From the NY Times:
In a four-day immigration dragnet stretching from the suburbs north of New York City to eastern Long Island, federal law-enforcement officers arrested 54 illegal immigrants with criminal records who had previously been deported but had secretly re-entered the country, officials said Friday.
The tally was the largest number of once-deported immigrants ever ensnared in a single operation by immigration agents, said a spokesman in the New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security.
The roundup, which began on Monday and ended late Thursday, reflected a strategy shift by the Obama administration, which says it is focusing its enforcement efforts on catching and deporting immigrants who had been convicted of crimes or posed a national security threat. The announcement of that shift came after advocates for immigrants complained that government agents were more often sweeping up illegal immigrants with no criminal histories.
Immigration authorities announced last month that they had deported a record number of immigrants over the previous 12 months; more than 195,700 of the deportees, or about half of the total, were convicted criminals. By comparison, during the last fiscal year of the Bush administration, which ended in September 2008, about 32 percent of all deported immigrants were criminals.
John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the operation this week “underscores ICE’s commitment to strategic, sensible immigration enforcement that enhances public safety.”
“ICE will continue to target, arrest and remove those who come to this country to pursue a life of crime rather than the American dream,” he went on.
Federal agents made arrests in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens; in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island; and in Orange and Westchester Counties north of New York City, officials said. The suspects, most of whom were arrested at their homes, included citizens of the Bahamas, Belize, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama and St. Kitts.
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advocates for immigrants complained that government agents were more often sweeping up illegal immigrants with no criminal histories.
This is BS - if you are here illegally than you now are a criminal thus 100% of any individual who entered our country with without legal permission is a criminal.
"stretching from the suburbs north of New York City to eastern Long Island, federal law-enforcement officers arrested 54 illegal immigrants with criminal records who had previously been deported but had secretly re-entered the country"
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From the north to the east, and all they got was 54!?!?!?!
Among the suspects was a 39-year-old Dominican man convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault involving a child
Vibrant and Perverse!!!!
Maybe they should change the slogan to:
Perversity is OUR Strength!!!
The suspects, most of whom were arrested at their homes, included citizens of the Bahamas, Belize, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama and St. Kitts.
Wow! That sounds like the AP Calculus class at Stuyvesant High School!!
NOT!!!
ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS!!!
54? CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU? I can count 54 illegals in Woodside from
Queens Blvd to 37th Ave standing outside waiting to get picked up for day laborer work.
There's about 154 of them standing around Hart Park in Woodside. Can't believe they only picked up 54.
If you are a deported felon and return to the U.S,thapenalty should be death.......
"illegal immigrants with no criminal histories"
They already became criminals with the first step on our ground Mr.Obama jackass.
For some reason most these beaners and central American shits are drunks, felons, perverts or whores for some reason.
Deport them all
Waste of time deporting them. They come right back. The ones deported should be microchipped so there is better detection the next time they come back. By the way, once they set foot on our soil through illegal means, they are criminals. Round them all up.
Just shoot the dam parasites and leave the bodys in the desert as scaircrows.
I'm in Southold right now the parasites from Flanders are on bicycles begging for $$ and work. At night they are in the woods trying to poach peoples pet animals and BBQ kettles.
---fed up
Joe
WTF? Were 54 illegal aliens already at home? OK, please let the public know, how they were able to get housing? Public assistance? Expose the nature of the "illegal alien" and the continuity of their illegal stay. How many anchor children have they disregarded? yes!, disregarded! Wait, Public Assistance, Food Stamps and Medicaid, must help raise these children. Hopefully, they will be healthy and happy adults. I want to know Who, enables these individuals? What are the names, dates and places of these criminals activities? Where can we see their profiles? When is departure time? Why are my neighbors fearful of INS? How pathetic is this post? Hey, "Freedom of Speech" in English, "Does it get any better?
"Immigration authorities announced last month that they had deported a record number of immigrants over the previous 12 months; more than 195,700 of the deportees, or about half of the total, were convicted criminals."
I was wondering why the 7 train was a bit less crowded these days...
not one illegal asian from flushing,queens ??????
Maspeth Mom says...
Yesterday, there were half dozen waiting in the little park behing Tiffany Deli on Hamilton Place/
65th Place.
Our taxes at work!
Gotta luv it!
From the north to the east, and all they got was 54!?!?!?!
On a 5 block stretch on 69th Street between Queens Blvd and Roosevelt Ave there are 554 of these folks drooling at the women headed to the subway to work. Some are waiting for charity trucks to feed them and most are waiting for construction, painting and landscaping businesses driving up to hire them.
A full time INS crew in this area for a year could net 554,000 illegals.
Now: how about the illegal women having the anchor babies whom are all at the hospitals and city clinics with their broods to get free health care while you wait behind them dying? Arrest these ugly short fat champion spread eagles and deport them back to their homelands. in fact tattoo them on the forehead to insure they are easily ID'd in the future.
Have no fear watch Obama and the bums shove "The Dream Act" up our ass before the new people take office in Jan.
Above is true btw.
The woman next door Suzie R.I.P died from a heart attack filling out paperwork and insurence red tape at the hospital wile on vacation in California. The ilegals were being taken care of immeadietly
54? Go to corona. Ride the 7 train. If only there was a crime stoppers like number where you can call to report an illegal. If they did and had a reward, I would be a very rich man!!!
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