been to Miami? The airport itself speaks volumes as English is seldom heard or spoken. At least understandably.

So are you suggesting that the Cuban Adjustment Act should have never been passed, that Miami should have remained the sleepy tourist town it was, and that Al Gore should be president?

Plenty of American citizens speak Spanish. I would guess from the tenor of your comment that you have a problem with that.

[Just another Joe]

Not a city in Missouri on the list, I'm glad to say.

[RadioCirca1970]

Wow, Jackson Hole, WY is on the list..must be all the skiing Kerrys importing their masshole liberalism every winter...

[Edgerunner]

keep

[beltfed308]

So are you suggesting that the Cuban Adjustment Act should have never been passed, that Miami should have remained the sleepy tourist town it was, and that Al Gore should be president?

Wow. Thats quite an interpretation from an airport comment.

[poobear]

Florida

DeLeon Springs, FL

Deltona, Fl

Miami, FL

Sanford, Fl

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!

[USMCWife6869]

Mine isn't. I have to say, I am truly surprised. Whenever Border Patrol tries to stop illegals, they get in trouble, so I thought for sure it would be.

[DumpsterDiver]

I am surprised that Santa Ana is not on the list.

Send them an e-mail and see if they'll add it to the list.

Salvi@ojjpac.org

[Ron2]

The whole state of California is a "Santuary City".

[nutmeg]

Interesting. They got it wrong about my state, Connecticut. "Springfield, CT": There is no Springfield, CT. I assume they mean Sringfield, Massachusetts, a few miles north of the CT/MA border...

[outdriving]

"So are you suggesting that the Cuban Adjustment Act should have never been passed, that Miami should have remained the sleepy tourist town it was, and that Al Gore should be president?"

That's pretty good. Three strawman arguments in one sentence. But, yes, if Miami had remained a sleepy tourist town that would suit me just fine. Because I was born here.

Cubans as a group are just about as perfect a group of immigrants as you can imagine. But as a whole, with the influx of raw numbers, and the other national groups that followed, it did not improve my quality of life. Sure, I acknowledge reality, and get along as well as I can, but why am I required to pretend this was a good thing for the South Florida I grew up in?

"Plenty of American citizens speak Spanish. I would guess from the tenor of your comment that you have a problem with that."

I have a problem with that. You have to have, by law, a working knowledge of English to be a citizen. Why do we print ballots in Spanish?

[CT-Freeper]

I was just going to ping you to this and ask if you've ever heard of a Springfield, CT...lol.