ICE arrests 77 in West Michigan
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A four day operation conducted by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents in seven Michigan counties has resulted in the detention of 77 people accused of immigration crimes.
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Fugitive Operations Teams (FOTs) from ICE hit Kent, Calhoun, Ottawa, Kalamazoo, Berrien, St. Joseph and Mason counties over four days, says a press release from the government.
According to that press release, here is the breakdown on the people arrested:
Of those taken into custody, 22 were aliens with prior criminal convictions, six had been previously deported who returned to the United States illegally after being removed, and 35 were immigration fugitives who failed to comply with a final order of deportation issued by an immigration judge. The remaining illegal aliens arrested were encountered by ERO officers during the course of the four-day operation…
The group included 64 males and 13 females from five different countries – Mexico (41), Guatemala (27), Honduras (7), Laos (1), China (1).
The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan agreed to prosecute four of the undocumented people who were deported, but returned to the United States.
The arrests came while Gov. Rick Snyder was delivering a State of the State address in which he outlined plans to harness legal immigration as part of a comprehensive economic development plan. During his speech, Snyder said he would encourage immigrants to come to Michigan to start businesses, something his Democratic opponent Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero touted during his campaign against Snyder.
“We are delighted to hear Governor Snyder embrace immigrants as a key part of Michigan’s economic recovery, and look forward to working with his administration. However, to achieve this worthy goal, we need to make sure that all of Michigan’s immigrants are protected against misguided and punitive enforcement. The entrepreneurs and engineers Governor Snyder would like to attract to our state will not feel welcome if Michigan embraces draconian Arizona-style laws. Immigrant workers and families are already paying a heavy price for our broken immigration system,” says Ryan Bates, director of Alliance for Immigrants Rights & Reform – Michigan.
My thoughts are that the Supreme Court will not revise the 14th Amendment birthright citizen rulling, but that doesn’t give the parent/parents the right to settle here? They are illegally here and must be deported with or without the baby? The main birthright citizen law is the whole issue that has snowballed into an avalanche of the Mother giving birth again, and again. All legal instant citizenship babies can then return at age 18 years, then start the–CHAIN MIGRATION–lucrative money game.
If Mother is allowed to stay she is sure to get pregnant again, then with three or four children under arm and an average of $600.00 dollars federal entitlement for each child, food stamps, the family can then apply for low income housing. Read the cost of the Liberal extremist campaign that has no conscious, about making citizens and legal residents keep paying as they have for thirty years. Let me repeat web-pages at Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 10 Number 1 spring 2005 (the report on Illegal Aliens and American medicine) defines the issue as a monolithic reimbursement concern of hospitals across the United States. This is just a financial ripple in the ocean of state bankruptcies that may be eminent, if our politicians don’t find a backbone and speak out.
Type in the Google, Yahoo search space “Snopes-illegal Immigration.” There is report after report here on costs to their jobs, health care, education and keeping the criminal element in prison. Snopes website will tell the avid reader where your taxes are going. Just type in the Snopes search engine and you will locate taxpayer’s expenditure and where the original topic came from? Even hard core Liberal press like the Los Angeles Times has testimonial on the subject matter. Click here for hospitals and investigate the free health care, such as $100.000 dialysis given to illegal immigrants, while an American must wait? Mandatory #E-Verify would free up to 7 million plus jobs currently held by illegal aliens. All existing and new hires should be checked without any prior warning.
Guess States like Wyoming whose politicians failed to heed the people’s warning, to stop aiding the illegal immigration of this sovereign country. Are going to find as more States start to enact their laws against illegal immigration and Wyoming law makers like Californa–a Sanctuary State–are going to find, hundreds of thousands of low income people packing their possessions and head eagerly from states as anti-illegal Colorado, Alabama and Tennessee and head for states like Wyoming to pilfer the welfare system.
2. End the Visa Lottery, which gives up to 50,000 US jobs to foreign workers without regard for work skills or educational background. Only extremely highly-skilled need apply.
3. Pass a moratorium on most legal immigration until jobs created can meet the jobs demand of American worker. US labor must come first.
Communicate your major requests to politicians about the Dream Act, illegal Immigration, and Amnesty through the Washington switchboard at 202-224-3121. Learn more in depth information at Numbersusa website
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