http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ice/ en-us Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:15:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104258/posts In the six months since the Frederick County Sheriff's Office began working closely with federal immigration authorities, 183 illegal immigrants have been identified, detained and put on track for deportation, a crackdown that has spooked the area's Latino community and provoked accusations by rights groups of ethnic profiling. Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, the first law enforcement official in Maryland to sign a cooperative agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that since April, about 9 percent of all people arrested and taken to the county detention center have proven to be illegal immigrants. He called those results a success and said... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104258/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:15:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2101916/posts YORK, Pa. — A six-pound chunk of ice fell from the sky, through a York woman's roof and slightly injured her as she slept. The source of the ice wasn't immediately known, but experts say it might have fallen from an airplane or rocket. Mary Ann Foster says she's glad to be alive after a piece broke off and hit her on the forehead. The ice left the 66-year-old grandmother with a large bump on her head and holes in the roof and bedroom ceiling. She says the ice has a slightly fishy smell and looks like quartz. yorkdispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2101916/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:04:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096493/posts Deal helps avoid criminal charges in probe involving illegal immigrants A national waste disposal company has avoided federal criminal charges in Houston after agreeing to pay $3 million in fines and cooperate with an investigation of illegal immigrants hired by a local subsidiary. Republic Services Inc., with 13,000 employees and operations in 21 states, agreed Wednesday to pay the U.S. government $1 million and another $2 million to the city of Houston. The agreement involves criminal wrongdoing at the firm's Houston subsidiary, Republic Waste Services of Texas, located at 2010 Wilson Road. Republic Waste had a contract with Houston from... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096493/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:52:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095266/posts On September 25, 2008, Senators Menendez (D-NJ) and Kennedy (D-MA) introduced legislation (S.3594) that, among other things, would enforce the protection of fundamental constitutional rights of persons wrongfully ensnared by the sweeping immigration raids Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) regularly conducts. The legislation would also ensure that persons detained through immigration raids and in deportation proceedings are afforded humane treatment and provided with necessary medical care. [snip] Reports in the public media indicate that citizens and persons that are legally authorized to stay in the United States, in particular those of Latino origin, are increasingly caught-up in immigration raids. In... Market Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095266/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 22:43:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093687/posts An illegal Mexican immigrant living in Hope Mills has been charged with sex crimes involving a teenage girl. Erick Cisneros-Zavala, 25, of the 4800 block of South Main Street, was arrested Friday at a home he shared with a relative, according to a news release from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Bail was set at $15,000, according to the release. He was charged with statutory rape, statutory sex offense against a child and taking indecent liberties with a child. Investigators said the offenses occurred Thursday with a 14-year-old girl. Debbie Tanna, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Office, said Cisneros-Zavala was... FayObserver http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093687/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:13:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093577/posts Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents announced Monday that 1,157 people have been arrested in an illegal immigration sweep in California. The sweep, which ended last week, was conducted during the past three weeks in Southern California and the Bay Area.The operation led to the arrest of more than 300 people in San Diego and Imperial counties, The San Diego Union Tribune reported Monday. At least 125 of those suspects have criminal histories, the newspaper said.Most of them had returned to the United States after being deported or have failed to comply with court orders to leave the country, ICE spokeswoman... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093577/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:07:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091920/posts Jose Herrera said he came to the United States when he was 7. Arrested at an Immigration raid recently and detained for three months in Cook County Jail, he has a court case pending in which he's trying to gain permanent residency. "I have a 7-year-old child to support," said Herrera, 25. "These raids don't do any good. They just separate families." He joined more than 100 people Wednesday night who marched and held a candlelight vigil in the western suburbs in an effort to halt raids, address inhuman conditions at Immigration detention centers and urge enactment of a state... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091920/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091177/posts The Bradley County Sheriff's Office identified three illegal aliens and turned them over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Wednesday. According to reports from the sheriff's office, there have been 34 individuals identified as illegal aliens, through incarcerations, since the beginning of this year. Public Information Officer Bob Gault said the three individuals identified Wednesday were already incarcerated at the county jail. The sheriff's office recently joined the Federal Criminal Alien Program offered by U.S. Immigration and Customs. The program allows the correction staff in the jail's booking office to check the immigration status of inmates by questioning them on... Cleveland Daily Banner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091177/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:48:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090938/posts The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office has identified 34 incarcerated individuals as illegal aliens and turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation this year, officials said. And on Wednesday three more illegal aliens were turned over to ICE. Sheriff Tim Gobble said he expects the number of illegal aliens identified and turned over to ICE for deportation "will accelerate and increase as a result of joining the Criminal Alien Program (CAP)." Sheriff Gobble said he is still interested in the federal 287g program "which will allow us an even greater ability to identify illegal aliens and... Chattanoogan.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090938/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:41:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088512/posts HUNTINGTON BEACH - Surf City police have referred 262 suspected illegal immigrants arrested in connection with various crimes to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as part of a relationship police established more than a year ago. Those who were referred to ICE for detention were arrested from March 2007 to August of this year on suspicion of endangering the public’s safety by committing crimes such as burglary, assault or driving under the influence, Huntington Beach police officials said. Huntington Beach police typically made 450 arrests a month during that same time period. ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said any local... Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088512/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085535/posts A gay immigrant argues compellingly before a federal appeals court about the anti-gay persecution in his home country. Nearly four years into his detention, Damion Bromfield has finally won legal sympathy for himself and other gay immigrants who fear persecution if returned to countries hostile to gays. The ruling from the federal appeals court granting Bromfield another chance to argue for political asylum sets a strong and supportive precedent for other gay immigrants arguing for asylum or to not be removed from the U.S. based on fear of persecution. Bromfield is a Jamaican being held at the Northwest Detention Center.... The Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085535/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:11:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088370/posts 175 Alleged Gulf Cartel Members and Associates Arrested in Massive International Law Enforcement Operation "Project Reckoning" Leads to the Seizure of $60 Million and More Than 40 Tons of Illegal Drugs From One of Mexico's Largest Drug Trafficking Cartels NEW YORK - Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced that 175 individuals were arrested on Sept. 16, 2008, on charges related to an international drug trafficking cartel in a coordinated enforcement action by hundreds of international, federal, state and local law enforcement officials throughout the United States and Italy. Including the operations announced today, a long-term investigation of one of Mexico's... ICE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088370/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:00:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087901/posts OAKLAND -- A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent opened fire today on an armed man who grabbed her purse in Oakland's Chinatown, police said. The off-duty agent was walking near Ninth and Franklin streets in downtown Oakland when she was accosted shortly after 6 a.m. A man with a gun demanded her purse, but the agent pulled out her own weapon and opened fire, police said. San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087901/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:51:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087503/posts A huge gemstone that could become the world’s largest polished round diamond has been found at the Letseng Mine, owned by Gem Diamonds, in Lesotho, southern Africa. It weighs 478 carats and is the twentieth largest ever found. Gem Diamonds says that initial examination suggests that it has a flawless centre and could produce a 150-carat round-cut white diamond worth tens of millions of pounds. It would dwarf the 105-carat Kohinoor in the Crown Jewels. The largest rough diamond found was the Cullinan, in 1905, which weighed 3,106 carats uncut. The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087503/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:14:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087337/posts Nearly one in 10 Hispanics in the U.S. reported that in the last year police or other authorities have stopped them and asked them about their immigration status, the Pew Hispanic Center said in a report released Thursday. The finding comes amid the biggest crackdown in decades against illegal immigration – one especially evident in Texas, the No. 2 destination for such migrants. Municipal police in several suburbs of Dallas, including Irving and Carrollton, have stepped up cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Nationally, deportations or removals of Mexicans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans from the interior of the United States have doubled... Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087337/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:38:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085856/posts Hercules, CA (AP) -- Federal agents have taken 21 undocumented workers into custody after a raid of house in Hercules. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman says the raid of the five-bedroom home Wednesday came as part of an investigation into a chain of Chinese restaurants in San Pablo, Vallejo and Vacaville. ICE says since 2007 it has been investigating the family that owned the home and a chain of restaurants, including King's Buffet in Vacaville, AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085856/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:41:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085529/posts A gay Jamaican man — one of the longest-held detainees at the Northwest Detention Center — has won a second chance to remain in the United States after a federal appeals court in a ruling this week pointed to a "pattern and practice of persecution" of gays in his Caribbean homeland. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered an immigration judge to reconsider the case of Damion Bromfield, who is seeking something akin to political asylum 15 years after he first came to the U.S. as a legal immigrant — and more than a decade after he came out... The Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085529/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:03:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085397/posts Hurricane survivors are being put at risk in Texas and other hot weather states because the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is no longer providing ice in relief situations, say watchdogs, relief workers and local leaders in Hurricane Alley. Chad Lavergne searches through his home, destroyed by Hurricane Ike, in search of documents and personal items, in Bridge City, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Hurricane survivors are being put at risk in Texas and other hot weather states because the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is no longer providing ice in relief situations, say watchdogs, relief workers and local leaders... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085397/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081164/posts Latest Covert Radio Show is Rocking. We talk to Debbie Schlussel at Debbie Does Politics.com about a huge scandal inside ICE. Hezbollah owns a DO inside? Unreal. Then we talk to Bill Roggio from LWJ, where we talk about AQI in freefall. Seriously, Al Qaeda in Iraq is a mess! Then we look at Mexican denials about AQ and terrorists coming across the Mexi Border and a breaking story about AQ recruiting inside the Palestinian Camps of Lebanon. Huge Show Capping a Huge Week! 60 Minutes Covert Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081164/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:19:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078804/posts PATERSON - Ramadan this year began with a little thanksgiving. On Saturday, a few dozen area Muslims and public officials gathered in the foyer of the Passaic County Administration Building for the county government's lighting of the Islamic crescent moon. The ceremony, now in its 10th year, marks the start of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of prayer and fasting that began this year on Sept. 2. But while the ceremony was meant to commemorate the 1,400-year-old tradition, the men and women in attendance observed, and praised, a more recent event. On Thursday, a federal immigration judge struck down an... northjersey.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078804/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:39:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072489/posts PARIS (AFP) - Scientists Sunday said they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland icesheet -- a prospect, once the preserve of doomsayers, that would see much of the world's coastline drowned by rising seas. The researchers found that the great Laurentide icesheet which smothered much of North America during the last Ice Age melted far swifter than realised, dumping billions of tonnes of water into the ocean. Yahoo new http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072489/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 18:03:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072023/posts PICKENS — Illegal immigrants arrested in Pickens County are walking back into the shadows after serving their time or paying their fines, according to officials. More than half of arrested illegal immigrants are released on the orders of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said Capt. Phil Sargent, jail administrator for Pickens County. The mission of ICE is “to more effectively enforce our immigration and customs laws,” but most of the agency’s Web site is devoted to anti-terrorist activities. Numerous phone calls by the Independent-Mail to various ICE offices, including one in Puerto Rico, led to dead ends in trying... Independent Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072023/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:20:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069849/posts Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions. Friction between the union and immigrant workers, along with a tipoff at an electrical manufacturing plant, boiled over this week into the biggest workplace immigration raid in the nation's history. When the first of the 595 suspected illegal immigrants was taken into custody Monday, some fellow workers broke into applause. Union members said they resented immigrants, who were often allowed to work as much as 40 hours of... mywaynews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069849/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:30:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069094/posts LAUREL, Miss. (AP) - Federal officials say nearly 600 suspected illegal immigrants were detained in a raid on a manufacturing plant in southern Mississippi, making it the largest such sweep in the country. A spokeswoman says more than 100 of those caught up in Monday's raid on Howard Industries were released based on humanitarian concerns, mostly because they have children. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069094/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:59:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068666/posts Largest such sweep in the country. breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068666/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:30:52 GMT