Invaders arrested at South Windsor business

Journal Inquirer — Manchester, Conn.
Eight East Hartford residents were to appear today and Wednesday in immigration court after they were stopped by federal authorities and South Windsor police on their way to work. — The group was stopped in the driveway of Nutmeg Recycling on Rye Street on Feb. 20 by federal and local police, acting on a tip that there would be cocaine in the minivan and that they were involved in drug dealing and human trafficking. — There were no drugs or evidence of human trafficking, police said. After being detained for about an hour, the eight went to work at the recycling plant. But they were issued citations from the Federal Department of Homeland Security to appear later for “processing” at the federal office building in Hartford, accused of being in the country illegally… Read More

Suspected invaders busted at seafood joint

WJHG-TV — Panama City Beach, Fla.
Youngstown, Fla. –Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Bay County Sheriff’s Deputies raided a Youngstown business Wednesday, arresting several suspected illegal immigrants. — They executed a search and seizure warrant at Webb’s Seafood around 9:30 Wednesday morning. Walter Smith, who represents owners Robert and Janet Webb, says I.C.E.. Officials arrested 10 workers who were detained 3 years ago for using fake documents to enter the country. — They were deported but, according to Smith, were allowed back in the country on work visa’s. 7 other workers were arrested and are facing possible deportation for allegedly using false information to get into the country… Read More

Fired invaders toss fit, engage in shameless baby-waving

Berkeley (Calif.) Voice
Along with their supporters, about 200 former Pacific Steel workers who recently lost their jobs after an immigration audit marched from downtown Berkeley on Friday morning to the steel plant in a peaceful protest of immigration laws. — Midmorning traffic was blocked for about an hour on two of Berkeley’s major thoroughfares, University Avenue and San Pablo Avenue, as the group made its way to the plant. No arrests were made, according to Berkeley police. —  Fourteen-year-old Metzli Blanco, whose father lost his job of 12 years at the plant, took a microphone down the street from the Second Street plant and summed up what many in the crowd said with their signs and songs… Read More

Restaurant owner fined for hiring invaders

KABB-TV — San Antonio, Texas
The owner of a Northwest side restaurant is ordered to pay a hefty fine for hiring [invaders]. — Hossein Bagheri, the owner of Salsalito Cantina on Bandera Road, was ordered to pay $750,000 in fines this morning in federal court. — He was also sentenced to five years probation… Read More

17 invaders arrested in crackdown on street vendors

KGET-TV — Bakersfield, Calif.
For the first time, five local, state, and federal agencies joined forces to crack down on illegal street vendors on Valentine’s Day. During the sting operation, 17 people were arrested for being in the country illegally. — Gustavo Martinez comforted his children Wednesday outside his brother’s northwest Bakersfield home. Martinez is trying to grasp the uncertainty of what comes ahead. His wife, Leticia, was arrested Tuesday while selling flowers in front of the family’s piñata shop. — “I passed by and saw two men in uniforms inside our store and I thought they were sheriffs,” said Gustavo Martinez. The family had a business permit, but they didn’t have one to sell flowers… Read More

Corrupt Obama Regime is a lobbying firm for illegal aliens, says Congressman

Jim Kouri, CPP — The Examiner
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week announced the appointment of a public advocate to handle complaints and questions about the administration’s immigration enforcement policies. — This new position will serve as a point of contact for illegal and criminal immigrants in deportation proceedings as well as NGOs and other community and advocacy groups. However, not everyone is celebrating this latest announcement. — “The [Obama] administration all too often acts more like a lobbying firm for illegal [aliens] than as an advocate for the American people,” said Republican Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX)… Read More

Invader arrested for re-invading after deportation

Westerly (RI) Sun
Elaine Morgan knows Myrna Limon as a hard working Mexican woman who owns a consignment store in Ashaway and a local housecleaning business. Dominic DiFazio knows Limon as a longtime area resident who has been legitimately paying taxes – and trying to obtain U.S. residency – for years. — But federal immigration enforcement officials say Limon isn’t who she says she is: Her real name is Luz Maria Perez- Acevedo, and she’s been living in the U.S. illegally since an earlier deportation in the late 1990s. – Westerly police arrested the 53-year-old Pawcatuck resident Monday on a charge of reentering the country illegally, after learning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) held a warrant for her arrest… Read More

MCSO busts 2 invaders with fake IDs

KTVK-TV — Phoenix
Maricopa County sheriff’s detectives arrested two people during an investigation into a north Phoenix maid service business. — Detectives determined that employees were using false identification to unlawfully gain employment. — MCSO served search warrants on the company headquarters near Cave Creek and Bell roads Wednesday morning. Detectives arrested two employees and seized business documents and computers… Read More

Agents getting fed up with Comrade Obama’s antics

New York Times
The federal agency in charge of deportations is conducting a far-reaching training course to push immigration enforcement officers and prosecutors nationwide to focus their efforts on removing immigrants convicted of crimes. — The training course is the clearest sign yet that administration officials want to transform the way immigration officers work, asking them to make nuanced decisions to speed deportations of high-risk offenders while halting those of illegal immigrants with clean records and strong ties to the country. The policy is President Obama’s most ambitious immigration initiative before the November elections, senior administration officials said. — But in a new sign of the deep dissension over immigration, the union representing some 7,000 deportation officers of the agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, has so far not allowed its members to participate in the training… Read More

Activist judge halts key parts of SC illegal immigration law

Associated Press
Columbia, SC — A federal judge on Thursday blocked several provisions of South Carolina’s tough new immigration law from taking effect New Year’s Day, including a requirement for law officers to check the immigration status of people they pull over if officers suspect they are in the country illegally. — U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel’s ruling also blocked sections making it a state crime not to carry immigration paperwork or for illegal immigrants to transport or house themselves. — “While the Court does not doubt the good faith of the South Carolina General Assembly in attempting to address the immigration issue, the Constitution of the United States and the (Immigration and Nationality Act) have placed the policy-making role regarding immigration in the hands of the national government,” the judge wrote… Read More…