Posted on 04/20/2006 8:37:43 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
There was a crackdown Wednesday and dozens of illegal immigrants were arrested.
Many of those same immigrants were released just hours later
It was the last thing they, and their families, expected.
"They are not criminals. All they're here for is to work for their family," said Mariz Gomez.
And that's what they were doing making wooden pallets at two different locations when federal agents swooped in and took nearly 70 suspected undocumented workers to this federal detention center in north Houston.
"Just for them to come in here and to just throw them back to where they go. That's not right for them," said Gomez.
Families 11 News spoke with feared the men mostly from Central American countries would be deported.
But that was hardly the case.
Just five hours later Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents began releasing the undocumented workers.
"I was surprised by the quick release," said a man who asked that his face not be shown. Several others made the same request.
It is not clear why these immigrants were released so quickly but workers say it may be because the 950-bed facility was severely overcrowded.
The workers say they were told the facilities were full. Sources inside the facility say the same thing and that agents have been ordered to release immigrants as soon as possible.
Some of the workers say there were other problems Wednesday.
They said computers went down and agents had to scribble information, in one case, failing to write in a court date altogether.
The men we spoke with promised to show up for their immigration hearings, still finding it hard to believe they were released so soon.
But did they also release the owners/managers of these plants? This can still work out if they swiftly prosecute the crooked businesses horing the Illegals.
When we catch them, we should make them sing the National Anthem. If they know more than one verse, bust them as spies.
When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles.
That only applys to legal citizens not part of any particular Politically Correct Minority Group.
Anybody here really surprised?
LOL! DHS Chertoff is really a tough guy... with American citizens
Send tehm to Taiwan. That's the legitimate government of China anyway.
Sadly, that is exactly what I was thinking. I beat around the bush in my description, but that is what it is.
Why" Liberals support slavery.
Dog and pony
A man does not secure his home by documenting the thieves who enter, allowing them to break the rules of his home, demanding that he change to suit their needs and ultimately rob him of his property. But this is precisely what the government is allowing to happen to this country.
It only makes you mad because your expectations were dashed. You probably expected that DHS, the department in charge of deportations, would do its job.
What a quaint idea!
LOL you're right. My hopes were dashed BIG TIME!
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Send them to Iraq or Afghanistan, then arrest them for being on the battlefield and send them to Club Gitmo.
Nice red herring. Chertoff is in charge of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), the agency whose job is to deport illegal aliens.
If I were to make an illegal alien doll....Mariz would be my model...and you could just pull her string and hear her say: "We are not criminals...all we are here for is to work for our family"
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