Illegal Aliens

[indago]

Journalist Jacques Billeaud wrote for The Associated Press 18 December 2014:
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An Arizona sheriff known for crackdowns on people living in the country illegally is giving up his last major foothold in immigration enforcement efforts that won him popularity among voters but gradually were reined in by Washington and the courts. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office revealed late Wednesday that it was agreeing to disband a controversial squad that has raided businesses to arrest more than 700 immigrants who were charged with using fake or stolen IDs to get jobs. "He has proved that when he gets involved in immigration enforcement, he tramples on the U.S. Constitution, at great expense to taxpayers and public safety," said Cecillia Wang, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who won a racial profiling case against Arpaio's office.

...The sheriff's office didn't respond to a request Thursday to interview Arpaio. But it issued a statement saying the squad will be disbanded early next year, and that grant money used in the enforcement of the ID theft laws will be returned to the state. The sheriff's road to immigration enforcement began in 2005 as voter frustrations grew over the state's status as the then-busiest in immigrant smuggling and state lawmakers started responding to their complaints about Arizona's porous border with Mexico. Like other local police bosses, Arpaio previously left immigration enforcement to federal authorities.

He explained his decision to enter immigration enforcement as addressing a public safety concern. And he eventually set up squads that focused on immigrant smuggling and businesses that hired immigrants. "We don't go after the addicts on the street," Arpaio said in a 2005 interview about his newly formed smuggling squad, likening his immigration crackdown with his approach to investigating drug cases. "We go after the peddlers. Same philosophy."

His supporters have said the sheriff was the only local police boss to do something about illegal immigration in the face of inadequate federal enforcement. ...Last month, he filed a lawsuit that seeks to dismantle President Barack Obama's executive order that lifts the threat of deportation from millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States.
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article (http://news.yahoo.com/sheriff-halt-squad-targeting-immigrant-id-theft-160639485.html)

[indago]

Journalist Alicia Caldwell wrote for The Associated Press 24 December 2014:
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The Homeland Security Department is experimenting with a new way to track immigrant families caught crossing the border illegally and then released into the U.S.: GPS-enabled ankle bracelets. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month launched a program to give GPS devices to some parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally with their children in Texas' Rio Grande Valley. They were given the devices after being released from custody with notices to report back to immigration officials, according to a confidential ICE document obtained by The Associated Press. In September, the Homeland Security Department confided to a group of immigrant advocates during a confidential meeting that about 70 percent of immigrants traveling as families failed to report back to ICE as ordered after they were released at the border.
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What a laugh! They violated the law coming here, and now they are expected to wear an ankle bracelet so that they can be tracked.

[tailfins]

I predict sales of the below product will increase.

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[gabosaurus]

Previous administrations have been known to support illegal aliens.

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Then there are politicians who oppose them.

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[LongTermGuy]

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[indago]

Journalist Emily Swanson wrote for The Associated Press 16 July 2015:
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More Americans now have an unfavorable than a favorable view of Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that finds negative ratings of the former secretary of state have increased over the past few months, especially among Democrats. Still, Clinton's potential Republican rivals are also generally viewed in an unfavorable light...
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Journalist Walter Berry wrote for The Associated Press 15 July 2015:
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County officials in metro Phoenix voted unanimously Wednesday to settle parts of a lawsuit that the U.S. Department of Justice brought against a sheriff known for cracking down on illegal immigration. But the settlement by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors doesn't cover the largest allegation — that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's agency racially profiled Latinos in its regular traffic and immigration patrols.

...Arpaio's office was accused of discriminating against Latinos during raids of businesses that were suspected of hiring immigrants who had used fake or stolen IDs to get jobs.
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It is hardly surprising that the populace would give the "negative ratings" to the political crowd when they see how they have handled the illegal alien crisis, and how they prey upon those who are attempting to do something about it. And the charges of "racial profiling" are ridiculous, at best. When the Sheriff is looking for illegal aliens from Mexico, who are using stolen identifications of American citizens, they would certainly not be looking for someone who didn't look like a Hispanic individual. And anyone who would question this observation should be looked upon as suspect in this trafficking of illegal aliens to this country.

[indago]

From The Associated Press 29 July 2015:
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents told Ohio sheriff's deputies weeks ago not to detain a man who is in the U.S. illegally and now suspected of killing a woman and wounding another during a crime spree, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. ...Razo has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a 40-year-old woman Monday afternoon as she walked with her two children along a bike path in Concord Township. She was shot in the arm. Just over an hour later, a man told park rangers he'd found his wife, 60-year-old Margaret Kostelnik, shot to death in their home near the bike path.

...The manhunt for Razo began late Monday morning after a 14-year-old girl told police he had tried to rape her in another section of the park.
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article (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/29/ohio-murder-suspect-in-country-illegally-ordered-not-to-be-detained-in-earlier/)

[Perianne]

Journalist Jacques Billeaud wrote for The Associated Press 18 December 2014:
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An Arizona sheriff known for crackdowns on people living in the country illegally is giving up his last major foothold in immigration enforcement efforts that won him popularity among voters but gradually were reined in by Washington and the courts. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office revealed late Wednesday that it was agreeing to disband a controversial squad that has raided businesses to arrest more than 700 immigrants who were charged with using fake or stolen IDs to get jobs. "He has proved that when he gets involved in immigration enforcement, he tramples on the U.S. Constitution, at great expense to taxpayers and public safety," said Cecillia Wang, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who won a racial profiling case against Arpaio's office.

...The sheriff's office didn't respond to a request Thursday to interview Arpaio. But it issued a statement saying the squad will be disbanded early next year, and that grant money used in the enforcement of the ID theft laws will be returned to the state. The sheriff's road to immigration enforcement began in 2005 as voter frustrations grew over the state's status as the then-busiest in immigrant smuggling and state lawmakers started responding to their complaints about Arizona's porous border with Mexico. Like other local police bosses, Arpaio previously left immigration enforcement to federal authorities.

He explained his decision to enter immigration enforcement as addressing a public safety concern. And he eventually set up squads that focused on immigrant smuggling and businesses that hired immigrants. "We don't go after the addicts on the street," Arpaio said in a 2005 interview about his newly formed smuggling squad, likening his immigration crackdown with his approach to investigating drug cases. "We go after the peddlers. Same philosophy."

His supporters have said the sheriff was the only local police boss to do something about illegal immigration in the face of inadequate federal enforcement. ...Last month, he filed a lawsuit that seeks to dismantle President Barack Obama's executive order that lifts the threat of deportation from millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States.
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article (http://news.yahoo.com/sheriff-halt-squad-targeting-immigrant-id-theft-160639485.html)

I love Sheriff Joe.

[gabosaurus]

Illegal aliens are taking our jobs!

http://cdn.themetapicture.com/media/funny-alien-video-store-vacuum.jpg

[Gunny]

I predict sales of the below product will increase.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41evNIHxKHL.jpg

Too many moving parts. Now if you got sandpapaer for sheetrock and some mud, we can talk. No way do they get snips.

[Solo]

Journalist Alicia Caldwell wrote for The Associated Press 24 December 2014:
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The Homeland Security Department is experimenting with a new way to track immigrant families caught crossing the border illegally and then released into the U.S.: GPS-enabled ankle bracelets. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month launched a program to give GPS devices to some parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally with their children in Texas' Rio Grande Valley. They were given the devices after being released from custody with notices to report back to immigration officials, according to a confidential ICE document obtained by The Associated Press. In September, the Homeland Security Department confided to a group of immigrant advocates during a confidential meeting that about 70 percent of immigrants traveling as families failed to report back to ICE as ordered after they were released at the border.
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article (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IMMIGRATION_OVERLOAD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-12-24-03-02-21)


What a laugh! They violated the law coming here, and now they are expected to wear an ankle bracelet so that they can be tracked.


Man what an assinine idea, like theyre going to worry about a bracelet

[indago]

From CBS NEWS 9 August 2015:
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Santa Barbara County authorities say a man in the country illegally has been charged in the rape and fatal assault of a 64-year-old woman at her home in Santa Maria. ...Marilyn Pharis was attacked with a hammer and sexually assaulted in her home on the morning of July 24. She later died of her injuries. Twenty-nine-year-old Victor Aureliano Martinez was arrested shortly after the attack.

...Ramirez has been arrested six times in 15 months, including just before the alleged attack on Pharis.
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article (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/marilyn-pharis-murder-cops-suspect-victor-aureliano-martinez-undocumented/)

[indago]

Journalist Alicia Caldwell wrote for The Associated Press 30 October 2015:
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Hundreds of immigrant families caught illegally crossing the Mexican border told U.S. immigration agents they made the dangerous journey in part because they believed they would be permitted to stay in the United States and collect public benefits... ...They said hundreds of people traveling as part of families consistently cited opportunities to obtain permission to stay in the U.S., claim asylum and receive unspecified benefits. Immigrants spoke of "permisos," or a pass to come into the United States. ...Last year, the administration coped with an unprecedented spike in children and families. By the end of the 2014 budget year, more than 136,000 people traveling as families and unaccompanied children had been caught crossing the border illegally.
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[Gunny]

Journalist Jacques Billeaud wrote for The Associated Press 18 December 2014:
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An Arizona sheriff known for crackdowns on people living in the country illegally is giving up his last major foothold in immigration enforcement efforts that won him popularity among voters but gradually were reined in by Washington and the courts. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office revealed late Wednesday that it was agreeing to disband a controversial squad that has raided businesses to arrest more than 700 immigrants who were charged with using fake or stolen IDs to get jobs. "He has proved that when he gets involved in immigration enforcement, he tramples on the U.S. Constitution, at great expense to taxpayers and public safety," said Cecillia Wang, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who won a racial profiling case against Arpaio's office.

...The sheriff's office didn't respond to a request Thursday to interview Arpaio. But it issued a statement saying the squad will be disbanded early next year, and that grant money used in the enforcement of the ID theft laws will be returned to the state. The sheriff's road to immigration enforcement began in 2005 as voter frustrations grew over the state's status as the then-busiest in immigrant smuggling and state lawmakers started responding to their complaints about Arizona's porous border with Mexico. Like other local police bosses, Arpaio previously left immigration enforcement to federal authorities.

He explained his decision to enter immigration enforcement as addressing a public safety concern. And he eventually set up squads that focused on immigrant smuggling and businesses that hired immigrants. "We don't go after the addicts on the street," Arpaio said in a 2005 interview about his newly formed smuggling squad, likening his immigration crackdown with his approach to investigating drug cases. "We go after the peddlers. Same philosophy."

His supporters have said the sheriff was the only local police boss to do something about illegal immigration in the face of inadequate federal enforcement. ...Last month, he filed a lawsuit that seeks to dismantle President Barack Obama's executive order that lifts the threat of deportation from millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States.
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article (http://news.yahoo.com/sheriff-halt-squad-targeting-immigrant-id-theft-160639485.html)

I disagree with his explanation. Violate the law by being here to begin with, THEN commit fraud, THEN get rewarded. If any of US did that, we'd be sitting in the Federal pen.

[Trigg]

Previous administrations have been known to support illegal aliens.




Two wrongs don't make a right.

[indago]

From The Associated Press 24 March 2016:
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Supporters of a North Carolina teen facing deportation to his native Honduras are holding a rally to call for his release from jail. The rally in support of 19-year-old Wildin Acosta will be held Thursday in Durham. Supporters say he's one of about 800 teenagers who arrived in the U.S. as unaccompanied children and have been detained or deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since October.

...He has said he fled Honduras after a gang member threatened to kill him.
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That is absurd! There are threats in this country all the time from somebody to kill another, and we don't run to another country. We report the threat to the authorities, or deal with it ourselves.

[indago]

From CNS News 20 April 2016:
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Laura Wilkerson, whose son Josh was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant after school, told a House Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee on Tuesday that she blames Congress for her son’s murder. “I did not put my kid in harm’s way when he went to school that day. You did.

...Wilkerson’s son was killed on Nov. 16, 2010, by an illegal immigrant – Hermilo Moralez – who asked for a ride home from Josh’s high school.

Wilkerson said her son’s killer testified at the trial on how he “systematically killed Josh.”

“First a punch in the face, so his vision was off. Next a knee to Josh's abdomen so that he would go to the ground. Josh went to the ground as his spleen was sliced in half. This killer was aggravated that it was not over,” Wilkerson said in written testimony. “He grew tired of watching bloody bubbles coming from Josh's nose as he was trying to breathe.

“Next he took a closet rod and beat Josh over the head again and again until the rod broke in 4 pieces. Joshua still breathing. Next he strangled him, let him go to see if it was over, nope, so he continued until there were no more bubbles. He waited and watched him die,” Wilkerson added.

“He tied Josh's body up, stuffed him in the backseat of our truck, bought gas, dumped Josh in a field and set his body on fire. The killer went home took a shower and went to see a movie,” Wilkerson said.

She called on Congress to enforce the existing immigration laws.
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article (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/mother-teen-murdered-illegal-immigrant-tells-congress-do-something-it)

[indago]

From The Associated Press 13 May 2016:
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Texas detention centers for families caught illegally crossing the southern U.S. border are more like jails that have sickened kids, affected their mental health and put them in danger, a group of immigrant mothers testified Friday.
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Of course, they could be put up at the Waldorf-Asoria, or maybe Trump Tower, at Obama's personal expense, until their court hearing to determine what to do with them.

What the hell did they expect, crossing the boarder into this country illegally?




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[indago]

From The Associated Press 19 May 2016:
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After a group of 26 states filed a lawsuit in late 2014 challenging Obama's proposed measures, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen issued a preliminary injunction that halted them. Before ordering the injunction, Justice Department attorneys told Hanen one key part of Obama's actions, an expansion of a program that protects young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, hadn't taken effect.

Federal officials later revealed they had given more than 108,000 people three-year reprieves from deportation and granted them work permits under the program. Justice Department attorneys had previously insisted the reprieves were granted under 2012 guidelines, which weren't stopped by the injunction.

Obama's proposed executive actions could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation and make them eligible to work in the United States. Many Republicans oppose the actions, saying only Congress has the right to take such sweeping action.

..."For whatever reason, the Justice Department trial lawyers appearing in this court chose not to tell the truth about this (Department of Homeland Security) activity," he wrote. "Such conduct is certainly not worthy of any department whose name includes the word 'Justice.' Suffice it to say, the citizens of all fifty states, their counsel, the affected (immigrants) and the judiciary all deserve better."

...Hanen ordered that any Justice Department attorney in Washington, D.C., who has to appear in either a state or federal court in any of the 26 states that are part of the lawsuit will have to annually attend for the next five years a legal ethics course.

He also ordered U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to report to him in 60 days and present a comprehensive plan to prevent "this unethical conduct from ever occurring again."

Hanen also ordered that federal officials provide a list of the individuals who were mistakenly given the three year reprieves and that this information could be given to officials in states where these immigrants live.
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