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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/14/immigration.arrests.ap/index.html

2,100 illegal immigrants arrested in sweep

More than half have criminal records

Wednesday, June 14, 2006; Posted: 1:58 p.m. EDT (17:58 GMT)

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- 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.

"This is a massive operation," said Marc Raimondi, a spokesman for immigration enforcement or ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. "We are watching the country's borders from the inside."

In New England, officials said the sweeps have caught more than 150, including 75 who had come back after being deported.

ICE has a network of 35 fugitive teams across the country. The 2006 budget increased that number to 52, and the Bush administration is pushing for 70 by 2007.
More than half a million "fugitive aliens"

The challenge, agents said, is staggering.

There are more than 500,000 "fugitive aliens" who have been deported by judges and either slipped back into the country or never left. There is often a disconnect between local and state prisons and the federal government that allows illegal immigrants to serve time and be released without being transferred to federal officials for deportation.

The work that led to the series of arrests over the past 20 days began last winter. Agents in Boston, for example, began scouting targets four months ago, conducting street surveillance and following up leads from confidential informants.

"It's a lot of preparation, and it's a lot of patience," said Jim Martin, deputy director for ICE's New England field office. "All for a couple minutes of adrenaline."

During the raid late Tuesday, the federal squad, which includes a Boston police sergeant detective, wore bulging bulletproof vests and stiff Kevlar gloves to protect their hands from needles, knives and rusty fences.

Badges dangled on chains around their necks as they passed around wanted posters and shined flashlights on the face of a 24-year-old Latvian man who had served prison time for assaulting a police officer.

The team moved in the dark, climbing fences and hiding behind parked cars to encircle a three-story house in Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood. All at once they emerged from the shadows. A half-dozen agents filled the front porch, their knocks on the door echoing down the block. The target had moved, the agents learned, and a team split off and caught him in Weymouth, about 15 miles south of the city.

Another man caught in the recent blitz was a Salvadoran gang member who was convicted in a stabbing that left a 13-year-old boy paralyzed. Agents caught him working at Budget Rental Car at Boston's Logan Airport.

"The problems with immigration aren't going to be solved overnight," Raimondi said as the team sped toward another raid. "You start chipping away at it ... The more teams we get up and running, the more dangerous people we are going to get off the streets."

So now I'm going to paying for that guy's living expenses and court fees for the next twenty years? Thanks a lot feds.:rolleyes:

Oh, and this came to mind,
http://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/jpg/japaneseinterntrainBig.jpg

So now I'm going to paying for that guy's living expenses and court fees for the next twenty years? Thanks a lot feds.:rolleyes:

better to leave them alone, eh?

better to leave them alone, eh?
If they aren't committing any real crimes, yes.

So now I'm going to paying for that guy's living expenses and court fees for the next twenty years? Thanks a lot feds.:rolleyes:

Oh, and this came to mind,
http://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/jpg/japaneseinterntrainBig.jpgYou should adopt them all and raise them as your own.

Let's send all of our illegal immigrants to Australia LOL

If they aren't committing any real crimes, yes.
They said its aimed at criminals such as child molesters and gang bangers. So they are commiting crimes.

Let's send all of our illegal immigrants to Australia LOL
LOL! JOO SO FUNNEH!!!!

Dupe x10 , but a worthy one.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/14/immigration.arrests.ap/index.html

2,100 illegal immigrants arrested in sweep

More than half have criminal records

Wednesday, June 14, 2006; Posted: 1:58 p.m. EDT (17:58 GMT)

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- 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.

"This is a massive operation," said Marc Raimondi, a spokesman for immigration enforcement or ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. "We are watching the country's borders from the inside."

In New England, officials said the sweeps have caught more than 150, including 75 who had come back after being deported.

ICE has a network of 35 fugitive teams across the country. The 2006 budget increased that number to 52, and the Bush administration is pushing for 70 by 2007.
More than half a million "fugitive aliens"

The challenge, agents said, is staggering.

There are more than 500,000 "fugitive aliens" who have been deported by judges and either slipped back into the country or never left. There is often a disconnect between local and state prisons and the federal government that allows illegal immigrants to serve time and be released without being transferred to federal officials for deportation.

The work that led to the series of arrests over the past 20 days began last winter. Agents in Boston, for example, began scouting targets four months ago, conducting street surveillance and following up leads from confidential informants.

"It's a lot of preparation, and it's a lot of patience," said Jim Martin, deputy director for ICE's New England field office. "All for a couple minutes of adrenaline."

During the raid late Tuesday, the federal squad, which includes a Boston police sergeant detective, wore bulging bulletproof vests and stiff Kevlar gloves to protect their hands from needles, knives and rusty fences.

Badges dangled on chains around their necks as they passed around wanted posters and shined flashlights on the face of a 24-year-old Latvian man who had served prison time for assaulting a police officer.

The team moved in the dark, climbing fences and hiding behind parked cars to encircle a three-story house in Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood. All at once they emerged from the shadows. A half-dozen agents filled the front porch, their knocks on the door echoing down the block. The target had moved, the agents learned, and a team split off and caught him in Weymouth, about 15 miles south of the city.

Another man caught in the recent blitz was a Salvadoran gang member who was convicted in a stabbing that left a 13-year-old boy paralyzed. Agents caught him working at Budget Rental Car at Boston's Logan Airport.

"The problems with immigration aren't going to be solved overnight," Raimondi said as the team sped toward another raid. "You start chipping away at it ... The more teams we get up and running, the more dangerous people we are going to get off the streets."

So if more than half have criminal records, the rest were arrested for no reason?

So if more than half have criminal records, the rest were arrested for no reason?
No, don't you get it? They're causing more brown people to be in the US. Apparently, that’s something we just can't have.:rolleyes:

LOL! JOO SO FUNNEH!!!!
LOL TOTALEH!

Wow. What's more important? Arresting an illegal alien who happens to be a child molester, or a US citizen who is a child molester?

If police and law enforcement were actually doing their jobs...

No, don't you get it? They're causing more brown people to be in the US. Apparently, that’s something we just can't have.:rolleyes:
They don't even understand how our system works. The more kids you have the poorer you're going to be. They think the more kids they have the more money they'll rake in. Hey guess what it's the kids who get rich, for selling drugs and gettin into gangs then get killed. Haha wow what a great family.

Wow. What's more important? Arresting an illegal alien who happens to be a child molester, or a US citizen who is a child molester?

If police and law enforcement were actually doing their jobs...
The illegal, because im paying taxes to someone who doesn't deserve it. And then I have to pay taxes to send them fucking back. But both are almost equally important.

They don't even understand how our system works. The more kids you have the poorer you're going to be. They think the more kids they have the more money they'll rake in. Hey guess what it's the kids who get rich, for selling drugs and gettin into gangs then get killed. Haha wow what a great family.
Hmm.. Let's look at this.

More kids, and you're poorer... I have five kids... still clear about 225,000 dollars a year... perfectly legal job (literally)...

They don't even understand how our system works. The more kids you have the poorer you're going to be. They think the more kids they have the more money they'll rake in. Hey guess what it's the kids who get rich, for selling drugs and gettin into gangs then get killed. Haha wow what a great family.
The hell with that, lots of rich people have big families

the problem is, they come from areas with problems, and then move into poor areas, which have bad education and lots of "nasty" distractions (gangs and stuff)

If the education and law enforcement were better, these people would have a better chance

gang bangers

? do you have the same meaning for gang bangers as I have, I didnt thing having a 'gang bang' was illegal in america?
oh I love this debate, its more of the us vs them thingy, i shall laugh.

Wow. What's more important? Arresting an illegal alien who happens to be a child molester, or a US citizen who is a child molester?
Lets see...is the answer the one who committed two crimes?




If police and law enforcement were actually doing their jobs...

Did you ever go fishing?

Did you ever catch all the fish?

Lets see...is the answer the one who committed two crimes?

Did you ever go fishing?

Did you ever catch all the fish?

Yes.

Yes. I used nitropak.

They don't even understand how our system works. The more kids you have the poorer you're going to be. They think the more kids they have the more money they'll rake in. Hey guess what it's the kids who get rich, for selling drugs and gettin into gangs then get killed. Haha wow what a great family.
Racism at its finest.

Racism at its finest.
I dont thinks thats really racisim, but some sort of discrimination of the poor, or xenophobia. He actually makes no distiction of race in that post

So now I'm going to paying for that guy's living expenses and court fees for the next twenty years? Thanks a lot feds.:rolleyes:

Oh, and this came to mind,
http://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/jpg/japaneseinterntrainBig.jpg

Ok, if you are going to associate that with that....
When people talk about everyone being equal and open borders, this comes to mind:

http://www.dictatorofthemonth.com/Stalin/stalin_main.jpg

http://www.dictatorofthemonth.com/Stalin/stalin_main.jpg
Hey, I like him.

I dont thinks thats really racisim, but some sort of discrimination of the poor, or xenophobia. He actually makes no distiction of race in that post
He wouldn't care if they were white. That's my experience with most of these immigrant haters.

Ok, if you are going to associate that with that....
When people talk about everyone being equal and open borders, this comes to mind:
So you admit that you don't think everyone should be equal. Disgusting.

They said its aimed at criminals such as child molesters and gang bangers. So they are commiting crimes.
And others deported for unexplained reasons.

So you admit that you don't think everyone should be equal. Disgusting.

Communists argued for equality. Stalin perverted it. Similarly you pervert being equal as well. Illegal Immigrants are above the law?
That was the point....

And others deported for unexplained reasons.
Good thing we haven't invoked the State Department trick used OFTEN in the 1950s to deport US citizens permanently

Invite the guy to travel oveseas - he wins a vacation in Rio, or an all-expense paid trip to Bermuda for a conference.

When he arrives, the local consul confiscates and cancels his passport.

This was done to more than one professor in the 1950s, and is still legal.

Communists argued for equality. Stalin perverted it. Similarly you pervert being equal as well. Illegal Immigrants are above the law?
That was the point....

Stalin wasn't a pervert. He was someone who understood the nature of power.

Ok, if you are going to associate that with that....
When people talk about everyone being equal and open borders, this comes to mind:

http://www.dictatorofthemonth.com/Stalin/stalin_main.jpg

hahhahaha, bravo XD.

No, don't you get it? They're causing more brown people to be in the US. Apparently, that’s something we just can't have.:rolleyes:


That’s right, it is a race thing, and anytime an attempt to enforce the law they are all racists. So what the hell, to avoid being labeled a racists we should all just close our eye and let anyone and everyone in no matter what, be they criminals or terrorists, would not want to be called a racists, god forbid, we have to do anything to avoid that no matter what the cost…………………..NOTCIE THE SARCASUM…………:gundge:

White, black, brown, yellow, purple with yellow spots. Illegal aliens should be deported.

Get registered, pay tax, be welcome.

White, black, brown, yellow, purple with yellow spots. Illegal aliens should be deported.

Get registered, pay tax, be welcome.


Especially the criminal rapists and gang members.

So terrible to be returned to where you came from though. :rolleyes:

Excellent! More fresh meat for Gitmo!

Stalin wasn't a pervert. He was someone who understood the nature of power.

You mean "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? :rolleyes:

Maybe you can blow up a river and catch all the fish, but last time I checked the police isn't legally allowed to just arrest everyone and then sort things out later. So the answer doesn't fit metaphorically.



Maybe how the government conducts its illegal immigrant raids involves a measure of racism, but the matter of deporting illegal immigrants is NOT a matter of racism.

Illegal immigrants cost tax payers money. I seem to recall it being quoted as being around 55,000 dollars per person. If we deport 2,000 illegals, then that is 10,000,000 dollars that is saved to the US tax payer. The problem is that we are imprisoning these people.

What we need to do is get extradition treaties setup so that we can have those people sent back to their own country and imprisoned there. The only other possible solution is to execute them without the possibility of appeal (save court costs), and this would violate so many laws (not withstanding the moral/ethical violations) that its just a unrealistic solution.


Illegal immigration is a serious issue, and if the government is finally trying to do something about I applaud the issue. The middle and lower class people in this country suffer due to illegal immigration, and I, for one, don't want to hear any of the excuses used by the elite, especially racism.


NT

Wow!

A whole 2,100!

Aren't there millions of illegal immigrants in the USA?

This is an exercise in pointlessness, basically...

Wow!

A whole 2,100!

Aren't there millions of illegal immigrants in the USA?

This is an exercise in pointlessness, basically...

How much have you done? :rolleyes:

You mean "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? :rolleyes:

That wasn't Stalin.

Good for them. It's just unfortunate that this had to be done.

That wasn't Stalin.

Yes, I realize that. My quote was referring to the fact that power corrupts, and if Stalin knew the true nature of power... I think you can put the rest together.

Yes, I realize that. My quote was referring to the fact that power corrupts, and if Stalin knew the true nature of power... I think you can put the rest together.
I don't know if Stalin would have ever been sane enough to either care about/agree with this statement.

Good riddance.