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Neighbors panicky in aftermath of ICE sweeps (San Diego)
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 6-10-09 | Leslie Berestein

Posted on 06/10/2006 8:29:20 AM PDT by Rick Deckard

An eerie quiet has descended over the past week on Fulton Street, a stretch of weather-beaten apartment buildings in eastern Linda Vista that is home to a large number of recent immigrants, some of them legal residents, others not.

Some people have skipped work. Others have skipped doctor appointments. Children are walking to school more frequently by themselves, neighbors say, because their parents are afraid to accompany them outside.

“Today the migra was here,” explained Jose Cardenas, 30, one of those here legally, on a gray afternoon this week when the sidewalks were empty and the street deserted save for passing cars. “People hide, and they don't come out.”

Last Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego launched a six-day special operation to seek out immigration fugitives or “absconders” who have failed to comply with deportation orders, haven't shown up at immigration hearings or have committed a deportable offense.

It was part of a stepped-up nationwide effort since last fall to target an estimated 590,000 immigration fugitives in the United States, about 5,400 of whom are thought to reside in the San Diego area.

(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: abouttime; aliens; deportations; enforcement; givethemtheboot; goodriddance; greencard; homelandsecurity; ice; illegalaliens; illegals; immigration; immigrationcustoms; immigrationnaturaliz; ins; lindavista; longoverdue; migra; worker; workerprogram
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To: zerosix

I read an article yesterday that said about 2000 bricks a week are being received in D.C. sounds like we need to step it up a notch.

Send more bricks!!!


21 posted on 06/10/2006 8:56:00 AM PDT by Tammy8 (Build a Real Border Fence, and secure the border!!!)
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To: Rick Deckard

It is about time!


22 posted on 06/10/2006 8:56:12 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: adobbs

I was up in Linda Vista last Friday. The shopping center on LV Rd & Ulric St was conspicuously deserted as far as "day laborers" go. There's usually 25 guys hanging around there.


23 posted on 06/10/2006 8:56:47 AM PDT by Rick Deckard
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To: Rick Deckard
"Last Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego launched a six-day special operation to seek out immigration fugitives or “absconders” who have failed to comply with deportation orders, haven't shown up at immigration hearings or have committed a deportable offense.

I'm encouraged to hear that there is such a thing as a 'deportable offense' in the US. Who woulda thunk it?

24 posted on 06/10/2006 8:57:21 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: Rick Deckard

"Some people have skipped work. Others have skipped doctor appointments. Children are walking to school more frequently by themselves, neighbors say, because their parents are afraid to accompany them outside."

Ahh. Sweet music to my ears. Here in Phoenix, just after the mob demonstrations, the illegals were going into their employers demand raises and benefits.

Wonder how much Vicinte Fox pays in benefits?


25 posted on 06/10/2006 8:57:37 AM PDT by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: nj26

It's clear you care only about bashing Bush, not about immigration.


26 posted on 06/10/2006 8:58:31 AM PDT by stevestras
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To: nj26

All we have to do is keep this up - show all of Washington (it's not a one man show) that WE WANT ILLEGALS DEALT WITH, and EVENTUALLY, they'll have to get the message. Yes....it may take a while, but it'll be worth it!


27 posted on 06/10/2006 9:00:32 AM PDT by NordP (GWB/Reagan Republican --- JACK BAUER PATRIOT)
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To: NordP
"590,000 immigration fugitives"

I guess it's more than just "food growers" & "building builders".
28 posted on 06/10/2006 9:06:16 AM PDT by Rick Deckard
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To: BIGZ

"What part of ILLEGAL is it that these people do not understand?"

The part that says deportation is meaningless until a wall is built and our border is secured?


29 posted on 06/10/2006 9:10:11 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (Tancredo '08)
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To: managusta

"Six million in five years....12 million in 10 yrs."


Deny them jobs and welfare (housing, medical, food stamps, cash, etc), as suggested by Tancredo, they'll deport themselves and it won't take 10 years!


30 posted on 06/10/2006 9:14:44 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (Tancredo '08)
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To: Rick Deckard

Good they are afraid. Step up these operations and make them so afraid they will go back to Mexico or whatever other hellhole they came from.
I am going to send them a note to please, please, please hit my town soon. We are overrun with illegals.


31 posted on 06/10/2006 9:16:40 AM PDT by sheana
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To: RVN Airplane Driver
Finding illegals here in Texas is about as difficult as tracking an elephant in a snow bank

Same in California. Illegals line the streets waiting for work...AND THEY CAN'T FIND THEM! I rerally wonder if there is hope for this country.

32 posted on 06/10/2006 9:17:39 AM PDT by jetson
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To: Rick Deckard
“People hide, and they don't come out.”

Better yet, they should just leave.

33 posted on 06/10/2006 9:24:23 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: sheana
A side benefit to these operations is the illegals' "grapevine". Word gets out FAST when these raids happen. A lot of bang for the buck.
34 posted on 06/10/2006 9:26:59 AM PDT by Rick Deckard
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To: Rick Deckard

In California the illegals have been left alone and coddled so long that it actually has to be IN the neighborhood to make any of them afraid.


35 posted on 06/10/2006 9:31:07 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Kimberly GG

Tooche!


36 posted on 06/10/2006 9:36:42 AM PDT by BIGZ
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To: Rick Deckard

Great news. I don't like it when law breakers feel completly untouchable and feel like they can walk the streets with impunity.


37 posted on 06/10/2006 9:36:45 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: Rick Deckard
Two people were arrested after they accidentally rear-ended an agency van and were found to be undocumented.

DOH!

38 posted on 06/10/2006 9:40:03 AM PDT by SmithL (If they can't find Hoffa, it proves he never existed.)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

"Finding illegals here in Texas is about as difficult as tracking an elephant in a snow bank..... The problem is that no one will do it....local police never ask...no wonder it has gotten out of hand.."

Here in Vegas I could find you a hundred in a day without breaking a sweat.


39 posted on 06/10/2006 9:44:52 AM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: onyx; SoCalPol; All

Another creative solution {though not as good as deportation!}

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640452/posts?page=6#6


40 posted on 06/10/2006 9:45:36 AM PDT by b9 ("the [evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party] alternative is unthinkable" ~ Jim Robinson)
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