Pro-Minutemen's Excellent Eye for Illegal News

Pro-Minutemen's Excellent Eye for Illegal News
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Category: Life

Why is it that when it comes to being awarded all of the good things that America provides - illegals get ALL of that! Yet when it comes to laws, being held accountable and having to pay their fair share the are not "awarded" the same dues.

I wish America would send EVERY ILLEGAL HOME and auction off their belongings to Americans who have technically paid for that stuff many times over through high interest rates, low paying jobs, less jobs, credit scams, insurance scams, mortgages that are out of reach of Mr. & Mrs America with 1 or 2 Kids (or worse, single parents), to weakened & abused medical services, overworked legal systems and crimes.

My mind started changing about the state of America when Cops and America's Most Wanted came out and I saw with my own eyes - they decay of our society and the implications of illegal influence in that!

~Samantha


Bankrupt hospital serving Hispanic immigrants closing
Submitted by Editor on August 16, 2004 - 16:00.

http://www.nshp.org/?q=node/717

Los Angeles, AP - A financially troubled hospital that served as a principal care destination for Hispanic immigrants must now close its doors and it has many concerned the closure will overwhelm resources in the city's remaining emergency rooms.

A federal bankruptcy judge Friday ordered the Elastar Community Hospital in East Los Angeles to shut down. The 80-year-old hospital has racked up more than $10 million in debt and it couldn't afford to pay its roughly 400 workers.

The hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last fall, but it didn't work. It has since been placed under Chapter 7 protection, which allows for a court-appointed trustee to begin liquidating its assets.

Elastar is the third hospital with an emergency room to close in the county this year.

"We cannot stand any more closures in an emergency system capacity in Los Angeles - this system is on the brink of absolute chaos," said Jim Lott, the executive vice president of the Hospital Assn. of Southern California.
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Study: Some Immigrants Re-arrested Up To 6 Times

http://wbztv.com/national/topstories_story_008084516.html

(AP) WASHINGTON Illegal immigrants who were caught but released in the United States may have been re-arrested as many as six times, Justice Department data released Monday indicates.

The findings by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine are based on a sampling of 100 illegal immigrants arrested by local and state authorities in 2004, the latest complete data available. They show that 73 of the 100 immigrants were arrested, collectively, 429 times - ranging from traffic tickets to weapons and drug charges.

Fine's office said its audit could not conclude precisely how many of the 262,105 illegal immigrants charged with criminal histories that year had been re-arrested. "But if this data is indicative of the full population of 262,105 criminal histories, the rate at which released criminal aliens are re-arrested is extremely high," the audit noted.

The audit was required by Congress in 2005, and parts of it were redacted because of security reasons. It looked at how local and state authorities that receive Justice Department funding to help catch and detain illegal immigrants are working with the Homeland Security Department.

It also examined the arrest rates of immigrants who were released - usually because of insufficient jail space - before they could be turned over to Homeland Security's bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In all, 752 cities, counties and states participating in the program received $287 million in 2005, the audit noted. Five states - California, New York, Texas, Florida and Arizona - received the bulk of the money, together pulling in more than $184 million.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff four months ago declared an end to the "catch and release" practice that for years helped many illegal immigrants stay in the United States unhindered.

At the time, the department was holding 99 percent of non-Mexican illegal immigrants in its custody until they could be returned to their home nations. The policy generally does not apply to Mexicans, who are almost immediately returned to Mexico after being stopped by Border Patrol agents.

The audit also looked at whether local and state authorities fully cooperated with Homeland Security efforts to remove illegal immigrants, and tried to determine how many had been released because of jail space or funding shortages. In both cases, Fine's office said it was unable to draw definitive conclusions.

It also found that at least one area - San Francisco - was receiving funding even though local policy specifically limits the information it gives to Homeland Security about immigration enforcement. San Francisco, which won $1.1 million, defines itself as a "city and county of refuge" and does not allow federal agents to view immigration jail records without permission from local police.

Assistant Attorney General Regina B. Schofield, who oversees the Office of Justice Programs, declined comment on the audit, noting it does not contain any recommendations.

© 2007 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved
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Anchor Babies - (If you steal something and everyone KNOWS you stole it, do you get to keep it?? No!!!)



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Most illegal immigrants turned loose

April 7, 2007

http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2007/04/07/news/nation_and_world/doc4617642051e3f780066626.txt

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - For all the tough talk out of Washington on immigration, illegal immigrants caught along the Mexican border have almost no reason to fear they will be prosecuted.

Ninety-eight percent of those arrested between Oct. 1, 2000, and Sept. 30, 2005, were never prosecuted for illegally entering the country, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data. Those 5.2 million immigrants were simply escorted back across the Rio Grande and turned loose. Many presumably tried to slip into the U.S. again.

The number of immigrants prosecuted annually tripled during that five-year period, to 30,848 in fiscal year 2005, the most recent figures available. But that still represented less than 3 percent of the 1.17 million people arrested that year. The prosecution rate was just under 1 percent in 2001.

The likelihood of an illegal immigrant being prosecuted is "to me, practically zero," said Kathleen Walker, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Federal prosecutors along the nation's southern border have come under pressure from politicians and from top officials in the Justice Department to pursue more cases against illegal immigrants.

But few politicians are seriously suggesting the government prosecute everyone caught slipping across the border. With about 1 million immigrants stopped each year, that would overwhelm the nation's prisons, break the Justice Department's budget and paralyze the courts, immigration experts say.

The Justice Department itself says it has higher priorities and too few resources to go after every ordinary illegal immigrant. Instead, the department says it pursues more selective strategies, such as going after immigrant smugglers and immigrants with criminal records.

T.J. Bonner, the union chief for Border Patrol agents, said the most effective solution would be to dry up job opportunities in the U.S. by cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants.

"The employers are the ones breaking the law," he said, suggesting the creation of an "idiot-proof" system to check the immigration status of workers and the prosecution of any employers who knowingly hire those in this country illegally.

"It's much like our tax laws: People don't pay their taxes out of an overriding sense of citizenship; it's a healthy dose of fear," Bonner said.

Under federal law, illegally entering the country is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine and up to six months in prison for a first time. A second offense carries up to two years. If an immigrant has been prosecuted and deported and then sneaks back into the country, he can be charged with a felony punishable by up to two years behind bars. Those with criminal records can get 10 to 20 years.

The federal figures on arrests and prosecutions were collected and provided to the AP by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University in New York.

The number of illegal immigrants arrested at the border is dwarfed by the number who make it through. "For every person we catch, two or three get by us," Bonner said.

Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said in a statement that 30 federal prosecutors have been added to the Southwestern border to handle the rising number of immigration and border drug cases and noted that securing more prosecutions would require hiring more judges and public defenders and building more courtrooms and jails.

Authorities also note that illegal immigrants who make it past the border are not necessarily home free. In the past year, immigration officials have conducted numerous raids on workplaces.

Boyd noted that the Border Patrol can charge illegal immigrants with civil violations punishable by fines of $50 to $250. But Border Patrol officials said most Mexican immigrants are not sent before a judge to be fined.

"The majority are offered and granted ... voluntary removal back to Mexico," said Xavier Rios, an assistant chief Border Patrol agent in Washington. "We don't seek to prosecute everyone."

Boyd said the Justice Department pursues charges if a case involves human smugglers, if an immigrant has a felony record in the U.S., or if he has been deported before.

"When you consider the other high-priority laws that the department is charged with enforcing, such as drug trafficking, firearms offenses, violent crime, national security, child pornography, and corporate fraud, the department is achieving a balance of immigration enforcement with other important areas," Boyd said.

Last month an undated internal Justice Department memo released as part of the congressional investigation of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys revealed that in Texas, most illegal crossers have to be caught at least six times before their case will be forwarded to prosecutors.

Still, some border regions have decided to crack down.

Along the Border Patrol's 210-mile Del Rio sector in West Texas, any illegal immigrant arrested since 2006 is jailed and prosecuted, under a federal project called Operation Streamline. It was briefly repeated along a narrow stretch of border in New Mexico. And Maricopa County, Ariz., officials are using a state anti-smuggling law to prosecute both suspected smugglers and the immigrants who pay them.

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, a former state judge, said that the prosecution rates amount to "dereliction of duty" and that the government should spend whatever it takes to lock up and deport every illegal immigrant.

"Prosecutors should not have the discretion to prosecute some people for violations of the law and not others, that's discriminatory," he said.

But Iliana Holguin, executive director of the El Paso Catholic Church's Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services, said that would mean the government would have to "massively increase the size of the court system, or it is going to collapse on itself under its own weight."

Holguin suggested changing the immigration laws instead to make it easier for workers to enter the United States legally.

"It's not a light decision to come to the U.S. illegally," she said. "If there was a legal way to fill these labor shortages or reunite families, they would do it."

11:08 PM - 6 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment
ScottA


The government has a lot of nerve to require a hospital to admit an illegal alien. The government told the hositals that they have to admit illegals. When the Hospitals responded saying " Hey, we don't care if we treat them, It's just, Who's going to pay for it ? Of course the government can't handle " uncomfortable " questions. They can't even manage paving our local roads. But would rather focus on that, As they have figured out how to skim monies from that enormous budget.

Meanwhile OUR Hospitals are deteriorating due to the attention and expense alines pose on Hospitals. For the most common of problems that they are too lazy and decide to go clog up our emergency room.

The positive is that several members from our local Group have filed a law suit against the City that granted " Sanctuary " status. It is my understanding the y are suing the Police Department as well.

We the people have a tremendous battle. Gather up your neighbors, get involved in the local City COuncil meetings, appoint team captains to keep osted on City hall's calender to know what they are talking about in your own town.

The one thing these SOB's who try to dream up decorated amnesty bills CANNOT defend is that, OUR SIDE is Right. It is the will of the people and ..., THE LAW!

The opposition is BREAKING THE LAW!!!!

-Scott

Posted by ScottA on Monday, April 09, 2007 at 4:03 AM
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Nevada Lights


That is the best news I have heard all month! The People SHOULD sue the Government for demanding that our tax dollars be used for illegal activity.

Americans have been WAY too nice. It's time to buck up.




Posted by Nevada Lights on Monday, April 09, 2007 at 6:35 AM
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"THE DEMON SLAYER"


Why not just execute them. They are nothing more than lifesucking cockroaches!

Posted by "THE DEMON SLAYER" on Monday, April 09, 2007 at 6:40 AM
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Nevada Lights


I don't condone shooting or killing other Human Beings but they certainly need to go home and stay home!!


Posted by Nevada Lights on Monday, April 09, 2007 at 7:01 AM
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Baboon Rising


Illegals need to protest their govenrement and make better lives for themselves in Mexico rather than suck out money from us without respecting our laws. They all need to be deported.

Posted by Baboon Rising on Monday, April 09, 2007 at 8:45 AM
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Nevada Lights


Yeah!!!!

I feel like slapping an old person....I am PUMPED!!!!


Posted by Nevada Lights on Monday, April 09, 2007 at 10:17 AM
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