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Immigrants Fearful to Come Forward, Latino Leaders Say
LaTimes.com [Reg. required] ^
| October 24, 2002
| Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Posted on 10/24/2002 11:57:19 AM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
-- A police decision to hand over two undocumented migrants to immigration authorities this week is silencing potential witnesses in the serial sniper investigation, area Latino leaders said Wednesday.
"It's a really bad message to send the Latino community and immigrants in general," said Gustavo Torres, director of a suburban Montgomery County social service agency, CASA of Maryland. "I am not going to encourage my community to [report] those criminals, [if] witnesses are going to be deported."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Ah, yes. Just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month in Montgumby County, MD......
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posted on
10/24/2002 12:00:16 PM PDT
by
tracer
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Some of us can't sign up for all these publications. If you go to the trouble of cutting any pasting, please post the article in its entirety. Thanks.
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Senor Gustavo Torres is a day late and a dollar short with his threat. The 2 bad guys were caught without the help of any illegals.
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posted on
10/24/2002 12:13:26 PM PDT
by
RicocheT
To: WaveThatFlag
One cannot post complete articles from the LA Times AKA LA Slimes or the Washington Post AKA Washington Compost owing to legal restrictions. It's a long and sordid tale.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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posted on
10/24/2002 12:28:05 PM PDT
by
alfa6
Comment #6 Removed by Moderator
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
"I am not going to encourage my community to [report] those criminals, [if] witnesses are going to be deported." Of course not, criminals don't snitch on other criminals Too late anyhow bud, Islamic terrorist and an illegal alien are already in custody.
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posted on
10/24/2002 12:35:59 PM PDT
by
healey22
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Where's the Barf Alert on this one?
I would like these illegal sympathizers to put out statistics on how many crimes are committed by illegals vs. how many crimes are solved by tips from illegals vs. how many crimes committed by illegals are solved without tips from illegals.
This is another straw-may arguement like "they do work that nobody else will do", and "our lettuce would be $5 per head if illegals didn't pick it."
To: WaveThatFlag
FR only allows excerpts to be posted from the LA Times.
snippy, snippy...
To: gubamyster
I'll pay the 5 bucks a head if you guarantee that I won't have an illegal Mexican waitress serving me at dinner.
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posted on
10/24/2002 12:57:30 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
To: B4Ranch
I'll pay the 5 bucks a head if you guarantee that I won't have an illegal Mexican waitress serving me at dinner. Don't allow yourself to be placed on the menu.
To: gubamyster
straw-may = straw-man
To: Drill Alaska
Great Image. Except the Close the Borders Now button should be on the next to lowest button. :-)
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posted on
10/24/2002 1:05:02 PM PDT
by
wildbill
To: Blue Screen of Death
Depends on who's hungry, and for what. LOL
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posted on
10/24/2002 1:05:54 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Don't you love the way they try to hold us hostage? "Let us get away with breaking the immigration laws, or else we won't tip off police on other crimes!"
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posted on
10/24/2002 1:08:42 PM PDT
by
Nea Wood
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
This is an indictment of the INS in and of itself. If the only -- or many -- material witnesses are illegal aliens -- and authorities have to NOT turn them over to INS if they come forward -- what does that say about what's going on in our country?
Sounds like blackmail. We'll help you if you let us stay. We won't if you threaten to send us back. We need to be deporting these illegals NOW. There are many, many immigrants who worked hard to come here legally. What an insult.
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posted on
10/24/2002 1:14:54 PM PDT
by
alethia
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Yeah, illegals are real scairt...that's why our schools are flooded with their kids, the emergency rooms are filled with them in general. They even conduct loud protests in public because they want drivers licenses for illegals and Doofus Davis wouldn't grant them (for now). Real scared.
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Well Gustavo, if your Latino brethren would bother to go thru the INS and be in this country legally, you wouldnt have a problem with deportation now would you? Duhhhhhhhh
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