Posted on 01/23/2007 9:23:37 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Federal officials have arrested 119 people in Contra Costa County in a weeklong illegal immigration crackdown, and they had deported 16 as of Monday.
This portion of the yearlong "Operation Return to Sender" took place primarily in Concord and Richmond and targeted fugitives who had ignored final deportation orders, said Timothy Aitken, deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention and removal office in San Francisco.
ICE is the agency that now performs the enforcement functions of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Agents also picked up 94 other undocumented immigrants they encountered in the process, he said.
Latino community advocates said the enforcement action has sown fear in East Bay immigrant communities.
Just over half of those arrested were Mexican citizens, he said. The rest were from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, India, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Fiji and Brazil.
Of the 119 people arrested, 18 were criminals, said Aitken, including people who had been convicted of possession of a controlled substance, possession of dangerous weapons, annoying and molesting children, disorderly conduct and driving under the influence with prior convictions.
"We want to go after the worst of the worst; we go after people who have ignored a judge's order," Aitken said. "But we can't be blind to someone who doesn't have lawful status in the United States. We wouldn't be doing our job if we ignored those people."
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Isn't Contra Costa a separate country? Do we have some sort of extradition treaty with them? ;-)
Of the 119 people arrested, 18 were criminals, said Aitken, including people who had been convicted of possession of a controlled substance, possession of dangerous weapons, annoying and molesting children, disorderly conduct and driving under the influence with prior convictions.
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The gift from Washington, DC, that just keeps on giving.
I think CC is in California...
Counta Crimalien.
"Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda are just a few of the cities in it."
Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda are in Alameda County. Contra Costa is over on the east side of the Berkeley Hills.
How about the ten thousand or so in Birmingham?
Botched that one up good, arrghh.. Thanks!
Walnut Creek, Antioch, Pittsburg, Orinda come to mind .
Thanks and Thanks!
ping
I live in Contra Costa County. The raids are primarily in Richmond and San Pablo, which are mostly low income cities with large Latino populations.
I am so VERY sorry that these raids make the "Latino community" nervous. Law abiding Latinos have nothing to worry about. Illegals do.
I am always amazed when liberals, like the ones quoted in the article, complain that police should not do their jobs because it may cause the "Latino community" to not "trust" the cops.
I don't give a crap whether they "trust" the cops or not.
If you're illegal - go home! Then you have nothing to fear.
Tsk, tsk..so much for Homeland Security..
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The Home Depot in El Cerrito/Richmond has a hundred or so day laborers loitering along it's borders on any given day .
wish they would come to la and santa barbara and take out the trash
yeah, they could easily deport 119 a day from that areaa easily for a year and then there would be a dent and that would mainly be that like cockroaches they would scurry elsewhere. If we could get them all scurrying south of the border and lock the gat, well then that is my dream.
gat=gate
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