ICE arrests nearly 450 illegal immigrants in sanctuary city raids

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ICE arrests nearly 450 illegal immigrants in sanctuary city raids

As part of a massive illegal immigration sweep, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Thursday that officials this week arrested nearly 500 illegal immigrants living in sanctuary cities across the country.

The raid, referred to as “Operation ‘Safe City’” in a news release, spanned four days in cities through the U.S., and ended Wednesday.

Illegal immigrants with criminal charges or known gang-affiliations were targeted, the release said, noting that recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were not.

In Philadelphia, 107 illegal immigrants were arrested, while 101 were arrested in Los Angeles and 45 people were arrested in New York.

The release noted that 18 of the 498 people arrested were gang members or have gang affiliations.

A Mexican illegal immigrant in Los Angeles who was arrested is a member of the Colonia Chiques gang, a group dubbed one of the “largest and deadliest gangs” in southern California’s Ventura County by the FBI.

That immigrant, who was found with a handgun, allegedly rammed a number of law enforcement vehicles in an attempt to escape from authorities.

Sanctuary cities – or cities that don’t cooperate with federal immigration policy – have become a heated topic as the Trump administration has pushed for a stronger crackdown on illegal immigration.
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I work with people on H1B visas, and if they can’t get on track to get a green card, they have to leave when their visa expires. Yet nobody is up in arms about that. Yet when people crawl under the fence, we are supposed to treat these people special. I just don’t get it.
 
Theo520 said:
Sanctuary cities – or cities that don’t cooperate with federal immigration policy
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This is false. They do what the law requires. They refuse to act as federal ICE agents. This is an instance where subsidiarity comes into play. Local police serve the communities, not federal officers. Let ICE do the dirty work. If my police force started acting as ICE agents they would lose the trust of the community.
 
stinkcat_14 said:
I work with people on H1B visas, and if they can’t get on track to get a green card, they have to leave when their visa expires.
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They don’t have to. They can just stay and probably nothing will be done to them. Or they can be like a Chinese guy I worked with who stole someone’s identity. Whatever they do it isn’t like as soon as the visa expires agents showmup to put them on an airplane. Immigration across the board is a disaster.
 
Approve. Get 'em out. Sanctuary cities need to learn that they live in a democracy, and not island kingdoms of their own rule.
 
I do not get why this is news. Isn’t this their job? Turn it around. Would it make news because local police enforce traffic laws because federal agents refuse to work traffic?
 
J_Peterson said:
This is false. They do what the law requires. They refuse to act as federal ICE agents. This is an instance where subsidiarity comes into play. Local police serve the communities, not federal officers. Let ICE do the dirty work. If my police force started acting as ICE agents they would lose the trust of the community.
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I’d say there is much grey area and it’s between “what’s required” and “what’s legal” for them to do.
Do they want to be a good partner with the Feds, or thumb their nose at them.

Lose trust of the illegal immigrant law breaking community??
 
pnewton said:
No, they lose trust with all of them. I will remind you that ICE deports all illegal immigrants.
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FYI, by definition all illegal immigrants are breaking the law.

IMHO the police should focus on building trust with their legal citizens, as their priority.
 
Oh, and have you had a lot of experience on the streets dealing with criminals?

And no, not all, by definition are breaking the law.
 
I was able to read this, and do appreciate what you were doing there.
 
pnewton said:
Oh, and have you had a lot of experience on the streets dealing with criminals?

And no, not all, by definition are breaking the law.
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Yes, they are breaking our immigration laws, no ifs or buts about that.
No, that doesn’t make them a hardened criminal. I like that Trump admin is targeting those with actual rap sheets and gang affiliations, not overstays.

I’ve worked with ex-cons trying to restart their life and with street/foster kids, never worked in enforcement though. How about you, and what point were you trying to make with this line of questioning?
 
exnihilo said:
They don’t have to. They can just stay and probably nothing will be done to them.
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Not so, actually. The difference between someone who’s overstaying an H1B visa (or any other visa attached to a job) is that ICE knows where to find that person when the job engagement is over. And they will be found. They’re not working under the table, they’re not getting paid in cash, and they’re not using faked or stolen IDs.

Believe me, I know. I’ve been through this on a personal level.
 
Inisfallen said:
Not so, actually. The difference between someone who’s overstaying an H1B visa (or any other visa attached to a job) is that ICE knows where to find that person when the job engagement is over. And they will be found. They’re not working under the table, they’re not getting paid in cash, and they’re not using faked or stolen IDs.

Believe me, I know. I’ve been through this on a personal level.
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You cherry picked your scenario. Most visa overstays are not here on an H1B visa and ICE probably doesn’t know where to find them.

H1B visas mostly just get renewed.
 
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Theo520 said:
You cherry picked your scenario. Most visa overstays are not here on an H1B visa and ICE probably doesn’t know where to find them.

H1B visas mostly just get renewed.
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I didn’t cherry-pick anything – I was responding to stinkcat_14, who specifically mentioned H1B visas, that’s all.

I’m familiar with this situation because:

(a) I work for a firm with offices in many countries, which brings people over on H1B visas (among other kinds of visa) all the time. They’re not renewed automatically. There’s a limit of, I believe (I haven’t checked this) six years, after which the visa holder must remain outside the United States for at least a year before getting another visa (or a renewal of the existing visa. There are, of course, some exceptions in some circumstances, but I believe that’s the basic rule.

(b) I’m married to an immigrant who went through the whole process. She now has permanent legal resident status, so we don’t have to worry about the future, but we (she, mostly) went through the whole thing for years before getting her green card.
 
In Philly the Mayor is concerned illegals will feel unsafe in their homes,
I guess all of America should be a safe space for illegals, plus where’s their group therapy.

philadelphia.cbslocal.com

ICE Agents Arrest 107 In Philly In National Immigration Sweep

Federal Immigration agents rounded up more than 100 people in the Philadelphia area in the last four days, as part of a national crackdown on illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities.
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