I stopped to pick up the free newspapers today. It was interesting to see that two of them had stories about deportation. There is a picture if anyone can post it.


Six children and two women in distress after arrests
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By Leticia Espinosa Journal Today 312.527.8436 lespinosa@tribune.com

January 25, 2008
Chicago --
The brothers Alfredo and Miguel Angel Salgado stopped working as window cleaners because the activity stops for the winter. Already facing economic problems and had started a new job the day they were arrested by the Audit Bureau of Immigration and Customs (ICE) at his home.

It was about ten in the evening of 16 January, when ICE agents knocked on their doors in Logan Square. It was presented as police officers and arrested in front of their children and wives, told his relatives.

Yesterday their wives, Cynthia Ramirez and Veronica Avila, were facing the challenge of achieving $ 10000 dollars to pay bail of Michelangelo, as if unaware Alfredo reach bail or be deported.

Mothers of children 4 and 2 respectively, between the ages of 3 to 13 years, said they have neither the financial resources to hire a lawyer. Their husbands were the providers of housing and food.

Detainees in the garden

Ramirez told that her husband and brother-in-law were arrested by police in Chicago in April 2006, while cooked meat in the yard. "The police said that they responded to a call of domestic violence, but here there was no similar situation. They left under probation for 18 months, "said the woman.

According to Gail Montenegro, a spokesman for ICE, the arrests were made after another government agency provided them with information.

"We get a hint of another law enforcement agency. It is not uncommon to receive this report types of state or federal agencies, "said the official.

He added that before these situations "review the case and decide what we have to do." He also said that the ICE agents were federal police, and usually are identified as "police".

He explained that regardless of the type of charges that those involved have clashed with other authorities to be illegal immigrants at risk of being arrested and deported.

"There should be no surprise. Our job is to follow the tracks, "he concluded.

Iovana Navarrete, consul of protection, said that the Mexican Consulate will be attending to the families and will seek the possibility to be reduced bail from $ 10000 to Michelangelo and that might leave the country by signing a voluntary departure.

He also explained that the case of Alfredo is different because it includes a condition on its moral quality. The consulate said that work to be granted bail.

While Araceli Carrillo, the organization of Logan Square Neighborhood Association, is receiving donations of food and money to help the two women and their six children who were left without financial support.

"The emergency at the moment is to help complete the bond, and provide financial assistance to these families do not have to pay rent or food for children," he said.

Families are from Morelos and Guerrero, and detainees have lived in the United States for more than a decade.

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