Posted on 03/30/2002 11:05:34 PM PST by sarcasm
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Recent raids on California airports that have resulted in the arrest of hundreds of immigrants, mostly Hispanics, have drawn criticism from human rights groups.
"To ask individuals to identify themselves just because they look, act or behave like immigrants is illegal and it creates panic in our community. We are not going to keep quiet about it," said the chairwoman of the Los Angeles Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Angelica Salas.
Salas said the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is using racial profiling in the arrests, which is illegal in the United States. More than 300 people demonstrated on Thursday against the raids in Los Angeles
"First, they came for the Muslims, the Arabs. Now, they go for Latinos and other non-white immigrants," said National Lawyers Guild spokesman James Lafferty of the some 1,200 arrests, mostly of Muslims and citizens of Middle Eastern countries, made after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Of those detainees, 327 continue in prison. Some 250 people were arrested as a result of recent raids on 11 airports nationwide.
In airports of San Francisco and San Jose, California, immigration officers required employees and legal residents to identify themselves.
Fifty-five people have been arrested since Monday in northern California and will be deported, said INS San Francisco office spokesperson Sharon Rummery.
She said the arrest and deportation of janitors, porters and kitchen helpers at the airports are measures to combat terrorism, as immigrants are vulnerable to eventual pressure from terrorists. Charges against the undocumented include using fake social security cards and lying about their backgrounds in job applications.
"It is an extremely dangerous situation for all. Terrorist groups learn about the status of these people and could force them to do things they don't want to do at the airports," Rummery said on behalf of the INS.
The INS also reported the arrest last week of 183 Mexicans and a Guatemalan citizen.
Thomas Schilgen, director of INS in Los Angeles, denied the airport raids targeted people who looked like immigrants or Hispanics. He said that INS acted based on intelligence reports that said immigrant traffickers were using U.S. airports and flights to ply their trade.
Also, the federal government could deport 66 undocumented immigrants, most of them from Mexico, arrested in an early March dragnet in the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport of North Carolina.
"To ask individuals to identify themselves just because they look, act or behave like immigrants is illegal and it creates panic in our community. We are not going to keep quiet about it," said the chairwoman of the Los Angeles Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Angelica Salas....
"First, they came for the Muslims, the Arabs. Now, they go for Latinos and other non-white immigrants," said National Lawyers Guild spokesman James Lafferty of the some 1,200 arrests, mostly of Muslims and citizens of Middle Eastern countries, made after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Oh, the horror!
"Indeed, the 2000 census shows that 58.5 percent of this country's 35.3 million Latinos have Mexican origins and are predominantly concentrated in the Southwest."
While this refers to the total Latino population in the U.S., and not just the illegals, it portends ill for the credibility of Angelica Salas.
LINK.Census estimates show that the number of illegal aliens in the United States "rose nearly 5 million during the decade, to 8.7 million in 2000. Of that total, almost 3.9 million, or 44 percent, were from Mexico."
That's 44% of the total of illegal aliens from the entire world.
LINK."Figures show that 44 percent of illegal aliens are from Mexico and 12 percent are from Europe."
Uh-oh 44% - 12% = 56%. Unless no illegal aliens came from Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, or Australia, the highest percentage of non-Mexican Central American illegals that there could be would be 44% (100% - 56% = 44%). In that unlikely event, that would tie them with Mexico.
LINK." the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that foreign-born persons categorized as coming from "Other Central America" (excluding Mexico) made up 6.8% of the total foreign-born population in 1997.
Now, this figure for percentage of total foreign born population comes from three years before the Census, but it indicates the likelihood that a crackdown on Illegals would fall disproportionately on Latinos because... Illegals are most likely Latino.
LINK."The Census Bureau report was generated as part of a highly technical series of post-Census 2000 studies. The bureau found that 5,312,990 undocumented residents hailed from North and Central America, with 3,871,912 coming from Mexico, the source of the greatest number of illegal foreigners."
These figures indicate that over 72% of the illegals hailing from countries between Canada and Panama are Mexican.
LINK." We estimated that 27 percent of the residual foreign born in 1990 was from Mexico; our 2000 estimate was closer to 45 percent from Mexico. Most studies indicate that Mexico constitutes a substantial proportion of the unauthorized population, around 55 percent. (Warren, 2000; Bean, 2001)
So, just the Mexicans are at 55% of the illegal population, and throw in the rest of Central America... What do you have? A whole lot of Illegals who happen to be Latino. Deport them.
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He's saying this like it's a bad thing?
Seems to me that when Our Beloved FRaternal Republic is under attack FRom and by cells comprised of airport-industry-based murderous turd wurld criminal aliens, the seach for more of these murderous individuals and enemy cells [Even if conducted only by the kind of feral-gummint bureaucrats who issue posthumous visas to and put the official feral-gummint stamp of approval on the activities of mass-murderers] is eventually gunna find its way among airport-industry-based turd wurld criminal aliens.
And that the solution to the problems of any such airport-industry-based turd wurld criminal aliens is that they clear out of Our Nation and return to their own?
That aught to shake US off their criminal tails!
No?
Unless they remain in jail until physically escorted to the border, where their return across it can be documented, this is just more smoke and mirrors.
If women of Northern European descent were to break out of prison, I would expect that the police would ask me questions because, in an attempt to arrest them, they would have to profile. But, since I'm not doing anything wrong, I would shrug it off and thank the authorities for doing their jobs.
These illegals and the groups that favor them over citizens obeying the laws obviously have no respect for the laws or the security of the country.
Liberals can't justify criminals' actions so they attack any methods to curb or arrest them.
I've tried to explain this to people before, but they don't believe me. When 150 passengers from a flight from Guadalajara, enter the federal inspection area, the illegals might as well be holding a neon sign that says "I'm Illegal". They stand out. The way they talk, walk and act is different from legal Mexicans and US citizens. Ilegals from different countries have the same problem.
After inspecting thousands of people, it just becomes second nature, and it actually has very little to do with race.
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