Posted on 02/15/2017 3:41:12 PM PST by 11th_VA
Some are questioning the way Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are handling arrests in Fairfax County after at least two men were arrested near a church shelter.
Oscar Ramirez said he had just left the hypothermia shelter at Rising Hope Mission Church on Russell Road in Alexandria, Virginia, when about a dozen ICE agents surround him and other Latino men.
"'Stop right there. Stop right there. Stop right there. Stay by the wall, where we can see your hands,'" the agents said, according to Ramirez.
The group of men had left the shelter about 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8 and crossed the street when the ICE agents ordered them to stand against a brick wall.
Ramirez said the agents questioned all of them and scanned their fingers to find out if they had criminal backgrounds. Agents quickly cleared Ramirez, who has a green card, he said.
But he and other witnesses told News4 that about six Latino men were arrested and taken away in two vans that pulled up to the area where they had been stopped.
"This is the first time I see something like that," Ramirez said. "It surprised me. I mean, I think it surprised a lot of people who seen it actually happen," said Marvin Roach, a guest at the church shelter.
"They were clearly targeting the church because they knew that they stayed here in the hypothermia shelter. So they were waiting for them to cross the street and then jump on them," said Rising Hope Mission Church Rev. Keary Kincannon.
An ICE spokeswoman said the agency's "sensitive location" policy was followed. The policy requires agents to avoid arresting people at places of worship, schools and medical facilities. The spokeswoman emphasized the arrests took place across the street from the church and not on church property.
Good for ICE. (ICE ICE baby)
I guess if it is done by the Trump administration it is evil. There use to be a day and age when the police would take bums down to the train tracks and tell them to catch a train to the south where it was warmer and they wouldn't freeze to death.
Different era.
It can only get better for our country from here.
“Some are questioning . . . “
LOL.....
Who cares? People shouldn’t be arrested in cold weather?
Been seeing a lot of Ice and Homeland Security ads for employment. Most of them are on the Military channels and say that military vets preferred.
Today we march, tomorrow we get deported. Si, se puede.
The left is finding God. Until ...
WHAT a difference a Prez makes..!
This will REALLY promote manners, at the very least.
Marvin Roach? A ‘Roach hotel’?
Hot damn, ICE is getting back in action since President Trump’s in the WH.
Your statement bore repeating and enlarging!
That’s GOOD news!!!!
Must have been a criminal with a long rap sheet!
Make sure you tell ALL your friends and relatives...
“They were clearly targeting the church because they knew that they stayed here in the hypothermia shelter.”
The same way that bank robbers know to hit banks because that’s where they keep the money?
*SMIRK*
The way I see it is that we’re sending these cold, homeless people to a tropical climate.
Saw a couple of employment ads for Border Patrol cops. MAGA
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