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....Special Order 40 is a 30-year-old Los Angeles Police Department ordinance that prevents cops from stopping suspects solely on the suspicion that they are illegal immigrants. The procedure also bars LAPD officers from cooperating with federal immigration agents.
Rick Oltman, spokesman for the immigration advocacy group Californians for Population Stabilization, said the mayor can't have it both ways.
"The mayor wants his police not to be involved in immigration enforcement, yet he wants to harangue the federal government for coming after the criminal aliens in his town which he has virtually set up as a sanctuary city. There's just a little bit of double talk going on here," said Oltman.
It's a familiar battle that is playing out in cities across the country. Police say they want illegals to be willing to talk to them and provide information to help fight crime. But illegals, fearing deportation and other charges, are afraid to come forward.
In a recent press conference Villaraigosa reiterated his support for Order 40, saying it is critical to help fight crime.
"We believe that the city is safer when our police department is collaborating and cooperating with witnesses and victims who happen to be undocumented, that our city and our neighborhoods are safer when they feel that they can cooperate with the police.".
but...
LOS ANGELES — With gang violence on the rise in Los Angeles, the city's mayor is criticizing the Department of Homeland Security for what he says are its misguided priorities on immigration enforcement.
Recent raids on LA area businesses by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have resulted in the arrest of hundreds of illegal workers. But Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says ICE is using scarce funds to target “non-exploitative" businesses, and that the agents should be rounding up illegal alien gang members instead.
"At a time when ICE has said that they don't have the resources to go after those undocumented who are committing serious felonies, but do have the resources to go after legitimate employers, what I'm saying is, we need to prioritize our resources," Villaraigosa said.
Prior to last month, ICE had made more than 3,700 arrests in connection with worksite enforcement investigations, including 850 involving criminal violations.
The mayor said the raids target people who make a positive contribution to the community, and they ignore violent criminals.
But critics say Villaraigosa supports a controversial policy that prevents cops from enforcing immigration policy.
Special Order 40 is a 30-year-old Los Angeles Police Department ordinance that prevents cops from stopping suspects solely on the suspicion that they are illegal immigrants. The procedure also bars LAPD officers from cooperating with federal immigration agents.
Rick Oltman, spokesman for the immigration advocacy group Californians for Population Stabilization, said the mayor can't have it both ways.
"The mayor wants his police not to be involved in immigration enforcement, yet he wants to harangue the federal government for coming after the criminal aliens in his town which he has virtually set up as a sanctuary city. There's just a little bit of double talk going on here," said Oltman.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,376081,00.html
time will tell...
who is right here.. the mayor of LA? or ICE ?
I always thought it was the job of a police force to go after criminals who commit crimes.. and ICE's job was to go after illegals... 
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The way I look at it, if there is a crime being commited, arrest them. No, I don't think a policeman should just pull someone over to check, or to stop someone walking to check.
I do how ever know the last story about the high school boy that got gunned down in the light of day walking home.
If it is a law, then arrest, if an illegal, send them back immediantly.(sp)
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arieann
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This is America, Dont ya'll know people who break the law have more rights and protection than anyone else?
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Angel54214
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Many questions for sure. I been reading the resources on the ICE website to find some answers:
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/071003losangeles.htm
http://www.ice.gov/pi/worksite/index.htm
http://www.ice.gov/
Enforcement News from Homeland Security:
http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/enforcement/
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good job angel... 
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Angel54214
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There's something that really caught my eye in the first pos paragrapht:
....Special Order 40 is a 30-year-old Los Angeles Police Department ordinance that prevents cops from stopping suspects solely on the suspicion that they are illegal immigrants. The procedure also bars LAPD officers from cooperating with federal immigration agents.
So I went on the search of the "Special Order 40" and came across the policies and procedures to the LAPD:
Here are the actual policies and procedures in the LAPD manual for each officer to be incompliance:
SPECIAL ORDER 40: (Policy and Procedures)
Undocumented alien status in itself is not a matter for police
action. It is, therefore, incumbent upon all employees of this
Department to make a personal commitment to equal
enforcement of the law and service to the public regardless of
alien status. In addition, the Department will provide special
assistance to persons, groups, communities and businesses
who, by the nature of the crimes being committed upon them,
require individualized services. Since undocumented aliens,
because of their status, are often more vulnerable to
victimization, crime prevention assistance will be offered to
assist them in safeguarding their property and to lessen their
potential to be crime victims.
Police service will be readily available to all persons, including
the undocumented alien, to ensure a safe and tranquil
environment. Participation and involvement of the
undocumented alien community in police activities will increase
the Department’s ability to protect and serve the entire
community.
ENFORCEMENT OF UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION LAWS:
Officers shall not initiate police action with the objective of discovering
the alien status of a person. Officers shall not arrest or book persons
for violation of Title 8, Section 1325 of the United States Immigration
Code (Illegal Entry).
ALIEN ARREST INFORMATION-NOTIFICATION:
When an undocumented alien is booked for multiple misdemeanors, a high grade
misdemeanor, or a felony offense, or has been previously arrested for a
similar offense, the arresting officer shall [notify the Detective
Headquarters Division [DHD] of the arrest and mark “Undocumented
Alien” on the arrest report].
DETECTIVE HEADQUARTERS DIVISION, HEADQUARTERS
SECTION-RESPONSIBILITIES: [The Division shall]
-Record the information provided in the DHD
Undocumented Alien Log.
-Notify the [INS] via teletype of the arrest of the
individual.
-Forward daily arrest reports marked “Undocumented
Alien” to the [INS]. I copy/pasted this section from the 19 page Los Angeles Board of Commisioners Report: (pdf file)
http://www.lacity.org/oig/Special_Order_40_708061_v1.pdf
From reading this report above, the procedures and policies along with the discriptions, do not bar a police officer from cooperating with Federal immigration agents after a crime had been committed and a felony is booked within this sanctuary city.
So far what I gather, Villaraigosa's cry outs are not truely in regards to all community residents as he also did in 2006, but possibly screams out silently the the Federal IIRIRA immigration laws that were implimented in 1996. Section 287g allows city and state law enforcements to enter into agreements with the Federal government for immigration training. This section was implimented by the state of California among other states.
Possibly this below is really what Villaraigosa is screaming about:
On June 16, 2007 the United States House of Representatives passed an amendment to a Department of Homeland Security spending bill that would withhold federal emergency services funds from sanctuary cities. Congressman Tom Tancredo (Republican-Colorado) was the sponsor of this amendment. 50 Democrats joined Republicans to support the amendment. The amendment would have to pass the United States Senate to become effective.
Read all about it here on wiki....{or choose to read elsewhere as well on the subjects}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city
Section 287g:
Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) was made law in the United States in 1996 as a result of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). Section 287(g) authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies, permitting designated officers to perform immigration law enforcement functions, pursuant to a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), provided that the local law enforcement officers receive appropriate training and function under the supervision of sworn U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Under 287(g), ICE provides state and local law enforcement with the training and subsequent authorization to identify, process, and when appropriate, detain immigration offenders they encounter during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_287%28g%29
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[QUOTE]
link
San Bernardino County may sue San Francisco over 'dumping' of convicts
By David Kelly and Maria L. LaGanga, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
July 4, 2008
San Bernardino County officials vowed Thursday not to become a dumping ground for San Francisco criminals, saying they may sue that city for exporting juvenile offenders to local group homes.
"The county is exploring every option to recoup all our police expenses," said county Supervisor Gary Ovitt. "This lunacy needs to stop now."
Newsom faces backlash after illegal immigrants' escape in San Bernardino County.
Ovitt, joined by other officials at a news conference in San Bernardino, expressed anger over recent revelations that San Francisco sent illegal immigrant cocaine dealers from Honduras to group homes in Yucaipa.
Eight juveniles walked away from the homes. One was recaptured in San Francisco this week, and the others remain at large.
Officials in San Francisco acknowledged sending the recent group of Hondurans and said others had been transported down in the past. They are still trying to determine exactly how many.
"San Francisco has a legal and moral obligation to notify us, and they didn't," said Michelle Scray, assistant chief probation officer for San Bernardino County. "We have requested a list from San Francisco of any other offenders placed in our county. They assured us they would not be sending any more."
For years, San Francisco, a sanctuary city since 1989, has been shielding juvenile offenders from federal authorities, either escorting them to their home countries at city expense or transporting them to group homes, including locations in San Bernardino County.
Mayor Gavin Newsom reversed the policy Wednesday saying minors in the country illegally who commit crimes will be turned over to immigration authorities.
The city has spent $2.3 million to house 162 illegal immigrant youths since 2005, and an additional $38,955 to fly juvenile offenders to Honduras, American Samoa and Mexico over the last two years, the mayor said.
"In no uncertain terms, the mayor has directed city officials to stop sending undocumented immigrants to other counties," said Nathan Ballard, Newsom's communications director, via e-mail.
Public Defender Jeff Adachi said there are currently no undocumented juveniles from San Francisco in San Bernardino County.
Of the 70 such offenders his office has represented since February 2007, seven have been transported back to their home countries. The other 63 have gone to group homes, foster homes or other facilities -- most in the Bay Area -- and none have been rearrested, he said.
If an offender from San Francisco does escape from a group home or other facility, the Juvenile Court is notified and issues a statewide warrant for the person's arrest, Adachi said.
Warrants were issued for the San Bernardino County escapees.
William Siffermann, chief of San Francisco's Juvenile Probation Department, acknowledged serious shortcomings in notifying other localities.
"We are aware of state requirements and seek to conform in all matters. We certainly recognize our deficiency in this area," he said. "We've got kids sitting in our placements in San Francisco that come from other counties, and we haven't received notice. It's no excuse. In practice we recognize our need to improve."
He denied that San Bernardino County was a dumping ground for San Francisco problems.
"We sought this venue based on our belief in its rehabilitative value to the dispositional orders entered by the court," he said.
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Capt. Bart Gray said his station had received "hundreds" of calls for service at the nine group homes in Yucaipa, including many at Douglas House, where some of the Hondurans were living.
From Jan. 1 to June 30, he received 229 calls from the homes about issues as varied as arson and juveniles running away. In one case, two teenagers from a group home allegedly carjacked and kidnapped a Stater Bros. employee before dumping him in Los Angeles. He survived the attack.
The Honduran runaways weren't the first San Francisco drug dealers at Douglas House, he said.
Last year a school resource officer tipped off police to four young men from Douglas House who had enrolled in a local school and had a history of cocaine dealing.
"It was the exact same situation we just had," Gray said. "Ten days after they arrived, they were gone."
In fact, 60% to 70% of Yucaipa's group home residents are from outside the county, Gray said.
Group homes and halfway houses have proliferated in the Inland Empire, where real estate is often cheaper than in other counties. Rialto alone has 44 such homes.
"We cannot refuse a group home, and we cannot shut them down," said Mike Story, director of development services in Rialto. "If a home is licensed as a group home, they tell us where it is but not who is in it. That's as much as we know."
The facilities are governed by a complex web of regulations and overseen by the Community Care Licensing Division of the California Department of Social Services. Calls to its Sacramento office were not returned Thursday.
San Bernardino County Dist. Atty. Michael Ramos said his office has the highest criminal caseload in the state and he doesn't need any more.
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This makes perfect sense to me. The police officers are employed by the residents of the city -- paid for by local taxes and there to protect their employers -- the local population -- which may include US illegals. ICE are outsiders paid for not only by the locals but by the nation. They have different loyalties, different employers -- US citizens which does not include illegals.
ICE claims to have limited funds with which to operate, so they are choosing to go after contributing members of the city's residents -- those employed and employing and presumably living peaceably and paying local taxes. The city would prefer that the limited resources of ICE be directed first to those illegals who are not benefiting the economy of the city -- the criminals.
That makes sense to me. Border patrol is not doing the job of keeping out the criminals, they should be the first taken out by border patrol's sister agency. The gangster criminals are a much greater danger to our security than the employed illegals and those employing illegals.
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Gallows_Humor
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sorry lacy.. but ICE is not complaining that they have limited funds...( I can tell you did not read Angels links..If you did you would see that ICE wants more money to expand their roles on all fronts...)
It was said by Villaraigosa as a red herring and you .....are repeating it as a fact... 
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lacyvsq
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Uh...wouldn't they want more money because they felt their funds at the set level were limited?
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Gallows_Humor
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no.. they want more money to hire more people to do the job right...
Please remember that illegal is illegal... and there should not be a precedent of.. well... we will look the other way because your crime is not as bad as another's... this is a multi frontal attack..one that finally is being implemented ...it was never a case of not knowing how.. but one of .. politicians looked the other way at the time of funding...as it was in their best interest to do so...
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lacyvsq
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Well then, wouldn't they still want more money because the with their limited resources they felt they could not do the job right?
The ICE site seems to indicate that fugitives and criminals are their priority, but in the links that Angel posted, ~50% of the group of 1300 and ~75% of the group of 905 apparently were not in that category. I don't know if the criminal component of those groups is too low, but apparently the LA mayor thinks so.
And being illegal all has to do with jurisdiction. So a federal illegal would not necessarily have violated city ordinances and therefore in the eyes of city would not be unlawful or illegal. Think of it as a gay couple married in CA coming to the Houston med center and wanting to claim spousal rights of visitation and permissions... They are not legally married in TX.
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Angel54214
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Thanks Gallows for the link on the San Bernardino County dumping ground. Wow huh? I did read about this before and undstand there is a "draft resolution" in the making at this time as well as a lawsuit upon San Francisco for fund reinbusements.
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Gallows_Humor
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you are welcome angel... 
Lacy...from...http://www.ice.gov/
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Angel54214
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Regarding undocumented jailed illegal alien deportations, by ICE it seems to be a 5 year timeline and is also a notible conflict:
House panel urges faster deportation of jailed illegal immigrants
In their first budget hearing of this year, members of the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Tuesday demanded that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau give much higher priority to the deportation of criminal illegal immigrants held in U.S. jails and behaving more humanely in conducting operations. House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman David Price, D-N.C., and ranking member Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said ICE faces difficulty identifying all illegal immigrants among the millions of people held in about 5,000 federal, state and local jails across the country. Price said the jails hold about 600,000 criminal illegal immigrants but at its current pace ICE will take up to five years to deport them all.
"I'm worried that many of these [illegal immigrants] are still remaining unidentified," he said. "It appears that at the rate you're going it will take four to five years to find them all." Price said deportations of the incarcerated illegal immigrants increased 7 percent from 2005 to 2007, while deportations of undocumented immigrants without criminal records increased more than 70 percent.
"It's not acceptable to have people who we know are capable and willing to harm our citizens ... to be back out on the street," he said. Price noted that Congress gave ICE $200 million to be used during fiscal 2008 and fiscal 2009 to find and deport illegal immigrants in the prison system. But he said he was surprised that ICE's fiscal 2009 budget request does not seek any new funds for the effort.
ICE Director Julie Myers defended her agency's deportation efforts, saying the agency is issuing a significantly higher number of documents charging the imprisoned illegal immigrants with deportable offenses. About 200,000 such documents will be issued in 2008, compared with 57,000 in 2006, she said. Myers declined to offer a timetable for how long it will take to deport those illegal immigrants. But she did not say Price's five-year timeline is wrong. One of the main challenges for ICE, according to Myers, is tapping into FBI databases that use biometrics, such as fingerprints, to identify illegals who pose the greatest risk. She said ICE wants to use technology instead of having individual agents go to jails and interview each illegal immigrant.
Tensions mounted during the hearing when some Democrats questioned how ICE conducts work-site raids and how the agency handles children and people who need medical care. Rep. Sam Farr, D-Calif., accused ICE of acting like Nazi Germany's Gestapo when conducting raids. Myers defended ICE employees, saying she would not tolerate the accusation. "We are not the Gestapo," she said, interrupting Farr. "The men and women of this agency have a very difficult job ... and I think they do that with distinction and great honor." Rogers added: "That's not called for here, Mr. Farr. These are proud, hard-working people." Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., said it appears ICE is most interested in targeting and deporting Mexicans. http://govexec.com/dailyfed/0208/022608cdpm2.htm?rss=getoday
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Paralegal_at_Law
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The police officers are employed by the residents of the city -- paid for by local taxes and there to protect their employers -- the local population -- which may include US illegals. ICE are outsiders paid for not only by the locals but by the nation. They have different loyalties, different employers -- US citizens which does not include illegals.
Lacy, while you are definitely a winsomely attractive blonde, regrettably your notions are out of order.
For instance, the Police Officers that are employed by the residents of the city - paid for by local taxes is not an accurate statement.
Local Police Departments constantly apply to the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program for federal funding of their various activities. Further, each federal, state, and local Police Officer is duly sworn to enforce the laws, not to "cherry pick" which laws they deem to be worthy of their cognizance. While it is true that elected public servants often posture themselves as promoting "sanctuary cities" and enact policies that purport to authorize their Police Officers to NOT enforce certain federal laws, it would seem that those sanctuary and non immigration enforcement policies have never been tested by litigation in order to determine whether or not it is an overt violation of law to conspire to aid and abet illegal aliens rather than turning a blind eye to the immigration status of persons who they come into contact with for law enforcement purposes.
The residents of each city enjoy an equal protection under the law right to be protected from the illegal predations of criminals, including illegal aliens. Notice I did NOT use the phrase undocumented aliens which is itself a form of politically correct "spin control" that tries to divert the natural hostility that reposes within the conscience of all law abiding citizens towards those who defy our laws and have come from South of the border as civil invaders to walk in our midst. Those citizens who are denied equal protection under the law because some obviously pro-illegal alien Democrat local politician who is pandering to the Hispanic Community wants the local police department to engage in selective prosecution of the laws, a practice that the federal courts has already stricken down as being unconstitutional, are not being well served by their local police and should bring lawsuits in federal courts against their own municipalities for the purposes of obtaining a federal injunction against the "sanctuary city" status and the local policies that purport to authorize duly sworn police officers to engage in a conspiracy to selectively prosecute persons they come into contact with for law enforcement purposes.
The fact that the serious felony violators in sanctuary cities are having their Detective Divisions "-Record the information provided in the DHD Undocumented Alien Log. -Notify the [INS] via teletype of the arrest of the individual. -Forward daily arrest reports marked “Undocumented Alien” to the [INS]." and NOT follow this procedure for illegal aliens arrested for misdemeanor offenses is a paper trail that is damning evidence that the city involved is unconstitutionally practicing "selective enforcement" and denying the citizens of their city the "equal protection under the laws" rights that are guaranteed to them by virtue of both the state and federal constitutions.
Further, if the local Democrat politicians that are pandering to the Hispanic Community have ever met with Hispanic Community leaders and have agreed with them, or announced to them that "As long as I am in office there will be no cooperation between my police and the federal ICE law enforcement agency" at that point what has just occurred satisfies the elements of a criminal conspiracy to violate federal law. If spoken over a telephone or sent by email, such phrases support other criminal laws that are also available for criminal prosecutorial purposes.
What is wanted and needed is a sweep of all counties in America to reduce the plague of illegal immigrants, up to 20,000,000 strong, and after they serve some "shock time" behind bars, be driven to the border for repatriation. After the initial drive has been completed, armed private citizens should be paid tax free cash bounties to deliver new civil invaders to the border for repatriation, after being photographed, finger printed and their DNA taken.
Deported illegal aliens who are taken into custody a second time, evidencing a second act of illegal civil invasion should serve ten years "at hard labor" chained to an oar as a "galley slave" federal prisoner, rowing from US Naval transport ships to the nearby beach to replenish military supplies in transit to American expeditionary forces ashore in the many far flung places where American soldiers are combating the AK-47 equipped forces of evil of every stripe and character.
In fact, the federal prison industries can also be the shipyards where the illegal aliens serving their "shock time" in the custody of the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons actually spend their time "at hard labor" building the illegal-alien "USS "Rio Grande" class, 300 foot long by 50 feet wide naval supply craft, which I am certain can be churned out ten a week strong.
Attention Napa! Please note this as a fresh opportunity for you to "play your race card gambit" about welcoming brown-skinned criminals.
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lacyvsq
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The ICE site seems to indicate that fugitives and criminals are their priority, but in the links that Angel posted, ~50% of the group of 1300 and ~75% of the group of 905 apparently were not in that category. I don't know if the criminal component of those groups is too low, but apparently the LA mayor thinks so.
What the ICE site says sounds pretty good -- like admirable priorities for the most part -- but I found it interesting that the article about the 905 picked up in CA highlights only two criminals -- one a 31 yo with a record of indecency with a child under 14 from the mid-90's. That sounds like someone we would not want around huh? Bad guy...but...there is too little information. The mid-90's would have put him as a teen. I don't know about CA law, but TX law does not recognize statutory rape when there is less than 3 years age difference. Legal age of consent in Mexico is 9. Who knows just how close he came to beating that rap?
If I were with ICE and wanted to brag about getting criminals in my latest roundup, this is not one I would be highlighting. Let me report about the two armed burglars or the gang convicted of breaking and entering. (I had a house that was vandalized by a gang who left their insignia on every flat surface from the carpet to the toilet seats to the ceilings. Yeah, I'd have liked hearing about those guys sent back to Guatemala or El Salvador!)
Are there news reports of LA gangsters or employees picked up by ICE? Something that corroborates the ICE site or the mayor? I am not an LA local, so I don't really care one way or another. I can just see the mayor's position.
Edited to add that Angel's quote sorta backs up the mayor's view that the priorities for ICE are skewed:
Price said deportations of the incarcerated illegal immigrants increased 7 percent from 2005 to 2007, while deportations of undocumented immigrants without criminal records increased more than 70 percent.
[Edited on 7/4/2008 7:45 PM]
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Lacy, while you are definitely a winsomely attractive blonde
Thank you. I decided to quit right there while I was ahead... 
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Poultry plants are raided
April 17, 2008
Federal agents arrested hundreds of people Wednesday in raids at Pilgrim’s Pride chicken plants in five states, the latest crackdown on illegal-immigrant labor at the nation’s poultry producers.
In separate sweeps, authorities also arrested dozens of workers at a doughnut factory in Houston and the operators of a chain of Mexican restaurants in upstate New York.
The arrests at Pittsburg, Texas-based Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., the nation’s largest chicken producer, were on charges of identity theft, document fraud and immigration violations. The company worked with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ahead of the raids, said Ray Atkinson, a company spokesman.
“We knew in advance and cooperated fully,” Atkinson said.
Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary for ICE, confirmed that the company is cooperating, though she said the raids grew out of an investigation that produced arrests last year at the company’s plant here.
No criminal or civil charges have been filed against Pilgrim’s Pride, which has about 55,000 employees and operates dozens of facilities mostly across the South and in Mexico and Puerto Rico, supplying the KFC restaurant chain and other customers.
ICE said that nearly 300 workers were arrested, but Pilgrim’s Pride officials said that about 400 hourly, nonmanagement employees were arrested.
“We have terminated all of the employees who were taken into custody and will terminate any employee who is found to have engaged in similar misconduct. We are investigating these allegations further,” Atkinson said in a statement.
Forty-five people, all illegal immigrants, were arrested here on charges of false use of Social Security numbers, ICE said. More than 100 people were arrested on immigration violations in Chattanooga, Tenn., and they could face criminal charges related to identity theft, the agency said. Another 100 were arrested on immigration charges in Moorefield, W.Va.
More than 25 people face immigration violation charges in Live Oak, Fla. They will also face identity theft or document fraud charges, ICE said. And more than 20 were arrested in Batesville, Ark., on federal warrants for alleged document fraud or identity theft.
Pilgrim’s Pride has had previous trouble with employees in Arkansas. In January 2007, police arrested a manager at the company’s De Queen plant who allegedly rented identification documents for $800 to get a job there.
The company has said its policy is to fire employees who can’t clear up discrepancies in their documentation. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/17/nation/na-raid17
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Angel54214
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ICE New release by month/year:
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/archive/june08.htm
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