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House held 160 illegal immigrants
CNN ^

Posted on 05/01/2007 4:31:58 PM PDT by SmoothTalker

"So-called "stash houses" or "drop houses" are all over Phoenix, Arizona. These are buildings that human smugglers use to hide illegal immigrants.

I've come here to meet Alonzo Pena, the special agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Phoenix. We're about to take a drive around the city to see some of these stash houses.

But first, Agent Pena shows me a city map with little red dots showing where these houses are located. The map is peppered with so many dots that it looks like it's been used in target practice at a firing range. In the first four months of this year, authorities say they have discovered nearly 80 new stash houses. "

"So-called "stash houses" or "drop houses" are all over Phoenix, Arizona. These are buildings that human smugglers use to hide illegal immigrants.

I've come here to meet Alonzo Pena, the special agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Phoenix. We're about to take a drive around the city to see some of these stash houses.

But first, Agent Pena shows me a city map with little red dots showing where these houses are located. The map is peppered with so many dots that it looks like it's been used in target practice at a firing range. In the first four months of this year, authorities say they have discovered nearly 80 new stash houses. "

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; drophouses; phoenix
Not a surprise given they can fit 25 in a minivan.
1 posted on 05/01/2007 4:32:02 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: SmoothTalker

Oops I double posted one part. Here is the operative paragraph.

“Agent Pena and I pull up to a beautiful stucco home with a Spanish tile roof. You would never suspect the house was used by smugglers. “I wouldn’t mind living in a house like this,” Pena says. His agents found 160 illegal immigrants stashed in this house.


2 posted on 05/01/2007 4:33:12 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: SmoothTalker

Wait until they start piling into big rigs.


3 posted on 05/01/2007 4:33:38 PM PDT by pissant
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4 posted on 05/01/2007 4:34:03 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

Where is a bazooka when you need one.


5 posted on 05/01/2007 4:35:22 PM PDT by pissant
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To: SmoothTalker

How many in the Senate?


6 posted on 05/01/2007 4:37:51 PM PDT by ken5050
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To: pissant
Where is a bazooka when you need one.

Now Pissant, you know better than that.

We mustn't mistreat the slave labor.
7 posted on 05/01/2007 4:40:16 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Three flame throwers from three directions will work just fine for me.


8 posted on 05/01/2007 4:53:21 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: Mr. Mojo

That picture brings back warm memories of Travis McGee.


9 posted on 05/01/2007 4:54:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Ben Franklin, we tried but we couldn't keep it.)
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To: SmoothTalker

If they come to this country for a better life for their kids and one assumes that 160/house must be better then were they come from, just how many do they fit in a house in the “country” of Mexico?


10 posted on 05/01/2007 4:54:52 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (Linux: More of a cult then an OS. Mac: Beyond a Cult. A joyless Jihad.)
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To: SmoothTalker

If nothing else,it seems the illegal immigrants have a solution to the homeless problem!


11 posted on 05/01/2007 4:55:02 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Mr. Mojo

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12 posted on 05/01/2007 5:01:08 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: Dr.Zoidberg
The smugglers must get paid well to bring drugs,weapons and terrorist over our border. Is the government going to act stunned when our enemies use the huge breach in our security to kill thousands of Americans? Just because we are fighting them in Iraq doesn’t mean they won’t come over here to kill us. I guess that sucking up to Mexico and the cheap labor lobby is worth risking all of our lives.
13 posted on 05/01/2007 5:06:50 PM PDT by peeps36 (OUTLAWED WORDS--INSURGENT,GLOBAL WARMING,UNDOCUMENTED WORKER,PALESTINIAN,TERMINATED PREGNANCY)
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Is the government going to act stunned when our enemies use the huge breach in our security to kill thousands of Americans?

Act stunned? Maybe. But I suggest the coming explosion has already been calculated into the cost of doing business. When it comes (and it will), it will be used to to further abolish Constitutional protections.

I guess that sucking up to Mexico and the cheap labor lobby is worth risking all of our lives.

In politics, money is power. Whoever has the money can buy whatever policies they want. And right now, selling out America for a bag of silver is seen as a lucrative investment for our elected leaders.
14 posted on 05/01/2007 5:14:49 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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