Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Illegal immigrant receives probation for 10th violation

A federal judge in Pittsburgh on Tuesday sentenced an illegal [alien] to time served in jail for his 10th illegal entry into the country. — Uziel Jesus Lopez-Jiminez, 28, of Mexico has been deported nine other times between 1998 and 2007, prosecutors said. He was last deported in March…

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Maybe amnesty will stop murders like this?

Associated Press

Teen pleads guilty in violent Border Patrol murder

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego. — Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez admitted entering the United States illegally to rob a Border Patrol agent, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

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New York Times

ATLANTA — Each had crossed the border years before, smuggled across the desert by a coyote, never imagining the journey would lead to a drab and dusty clinic on the ninth floor of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Some knew before the crossing that they had diabetes or lupus or high blood pressure, but it was only after they arrived that their kidneys began to fail. To survive, they needed dialysis at a cost of about $50,000 a year, which their sporadic work as housekeepers, painters and laborers could not begin to cover.

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New ICE initiative launched in 3 Georgia counties: Uses biometrics to identify and enhance removal of criminal aliens arrested in Gwinnett, Clayton and DeKalb counties

Found in Press ReleaseWritten by ICE posted on Sam Zamarripa’s open borders Website: GALEOPosted on 2009-11-17
( Bad news for the illegallaien lobby )

New ICE initiative launched in 3 Georgia counties

Uses biometrics to identify and enhance removal of criminal aliens arrested in Gwinnett, Clayton and DeKalb counties

ATLANTA – Beginning today, law enforcement agencies in Gwinnett, Clayton, and DeKalb counties will benefit from a new initiative developed by the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) that modernizes the process used to accurately identify and remove dangerous criminal aliens from the community.

The initiative, Secure Communities, is administered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Secure Communities enables ICE to determine whether an individual arrested by a participating state or local law enforcement agency is a dangerous criminal alien and take the appropriate action to remove the individual from the community.

Formerly as part of the booking process, arrestees’ fingerprints were taken and checked for criminal history information against the DOJ biometric system maintained by the FBI. With the implementation of Secure Communities Gwinnett, Clayton, and DeKalb counties, the fingerprint information will now be simultaneously checked against both the FBI criminal history records and the biometrics-based immigration records maintained by the DHS.

If any fingerprints match those of someone in DHS’ biometric system, the new automated process notifies ICE. ICE evaluates each case to determine the individual’s immigration status and takes appropriate enforcement action after offenders complete their prison terms. Top priority is given to aliens who pose the greatest threat to public safety, such as those with prior convictions for major drug offenses, murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping.

“Secure Communities is a DHS initiative to more broadly manage and modernize the processes used to identify and ultimately remove dangerous criminal aliens from our communities,” said Acting Secure Communities Executive Director Marc Rapp. “Our goal with this effort is to use information sharing to prevent criminal aliens from being released back into the community, with little or no additional burden on our local law enforcement partners.”

“We are pleased to be part of this initiative,” said Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway. “This is one more tool we can use to identify dangerous criminal aliens in order to keep them off our streets. This new program will work in conjunction with our 287(g) program.”

“We applaud the efforts of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in working with us to remove dangerous criminals from within the boundaries of DeKalb County,” said Dekalb County Sheriff Thomas E. Brown. “This is yet another example of local and federal agencies working together effectively to keep our communities safe.”

Secure Communities bolsters the ongoing joint efforts by ICE and participating law enforcement agencies in the United States. Eventually, with DOJ and other DHS component collaboration, ICE plans to expand this capability to all state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the nation.

Secure Communities is part of DHS’s comprehensive plan to distribute technology that links local law enforcement agencies to both FBI and DHS biometric systems. DHS’s US VISIT Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) holds biometrics-based immigration records, while the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) contains biometrics-based criminal records.

The Secure Communities biometric identification technology is now accessible in more than 100 jurisdictions in 13 states throughout the country, with nationwide coverage expected by the end of 2013. Last year a total of 990,738 fingerprint transmissions were processed through Secure Communities resulting in 119,052 matches that included 11,219 Level I and 101.953 Level II and III offenders respectively as well as 5,880 U.S. citizens.

— ICE —

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

ICE comprises four integrated divisions that form a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities. For more information, visit www.ICE.gov. To report suspicious activity, call 1-866-347-2423.

http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0911/091117atlanta.htm

WPEC-TV — West Palm Beach sc

Cops search for alleged illegal alien child rapist

The search is on in Boynton Beach for a man police desperately want to find. — They say he’s a danger to the community, especially to children. — He’s accused of disgusting crimes against children, committing them over and over again for the past three years.

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Stein Report

Bill O’Reilly: SPLC takes “fascist” approach

[Tuesday] night, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said what many believe, that the tactics of the SPLC are “fascistic,” seeking through feigned tolerance a calculated effort to smear into silence those with whom they disagree. Stein Report readers know that FAIR has been a target of the same sort of bigoted tactics for several years now…

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Washington Times

Work site arrests of illegals fall dramatically

Arrests of illegal [alien] workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. — Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal [aliens] at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009…

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Letter to the editor from American citizenKen Craft on 287(g) in Gwinnett County Georgia

I read the great news that 287(g) is officially starting in Gwinnett. After extensive training, the new deputies will work with ICE to provide effective processing of illegal aliens while at the same time providing legal due process as the law provides.

We are a nation and county of laws. And it’s time to enforce them in Gwinnett to remove criminal illegals from the streets of our county. A big thank you to Sheriff Butch Conway and others for their perserverence over several years to get this done. I’ll also take the budget savings that will come from fewer inmates dining at my expense.

— Ken Craft
Norcross

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Gwinnet Daily Post — Lawrenceville, Ga.

Duluth attorney pleads guilty to aiding illegals

A Duluth attorney pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday for her role in trying to help at least 17 illegal aliens fraudulently obtain legal status. — Sai Hyun Lee, 63, faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 after admitting to one count of filing a false document to the United States Department of Labor…

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Marietta Daily Journal
Editorial
November 19, 2009

Section 287(g)

Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren signed a new agreement last month with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to update the 1996 federal Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Part of that act, Section 287(g), has become the focus of intense efforts at repeal by those in this country who favor open borders and a blanket amnesty for those who arrived here illegally. That’s because Section 287(g) enhances the ability of local law enforcement agencies here and elsewhere to assist ICE in locating and deporting those who are in this country illegally. If they are arrested for a serious crime and discovered, via 287(g), to be here illegally, they are turned over to ICE and held for deportation.

There are now at least three other counties in Georgia using the program and following the lead of Warren, who was the first to use it.

Warren’s decision to renew the ICE Memorandum of Understanding with the feds prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to release a report the same week that accused him of exercising “unchecked police power” to tear families apart.

“Cobb County residents who appear to be foreign-born have been subjected to rampant racial profiling and are routinely picked up by the police for minor or nonexistent violations,” it reported.

Warren ultimately responded with his own report last week. It slams the ACLU’s document as poorly researched and poorly argued.

“The ACLU report continuously confuses the roles of several law enforcement agencies in Cobb County,” the sheriff wrote. “For example, the ACLU report suggests numerous times that the Cobb County Police Department abuses authority granted under the Memorandum of Agreement. This assertion by the ACLU is a blatant misstatement of the facts because, as the ACLU well knows, the MOA does not grant any authority to the Cobb County Police Department and has no legal impact whatsoever on that agency’s operations. The ACLU either does not understand the relationship between the various law enforcement agencies or is deliberately attempting to mislead readers about how the 287(g) program works in Cobb County.”

The ACLU also claims that Hispanics are arrested in the county on minor traffic violations as a prelude to involving them in the 287(g) program. Warren responded, “The report does not mention the number of non-Latino people who were stopped and arrested or released for similar violations. These unsubstantiated accusations hardly rise to the level of credible proof that Cobb residents who appear to be foreign born have been subjected to rampant racial profiling and are routinely picked up for non-existent reasons.”

“Other than to simply state that the 287(g) program encourages bad acts by law enforcement, the ACLU has offered no data or other information that there is any kind of relationship between the existence of the 287(g) MOA and the acts of which it complains. Indeed, the ACLU report offers nothing other than unsubstantiated anecdotal references concerning racial profiling. Overall, the contents of the ACLU report totally lack any justification to refrain from implementing the provisions of the Section 287(g) program in Cobb County.”

Well put. Surely critics of that program have better things to do that slinging empty claims of racism at those trying to enforce our laws, and trying to stir up groundless fears in the Hispanic community.

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