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Immigration officials keying in on deporting criminals
Even with the sob story injected in this article, the comments supplied by the readers are not buying it. They want more deportations.
Immigration officials keying in on deporting criminals 10:36 PM PST on Sunday, November 1, 2009 By DAVID OLSON The Press-Enterprise Federal agents are raiding thousands of homes of criminal illegal immigrants under Obama administration directives that emphasize apprehending dangerous criminals over arresting nonviolent illegal residents. Newly compiled data show that in fiscal year 2009, which ended Sept. 30, the number of criminal illegal immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement fugitive-operations teams doubled, from more than 7,900 in fiscal year 2008 to almost 16,000. The number of non-criminals arrested plummeted during the same year, from more than 26,200 to fewer than 19,200. More than 45 percent of people arrested during the operations in fiscal year 2009 were criminals, compared to 17 percent in 2008. The data include non-fugitive illegal immigrants encountered by the fugitive teams, which search for and arrest illegal immigrants with outstanding deportation orders. Earlier this year, ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton directed ICE's field offices to go through files on illegal immigrants with standing deportation orders and put criminals at the top of the stack, said Matt Chandler, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE. A criminal is defined as someone convicted of a crime or a suspect with an outstanding criminal warrant. Morton also rescinded a quota that each of ICE's 104 fugitive operations teams apprehend at least 50 criminal illegal immigrants a month. The quota did not differentiate between major and minor offenses. The focus now is on serious crimes such as murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking. "These efforts promote public safety by ensuring that ICE's focus is on dangerous criminal aliens," Chandler said. Non-criminals may be arrested, if, for example, immigration agents encounter them while raiding the home of a criminal. EASIER TO CATCH Immigrant-advocacy groups had sharply criticized ICE, saying it concentrated too much time and money on searching for and detaining illegal immigrants with no criminal records and was trying to pump up arrest numbers. Non-criminals are often easier to find than criminals, who usually try to elude the police, they said. Crystal Williams, deputy director for programs of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said she was impressed by the dramatic rise in arrests of criminals. "For ICE to change the emphasis so quickly is unusual," Williams said. "This is not only good for immigrants, it's also good for taxpayers. This is where our resources should be concentrated." Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, which favors greater limits on immigration, said he has no problem with the new focus because ICE will still arrest some non-criminals. Krikorian said it is important that non-criminals with deportation orders continue to worry about being arrested, to ensure that the orders are taken seriously. ICE's new focus on criminals extends to other agency programs. Law-enforcement employees across the country who are trained by ICE to query criminal suspects about their immigration status are now being asked to put the highest priority on those accused of serious offenses. 'AMERICANIZED' Murrieta's Cristina Ramirez was one of more than 90,000 non-criminals arrested by fugitive operations teams since ICE formed them in 2003. She was apprehended on March 27, 2008, at her then-home in Nuevo and deported that day. Immigration authorities last month approved a visa for her to legally return to California. She is now back at home with her husband and four children. Ramirez, 33, was 2 when she arrived in the United States with her parents on a border-crossing card that later expired. Ramirez did not apply for legal residency until 1997. An immigration judge called her "Americanized" but ruled against her request because of a change in immigration law that tightened residency requirements. Judge Robert J. Barrett said Ramirez's application probably would have been approved if she had applied eight months earlier, before the law went into effect. After four years of appeals, a deportation order was issued against Ramirez in 2001. Following her expulsion last year, her husband, David Meyer, petitioned U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to return her to the United States. Ramirez's return was not guaranteed, even though she is married to a U.S. citizen and has four U.S. citizen children and U.S. citizen parents. Immigration authorities have denied many requests from deported immigrants in similar situations, Williams said. When deciding whether to allow a deported illegal immigrant to return to a U.S.-citizen spouse, Immigration Services officers consider violations of immigration law, criminal records and other factors said Luz Figuereo Irazabal, an agency spokeswoman. INCALCULABLE COSTS Ramirez is now re-connecting with her family, which would visit her most weekends in Rosarito, where she was living. She enjoys again being able to drive her children to school and help them with their homework. Six-year-old Jessilyn no longer throws the tantrums that became common after her mother's deportation. But she hates being away from Ramirez. "She has separation anxiety," Ramirez said. "In the beginning, she would wake up screaming and crying if I wasn't around." Now Ramirez takes Jessilyn with her each morning when she drives the older children to school, so the girl is not alone. Her children's grades, which fell after her deportation, are back up. "It was hard for me to concentrate on school," said son Oscar, 16. "I kept thinking about my mom. It felt like she was gone from my life forever." Meyer said he's relieved his wife is back. But the after-effects of the deportation continue. The family continues to live in the home of Ramirez's parents. Their Nuevo house was foreclosed last year because of the money Meyer spent on attorney fees, living expenses for Ramirez and gas to visit her in Mexico. He filed for bankruptcy. Now they must rebuild their sullied credit. "The hardship this all caused will be around for a long time," Meyer said. "It won't go away. And there's nothing that can give us back the time that was taken away from us." Reach David Olson at 951-368-9462 or dolson@PE.com CRIMINAL FOCUS Under the Obama administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is focusing on arresting criminal illegal immigrants rather than people without criminal records. 17 Percent of people arrested by ICE fugitive operations teams who were criminals, fiscal year 2008, ending Sept. 30, 2008. 45 Percent of people arrested by ICE fugitive operations teams who were criminals, fiscal year 2009, ending Sept. 30, 2009. 7,919 Criminals arrested by ICE fugitive operations teams, fiscal year 2008. 15,944 Criminals arrested by ICE fugitive operations teams, fiscal year 2009. 35,094 Total arrested by ICE fugitive operations teams, fiscal year 2009. SOURCE: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/s...2.41b39f4.html |
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Even Acorn is in the act now, trying to put forth the idea that that Colton, California has a history heavy with KKK activity. Pure, unadulterated bullshit. [I confused Fontana in the article with Colton] Last edited by ilbegone; 11-02-2009 at 05:24 PM. |
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Fontana mayor defends city against charges of racism
Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer 10/31/2009 Quote:
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[I confused the target of this article (Fontana) with Colton]
I think they are all confusing Colton with Fontana (Knicknamed decades ago as "Fontucky"). Fontana had a KKK presence which ended maybe 25 or thirty years ago. I've not heard the same concerning Colton. I had a conversation with someone who was born in Colton before WWII about this article, Fontana was mentioned as formerly KKK, there was no memory with that person of Colton concerning the KKK. The person was a child of Mexican railway workers employed by Southern Pacific in Colton. Both Fontana and Colton are now bastions of illegal immigration. Colton has a sign / monument on the La Cadena southern approach to the old Barrio south of the tracks which has a small reproduction of the Aztec "sun calendar" and a large inscription "Bienvenidos a Colton". Taxis pick up groups of illegals hiding under the freeway on an old spur line crossing Valley east of La Cadena. All sorts of stuff concerning illegals goes on there. Chavaria is pulling that KKK stuff out of his posterior, the gimmick of alleging racism because it used to work. Last edited by ilbegone; 11-02-2009 at 05:25 PM. |
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Do these areas have Brown Berets? They are as equal, as equal can get, to the Nazi Brown Shirts.
But where do they get KKK? I have never in my life, EVER. seen any KKK in California. Skinheads, yes, but not KKK. Am I living a sheltered life or something, because for the life of me, I just have never seen any here. I've seen historical pictures of them in the south and such, but not here. |
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Here is Chavarria going after Fontana:
ACORN to speak at Fontana council meeting Quote:
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There were various incarnations of the KKK in Fontana, Palm Springs, Desert Hot Springs, Cabazon. They tried moving into Banning and threatened the High School black principle, then they were driven out of Cabazon from what I understand. I would have to verify the dates, but I believe the incident with the principle was in the early 1980's. The end of the KKK in Fontana was related to me as about the time of the closing of Kaiser Steel, but I would have to look into it a bit more. There was a town in Southern California which was taken over by the second incarnation of the KKK in about 1924, and were driven out about a year later. I will have to check again, but I believe it was Anaheim. Personally, I believe the Brown Berets would come from other locations. They might grow up in a place like Fontana, but as a subjective idea, they strike me as hanging around colleges and universities. I've worked quite a bit in Fontana from five to ten years ago, seemed to me then to be mostly illegals and gang bangers. As a subjective belief, I think the KKK has been so infiltrated and marginalized that they are negligible, and mainly kept alive by a press hungry to "expose" white racists in order to sell print. I read something to the effect that one group of them consisted mainly of paid FBI informants spying on each other. The memory of the KKK is a handy thing to rally around for the open border crowd, you can't stir up most people unless they believe they are being victimized or otherwise harmed. Last edited by ilbegone; 11-02-2009 at 05:07 PM. |
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I must confess I screwed up.
I saw Mayor Nuaimi's name, and for some reason I associated him with Colton, and I didn't even pick up on the very headline I highlighted which included the name of Fontana. Got all excited about Chavarria and his workup about the KKK and all, lost where I was at. Last edited by ilbegone; 11-02-2009 at 05:27 PM. |
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Well I don't believe the Brown Berets are the university crowd. Maybe a j.c. but the university crowd are MEChA. They consider themselves the 'educated' elite. Brown Berets are more the lower class, kind of like the difference between white collar and blue collar. But who knows, they're both brain dead and cut from the same clothe. What really amazes me is that they actually believe they can accomplish any more than their relatives have done back in their own countries, basically Mexico. Mexico is so corrupt and racist and they refuse to even recognize that fact when it is so damned obvious. How in the hell do they expect to have the sense to accomplish anything here when they couldn't do there. And the most unbelievable part is they can actually bs each other into not seeing the truth when it's starring them in the face. Mexico is a failed country.
But then California is pretty much a failed state. We just haven't had the 8,000 killed by the drug cartels. Maybe when that starts to happen the Brown Berets and their ilk will feel they're accomplishing their goals. |
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Jean,
I was poking around concerning ACORN, Arpaio, David Iglesias, the Acorn voter fraud allegation in New Mexico, ACORN in Arizona and California concerning immigration and 287(g), etc. This is all new to me, find out something more every day. However, I spent the last little bit on the Brown Berets. By no means extensive, it gives up a little more than I knew before. http://nationalbrownberets.com/our_nation_aztlan Aztlan Brown Berets of Rialto http://nationalbrownberets.com/our_nation_aztlan LOS ANGELES BROWN BERETS http://www.myspace.com/la_brown_berets Brown Berets East Los Angeles http://www.myspace.com/brownberetsela Brown Berets RIVERSIDE UNIT http://www.myspace.com/riversidebrownberets Video results for Riverside BROWN BERETS http://www.google.com/search?q=River...ient=firefox-a Brown Berets de Aztlan are recruiting and forming new chapters http://www.aztlan.net/brown_berets_de_aztlan.htm |
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