Posted on 05/24/2008 1:14:29 PM PDT by byteback
Federal immigration agents arrested 17 illegal immigrants in the Canal area of San Rafael in raids that began early Thursday morning, putting residents on edge and angering parents who worried about the impact on children.
Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement department, said enforcement teams removed 16 men and one woman. Detainees are generally taken to a center in San Francisco and dispersed to other facilities from there.
Three of those arrested had failed to comply with deportation orders and one had been deported and illegally returned to the United States, she said. The group included nationals from three countries, including 10 from Mexico, six from Guatemala and one from El Salvador.
Tom Wilson, executive director of the Canal Alliance, labeled the ICE tactics "terrorist" actions. "It's like an assault," Wilson said. "These people are terrified."
Wilson said children watched while their parents and other adults were taken away by authorities. Some were removed while accompanying children to the school bus, he said.
"They are taking parents of citizen children," Wilson said. "Most people are just dealing with the shock and the loss and trying to find their loved ones."
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Then it looks like the kid has a choice to stay or go, but the illegal parents? They go.
......These people are terrified......
Very good. When they fear for their well being there can be progress.
Can we deport Tom Wilson while we’re at it? I think this nation has quite enough exaggerating, overblown windbag worry-warts.
Seems to me the little pseudo-citizens can find their parents in Mexico. If their parents were in this country illegally when they were born, I for one will not accept them as an American - neither should the laws of this country....
ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL NOT MATTER WHAT THE CRIME.
The best part is reading the 300+ comments that readers made
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“Tom Wilson, executive director of the Canal Alliance, labeled the ICE tactics “terrorist” actions. “It’s like an assault,” Wilson said. “These people are terrified.””
Oh, shut up, Tom! Were they ‘terrified’ when they hired a criminal human smuggler who raped their women to get across our border? Were they concerned for their children when they sent them alone with those same smugglers?
They’re treated better by ICE than they were EVER treated in Mexico .
“Can we deport Tom Wilson while we’re at it? I think this nation has quite enough exaggerating, overblown windbag worry-warts.”
The most dangerous creature on earth, the liberal white man.
The same thing happens when an American lawbreaker is arrested.
TO CONTACT HIM in San Rafael, try writing here:contact@canalalliance.org
If only buffoons like him had to live a few years trying to correct the damage done when a citizen's identity is stolen, perhaps they wouldn't be so quick to cry foul.
Then again . . .
Still, I always feel better sending a few choice words to the likes of Wilson. I can dream he'll take my advice and emigrate from America, the sooner the better!
Regards . . . Penny
ROFLOL, so sad now just loaded them all up and send them to their mother country. No problem!
“angering parents”
I, as a parent am also angered—by the impact of all of these ILLEGALS dumbing down schools and using up resources that OUR citizens are not getting.
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