Posted on 08/01/2007 10:27:04 PM PDT by george76
ICE-deputized troopers round up suspected illegal immigrants.
Recently trained Colorado troopers arrested 48 suspected illegal immigrants in a sweep along Interstate 70 on Tuesday near the Eisenhower Tunnel...
"That's a good big number for us," said Jeff Copp, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement district chief based in Denver.
It was the first roundup by Colorado State Patrol officers deputized by ICE to process suspected illegal immigrants.
In the joint operation between ICE and the State Patrol, three cars were stopped for traffic violations and a fourth was stranded beside the road, said state Master Trooper Ron Watkins.
All of the immigrants who were detained were from Mexico...
The cars had as many as 15 people inside...
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
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illegal aliens ?
But I would have much PREFERRED 70 arrested in I-48 patrol sweep (illegal immigrants ) ;-)
CSP is doing good for their first effort since their classes ?
Nicmarlo, you should have received my previous reply re 8 USC 1357(g), including a Congressional Research Service report citing it. This article refers to a federal/state compact under which local LEOs work in conjunction with ICE. Now you have the statutory source and a story regarding it too. Bajabaja.
48? Sh.................t. I could tell them where to pick as many as they want. Instead I betcha they caused long traffic jams because that tunnel is a major bottleneck. It’s all BS. Just put a bounty of $100 a head for a tip off.
Bump : )
That's just crazy.
making some progress ?
Recently trained Colorado troopers arrested 48 suspected illegal immigrants in a sweep along Interstate 70 on Tuesday near the Eisenhower Tunnel, officials said.
"That's a good big number for us," said Jeff Copp, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement district chief based in Denver.
It was the first roundup by Colorado State Patrol officers deputized by ICE to process suspected illegal immigrants.
In the joint operation between ICE and the State Patrol, three cars were stopped for traffic violations and a fourth was stranded beside the road, said state Master Trooper Ron Watkins.
All of the immigrants who were detained were from Mexico, ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok said. An infant who is a U.S. citizen was with one family of illegal immigrants, Rusnok said. The baby was to return to Mexico on Tuesday, he said.
The cars had as many as 15 people inside, Rusnok said.
State troopers began at 9 a.m. to look for possible illegal immigrants on I-70 between the Eisenhower Tunnel and Vail Pass.
Troopers could stop cars only for traffic violations, Watkins said. When they suspected that occupants of the cars might be illegal immigrants, they investigated further.
The suspected illegal immigrants will be taken to an Aurora detention center before they are deported to their home countries, Copp said.
The Colorado State Patrol unit of about 25 troopers completed training at the beginning of July, Watkins said.
They were trained by federal agents to operate under the authority of ICE, Copp said. The training is part of a national program to fight illegal immigration.
Staff writer Kirk Mitchell can be reached at 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com.
Check this one out:
Train carries sleeping man onto San Onofre [Nuclear Power] plant property(Illegal alien)
NCTimes
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08/02/news/top_stories/1_01_558_1_07.txt
[snip]SAN ONOFRE — Southern California Edison has changed its security procedures for inspecting train cars that enter the San Onofre nuclear power plant after a sleeping illegal immigrant was accidentally carried onto the property, company officials said Wednesday.
Edison officials said that a man was found on the San Onofre property — but not inside its “protected area” where its nuclear reactors and fuel reside — just after three freight rail cars arrived inside the plant around 12:30 a.m. July 25.
PING!!! As I stated on another thread about Grand Junction, CO, there has been a SIGNIFICANT increase in drug-related busts/invasion of illegals into that once beautiful, conservative, very low criminal activity area. It is no longer thus, because of the transport of drugs and increase of illegals into CO.
ping
A drop in the bucket. Now on to the other 19,999,952. Then they will have earned bragging rights. :)
Aw.
Quibbling over such a technicality as that?
: )
If ICE wants to impress me, they gotta do better than that. lol
You’re soooooooo demanding! : )
That's what hubby says at times. (do I see a pattern here) :)
Were they armed with spears and rocks?
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