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    Nine Irish people charged over illegal immigration in US

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    Nine Irish people charged over illegal immigration in US

    07:28 Wednesday May 10th 2006
    Nine Irish people have reportedly been charged over a plot to smuggle illegal Irish immigrants into the United States.

    Reports this morning said the nine were arrested during raids on homes in Boston, New York and Philadelphia last week.

    They reportedly include two bar owners accused of arranging payments to smugglers on behalf of illegal Irish immigrants.

    Most of the others have been charged with entering the US illegally.
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    http://www.unison.ie/worldnews/stories. ... si=1611332

    Immigration busts Irish smuggling racket in US

    Wednesday May 10th 2006



    US IMMIGRATION chiefs have smashed a sophisticated Irish-organised people smuggling ring involving the spiriting of emigrants into the US over the Canadian border.

    It is the second of its kind uncovered in the past two years and involved at least 40 people already banned from the US for overstaying their visas.

    In the latest crackdown, US government agents swooped on addresses in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Nine Irish people have been indicted for their involvement in the racket.

    Officers from the Buffalo Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested six of the nine, ending a two-year probe involving the FBI, ICE and US Marshalls. Those being held are: Sean McEvoy, Sean Whelan, Declan Whelan, Caroline McConville, Aiden Tully and James Shiel.

    And police are also looking for two Cavan men, Queen's pub owner Phillip Reilly, and Shane Russell, and a Dubliner, Peter Hennessey. It is believed Mr Hennessey returned to Ireland last week but it was not known last night if the US authorities will seek his extradition.

    One of the illegals smuggled in, Caroline McConville from Milltown, Co Down, had just bought a house in New York and was working at a restaurant near Ground Zero in Manhattan last Thursday when two ICE agents arrested her.

    She was later charged with the felony of crossing the border.

    On Friday, Ms McConville was released from Federal custody on $10,000 (€7,800) bail but handed over to ICE where she will remain pending the investigation.

    Mr Reilly is facing a lengthy prison sentence if convicted for smuggling illegal aliens across the border. Investigators believe he may have smuggled up to 40 Irish people but admit they have not been able to substantiate that.

    Mr Reilly is facing three counts of smuggling, which could see him face a 30-year sentence if caught and convicted. Those who crossed from Canada face two years in prison and deportation for the felony of re-entering the US after a ban.

    Ms McConville told investigators she was met in Canada and driven over by someone she did not know.

    Mr Hennessey and Sean Whelan are also accused of arranging for Declan Whelan to cross the Canadian border illegally on May 31 last year.

    Declan had been banned from re-entry to the US in May 1999.

    Sean Whelan is alleged to have paid for his brother to come back to America. It is also alleged in June last year, Mr Hennessey, with the money from local bar owner and Cavan native, Sean McEvoy, brought in Mr Russell, who had been banned from entering the US across the border illegally.

    Mr McEvoy, who is a partner in two Irish bars in New York, was arrested in Yonkers last week.

    Mr Hennessey, who had been working as a taxi-driver in Queens, is facing two counts of smuggling. Mr McEvoy, both Whelans and Mr Russell are facing lesser charges.

    Because Mr Reilly and Mr Hennessey are alleged to have charged for their service - some sources put the amount between $1,000 (€783) and $5,000 (€3,900) - they face a charge of profiting from a crime.

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    http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=17918


    6 arrested, 3 sought in immigration sweep
    By Ray O'Hanlon
    rohanlon@irisecho.com

    Nine Irish nationals, eight men and one woman, have been named this week in two federal indictments linked to an alleged people-smuggling operation on the Canada/U.S. border.

    And in a three-city dragnet, six of the individuals named were arrested in recent days by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    Three others are still being sought, an ICE spokesman told the Echo.

    "We are actively seeking them," the spokesman said.

    In separate development, meanwhile, two Irish nationals have been reportedly detained by immigration agents in Texas.

    There were no details on these reported arrests at presstime but there was no apparent link to the Canadian border arrests.

    Word of the Canada-linked detentions in New York, Philadelphia and Boston sparked widespread rumors and fear that immigration agents were engaging in a general round up of undocumented Irish.

    But the arrests were only related to one investigation, the findings of a grand jury in Buffalo, N.Y., and specific offenses linked to the nine and allegedly committed in May of last year.

    In New York, the Emerald Isle Immigration Center and the Aisling Irish Community Center in Yonkers released a joint statement in which they expressed the view that the "presence of six immigration officers...in the community did not mean a general targeting of Irish nationals.

    "It is very important that the public at large understand that this was a very specific enquiry and not a large scale crackdown," said Emerald Isle director Siobhan Dennehy.

    The six officers referred to in the statement detained the sole woman in a Woodlawn apartment last Thursday.

    The investigation charges that named Irish nationals "did encourage" other Irish nationals to attempt to illegally enter the U.S. in May and June of last year.

    Critically, neither indictment charges that the act of encouraging was motivated by profit. A financial element to the allegations would mean potentially longer prison terms in the event of guilty verdicts.

    As it stands, the charge of encouraging illegal entry, a felony, carries a maximum of five years jail, while the act of attempting illegal entry, also a felony, carries a potential two-year maximum term.

    In the first indictment - issued on behalf of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York - Peter Hennessy and John J. Whelan are charged with encouraging Declan Whelan, "who was an alien, to come to and enter the United States, knowing that and in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to or entry into the United States was and would be in violation of law."

    Declan Whelan is separately charged with attempting to enter the U.S. after being refused entry in 1999.

    Hennessy and John Patrick McEvoy are charged with encouraging Shane Lawlor to attempt to enter the U.S. in June of last year. Lawlor is charged with attempting to enter despite being denied entry on April 23, 2005.

    In the second indictment Phillip Reilly is charged with encouraging James Michael Shiel to enter the U.S. Shiel is charged with attempting entry after being denied it in October 2004.

    Reilly is additionally charged with encouraging Aiden Tully with attempting to enter the U.S., while Tully is charged with attempting to enter despite a refusal in April of last year.

    Reilly is further charged with encouraging Caroline McConville to enter while McConville faces a charge of attempting to enter after being turned back in December 2002.

    Gretchen Wylegala, assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District, said that the six who had been detained had been released on bail but were expected to turn up for a court appearance in Buffalo on May 18.

    The three being actively sought by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are Hennessy, Lawlor - who also goes by the name of Shane Russell according to the indictment - and Reilly, the ICE spokesman said.

    At presstime there was no indication that there were any additional warrants pending in the case.

    Coincidentally, the charges leveled against the nine are dated around the same period of last year that a Jesuit priest from Buffalo was charged with attempting to smuggle an undocumented Irish immigrant into the U.S. from Canada.

    The Rev. James Pribeck was slapped with a felony alien-smuggling charge following the arrest of the Irish national at a border crossing in Upstate New York.




    This story appeared in the issue of May 10 - 16, 2006
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    Federal authorities have refused to identify the 36 Mexican men arrested Wednesday morning during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Biglerville.

    How come it is that names and details of these individuals is out there for all to see. No names of arrestees were allowed by ICE to be released in the pallet company raids in Chicago?
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    Could be that the illegals rounded up at the pallet company will be released back into the population and the irish illegals will be deported. Seems they are one sided in arresting and deporting illegals.
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