Nearly 200 arrested in California in new immigration raids
Source: MSN/AFP
Nearly 200 people have been arrested by federal agents in southern California as part of a five-day operation targeting immigrants convicted of crimes or in the country illegally, officials said Thursday.
The crackdown, which ended Wednesday and was spearheaded by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), focused on people with prior criminal offenses including for drug trafficking, rape and domestic violence, authorities said.
"Operations like this are emblematic of the vital work ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers do every day, seeking to locate, arrest, and ultimately deport at-large convicted criminals and other immigration fugitives who pose a threat to public safety," David Marin, the ERO director in Los Angeles, said in a statement.
"By taking these individuals off the streets and removing them from the country, were making our communities safer for everyone," he added.
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iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)mbusby
(823 posts)...jay walking and failure to add change to the parking meter convictions. I feel safer already.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)...I just hate this thing of indiscriminately rounding up ppl cuz Dumpty has deemed them a criminal. He could deem you or me a criminal and deport us. Do we know if these ppl are given the opportunity to prove their status in the US. I don't carry my birth certificate or passport with me, so how do I prove I'm here legally if I'm in a round up. I am so fed up with this inhuman treatment of ppl. GAH
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)I drove around my neighborhood a couple of weeks ago and it's getting to look desolate. Lots of boardups I hadn't noticed before.
sandensea
(21,639 posts)Food shortages and abandoned construction sites - unless someone can stop this.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The whole American farm and food sector is going to take a huge hit from the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)were all criminals. I'm sorry to hear that about your neighborhood and only hope things are going well in general for those who've left.
DK504
(3,847 posts)I have to wonder if any of the people rounded up were MS13 or other gang members like he promised. Or was it the gang of 4th graders that are so dangerous?
I know none of them will be rounding up the Russian mob all over LA and NYC ... I, personally, had some run ins with Russian mob ... and they are insane and brazen in all the crimes they commit.