hahahahah, awesome name

and its great they're finally doing something about the fact that deported folks just sneak back in the same way they did the first time...

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/14/D8I84S980.html

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"A swarm of federal immigration agents sped silently, headlights off, down a Boston side street early Wednesday and surrounded an apartment house. "Police! Policia! Police!" yelled Daniel Monico, a deportation officer, holding his badge to a window where someone had pulled back the curtain. "Open the door!" Moments later, agents led a dazed-looking Jose Ferreira Da Silva, 35, out in handcuffs. The Brazilian had been arrested in 2002 and deported, but had slipped back into the country. He now faces up to 20 years in prison. In a blitz that began May 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested nearly 2,100 illegal immigrants across the country. Officials said the raids are aimed at child molesters, gang members and other violent criminals, as well as people like Da Silva who sneaked back into the country after a judge threw them out. The crackdown is called Operation Return to Sender. "This sends a message," said Monico, standing outside the gray Victorian apartment where Da Silva had been hiding. "When we deport you, we're serious." An Associated Press reporter and photographer accompanied a fugitive task force as it made Operation Return to Sender raids Tuesday night and early Wednesday. The operation has caught more than 140 immigrants with convictions for sexual offenses against children; 367 known gang members, including street soldiers in the deadly Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13; and about 640 people who had already been deported once, immigration officials said. The numbers include more than 720 arrests in California alone. More than 800 people arrested already have been deported"

i still can't decide if 2100 illegals dealt with in 2 weeks is a good pace or not...

6/14/2006 4:08:02 PM

Isn't the current estimate about 12 million?

12,000,000 aliens / 1050 / 52 = 219.78021978021978021978021978022 Years

6/14/2006 4:16:59 PM

it's good to see somethin bein done. even if it's not much, it is still somethin good.

6/14/2006 4:17:30 PM

Putting people in prison for this shit is ridiculous.

6/14/2006 4:18:14 PM

so illegal people deported once already who reentered the country illegally again is ok with you?

6/14/2006 4:21:11 PM

^^putting people in prison for stabbing someone, thus paralyzing them, is stupid?

putting 140 people in prison for molesting kids is stupid?


^^^^not every one of those 12 million needs to go
i enjoy a cheap housing market, clean sheets at hotels, and plenty of fresh produce

[Edited on June 14, 2006 at 4:23 PM. Reason : `]

6/14/2006 4:22:30 PM

55 rounded up at Dulles
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-06-14T184804Z_01_N14327658_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-ARRESTS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. immigration officials said on Wednesday they had arrested 55 illegal immigrants who were working at a construction site in the secure area at Dulles International Airport. Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement made the arrests early in the morning as the workers were being bussed to the construction site and were attempting to pass through a security checkpoint. ICE said in a statement that one of the workers had a security badge that grants unescorted access to the tarmac of the Virginia-based airport that serves Washington DC. "Unauthorized workers employed at sensitive sites and critical infrastructure facilities ... pose serious homeland security threats," said Julie Myers, assistant secretary of homeland security in charge of ICE. "Not only are the identities of these individuals in question but these aliens are also vulnerable to exploitation by terrorists and other criminals given their illegal status in this country," she added in the statement."

6/14/2006 4:27:38 PM

Sending people to prison for stabbing/raping/committing crimes detrimental to society, that I'm OK with.

Sending people to prison for trying to get into the country twice, and for only that reason, I do not agree with.

6/14/2006 4:43:19 PM

^ From what I read it appears this law and the related crackdown only applies to those deported for felony convictions.

6/15/2006 9:35:47 AM

from WTOV Ohio:

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"Illegal Immigrants Free To Go 6/20/2006 Local police said they intercepted 20 illegal Mexican immigrants, but were ordered by immigration officials to let them go free. Belmont County Sheriff Fred Thompson said his officers were instructed by federal immigration services to let all 20 illegal immigrants go free, and said his department has no choice but to follow the orders from immigration officials. Thompson said officers stopped a van at 3 a.m. Tuesday which was traveling the wrong direction on Interstate 470 in St. Clairsville. The officer discovered 20 illegal Mexican immigrants inside the van, including three who were previously deported. The officer immediately contacted immigration officials, who told him to let all 20 immigrants go. "Once we find out they are illegals, it's like pat them on the back of the head and tell them, 'Go on down the road; you'll probably get stopped again,'" Thompson said. The immigrants told the officer they were traveling through Ohio to obtain work in Manassas, Va. Calls to Citizenship and Immigration Services as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement have not been returned"

http://www.wtov9.com/news/9397913/detail.html

Follow-up 6/21/06

Quote :

"Why Illegals Were Let Go Not So Clear Twenty illegal aliens are pulled over on 1-470 Tuesday morning. After running checks on them, the Belmont County Sheriffs Department contacts an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer and the twenty men, here illegally, are let go. Why they were let go is not so clear. According to ICE officials, Belmont County Deputies let them go on their own accord. "Belmont apparently refused to let the ICE agent interview each alien, and decided upon themselves to release the aliens. All 20," said Greg Palmore, an ICE official. But Sheriff Fred Thompson said that isn't the case. He said ICE officials did ask to interview the aliens, but his deputies didnt have the means to do so. "At that point we had no facilities to do it, we couldn't transport them to let them do live telephone interviews," Sheriff Thompson said. According to the Sheriff, after telling ICE officials they couldn't physically do the interviews, they were told to release the 20 illegal aliens. That move has one local congressman upset. "When they call the federal government and they say we have in our possession right now, 20 illegals, and then the federal government turns around and says let them go, it is very clear cut, this is all smoke and mirrors from the federal government. INS is not doing its job," said Congressman Bob Ney, (R) Ohio. This story is starting to gain national attention. Sheriff Thompson is doing an interview with national media in New York Thursday morning, and will do an interview with a TV station in Dallas. And around the Ohio Valley, a lot of people are talking. "If somebody were pulled over for drugs or something, would they just let them go? I don't see this any different," said Shana Lawrence, of Belmont County. Congressman Ney said he will talk with ICE officials in the coming days, and get to the bottom of what happened on I-470."

6/22/2006 12:56:37 AM

^Holy fucking shit. Before you know it, they might build my house for a reasonable price! They might even have the gall to wrap up a burger for me and trim my hedges.

6/22/2006 1:12:46 AM

^
...and maybe keep driving the wrong way down the highway and kill a bunch of people.

(This wouldn't have happened If all the road signs were in Spanish!)

[Edited on June 22, 2006 at 2:03 AM. Reason : .]

6/22/2006 2:02:53 AM

^Last time I checked Mexicans in Mexico drive on the right hand side of the road. Unless your argument hinges on mexicans thinking they have arrived in Europe when they cross the border I'd try again.

"Operation Return to Sender," isn't that the name the insurgents in Iraq gave to their operations?

6/22/2006 7:51:11 AM

^

Quote :

"Thompson said officers stopped a van at 3 a.m. Tuesday which was traveling the wrong direction on Interstate 470 in St. Clairsville."

6/22/2006 9:24:13 AM

Quote :

"^Last time I checked Mexicans in Mexico drive on the right hand side of the road. Unless your argument hinges on mexicans thinking they have arrived in Europe when they cross the border I'd try again."

Europeans drive on the right-hand side of the road too, smart ass. You're thinking of the UK.

6/22/2006 10:05:29 AM

Quote :

"Putting people in prison for this shit is ridiculous."

According to this article, they're not just putting random immigrants in prison, they're putting the ones that are true criminals. I don't see anything wrong with this.

6/22/2006 11:35:05 AM