Posted on 02/22/2017 5:53:59 PM PST by Republic Rocker
[Updated Wednesday, February 22, 2017 | 7:50 a.m.] In an unusual incident which has prompted concern among area lawyers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a man federal officials said was a previously deported Mexican national with a prior felony conviction for drug trafficking at the Pasadena Courthouse on Tuesday.
According to Virginia Kice, Western Regional Communications Director/Spokesperson for ICE, Enforcement and Removal Operations officers arrested the unidentified man at the courthouse after earlier efforts to locate him at a residence or place of employment proved unsuccessful.
The man’s attorney, Los Angeles criminal lawyer Octavio Chaidez, said the immigration agents were clearly waiting for his client, whom Bar association rules prevent him from naming, to exit the courtroom after a morning hearing. According to Chaidez, the agents recognized the client on sight.
Chaidez said his client had been in court for a parole status hearing, which had seemed to be routine.
Chaidez said that in his 15 years of practicing law, he has never before seen or even heard of immigration agents waiting outside a court hearing to confront and arrest a subject.
“I’ve spoken to some of my colleagues and I haven’t had one that I’ve spoken to, say that this has ever occurred inside of a courthouse,” Chaidez said Tuesday evening. “Some of them have been practicing 30 years and just this morning when I spoke to them they said, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this.’”
According to Department of Homeland Security Executive Order No. 13768 entitled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” which was coincidentally released Tuesday morning, “DHS will not exempt classes or categories of removal aliens from potential enforcement. All of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to enforcement proceedings, up to and including removal from the United States. The guidance makes clear, however, that ICE should prioritize several categories of removable aliens who have committed crimes, beginning with those convicted of a criminal offense.”
Kice told Pasadena Now that “determinations about where and how ICE enforcement personnel affect both administrative and criminal arrests are made on a case-by-case basis, taking into account all aspects of the situation, including the prospective target’s criminal history; safety considerations; and any sensitivities involving the arrest location.”
Chaidez said that he believes that if ICE is going stake out court hearings in order to locate and confront targeted individuals, that “people are going to stop attending court proceedings.”
Following the incident, Chaidez said he prepared a factual statement of the incident and sent it out to other local attorneys.
“If they have a client who comes to them and says, ‘Hey, this been occurring,’ then they are now informed and they can counsel their client appropriately,” he explained.
Chaidez noted that he also received phone calls from some of the lawyers who received his email, who told him of their concerns for their clients.
“Whether they be the accused, whether they be a witness, whether be a victim,” Chaidez said, they will “not go anywhere near a courthouse” if they think that ICE could waiting for them there.
After 16 years of treasonous potus' who were ceding the USA to wetbacks, I'll bet you're right!
Good news! Millions more to go!
Come on - the Spanish language Mass at the local Catholic Church? That should be The Happy Hunting Ground for the illegals.
HOORAY I.C.E.
Finally we have a President that has some love for this country and the rule of law.
Praise be to God that Hillary Clinton was not elected !
>>Chaidez said that in his 15 years of practicing law, he has never before seen or even heard of immigration agents waiting outside a court hearing to confront and arrest a subject.
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Get used to it.
“Staking out the courtrooms because that is where the CRIMINALS are. “
The Willie Sutton Analogy. When Willie was asked why he robbed banks, he said: “Because that’s where the money is!”
We used to do that in the military with our bad boys. Marines would stand at the counter to pick up their final paperwork, their back to the door, and when they turned around there would stand the Orange County Sheriff.
That, boys and girls, is how it’s done.
Ditto that.
So what? Are they afraid their attorney commissions will be jeopardized? We'll get them if they attend court or not. Gezz, how stupid are these attorneys?
Not only that, quite a large percentage don’t show up for hearings if they can avoid doing so.
“It’s actually quite perverse how they try to portray lawyers as being some sort of vanguard of freedom. As a profession, and class of individuals, lawyers are the scum of the planet. Peel back any social ill like an onion and eventually you’ll find a lawyer at the center... fighting to spare the murderer, fighting to get the fetus vacuumed up, fighting to take away your ability to defend yourself. Absolute scum.”
Yes, You know what they say: “One lawyer in town will starve to death, two will get rich!”
And the corollary: What do you call an unsuccessful lawyer? Answer: Your Honor!
Those now wailing about being sent back to Mehico, not long ago were waving Mexican flags and badmouthing the U.S.A. So I say, FINE! Get the bleep outta here. Getcha butt back to Mexico!
“After 16 years of treasonous potus’ who were ceding the USA to wetbacks, I’ll bet you’re right! “
Only 16? Try 28. Just add up the admins of Boosh I, Clintoon, Boosh II and Obola! And before Boosh I, the only presidents in my lifetime who attempted to control the
Southern Border, were Ike and Ronnie.
“Those now wailing about being sent back to Mehico, not long ago were waving Mexican flags and badmouthing the U.S.A.”
And let’s not forget giving us the finger while they rubbed their privates!
Me likey! Hey Octavio, watch out- big bad Trump’s Troops are coming for ya!
And Ronnie screwed up by signing an amnesty bill under the promise that it would ‘never happen again’.
“And Ronnie screwed up by signing an amnesty bill under the promise that it would ‘never happen again’.”
New Biblical Passage:
“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; deport him and you do not have to feed him again.”
Trump 20:16
Well you don’t go hunting Caribou in the desert.
You go where the Caribou are.
“Some of them have been practicing 30 years and just this morning when I spoke to them they said, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this.’”
Clean your glasses, there’s much more coming.
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