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Old 12-13-2009, 06:23 AM
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Saturday, December 12th 2009


Immigration agents arrested 280 people in California in their biggest push yet to round up suspected illegal immigrants with criminal records in local communities, authorities said Friday.

More than 400 agents and local law enforcement officers fanned out across the state in the three-day search led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"These are not people who we want walking our streets," ICE director John Morton said. "We're going to focus on those people who choose to pursue a life of crime in the United States rather than pursue the American dream of education, hard work and success."

The operation came four months after Morton said the agency's fugitive operations teams would increasingly focus on finding people with criminal records and would no longer use arrest quotas.

The teams arrested twice as many immigrants with criminal records in the 2009 fiscal year than during the year-earlier period, according to agency statistics.

On Wednesday, agents wearing hooded sweat shirts and jackets emblazoned with "ICE" clustered outside a row of apartment homes in Huntington Park in the morning cold to look for a gang member who was deported to Mexico in 2007 after serving time for vehicle theft.

Agents had learned his wife was here and collecting food stamps, leading them to believe he had returned to this country illegally.

Slinging rifles across their backs, they approached the front gate. One rapped on a window and said "Police!"

Minutes later, they emerged with a 40-year old man known as "Rascal" in handcuffs and drove him to Los Angeles to be fingerprinted, photographed and detained.

"As we bring these people into custody, we're also contributing to the reduction of crime in our local communities. That's really the thrust of it all," said Robert Naranjo, an assistant field office director for ICE's detention and removal operations in Los Angeles.

The man declined to be interviewed. ICE would not release his name because he did not face new criminal charges as of Friday but expected he would be charged next week with illegally re-entering the country, said agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice.

More than 80 percent of the people arrested this week had prior convictions for serious or violent crimes, according to ICE. Seventeen people will face federal charges for re-entering the country illegally after being deported.

The arrests carried out from Tuesday to Thursday were similar to those made in prior years by fugitive operations teams, which were created in 2003 to help reduce the number of immigrants who failed to obey deportation orders.

The latest sweep also netted six people who had deportation orders but no criminal record. No arrests were made of people who did not have a criminal history or a court order to leave the country, Kice said.

That marked a shift from several years ago, when immigrant advocates complained that ICE's teams were arresting illegal immigrants who happened to be home when authorities knocked on the door looking for someone else.

"It is tough to fully believe what is happening, but it certainly is a major step," said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesman for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

In a memo dated Tuesday, Morton said the teams' core mission is to arrest people with final deportation orders, including those with criminal records.

A copy of the guidelines obtained by The Associated Press directs teams to focus at least 70 percent of resources on these immigrants, followed by those who have re-entered the country illegally or who have committed crimes.

The memo also said agents will be trained twice a year on the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable search and seizures, and should not arrest immigrants who are sick, disabled or the sole caretakers of children.

There are 104 fugitive operations teams across the country. In 2006, each team was assigned to make 1,000 arrests a year. In August, Morton — who took over his post this year — said he had done away with the quotas.

Associated Press Writers Eileen Sullivan and Suzanne Gamboa contributed to this report from Washington.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...s_enforce.html
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Old 12-13-2009, 06:30 AM
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Melissa Pinion-Whitt, Staff Writer

12/11/2009

LOS ANGELES - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweep netted nearly 300 arrests of illegal immigrants, including a convicted sex offender who was captured in Rialto, ICE officials said Friday.

Ignacio Camacho-Madrigal, 43, was among 286 foreign nationals picked up during the sweep, including 24 from the Inland Empire. Officials said he is a Mexican citizen convicted of committing a lewd act on a child younger than 14-years-old.

"He has been charged criminally with felony reentry after deportation," said ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice.

Camacho-Madrigal was found in San Bernardino County just seven months after he had been deported, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court. He had been convicted in Los Angeles County in December 1992 for the sex offense, and was sentenced to three years in prison.

The three-day immigration bust, which concluded late Thursday, targeted illegal aliens with criminal records and was the largest ever carried out by ICE.

ICE officials said more than 80 percent of the people arrested had prior convictions for serious or violent crimes, including rape, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Thirty are convicted sex offenders. At least 100 have already been removed from the country.

More than 400 agents and officers from ICE, the U.S. Marshals Service and local law enforcement agencies participated in the statewide sweep, which was spearheaded by ICE's Fugitive Operations Program.

The program focuses on illegal immigrants who have ignored final deportation orders given by immigration courts.

Camacho-Madrigal is one of 17 people arrested who could face up to 20 years in federal prison for reentering the country after a formal deportation.

"The U.S. Attorney's Office has agreed to criminally prosecute him for illegal reentry," Kice said.

Northern California had 119 arrests, including 14 convicted sex offenders. ICE arrested 45 people in Los Angeles County and 11 in Orange County.

The people arrested came from 31 different countries including Canada, Pakistan, Colombia, Cuba and the Philippines
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The memo also said agents will be trained twice a year on the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable search and seizures, and should not arrest immigrants who are sick, disabled or the sole caretakers of children.quote

So the key to being able to stay here illegally is to have a kid and not be married. There you have it, in black and white.
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Old 12-13-2009, 06:36 AM
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By Dana Bartholomew, Staff Writer

12/11/2009

One was a Guatemalan living in Glendale who had committed a lewd act against his 10-year-old mentally disabled stepdaughter.

Others included an El Salvadoran in Reseda convicted of robbery and an Iranian in West Hills convicted of terroristic threats.

The San Fernando Valley residents were among 286 foreign nationals with criminal records arrested across the state this week during the largest bust of its kind by federal immigration officers, officials reported Friday.

The three-day dragnet led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ended Thursday and included 96 from greater Los Angeles.

More than 80 percent of those arrested had prior convictions for violent crimes such as rape by force, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Also arrested were 30 convicted sex offenders, many for crimes involving children, ICE officials said.

Of those arrested, at least 100 have been already been booted from the country.

"If you commit crimes in this country and come back, we're going to arrest you, prosecute you, put you in federal prison - then deport you," said John Morton, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for ICE, at a downtown news conference.

The statewide operation by the agency's Fugitive Operations Program involved more than 400 officers from ICE, the U.S. Marshals Service and other local and state agencies.

Northern California bore the brunt of the raid, with 119 taken into custody, followed by Los Angeles, then San Diego and Imperial counties with 71.

Those arrested hailed from 30 countries around the globe, officials said, the majority from Mexico or Central America. The enforcement surge netted 29 women.

At least 17 face federal prosecution for re-entering the country after a formal deportation. If convicted, they could spend up to 20 years behind bars.

Among those who face prosecution is a previously deported El Salvadoran with suspected ties to a Los Angeles street gang, Ulises Vazuiz Arucha, 37, previously convicted of robbery.

Arucha, arrested Thursday in Reseda, was last deported in 2007.

Foreign nationals not being criminally prosecuted will be processed administratively for removal from the U.S., ICE officials said. Those who have been ordered deported, or have snuck into the nation after being given the boot, face immediate removal.

The remaining suspects are in federal custody awaiting a hearing from an immigration judge, or pending travel arrangements abroad.

One man facing administrative removal is a 60-year-old from Guatemala convicted of molesting his 10-year-old stepdaughter. The unnamed resident of Glendale, legally admitted to the U.S. in 1989, was ordered deported five years ago based on his conviction.

Another is a 32-year-old Iranian convicted of a terroristic threat. The unnamed resident of West Hills, who entered the U.S. legally in 1985, was convicted of contempt of court in 2005.

"It's the largest operation of its kind we've ever conducted," said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles ICE office. "This agency has intensified its efforts in recent months to locate, arrest and deport criminal aliens.

"These are not people we want walking our streets."

The ICE Fugitive Operations Program is responsible for finding, arresting and removing at-large criminal aliens and immigration fugitives who have ignored court-ordered deportation.

Last year, the ICE agency helped deport a record 136,126 criminal aliens.

The Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights, a Los Angeles-based immigrant advocacy group, could not be reached Friday.

The Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, another Los Angeles-based immigrants' rights group, did not respond to requests for comment.

Those who advocate for legal immigration praised the federal immigration raid.

"Wow. This is an outstanding performance by Immigration and Customs Enforcement," said Jim Gilchrist, founder and director of The Minuteman Project in Laguna Hills.

"They are doing exactly what American citizens and the electorate want. We want the law enforcement agencies to enforce our laws," he said.

"This (raid) means we are still a nation governed by the rule of law."

City News Service contributed to this report
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Old 12-13-2009, 06:47 AM
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The memo also said agents will be trained twice a year on the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable search and seizures, and should not arrest immigrants who are sick, disabled or the sole caretakers of children.quote

So the key to being able to stay here illegally is to have a kid and not be married. There you have it, in black and white.
I believe I've read that ICE agents won't arrest anyone not specifically on their list during sweeps for criminal aliens.

It seems the policy is no more arresting of incidentally contacted illegal aliens.
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ICE agents arrest 286 in crackdown on criminal immigrants in California

The operation netted 96 in L.A County and focused on convicted criminals, those who had ignored deportation orders or who were deported and reentered the United States.

By Anna Gorman

December 12, 2009


Immigration agents arrested nearly 300 foreign nationals with criminal records during a three-day sweep in California, officials announced Friday.

The operation was the largest of its kind and resulted in the arrests of illegal immigrants convicted of robbery, assault and rape, said John Morton, head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The sweep ended Thursday night.

Officials said 96 of the 286 arrests took place in Los Angeles County. Among those arrested in the county were a suspected gang member from El Salvador who had a 2004 robbery conviction and a Guatemalan man with a 1993 conviction for lewd acts with a child under 14.

"These are not people we want walking our streets," Morton said.

The arrests were conducted as part of a controversial program designed to arrest and deport immigrants who have criminal records, who have ignored deportation orders or who were deported and illegally reentered the United States. About 400 officers and agents took part in the operation. Those arrested included people from Mexico, Denmark, Taiwan and Tonga.

Critics have said the "fugitive operations" program, which has rapidly expanded since it started in 2003, has created fear in immigrant communities by sending armed agents into neighborhoods and pulling parents away from their children.

To fill quotas, immigration agents have also often arrested people without criminal records or outstanding deportation orders, according to a report by the Migration Policy Institute earlier this year.

During a visit to Los Angeles over the summer, Morton announced that he would end the quotas.

Only six people arrested in the operation this week did not have criminal records, he said. On Friday, Morton said that the agency is enforcing immigration laws but that there is a particular focus on arresting and deporting criminals, through this program and another in the jails and prisons across the nation.

"We are an agency of limited resources," he said. "It makes a tremendous amount of sense for us as an agency, and for the country, for us to start with criminal offenders."

Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said Friday that the sweep demonstrates Immigration and Customs Enforcement is serious about going after convicted criminals. But she said she believed some of the crimes may have been minor and that this is not necessarily the most effective way to fight crime in the community.

"I'm very interested in finding out really what was the criminal activity," she said.

There are 104 teams of officers nationwide who conduct such operations. More than 35,000 people were arrested nationwide by fugitive operations teams in the 2009 fiscal year, according to ICE. Of those, nearly 89% either had criminal records or outstanding deportation orders.

Although some were never deported after serving time for criminal convictions, many of those arrested this week had previously been deported and returned to the United States illegally, authorities said. For example, Ulises Vazuiz Arucha, 37, was convicted of first-degree robbery in 2004 and deported to El Salvador in 2007. The suspected gang member was arrested in Reseda on Dec. 8.

At least 17 of those arrested will face further federal prosecution, authorities said. They could receive sentences of up to 20 years in federal prison.

"These individuals are demonstrated threats who have proven their disdain for the laws of the United States and have lengthy criminal histories and rap sheets," Assistant U.S. Atty. Curtis Kin said.
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A comment from one of the readers of the LA Times in the story blog:

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Let me see if I understand this...


IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD
LABOR.

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.

IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM
AGAIN.

IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY
AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL
PRISON TO ROT.


IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY...

YOU GET A JOB,

A DRIVERS LICENSE,

SOCIAL SECURITY CARD AND BENEFITS, WELFARE,

FOOD STAMPS,

CREDIT CARDS,

SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,

A FREE CELL WITH FREE MINUTES,

FREE EDUCATION,

FREE HEALTH CARE,

A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON AND,

IN MANY INSTANCES YOU CAN VOTE!

Posted by: JohnR | December 11, 2009 at 03:13 PM

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...-in-sweep.html
lots of interesting comments concerning that story
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Once again a "crackdown" on illegals really means waiting until they commit some second crime after the crime of being here. It won't be anything like a crackdown until we see them hunting down and throwing illegals for being illegals. And this will not be a practical exercise until local law enforcement has its hands completely untied and can enforce the law against being in the country without permission. It should be against the law to restrict local enforcement from arresting people for being in the country illegally.
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I could have found that many down the street here at home depot

What a farce
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I could have found that many down the street here at home depot

What a farce

Exactly. It's all for show.
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