Thread: TX- Houston Police raid day laborer pick up site

HOUSTON, July 1 .- proinmigrantes groups and activists condemned the operation conducted by agents of the Houston Police (HPD) during which they were arrested between 10 to 15 laborers. They also claimed that the first operation of arrests is part of a larger plan of HPD to arrest the workers left and right and send them to the county jail "Harris, to be deported, said an activist.

According to versions of fellow laborers who were arrested on Wednesday, July 1 in the morning, HPD officials arrived in the area of Bellaire and Hillcroft streets, in the southwest of the city, was arrested without further rounds of Hispanics, by the way, I look forward to potential contractors to give them work, and no police to stop them.
Witnesses who spoke with the day police said they found this place in 3 or 4 and two patrol vans. Those arrested were mainly workers who were standing or sitting on the berm (splitter) and the central side of Hillcroft Street, opposite the supermarket recognized. Also arrested were those who were close to a seafood restaurant, a block of that intersection.

Abuse
"The police tried either bowed. Ordered to throw them against the ground hot or boiling on the floor and there were also putting them handcuffs and chains, "said a worker who saw the whole operation. "Once they were handcuffed, grabbed one by the one and stuck with a lot of violence in the 'van' (van)," he added.

Several workers said that since last week the officer Henry Canales was killed in the parking lot of a pharmacy located in Bellaire and Hillcroft, police officers in Houston have been harassed further. But we are people who only want to work. The cops go mad, but other people should not pay for what happened. We are undocumented, but we are not criminals, "said a laborer. "This is retaliation," said another worker.
Furthermore, workers said that for days began to run rumors among employees that "the INS would come to us all." And Wednesday morning, failed the "migration", but the police arrived.

Mrs Maria Jimenez, who is leader of the organization grows, was talking to day laborers who were not arrested or those who escaped the arrest and immediately sent a protest letter to HPD and demanded explanations about the operation.

Picture Day / José Carrera
This photo was taken on Wednesday June 23 in the morning (a day after the official channels were murdered in the area) and we are seeing a police patrol in Houston with his Speaker ordered that the day laborers were on the sidewalk of the grocery store located between Bellaire and Hillcroft, clearing the place. Jimenez said that the upcoming July 13, the activists had scheduled a meeting with the Chief of Police of Houston, Harold Hurtt, one of the themes that were to discuss this issue and is rightly the subject of 287 (g). "Originally, (the meeting) was about 287 (g), but this plan shows how easily apply or may turn into a criminal misdemeanor and disturbing not only to undocumented people, but with papers," said Jimenez.

A comprehensive plan
The activists said they learned of the existence of a "secret" of the HPD, as it received information that the police department had planned to carry out raids against the day laborers waiting to be working in the area of the road 8 and Bellaire Street . After receiving information that the plan was put on hold, but the police raid occurred Wednesday.
The plan had a number of stages, including "educational" (without specifications) and a "warning" to employees that they would be arrested and that the Harris County Attorney's Office charged with "criminal invasion of private property." With this plan, workers would be arrested in one way or another, being in the ownership of business or being on the sidewalk, to obstruct the passage or not having an identification, said the activist.

Constitutional violations
An email sent to different organizations Jimenez said: "This means that once the workers are arrested, be sent to the Harris County jail, from where they would be handed over to immigration authorities (because the prison is working closely with immigration authorities through the 287 (g)). And Jimenez says in the message: "The plan includes serious violations of constitutional rights of workers."
All the identities of those arrested is unknown, but one of them is called Carlos Gonzalez Aguirre, Jimenez said. It is still not known what happened to the detainees, if it ends in the hands of immigration authorities or not.
Even before the operation on Wednesday, activists contacted the officer Rafael Pantoja, Division of Community Affairs and the Houston Police let him know to pass the word to his superiors that "we intend to monitor implementation of the plan , especially as it comes to the issue of violation of civil rights and constitutional and that we will have a team of attorneys ready to arbitrary arrests when they occur during the operations. "



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"The plan includes serious violations of constitutional rights of workers."

. . . if you're an American citizen worker.

The activists said they learned of the existence of a "secret" of the HPD, as it received information that the police department had planned to carry out raids against the day laborers waiting to be working in the area of the road 8 and Bellaire Street . After receiving information that the plan was put on hold, but the police raid occurred Wednesday






Oh, the pro-illegals learned a "secret".....aren't they just so special

Way to go HPD, let out the "secret" and then show up on a different day......brilliant

What Constitutional rights? These idiots are criminals and their only right they have is be deported.

Glad to see this happen. I am fed up with seeing these dirty scumbags in parking lots drinking beer and waiting on some to give them something to do.

ICE should also do a reverse sting and arrest people who offer them jobs. They are just as big of a part of the problem.

With this plan, workers would be arrested in one way or another, being in the ownership of business or being on the sidewalk, to obstruct the passage or not having an identification, said the activist.

We call it panhandling or loitering. How IGNORANT can one be. Knowing they are here ILLEGALLY and then COMPLAINING they are being tageted for arrests. YEAH! THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS (and confess to that) and they are trespassing and loitering and panhandling (on ones property). DUH! that is still against the laws here in America.

Originally Posted by bigtex

What Constitutional rights? These idiots are criminals and their only right they have is be deported.

Glad to see this happen. I am fed up with seeing these dirty scumbags in parking lots drinking beer and waiting on some to give them something to do.

ICE should also do a reverse sting and arrest people who offer them jobs. They are just as big of a part of the problem.

The worse one I seen was a bunch of illegals drinking beer beer covered by a paper bag leaning on the military recruiting building. It is about 2 blocks southwest of the Home Depot in North Miami Beach. I regret that I never took pictures of it. That would have really caused an outrage by those who seen it. I could have sent it to Lou Dobbs, Glen Beck and others and put it on U tube.

It's about time police enforce our laws.Enough with tip toeing around and cowering to the ACLU,LULAC,LaRaza.

If Police all over America would grow a pair IA's would stop flaunting their disrespect for our laws and the IA enablers would go nuts trying to defend all the IA's arrested and deported.

Sounds like a plan to me.

U.S. Patriot the problem in non santuary cities is that ICE will not show up and pick them up or delay it so long that police officers have to set illegals free and go answer calls for service. In one South Florida city there was a fire and police rounded up 12 illegals and had them handcuffed ready for ICE and ended up letting them go. Many police departments have the same problem. Border Patrol is another problem. I personally know many officers who caught illegals committing misdemeanors and rather than arrest them where they would be freed back on our streets they would drive them to the Border Patrol office in a neighboring city. Many times the officers would be told: "what do you want me to do with them?" Yet when Cubans stage a landing (they get smuggled in and meet with relatives and then a groups shows up in the early morning or late night pretending to just have arrived) the authorities speed to the site. I hear it alot and many officers and deputies would write comments after certain articles in the comment sections in newspaper articles. Too bad the police union or someone won't go forward and get that information out there.

Originally Posted by uniteasone

We call it panhandling or loitering. How IGNORANT can one be. Knowing they are here ILLEGALLY and then COMPLAINING they are being tageted for arrests. YEAH! THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS (and confess to that) and they are trespassing and loitering and panhandling (on ones property). DUH! that is still against the laws here in America.

Unfortunately in Houston our city allows panhandling as long as they are not aggressive. Meaning they can stand on the corner holding a sign but can't get off the curb. Of course no one enforces this law. There are very few corners you pull up to in Houston where crack heads and alcoholics don't run up to cars to wash their windows.

We also have laws against consuming alcoholic beverages on the premises of any place that sells it. Unless they have a on premise consumption permit. So convenience stores in Houston usually have illegals and other Mexican workers hanging out drinking. Again, no one bothers enforcing that law either.

Police drive by and see this happening and usually do nothing. We were at a corner close to where this raid took place on time and saw a police car stopped at a light where there were illegal alien day workers aggressively asking for jobs when cars stopped. Again, nothing was done and the illegals were not phased by police presence.

Honestly it is just getting disgusting!

I live north of Houston and not been able to find any reports to verify this.
Has anyone else seen any news reports.

If true, it is encouraging.