[ApplegateRanch]

But, according to figures from Immigration and Custom Enforcement, 37 percent of those cases, or 6,696 arrests, were "collateral" captives - people who just happened to be present when agents arrived.

I wonder how many "collateral arrests" are made when drug, theft ring, or prostitution raids are conducted, compared to the primary targets? Are these "collateral individuals" to be ignored also?

"Liberal logic" is an oxymoron, concocted by plain, ordinary, out & out, unadulterated, total morons.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Keep those large illegal stings coming from now on! O.K.? Very truly yours, All law abiding American Citizens and All law abiding Legal Immigrants!

[albee]

".....37 percent of those cases, or 6,696 arrests, were "collateral" captives _ people who just happened to be present when agents arrived.

So what?

If they are illegal BOOT THEIR BUTTS back to the country of origin!

[stevie_d_64]

The real question here is how fast will they be processed out of this country???

[Sender]

There is a plan. It used to be on ICE website, now thoughtfully cached by the minions at ACLU.

[DilJective]

1. end free health care

2. end minimum wage

3. end rent control

4. end government guaranteed lending

5. implement a logical identification cards

6. end social security

7. ban workers' unions

8. end publicly funded education of all sorts (K-12 and university.) (we can buy our own meals, houses, cars, etc,- why can't we buy our children's education on our own?)

9. problem solved.

[dennisw]

Deport deport deport deport deport deport all illegal entrants

[TBP]

18,000 down, 12 million to go.

[doug from upland]

At this rate, our unauthorized visitors will be removed in about 100 years.

[kcvl]

Critics say the campaign against fugitive illegal immigrants ensnares many hard-working people who are in the country illegally but do not pose a danger.

That's enough for me. Sc*ew the critics (who are probably illegal themselves).

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

“Dubbed “Operation Return to Sender,” the crackdown began last May in cities across the nation. As of Feb. 23, it has resulted in 18,149 arrests of suspected illegal immigrants, most of whom were captured at home and in Hispanic neighborhoods.”

This can not be. I have heard over and over and over again that Bush has done nothing about our borders or about illegal immigration.

[kcvl]

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty, and human rights, and provides humanitarian relief.

Because Quakers traditionally oppose violence in all of its forms and therefore refuse to serve in the military, the AFSC's original mission was to provide conscientious objectors (COs) to war with a constructive alternative to military service.

In 1955, the Committee published the most important statement of pacifism ever produced in the United States, "Speak Truth to Power:

The AFSC also has worked extensively as part of the peace movement, especially work to stop the production and deployment of nuclear weapons.

For its anti-war and anti-capital punishment stance, the AFSC receives criticism from many socially conservative groups. Also, throughout much of the group's history the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has monitored the work of the organization.

Recognizing that most conflicts have their roots in injustice, the Quaker organization has been long concerned with eliminating such injustice at home. This has led to a long history of involvement with the American Indian, the Mexican-American, the migrant worker, the prisoner, the black, the poor. The AFSC's approach is to help these people find the tools with which to organize themselves for community action and thus obtain the better schools, better housing, better working conditions they deserve.

By means of speaking tours, by publication of peace literature, through a campaign to end the draft, through its own vigils and participation in demonstrations and protests sponsored by others, the Committee works to arouse Americans against the dangers of increasing militarism and to inform them of the status of the military-industrial complex in the United States.

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Mary Ellen McNish was appointed the general secretary of the American Friends Service Committee by its Board of Directors in June of 2000.

A former chief operating officer of Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Mary Ellen spent thirteen years as an educator with public school districts and Head Start programs.

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Maureen Shea is the Director of Government Relations for The Episcopal Church. From 1997-2001 she was Special Assistant to the President and was in charge of outreach to the religious community in President Clinton’s Office of Public Liaison. Maureen was Chief of Staff at People For the American Way and its Foundation, lobbying director at Common Cause and the first director of the Women’s Campaign Fund.

[kcvl]

illegal alien activist, Pedro Rios about their attempt to use a holy day to presure ICE into stoping their immigration raids

Press Here for YouTube Video

Pedro Rios is director of the San Diego Area Office of the American Friends Service Committee.

"It’s unfortunate that much of the debate over immigration reform has centered on “national security” issues as framed through the lens of the war-on-terror. Rather than promote policies that uplift human rights and dignity as core principles to dealing with the immigration phenomenon, policymakers on both sides of the aisle have settled on a misguided common denominator that resemble facile knee-jerk responses - the fixation on constructing miles of border fence and increased militarization, for example - that do little to deal with the roots of immigration."

"policymakers should focus on real national security concerns, like the impact that neoliberal economic agreements (NAFTA et al.) have on the ability for people to live sustainable lives in Mexico, the United States, and elsewhere. This agenda, more than anything else, is the real culprit in creating conditions for people to migrate and become more vulnerable. Real community security, where people can live sustainable lives, necessitates a reframing of the question over national security so that it focuses on human dignity as a principle value for structuring social, political, and economic regimes."

[JB in Whitefish]

18K Down....

12.9 MILLION to go....!!!

[TLI]

If you're going to find one (illegal immigrant), you're going to find 100."

Not too tough to do when you are surrounded by 30 Million of them.

God bless them `lil criminal illegal alien border law violators! They are all so cute when they are blowing out anchor babies and standing in the social security lines!

[spacewarp]

Critics say the campaign against fugitive illegal immigrants ensnares many hard-working people who are in the country illegally but do not pose a danger.

And the problem with this is??? What part of illegal do these "critics" not understand?

Paul

[subterfuge]

Critics say the campaign against fugitive illegal immigrants ensnares many hard-working people who are in the country illegally but do not pose a danger.

Bottom line? "Critics" aren't in a position to definitively know if there is a danger or not.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“If you’re going to find one (illegal immigrant), you’re going to find 100.”

Turn over any rock these days...

[WhiteGuy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814473/posts

[TChris]

The unmentioned problem, though, is that the great majority of these arrestees will never be prosecuted. These roundups are just a dog-and-pony show to distract Americans from the fact that our government just won't do much about it.

It's not much more than a Democrat-style, symbolism-over-substance whitewash.

"What do you do with the illegals you've arrested in these highly-publicized raids?"

"Well, we turn them loose again."

"So they get to come right back?"

"Yep. That guarantees we'll have more illegals to arrest on tomorrow's evening news. It's really a pretty sweet deal for us."