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Title: Immigration Sweep Brings Fear to Community
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... /06/18/national/a115457D49.DTL
Published: Jun 18, 2006
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2006-06-18 17:49:27 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 142
Comments: 8
(06-18) 14:28 PDT SAN DIEGO, (AP) -- Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood. The crowd of day laborers huddled in a parking lot outside McDonald's has dropped by half. A sense of unease has spread in this community of weather-worn homes since immigration agents began walking the streets as part of a stepped-up nationwide effort targeting an estimated 590,000 immigrant fugitives. Other illegal immigrants are being rounded up along the way. Juana Osorio, an illegal immigrant from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, said her neighbors have largely stayed indoors since agents visited her apartment complex June 2. "People rarely leave their houses now to go shopping," Osorio, 37, said as she clutched a bottle of laundry detergent in a barren courtyard. "They walk in fear." Her husband, Juan Rivera, 29, has stopped taking their two children to the park on weekends. "We want to go out but we can't," said Rivera, a construction worker. In a blitz that began May 26 and ended Tuesday, federal agents arrested nearly 2,200 illegal immigrants, including about 400 in the San Diego area — more than any other city. It was the latest salvo in a crackdown on illegal immigration that has included arrests of nearly 1,200 workers at a supplier of wooden cargo pallets and the deployment of National Guard troops on the Mexican border. Meantime, Congress is considering a broad overhaul of immigration laws. All this has immigrants on edge, even in places such as San Diego that are home to thousands of illegals, many of whom have lived openly for years. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said about half the 2,179 people arrested in the 19-day nationwide raids — dubbed Operation Return to Sender — had criminal records, including convictions for sexual assault of a minor, assault with a deadly weapon and kidnapping. While criminals were targeted, agents also asked neighbors and curious onlookers about their immigration status and, if they were in the country illegally, they got hauled away for deportation, too. "We can't just turn our heads away from people we find along the way," said Lauren Mack, an ICE spokeswoman in San Diego. Agents staked out homes to determine when best to come knocking, interviewed apartment managers and checked credit reports and loan applications. Since last fall, the agency has increased its fugitive task forces nationwide from 18 to 38, and plans to expand to 52 teams by the end of the year. The Bush administration has proposed a total of 70 teams. San Diego's Linda Vista is a hardscrabble neighborhood of two-story homes favored by Mexican, Filipino and Vietnamese immigrants. As in other cities, the fugitive task force arrived in unmarked vehicles and agents were dressed like civilians. Mack said agents wore something to identify them as law enforcement, perhaps an agency insignia on a shirt or a bulletproof vest marked POLICE. Day laborer Fredy Calleja said his uncle was arrested about two weeks ago while watering plants outside his home. An agent asked him about someone suspected of selling drugs in the area. When the uncle said he didn't know the drug dealer, the agent asked if he was in the country illegally and arrested him when he said he was. Calleja said his uncle was deported but then sneaked across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. He was back in San Diego a little more than a week later. Since the blitz began, Serafina Morales has been looking for unmarked white or black vehicles whenever she leaves the house. "We're all scared to go to school," she said. "Many of us are letting our children walk alone." URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/06/18/national/a115457D49.DTL
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#1. To: ALL (#0)
pathetic. Calleja said his uncle was deported but then sneaked across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. He was back in San Diego a little more than a week later. ok..the welfare and social services MUST end. that's the only thing that will stop the mass immigration--the only solution.
This article is supposed to make us feel sorry for wetbacks. I'm not. My father was a general contractor and a high school dropout. He made a solid middle-class living. Do you think he could do that these days, when wetbacks have dropped wages to 9$ an hour? I don't think so, because my father absolutely would not have hired Mexicans unless he was on the ropes and ready to go under.
Freeper motto: "I read, but do not understand; I write, but make no sense."
Hooray! They deserved to be scared---they are common criminals. Scare them enough and maybe they will self-deport!
Dead on correct.
Linda Vista is a predominately Vietnamese Community with about a six block section controlled by the Mexicans. I say it that way, because gangs control the streets there. My ex in-laws just sold their house after living there for 32 years. If the BP went after the property management companies and owners for renting to the illegals, we wouldn't have such a problem in these communities.
Today, a 5 plex with 25 illegal aliens burned down, because one of the illegal's children set fire to a couch. Guess who owns the house? Yep, you guessed it, a Hispanic Landlord. The same landlord who owned the drug house across the way from us, that is sitting condemned. Yeah, like this is a good thing. Rampant illegal immigration where people come here, live like rats in a nest, there are reasons why houses and homes are limited to a certain number of occupants. The funniest part, is that it was on the news, and they said that the people who lived there, didn't speak English, but you could still understand them. NO, I couldn't understand them. WHY??? Because I'm not a fucking Felon, Nor am I an Illegal Alien. It's time for a massive purge. ALL ILLEGALS MUST BE REPATRIATED.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said about half the 2,179 people arrested in the 19-day nationwide raids — dubbed Operation Return to Sender — had criminal records, including convictions for sexual assault of a minor, assault with a deadly weapon and kidnapping.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
#4. To: YertleTurtle, *Destroying the Middle Class* (#2)
#5. To: Brian S, *The Border* (#0)
Juana Osorio, an illegal immigrant from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, said her neighbors have largely stayed indoors since agents visited her apartment complex June 2.
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." - John F. Kennedy
#6. To: christine (#1)
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#7. To: Brian S (#0)
Since the blitz began, Serafina Morales has been looking for unmarked white or black vehicles whenever she leaves the house. "We're all scared .....blah blah My heart aches for you.....NOT.
Calleja said his uncle was deported but then sneaked across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. He was back in San Diego a little more than a week later.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
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#8. To: Brian S (#0)
You should be scared, criminal...you should be deported, and you should be invoiced for the expenses incurred.
"We're all scared to go to school," she said. "Many of us are letting our children walk alone."
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