Posted on 06/17/2007 8:47:43 PM PDT by Azzurri
Mexican police on Friday arrested 70 illegal immigrants from Central American nations in the central state of Tlaxcala.
The arrests took place near train tracks in the city of Apizaco, said Fernando Azael Mendoza Lopez, a delegate from the National Migration Institute.
The immigrants, from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, were healthy but tired due to the wearisome trip from their native countries to Mexico, he added.
Over the past five days, 159 immigrants from Central America have been arrested in Mexico.
According to figures from non-governmental organizations, some 500 immigrants die every year in their attempt to seek illegal entry into the United States via Mexico.
Source: Xinhua
CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.
No amnesty for them? No free ER visits? No welfare? No anchor babies? No celebrating diversity? Why, those heartless Mexican racists!/s
Duncan Hunter is going to be on Terry Anderson’s show on KRLA.com tonight...
Terry’s show is about the illegal aliens in Los Angeles County and is one hour long and live at 9 PM PDT...
http://www.theterryandersonshow.com/
No sir. These heartless Mexican police promptly and without due process escorted these illegal aliens to the border and forced them to swim north across the Rio Grand.
Humm does that make Mexican Officials racists and bigots? Maybe I should ask El Presidente what he thinks about that? Why isn’t he pressuring the President of Mexico to give them amnesty?
From LA Indymedia:
LA City Council reaffirms Special Order 40
by Leslie Radford Saturday, Jun. 16, 2007 at 8:47 PM
LOS ANGELES, 12 June 2007--At its regular meeting, the Los Angeles City Council told the Department of Homeland Security in no uncertain terms that the autonomy of the LAPD was a paramount concern to the council in a 10 to 1 vote in support of a resolution opposing "any [federal] legislative provision or amendment which would prohibit or pre-empt local 'separation' ordinances and similar local regulations such as the LAPD’s Special Order 40." The resolution is a rebuke from the U.S.'s largest immigrant city to various Congressional proposals mandating that local law enforcement report to federal immigration enforcement.
Special Order 40 has been city policy since 1979 under police chief Daryl Gates. In February 2006 the council ignored a petition with over 10,000 signatures requesting the council's endorsement of Special Order 40, brought by La Placita Immigrants Working Group, CARECEN, and the Immigration Solidarity Network, but times have changed.
Today Special Order 40 is being challenged in two lawsuits. In the wake of rising anti-migrant sentiment, Special Order 40 has come under attack because of its provision that police officers "shall not initiate police action with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person." Special Order 40 exempted the LAPD from the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which permits, but does not require, local law enforcement to assist federal immigration officials after receiving training. One lawsuit, brought by the Federal Immigration Reform Enforcement Coalition relies on an arcane state health statute that appears to require local police to provide the names of undocumented immigrants arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking or possession to federal authorities. The other suit, brought by Judicial Watch on behalf of L.A. resident Harold P. Sturgeon, claims Special Order 40 is superseded by state and federal law.
The Council's resolution may also be a message to the LAPD in light of a May 1 police action in MacArthur Park, in which peaceful ralliers supporting immigrant rights were stormed by police officers, beaten, and blasted with rubber bullets and wire mesh "bean bag" bullets. The Los Angeles Police Protective League earlier this spring seemed poised to take a stand against the order and has vehemently disagreed with Police Chief William Bratton's remarks laying partial blame for the MacArthur Park anti-immigrant beatings and shootings on street officers. The resolution provides cover for Bratton to resist pressure from the police union.
Sheriff's departments in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties have memoranda of understanding with the Department of Homeland Security under Immigration and Nationality Act section 287(g) to scour jails for undocumented arrestees. In addition, in Orange County, police attached with special units may check the immigration status of anyone they suspect of a felony. Sheriff Carona hopes to expand that authority to beat officers, as has been done in other city police and state highway patrol departments across the country, opening the door not only to racial profiling, but to permission for cops in the street to demand proof of identity and citizenship.
The text of the council's resolution, which was moved from item 33 on the agenda to the consent docket, is
"RESOLUTION (GARCETTI - REYES - ZINE) relative to legislation that would prohibit local regulations, such as the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) Special Order 40, which are law enforcement tools that encourage the involvement of the undocumented immigrant community in police activities.
Recommendation for Council action, SUBJECT TO THE CONCURRENCE OF THE MAYOR:
RESOLVE to include in the City’s 2007-08 Federal Legislative Program OPPOSITION to any legislative provision or amendment which would prohibit or pre-empt local “separation” ordinances and similar local regulations such as the LAPD’s Special Order 40 which are effective law enforcement tools which prevent victimization of undocumented immigrants as well as foster participation and involvement of the undocumented immigrant community in police activities and increase the LAPD’s ability to protect and to serve the entire community.
Council members Eric Garcetti, Ed Reyes, and Dennis Zine offered the resolution, and Tony Cardenas, Wendy Greuel, Janice Hahn, José Huizar, Tom LaBonge, Bernard Parks, Jan Perry, Bill Rosendahl, Jack Weiss, and Herb Wesson approved. Greig Smith voted no without comment.
Kick the b-stards back farther south before they reach our borders. Respect to the Mexican police.
Only white people can be racist.
Shoot, I just picked up the ping!
I was busy doing the work that eeevil won’t do! j/k
(sound of running feet to hide behind the ammo shack to have a cigarrette)
I’ll look for the replay.
They were just going there to do the jobs that Mexicans won’t do.
Good enough for Mexico, good enough for us, right?!!
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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