Posted on 08/08/2007 1:30:43 PM PDT by radar101
Four teenaged illegal immigrants went to a hospital with blistered feet, and four adults are in jail after Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies caught them speeding through the East Valley this morning,Cpt. Paul Chagolla said.
Chagolla said sheriff’s deputies stopped a late model Ford Explorer on Interstate 10 near Queen Creek Road on suspicion speeding and found 13 people inside. Deputies said five occupants of the vehicle fled the scene near Firebird International Raceway south of Chandler, but deputies apprehended eight others. The four adults were put in custody, but the juveniles were taken to a hospital because their feet were blistered after walking for six days through the Arizona desert.
One 17-year-old remains hospitalized, Chagolla said.
Deputies said they learned that the illegal immigrants were paying smugglers $2,000 to $3,300 for transportation to the United States. The immigrants were headed for Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio and Washington.
Chagolla said the arrests were made possible by information gathered via the Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s illegal immigration hotline: (602) 876-4154.
Rock on Sheriff Joe!
The headline should probably include, “Serious Crimes Prevented”. You can’t even come to the forum anymore without seeing very serious crime(s) having perpetrated by an illegal.
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Federal Immigration and Nationality Act Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii) “Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.” Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A): A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he: * assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or * encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or * knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Just lovely.
Remember to lock and load.
And be sure to jot down Sheriff Joe's phone #.
Yes, thank you! I will need it where I'm going... :0)
Um...good idea!!
But, but, but, Jorge told us that these are poor people only here to earn a little money to send home. How could so many hundreds of thousands of them come up with $2,000 to $3,300??? I know a lot of people with good jobs who can't scrape up that much.
And leave him a message in support of this Sheriff Joe program like I did.
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