Large Immigration Raid

Pardon me if I question the timing. Though I hope it's the start of an on going trend and includes deportation. Oh, but wait a minute, they need only turn around and come back in.

I don't buy that many will go home if jobs dry up. Nor do I believe we have enough immigration enforcement types in place to carry out an extended campaign. Half or more will apply for social services and probably get it. And the Dems will call us meanies if they don't. That would give the libs what they really want, a new welfare state.

WASHINGTON - Immigration agents arrested seven executives and hundreds of employees of a manufacturer of crates and pallets Wednesday as part of a crackdown on employers of illegal workers.

Authorities raided offices and plants of IFCO Systems in at least eight states, the culmination of a yearlong criminal investigation, law enforcement officials said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested seven current and former IFCO Systems managers on charges they conspired to transport, harbor and encourage illegal workers to reside in the United States for commercial advantage and private financial gain, said Glenn T. Suddaby, the chief federal prosecutor in Albany, N.Y., where some arrests were made.

Comments

[Laertes]

"I don't buy that many will go home if jobs dry up."

Translation: Why are they picking on the employers instead of focusing on the goddamn mexicans?

[IMHERE]

Laertes,

You'd be surprised the large corporations in the US who have openly hired Illegals. The in your face kind of crap. I think US TAXPAYERS should boycott all employers who knowingly hire illegals.

[IMHERE]

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=890

[Confederate Yankee]

What a hoot! I just put up a post on this and I titled it "I question the timing" right before I came over, written about this same subject.

What do you know, Dan, great minds really do think alike.

;-)

[MrsLevy]

The only great mind here is my own.

The rest of you just copy/paste Drudge.

MrsLevy

[COLUMBO]

just a ruse to shift political tide in support of Bush worker program

[Sgt. York]

Several years ago I worked as a deputy in the mid-west. We arrested three guys on a Misd. charge (don't remember what it was). They provided false names and had in their possession false identification cards and counterfeit social-security cards. In this part of the country we don't get a lot of illegal foreigners we assumed Immigration would be interested. They were not. They simply asked us to destroy the SS-cards and took down their names.

We charged them with G.M providing false info and brought them to court where the Judge released then with a court date. Don't know if the alternate names they gave are 'real' but from now on, at least in that county, that is their official names matched to their prints. I assume a a bench-warrant was eventually isuued for failure to appear.

[Laertes]

"Laertes, You'd be surprised the large corporations in the US who have openly hired Illegals."

No, I would not.

IMO, the vast bulk of our enforcement effort should be directed at the employers, not at the workers. There's a bright line here: If you're serious about reducing illegal immigration, you favor employer-targeted sanctions. If you're primarily motivated by nativism and bigotry, the employers aren't on your radar and you're obsessed with border control.

[Educated Mexican]

I have to agree that the dehumanizing immigration raids are not the answer to get out the 'illegals'. It is not the 'goddam Mexicans', as people like to call us, fault that the government slacked off on its own part and did not have good 'border control' in the first place. Years and years of neglect on the border allowed for immigrants to come into the country, CONTRIBUTE to the economy, plant roots, and start families in the 'land of the free'. Tearing apart families, destroying lives, causing national havok, and treating human beings like animals is definately not the way to go.
People need to stop being so ignorant and open their eyes to the fact that this nation runs on the man-power of immigrants. At one point in history, we were all part of a great migration to this land at one time; some have much deeper roots than others. Whose to say that one color or generation of migrants are better than another? This is a nation of immigrants, why change it now? 'Anti-terroist' sentiments may be at the heart of all this national turmoil, but racial profiling, and hate acts are not reasonable means of protecting this great nation.

[b0zmeg]

Educated Mexican,

Yes, you are right. The whole reason why there are so many illegals here is that the border is so pourous. If it were secured effectively, this would be a big deterrent to future criminals crossing over. Now with that out of the way, to your point of Mexicans contributing to society. This is false! They are actually stealing jobs from LEGAL Americans who would take these same jobs if the wages were at a decent level. The only thing the latest influx of illegal Mexicans are good at is breaking laws, stealing, then sending money out of this country to benefit another corrupt government! You shouldnt whine about families getting broken up and lives ruined..this wouldnt be a problem if these people followed the rules. If the illegal border crossers break one law, whats to prevent them from breaking any others that they see fit? "Hey, they let us in and didn't come after us, lets see how many more laws we can break and get away with it. They'll only send us back to Mexico where we'll just come back the next day!"

America is a nation of immigrants, yes. But the ones who built this country and made it great followed the rules and had good family values. Breaking laws and looking for social handouts, what example does this set for the children? The fact that parents of illegal Mexicans break our immigration laws and pass into our country with false documentation means that their children, their childrens children, and so on will be compelled to break the laws of these United States.