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Refugio (TX) restaurant owner pleads not guilty to harboring immigrants.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times ^ | March 22, 2017 | Beatriz Alvarado

Posted on 03/23/2017 9:00:54 AM PDT by CARTOUCHE

A years long Department of Homeland Security investigation into a Refugio (pron. Re-fury-o) restaurant owner yielded 18 counts against him.

Alfredo Plascencia-Leon was arrainged Thursday morning in U.S. Magistrate Judge Janice Eliington's court. The 46 year-old pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of harboring immigrants in the country illegally, one count of conspiring to conceal, harbor or shield the 16 immigrants from detection and one count of furnishing firearms to an undocumented person.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: harboring; illegals; weapons
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The owner of the restaurant wasn't very bright to think that he could get away with this for long especially in such a small community as Refugio which is on the 'underground railway' between the border and Houston. That leads me to believe he had procured them to staff his restaurant, otherwise why would they stop in Refugio when they could have continued on and blended-in successfully in Houston.
1 posted on 03/23/2017 9:00:54 AM PDT by CARTOUCHE
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“Who you gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?”


2 posted on 03/23/2017 9:02:37 AM PDT by simpson96
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I like that. The part about being arrested for harboring.


3 posted on 03/23/2017 9:04:29 AM PDT by ichabod1 (The Wise Cracker)
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Actually, this is just one of many places in south Texas that harbor them. Unfortunately, for this guy, he got caught.


4 posted on 03/23/2017 9:05:55 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Probably one of those restaurants where you could eat off the floor.

Because the dishes and silverware are so disgusting.

5 posted on 03/23/2017 9:07:34 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Refugio = Shelter in Spanish.................


6 posted on 03/23/2017 9:08:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: CARTOUCHE; SouthTexas

PING


7 posted on 03/23/2017 9:08:40 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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Can they use this law against the Mayor of Los Angeles


8 posted on 03/23/2017 9:09:42 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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I wonder if Homeland Security ever heard of Los Angeles?? There are about 100,000 Illegal Aliens within walking distance of me currently being given Harbor and Aid by the City Leaders


9 posted on 03/23/2017 9:11:33 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: CARTOUCHE; Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; ...

The 46 year-old pleaded not guilty to 16 counts of harboring immigrants in the country illegally, one count of conspiring to conceal, harbor or shield the 16 immigrants from detection and one count of furnishing firearms to an undocumented person.
______________________________________

From the 1996 immigration laws signed by Bill Clinton...

Enforcing the laws...its a good thing !!!

:)


10 posted on 03/23/2017 9:12:45 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Immigrants are Invited, Invaders are Repelled.


11 posted on 03/23/2017 9:13:44 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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We’ve been down here in Corpus for four years and I still can’t figure-out how Refugio got to be Re-fury-O.

In a couple more months as the temperature gets around 100 everyday in the brush country the story will turn back to the bodies found on ranchers properties.

In a couple more years that story and the harboring angle may be over and gone with as that big beautiful wall goes up.


12 posted on 03/23/2017 9:14:30 AM PDT by CARTOUCHE (Deep State has a tap root.)
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Betcha the Clintons regret that law......they love sucking up to latinos.


13 posted on 03/23/2017 9:16:09 AM PDT by Liz ( w W)
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>>>one count of furnishing firearms to an undocumented person<<<

It’s okay, Eric Holder and Obama did the same thing.


14 posted on 03/23/2017 9:16:09 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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15 posted on 03/23/2017 9:16:58 AM PDT by doug from upland (Hey, traitor Democrats. I have a tree. I'm sure another FReeper has a rope.)
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Bingo KC. Imagine the defense lawyer trying to intoduce that bit of evidence.


16 posted on 03/23/2017 9:18:08 AM PDT by CARTOUCHE (Deep State has a tap root.)
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To: doug from upland

4CHAN have been watching internet enabled border cams and tipping off BP when they see them coming across.


17 posted on 03/23/2017 9:20:04 AM PDT by ichabod1 (The Wise Cracker)
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He probably has a gaggle of high priced pro-bono open border lawyers who will obfuscate the case for as long as possible to tie up the court system. The judge will most likely be dumbfounded by their legal stature and let them make a circus of his courtroom.


18 posted on 03/23/2017 9:21:37 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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If you don’t ask

They won’t tell.

And your lawyer says then you can claim not to know.

101: Klintoonistas Constitutional law course, second lesson.
(1st lesson: Deny, Deny, Deny . . . )


19 posted on 03/23/2017 9:22:59 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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It’s a start. Time to start nailing employers and enablers of illegal aliens to the wall. It’s also time to start targeting “sanctuary cities”, “sanctuary counties”, and “sanctuary states” with criminal prosecution along with civil financial punitive damages.

Make the message crystal clear to the states: violate federal law, aid and harbor illegals, side with foreign nationals, and you lose all federal protections, and you lose your statehood.


20 posted on 03/23/2017 9:23:12 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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