Immigration Raids Grab 1,300
At least these staged raids are getting bigger.
by Jeff Davis
The Los Angeles Daily News reports that “In what federal authorities are calling the largest sweep of criminal and fugitive immigrants, federal agents over the past two weeks have arrested more than 1,300 Southland immigrants in their homes, in jails and at work, officials announced Wednesday. As part of a stepped-up national crackdown on illegal immigrants, five teams of Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents raided homes in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties from Sept. 19 through Tuesday.”
Notice that the mainstream media almost always uses words like “immigrants” instead of “illegal aliens” or “foreigners.”
The article notes “Some arrests were easy, while others involved agents peering into clothes dryers or squeezing deep into crawl spaces to find hidden suspects. Most of those arrested were from Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala. ‘Too often in the past, (deportation) orders were ignored and aliens thought that after getting an order of removal they could slip back into society,’ said Julie Myers, assistant secretary for ICE. ‘Those days are no longer.’”
Yeah, Julie, pander to that Republican base! Not that we believe a damned word you say, but it is nice to hear the government at least make the correct noises for a change.
The same article continues “Immigrant-rights groups decried the raids for stirring fear in the community, noting that more than 100 of those arrested had no criminal or court record. [I guess immigration law doesn’t count.] Officials said 797 inmates were taken from local jails, including 240 from those overseen by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Ventura County turned over 125 inmates, and the state prison in Lancaster had 41.” (more…)