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.
There are about 1200 of them serving on every Marine base. They investigate domestics, theft, battery, security for the base etc.
What's all the excitement about? They are just trying to send them south of the border, where they won't have to spend time in a hypothermia shelter.
It's for their own good after all.
That right there is the problem.
I hope he starts seeing much more of it.
Hmm... I wonder if there’s a country around here that doesn’t have “hypothermia shelters”?
Trump realized the illegal problem was so severe, he decided to put some ICE on it. And you know what? It’s getting better. I love happy endings.
Like hunting on a game trail instead of in the middle of a swamp. I approve!
ICE, putting the panic in Hispanic.
Yep. No mention in this article of what criminal records those arrested have. If they were arrested based on fingerprints, that means they are in a criminal database somewhere. So, once again, the MSM wants people to believe ICE is rounding up “innocent immigrants” rather than tracking people down based on known criminal records.
Police and law enforcement in the U.S. Marine Corps are conducted by military police who are members of the Corps as well as by Marine-trained civilians.
They are civilians like me now who can get a job in the Marine Corps civilian Police.
I was applying for them and then work on the same base with one of my sons who is a Marine.
I’m just asking if there is a freeze for the civilian police.
you stated this.
I think the police force for the Marines is the Navy Shore Patrol if not MP’s (Military Police)...They aren’t civilians.
but they are civilians, they are even called the Marine Corps civilian police.
Like I said earlier all I want to know is if a hiring freeze is in affect.
“Some are questioning” is code for ‘this paper is stirring up the issue of....”
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