Thread: AZ-I.C.E. to Open Investigation Office in Flagstaff

Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Open Investigation Office in Flagstaff
By Ray Stern
Tuesday, May. 26 2009 @ 11:21AM

Image: ICE PowerPoint presentation

The U.S. Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is seeking a supervisor and agents to operate a recently approved investigation office in Phoenix.

The news, (first reported in the Arizona Daily Sun yesterday), comes after about two years of talks for such an office.

ICE has offices in Phoenix, Tucson, Douglas, Nogales, Sells and Yuma, but nothing north of the Valley.

"Now it's just a question of staffing and getting things organized," said ICE spokesman Vincent Picard.

Apparently, city leaders are squeamish about how the move will be perceived by residents of Arizona's highlands. As the above-linked article shows, a raid last year by ICE was met with protests by area activists and caught the attention of the ACLU.

ICE is scheduled to give the Flagstaff City Council a PowerPoint presentation at this evening's meeting, with emphasis on the idea that ICE is not coming to round up illegal immigrants.

ICE has two main divisions, the Office of Investigations and Detention and Removal. The latter office is more "administrative," as Picard puts it.

Last year, ICE Detention and Removal packed up and sent home a record 73,000 illegal immigrants. Picard says the focus of the investigative agents at the planned Flagstaff office will be on criminal organizations.

According to the PowerPoint presentation, (which you can read by clicking here), ICE now has about 390 agents employed in the state, of which 311 are special agents.

Tags: city council, flagstaff, ice, illegal immigration, immigration and customs enforcement


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ICE is scheduled to give the Flagstaff City Council a PowerPoint presentation at this evening's meeting, with emphasis on the idea that ICE is not coming to round up illegal immigrants.

Excuse me isn't that what ICE is suppose to be doing,,,enforcing all of our immigration laws...these people are a real piece of work!

Apparently, city leaders are squeamish about how the move will be perceived by residents of Arizona's highlands. As the above-linked article shows, a raid last year by ICE was met with protests by area activists and caught the attention of the ACLU.



Where did they get this load of compost from?

My husband's family is amongst the first Spanish families which settled in Flag and most are still there with the rest of us within short driving distance away.

The "Old Towners" like my husband's family and the many lifelong friends he has there, were all but throwing going away parties when illegal aliens started clearing out of there in literal droves about a year ago.

There is no great concern among anyone about the ICE office......well, with the exception of, maybe, the little training-wheels activists attending NAU and the stray IA .

In fact, everyone was rather glad to see it go in. Going through Flagstaff is a major smuggling route and evidently this office will do away with some of the issues which arose in the past when it came to detaining smugglers and their cargo.