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| Nine arrests in sheriff's Wickenburg illegal immigration sweep |
| WICKENBURG - Several traffic stops were made by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's human smuggling unit last night in the area of Wickenburg, west of Phoenix, which resulted in the arrest of nine (9) more illegal aliens. "Despite the Governor's attempts to stop me from fighting illegal immigration, my deputies are under my order to continue to enforce all aspects of the human smuggling laws," says Arpaio. Arpaio says he is deeply concerned that either the Governor or the DPS director may have ordered DPS officers to not arrest all co-conspirators involved in the class 4 felony of human smuggling. |
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| Illegal in More Ways than One |
| As everyone knows, America is experiencing an epidemic of identity theft. In the last five years alone, complaints to the Federal Trade Commission from U.S. residents who have had their identity stolen have skyrocketed 60 percent, to 258,427 in 2007--one-third of all consumer fraud complaints that the commission receives. What's less well understood, however, is how illegal immigration is helping to fuel this rash of crime. Seeking access to jobs, credit, and driver's licenses, many undocumented aliens are using the personal data of real Americans on forged documents. |
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| Feinstein pushes ag worker program |
| WASHINGTON--California Senator Dianne Feinstein is trying to use a must-pass Iraq war spending bill being debated in Congress to advance an agricultural guest worker program she's long advocated. Feinstein's measure would create a new, temporary class of agricultural workers to meet shortages plaguing growers nationwide, and would streamline an existing farmworker visa program. The ultimate fate of the measure is uncertain. The House voted on different versions of the underlying bill on Thursday and the Senate is expected to take it up next week. |
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| Bakery Workers Detained In Immigration Raid |
| SAN DIEGO -- Federal immigration officials detained about a dozen people Thursday at a local French bakery and catering company on suspected immigration violations. Agents executed a criminal search warrant at the French Gourmet, a local institution in Pacific Beach known for its wedding cakes, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack. Mack said she did not know the nationalities of those detained and declined further comment because the investigation is ongoing. |
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| Deportation long, difficult process |
| An unknown number of the 390 people arrested Monday in a raid at Agriprocessors Inc. will not face criminal charges but will be charged with administrative violations of U.S. immigration law. Those detainees will face deportation hearings in the next few weeks, said Tim Counts, spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the meantime, they will be housed in county jails in Iowa and in nearby states until they appear before an immigration judge. Barbara Schwartz, University of Iowa Law Clinic professor, said she understands from immigration attorneys working with detainees that only about 50 of those arrested Monday won't face criminal charges. |
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| Lawmakers call for Agriprocessors probe |
| POSTVILLE --- Members of Iowa's congressional delegation are questioning whether federal immigration officials should start looking at penalizing Agriprocessors after more than a third of its work force was arrested during a raid Monday. U.S. Congressman Bruce Braley of Waterloo wrote a letter to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which conducted Monday's raids, urging them to "fully investigate" Agriprocessors for possible immigration law violations. The raid --- called the largest of its kind in the nation --- netted 390 arrests, or about 40 percent of the work force. "This figure alone raises questions about Agriprocessors' commitment to making sure they have a legal work force," Braley wrote. |
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| Man Nabbed With Fake ID During Immigration Training |
| SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- Customs officers arrested an alleged illegal immigrant Tuesday as they conducted training intended to help prevent people from using fake identification to obtain driver's licenses. According to authorities, Joseph Yeboah, a Ghanaian national, tried to apply for an Ohio driver's permit using a counterfeit Permanent Resident Card at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, where local immigration authorities were training employees how to spot false identification. An employee asked border patrol agents to examine Yeboah's green card, and they determined the card was fake and called Arlington Heights police. |
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| Lee deputies nab 25 illegal immigrants working on sheriff's building expansion |
| In cooperation with the Lee County Sheriff's Office, special agents from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement on Thursday morning arrested 25 illegal aliens working on the "Core Expansion Project" on Ortiz Avenue in Fort Myers. The arrests could prove costly for a Collier County construction company in charge of the project. Lee County officials said Kraft Construction is in violation of a $52 million contract for having undocumented workers on the job. Sheriff Mike Scott called the entire affair "an embarrassment" to society as a whole. |
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| Keep the Immigrants, Deport the Multiculturalists |
| For multiculturalists, and particularly those in the academy, assimilation is a dirty word. A values-neutral belief system is embraced by some to avoid having to judge one culture as superior or inferior to another... But social conservatives who want to seal the border in response to these left-wing elites are directing their wrath at the wrong people. The problem isn't the immigrants. The problem is the militant multiculturalists who want to turn America into some loose federation of ethnic and racial groups. The political right should continue to push back against bilingual education advocates, anti-American Chicano Studies professors, Spanish-language ballots, ethnically gerrymandered voting districts, La Raza's big-government agenda and all the rest. But these problems weren't created by the women burping our babies and changing linen at our hotels, or by the men picking lettuce in Yuma and building homes in Iowa City. |
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| Italy arrests hundreds in illegal immigrants swoop |
| ROME (Reuters) - Italian police arrested hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants on Thursday in a sign of the new right-wing government's determination to clamp down. Some of those held in the operation, which stretched from northern Italy to the Campania region around Naples, were ordered to be immediately expelled. Silvio Berlusconi swept back to power for a third term as prime minister last week promising to get tough on illegal immigrants, who are blamed by many Italians for crime. His government is preparing new laws to screen immigrants. |
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| Hospital attempts to deport comatose woman |
| PHOENIX, May 14 (UPI) -- The family of a Honduran woman who has awoken from a coma at a Phoenix hospital, is fighting government attempts to have her deported, their attorney says. The woman, Sonia del Cid Iscoa, woke up Tuesday after 25 days in a coma brought on by a complicated childbirth, family attorney John Curtin said. While she was unconscious, hospital officials attempted to have her deported because of a lack of adequate insurance coverage, The Arizona Republic reported. The 34-year-old woman, the mother of seven, has been in the United States legally for 17 years under temporary protected status, a classification given to people without valid immigration in cases of disasters in their homeland. The newspaper said Iscoa's health plan doesn't cover long-term care, and moved to deport her. |
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| Illegal Worker Describes Escape from Plant |
| POSTVILLE - St. Bridget Catholic Church is a place for many of Postville's Hispanic community to to catch their breath... to cry behind closed doors... and for illegal immigrants, like Eduardo Melendez, to hide from the law. He says, in Spanish, "They grabbed us by the hair and said, 'Hurry. Walk.' Other workers were lying on the floor. Many were in handcuffs." Somehow, Melendez and his cousin escaped ICE agents during the raid at Agriprocessors. But eight of their family members, including Melendez' brother, didn't make it out. He says the church is now his only option. "We're sleeping on the pews, because we can't go home. This is the only place we've found to cut off immigration." |
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| Illegal alien arrested in violent Avon assault |
| AVON, Colo. -- An illegal immigrant who sexually assaulted a woman in an Avon apartment was arrested Monday, said Chief Brian Kozak of the Avon Police Department. Ruben Mendoza-Calzadillas, 28, of Mexico, held the woman in an apartment for several hours early Monday morning, took her clothes off, dragged her to another part of the apartment, sexually assaulted her and bit her face, Kozak said. "She resisted and said, 'no,'" Kozak said. Mendoza-Calzadillas also took the woman's cell phone and removed the battery, Kozak said. The woman had cuts and scratches on her face, arms, legs and ankles, Kozak said. |
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| Illegal Immigrants Found Stashed In Big Rig |
| TECATE, Calif. -- Border Patrol agents discover nearly two-dozen illegal immigrants hidden in a semi flatbed. It happened Monday around 9:15 p.m. in Tecate. Agents said they were searching for a group of suspected border crossers in the area. They followed footprints, which led them to a parked semi with an attached flatbed trailer. Agents said they discovered a large steel compartment welded onto the trailer's undercarriage. Inside, officials said they found 23 people stashed inside. All of them were arrested. The driver was not at the scene at the time. |
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| ICE busts an alleged immigration drop house in South LA; 61 people ... |
| SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- ICE served a search warrant for human smuggling at a two-story house near 103rd Street and Normandie Avenue at about 6:30 a.m. and took 61 people into custody, including six juveniles, three teenagers and three toddlers. The allegedly undocumented immigrants were from four different countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Agents described the interior of the house as appalling, with trash and rotting food two to three feet high in every room. |
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