Illegal Update, parte dos

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do—such as steal social security numbers of U.S. citizens

At least 300 people were arrested today at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. The entire population of the town is reported at 2273.

The operation, which targeted people who criminally used other persons Social Security numbers and were in the U.S. illegally, was the largest of its kind in Iowa, said Claude Arnold, a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to an affidavit, “Based on information thus far developed in the investigation, it appears, based on 2007 fourth quarter payroll reports, that approximately 76 percent of the 968 employees of Agriprocessors were using false or fraudulent social security numbers in connection with their employment.”

Read the full account in the Des Moines Register.

Illegal Update

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

The daily Fish-wrapper has a communication problem. There are certain words they are unable to affix to the written page. It would appear that something of this magnitude would prove catastrophic for a newspaper, but this affliction doesn’t hold them down a bit. Proper words or not, they just keep writing,

Here we are treated to another sad tale. This one involves “53 immigrants…held against their will by human smugglers,” who were trying to extort money from their hapless captives. Among the group “being held by force against their will” were three women and a mentality disabled man.

In truth, these are illegal aliens. Since they paid their transporters to ensure safe passage into the United States in violation of our law, they are not actually victims, nor were they taken by force to accompany the coyotes. Let’s call them what they are: Criminal co-conspirators.

Words have meaning. How odd that Arizona’s largest newspaper has difficulty communicating facts in the English language. Could this be a reason why their reader base is dwindling?

Journalism 101 failure writes for Arizona Republic

This article’s lede provides the head scratcher: Five juveniles are in custody in connection with a string of robberies, many of them taxi drivers, that have occurred in Phoenix in the past week to 10 days.

Are the taxi companies now hiring juvenile cabbies, or are the juveniles the robbers?

This is what happens when subscriptions tank, readership is down, and long standing reporters who actually passed basic English, are replaced.

Illegal Update

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

A Mesa drop house raid yields 13 illegal aliens. The East Valley Tribune configures the article to illicit sympathy for the illegals, who they tell us “were possibly also being held there against their wills.”

“Some of the immigrants were bruised and slightly dehydrated when deputies arrived, but none appeared to have received the brutal treatment that sometimes occurs at drop houses,” the article goes on. And, the two bedroom house, had “just one bathroom.”

This quote comes from a neighbor: “I’ve seen the people. They don’t appear to be bad people.”

Well, then, that settles it.

To keep things in perspective, it’s worth remembering that the people in the house paid “coyotes” to illicitly transport them into the United States in violation of the laws of our sovereign nation. They were not picked up against their will and forced to accompany the transporters–they are co-conspirators in criminal activity–regardless of how the paper constructs the scenario.

Will this qualify as a hate crime?

Skinheads vs. Mormons

Although any crime of violence is a “hate crime,” and enhanced penalties should not be accorded special victims, targeting religion has become a factor in determining culpability.

What if neither the victim nor perpetrator are minorities?

That is, unless you consider carving a swastika inside one’s wrist as a mental defect, allowing the perps to claim bona fide minority status.

Illegal Update

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

The Phoenix Police Department has arrested 87 illegal aliens and a stash of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, guns and $200,000 in cash in a raid dubbed ‘Operation Piano Man.’

Police said those arrested had maintained a very well organized drug smuggling operation and an established list of customers that included teenagers and young adults in the east Phoenix area. The dealers, bringing drugs in from Mexico, have been operating in the Valley for over ten years, making approximately $8 - 10 thousand dollars a day.

After the arrest of the dealers, police undercover officers launched the second phase of the operation in which they delivered and sold various drugs to customers. Dozens of people were arrested as they attempted to purchase drugs. KPHO Channel Five carries the complete story along with a video clip.

Illegal update—and then some

Just another good man coming “to do the work Americans refuse to do”

An 18-year-old man has been accused of impregnating an 11-year-old child, according to KPHO Channel 5.

Enrique Jacobo-Valdez, an illegal alien, has been booked in a Maricopa County jail on two counts of sexual conduct with a minor. He had been living with the girl’s family for the past four years..

Pinal County authorities have been looking for Jacobo-Valdez in relation to a drug case.

The young girl lives in the Rainbow Valley area of the Southwest Valley, where Jacobo-Valdez was seen fleeing from the home after deputies knocked on the door.

He was arrested after the child’s mother and grandmother took her to a hospital and learned that she is at least six weeks pregnant and has been infected with a sexually transmitted disease as the result of the rapes.

Jacobo-Valdez made statements to authorities admitting he knew that the girl was only 11.

Although this shocking story was given complete coverage on KPHO, the daily Fish-wrapper accorded it minimum status, with placement on page two of the Valley section, under a single column of West Valley incidents, stacked like cordwood at the bottom of the page. The daily also neglected to mention the fact that the child rapist is an illegal.

What a surprise.

Turnout light in May Day demonstrations

Illegals demand “rights”

“We come here to fight for legalization. We’re people. We have rights,” said Eric Molina, an undocumented factory worker who immigrated to Zion, Ill., from Mexico.

Margot Veranes, a volunteer organizer in Tucson, where an estimated 12,000 took to the streets last year but early guesses Thursday put the crowd at closer to 500, blamed the turnout on aggressive enforcement by Border Patrol and police, according to a MyWay report.

“People have been stopped and deported in the last week. This is a community living in fear,” said Veranes, a researcher for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. “You never know when you’re going to be stopped by Border Patrol and now the police.”

“We’re marching to end the raids and the deportations, but we’re also marching for health care and education and good jobs,” she said.

Recall effort targets Phoenix’s “Sanctuary City” Mayor Phil Gordon

Bad year complicated by inability to understand meaning of ‘illegal’

This has not been a good year for Phil Gordon. He has had personal issues dogging him, his Phoenix Police union publicly expressing discontent with his hand-tying policies and Sheriff Joe Arpaio nipping at his heels. His poll numbers are tanking at 42 percent, and now, Gordon is the target of a recall effort by American Citizens United.

American Citizens United spokeswoman Anna Gaines says supporters are angry that Phoenix police do not have unconditional authority to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they encounter a suspected illegal immigrant.

To recall Gordon, the group must gather 23,751 valid signatures in 120 days from the time they file their formal campaign paperwork.

In January, Gordon was quoted as saying, “And it’s outrageous conduct on the part of these individuals that have proclaimed themselves judges of who belongs in our country and who doesn’t belong in our country.”

Seems lawyer Gordon has great difficulty comprehending that those who enter this country in violation of our laws by openly defying our status as a sovereign nation, are here illegally. That’s why they don’t belong here, Mr. Mayor.

Were you sleeping through law school when the definitions of legal and illegal were being taught?

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County Attorney says sheriff’s patrols meet legal standards

Biased newspaper report has enough incendiary language to stoke a bonfire

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has reviewed the procedures followed in the patrols that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has recently conducted in valley cities, concluding that deputies followed rules prohibiting racial profiling and unnecessary traffic stops.

“To the best of my knowledge, the protocol has been followed,” said Thomas, who issued a legal opinion on the sweeps yesterday.

“The reason I asked for the opinion two months ago is that we knew we were doing the right thing, and yet I wanted a legal opinion to let the people of this county know that we are also on the right track,” Arpaio said.

Thomas issued an opinion for Arpaio in 2005 in reference to Arizona’s human smuggling law—an opinion that said illegal aliens suspected of using transporting “coyotes,” can be charged as co-conspirators in their own smuggling cases, since they pay to be illegally brought into the U.S.

Prosecutor Thomas said his interpretation of the law has withstood scrutiny.

Read the newspaper account and try counting the provocative words and phrases in the short article. This would be a fine exercise for a Journalism 101 class. In the daily newspaper, however, it falls far short of ethical reporting standards.