The suspects at large were identified as Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, 31; Ivan Soto-Barraza, 34; Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, 34; and Lionel Portillo-Meza, said to be in his mid-20s to early 30s.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20120709arizona-fast-and-furious-border-agent-terry-death-suspects.html#ixzz209hHymms
August 13, 2011
Resistance
Widens to Obama Initiative on Criminal
Immigrants
Immigrants
BOSTON — Mayor Thomas Menino, who often invokes his heritage as the grandson of an Italian immigrant, was one of the first local leaders in the country to embrace a federal program intended to improve community safety by deporting dangerous immigrant criminals.
But five years after Boston became a testing
ground for the fingerprinting program, known as Secure Communities, Mr. Menino
is one of the latest local officials to sour on it and seek to withdraw. He
found that many immigrants the program deported from Boston, though here
illegally, had committed no crimes. The mayor believed it was eroding
hard-earned ties between Boston’s police force and its melting-pot mix of
ethnic neighborhoods.
Last month, Mr. Menino sent a letter to the
program with a blunt assessment. “Secure Communities is negatively impacting
public safety,” he wrote, asking how Boston could get out.
On Aug. 5, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which runs the program, gave an equally blunt
response. Its director, John Morton, announced he was canceling all agreements
that 40 states and cities had signed to start Secure Communities. Their assent
was not legally required, he said, and he planned to move ahead anyway to
extend the program nationwide by 2013.
So Boston’s mayor, together with a growing
number of other state and local officials, is stuck.
Mr. Menino’s disenchantment illustrates the
widening resistance from cities and states that is troubling one of President
Obama’s most far-reaching
programs to toughen enforcement against illegal immigration.
Administration officials are pressing ahead,
saying that information-sharing laws passed after the Sept. 11 attacks mandate
the program. The clash will gain a higher profile this month, when a task force
Mr. Morton named to recommend fixes is to hold public hearings in a half-dozen
cities.
In an interview, Mr. Menino was alternately
worried and indignant about the program.
“We need those community folks to tell us what
is going on out there,” said the mayor, a Democrat who has run Boston for 18
years. As a result of Secure Communities, he said, word is out in Boston that
patrol officers are working with federal agents to deport immigrants for
offenses as minor as traffic violations.
“What’s happening is, we’re losing the trust of
the immigrant community in Boston,” he said.
Obama administration officials vigorously defend
Secure Communities, saying it is essential for identifying immigrant gang
members and other violent criminals arrested by the local police, so federal
agents can focus on deporting them. Officials say they are taking steps to
avoid deporting foreigners detained for immigration violations, which generally
are civil, not criminal, offenses.
In a July 25 letter defending his strategy, Mr.
Obama said that deportations of convicted criminals over all increased by 70
percent in 2010 over 2008, while the share of noncriminals among deportees was
declining. “The increase in the proportion of criminal removals demonstrates
that this strategy is having a real impact,” the president wrote.
Under Secure Communities, the fingerprints of
anyone booked into jail are checked against the F.B.I.’s criminal databases —
long a routine police practice — and forwarded to the Department of Homeland
Security to be run through its databases, which record immigration violations.
If an immigration check yields a match, the immigration agency decides whether
to detain the foreigner for deportation.
After several pilot projects like the one Boston
started in 2006, the agency formally inaugurated Secure Communities in Houston
in October 2008. It quickly expanded, with little fanfare or protest, to about
1,500 counties or other jurisdictions, about half the 3,181 jurisdictions in
the nation.
But this year three governors — including Deval
Patrick of Massachusetts, as well as Pat Quinn of Illinois and Andrew M. Cuomo
of New York, all Democrats — announced that they wanted to pull out, as did
officials in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus
and more than 200 immigrant groups have asked Mr. Obama to suspend the program.
Mr. Morton has addressed some complaints. In
June, he issued new guidelines giving immigration agents broad discretion to
halt deportations of noncriminal illegal immigrants. He traveled to places of
dissent, including Boston, working to eliminate confusion — which he
acknowledged the immigration agency had created — over whether jurisdictions
could opt out.
Mr. Morton set up the task force, which includes
police chiefs, immigration lawyers and representatives of immigration agent
unions. Its chairman, Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive
Research Forum, said the group quickly set aside Mr. Morton’s assignment to
deliver recommendations in 45 days. Its first hearing was this week in Dallas;
others scheduled so far will be in Los Angeles; Chicago; Arlington, Va.; and
Boston.
In Boston, where about 200,000 immigrants make
up one-quarter of the population, Mr. Menino said he was originally attracted
to Secure Communities because immigrant leaders liked the sound of it. “A
person with a homicide or major crime, immigrants don’t want them in their
community either,” he said.
Problems started earlier this year when advocacy
groups released immigration data showing that more than half of 313 immigrants
deported from Boston under the program had no criminal convictions. Many had
been detained in traffic stops.
Boston’s police commissioner, Edward Davis, had
been a Secure Communities supporter, because his records showed that it had
removed many violent criminal immigrants from Boston jails. But he concluded
from the new figures that immigration officials had misled him.
They specifically told us they would not be
removing people with traffic offenses,” Mr. Davis said. “They said they
wouldn’t and now they have.”
Mr. Davis said he was taken aback by the
indifference of immigration officials to his questions. “This is a throwback to
the bad old days of the federal agencies before 9/11, when we did not have
cooperation,” he said. “It is really disconcerting that they are not at all
concerned about our precarious situation with immigrant communities.”
At the end of the school year, Mr. Menino held a
lunch for about 30 valedictorians graduating from Boston high schools. He
discovered that six of the city’s highest-ranking students were illegal immigrants.
Then he began to hear stories of immigrants snared by Secure Communities.
One was Leonardo Machado, 35, an illegal
immigrant and a construction worker from Brazil who was stopped by a traffic
officer because a rear brake light was out. He did not have a valid driver’s
license. Immigration agents went to traffic court and led him away in ankle and
foot chains.
Mr. Machado agreed to leave for Brazil, along
with his Brazilian wife and 5-year-old-son, a Boston-born American citizen. “I
am not fighting against the laws,” Mr. Machado said as he prepared his
departure. “But I am not a criminal, and my wife and my little son are not
criminals. They did not have to humiliate us like that.”
Heloisa Galvao, executive director of the
Brazilian Women’s Group here, said: “People listen to these stories. Lately the
people are scared of the police because they think the police are involved in
immigration.”
Mr. Menino said a July 7 meeting he held with
immigrant leaders had persuaded him to try to cancel the program. He did not
hide his anger when immigration officials said it would continue.
“People will start to say the police are
gestapos,” the mayor said. “My police aren’t gestapos. You can’t be a
bureaucrat in Washington and just say, ‘We don’t care.’ ”
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206 Most wanted criminals in Los Angeles. Out of 206
criminals--183 are hispanic---171 of those are wanted for Murder.
Why do Americans still protect the illegals??
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_11255121?appSession=934140935651450&RecordID=&PageID=2&PrevPageID=&cpipage=1&CPISortType=&CPIorderBy=
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Why do Americans still protect the illegals??
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_11255121?appSession=934140935651450&RecordID=&PageID=2&PrevPageID=&cpipage=1&CPISortType=&CPIorderBy=
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TEN MOST WANTED
CRIMINALS IN CALIFORNIA ARE MEXICANS!
http://ag.ca.gov/wanted/mostwanted.php?fid=mostWantedFugitives_2010-01
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1738432/posts
FBI Crime Statistics - Crimes committed by illegals.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1738432/posts
FBI Crime Statistics - Crimes committed by illegals.
latimes.com
Opinion
California
must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The
state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits,
deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize
'sanctuary' cities.
Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."
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The
danger, as Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson argues,
is that of “importing poverty” in the form of a new underclass—a permanent
group of working poor.
NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED TO
BE LOOTED BY MEXICO!
“In his state of the
union address to the Mexican nation, Calderon established his imperialistic
imperatives: "I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that
wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico. And, for this reason, the
government action on behalf of our countrymen is guided by principles, for the
defense and protection of their rights."
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"We have got to
eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the
worst, we have got to kill him." --- La Raza early founder, Professor
Jose Angel Gutierrez.
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