Thread: Feds Focused

Salazar makes me see RED.


Feds Focus on Identify Theft in Raids


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 13, 2006
Filed at 9:53 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal officials said Wednesday that the raids on meatpacking plants in six states uncovered a ''disturbing front'' in the battle against illegal immigration -- identity theft as a tool to obtain employment.

The raids against Swift & Co., a Greeley, Colo.-based meat processor, added up to the largest-ever workplace crackdown on illegal immigration, said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

Some 5 percent of the 1,282 arrests resulted in identity theft charges, and Chertoff said the number probably would rise as agents look into more workers' cases and into rings of vendors who steal and sell illegal documents.

''Violations of our immigration laws and privacy rights often go hand in hand,'' Chertoff said. ''Enforcement actions like this one protect the privacy rights of innocent Americans while striking a blow against illegal immigration.''

Observers on both sides of the immigration debate were somewhat skeptical, calling Chertoff's crackdown on identity theft a new refrain in an old song.

Advocates for more enforcement said they had little faith that the Bush administration would keep up the raids because the president supports a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country now.

''This is a little bit of enforcement to create a cover for amnesty,'' said Steven Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors vigorous immigration enforcement.

On the other side, immigrant rights groups said the raid terrorized thousands of workers and their families but did little to the employers or the people who sold the workers the documents in the first place.

''We've been doing raids for 20 years, and the immigration problem is soaring,'' said Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, an immigrant advocacy group. ''You can't restore the rule of law until you respond to the law of supply and demand.''

Attorneys for the United Food and Commercial Workers filed papers in federal court in Denver on Wednesday saying the arrests of the Greeley workers violated their constitutional rights. The filing claims that those arrested are being denied access to lawyers and that their whereabouts are unknown.

Chertoff said the raids highlighted a need for the guest worker program, which would cut down on the demand for illegal documents.

He also asked for more tools from Congress to allow his agencies to detect when Social Security numbers are being used by multiple people. Swift participated in a program known as Basic Pilot, which snags false Social Security numbers but doesn't identify stolen identities.

An effort died in Congress this year to create a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Instead, Bush signed a bill this fall authorizing a 700-mile fence at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar, a Democrat who pushed for the guest worker bill, said he has talked with Democrats and Republicans who are open to reviving the legislation within the first six months of the new Congress.

''If you're going to address the problem, it needs to be addressed in a comprehensive manner,'' he said. ''It breaks my heart when I see the pictures that I saw in this morning's paper of scared children. That's not the America of law and order ... of compassion, that I know.''------

Associated Press Writer Judith Kohler contributed to this article from Denver.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-I ... ref=slogin

Chertoff said the raids highlighted a need for the guest worker program, which would cut down on the demand for illegal documents.

BAM! There it is folks, the motivation behind the raids. I knew the real purpose of this early Christmas gift would eventually come clear. Identity theft was just the gift wrapping, not the actual gift. The gift will come in the form of a massive guest worker program in the spring and it won't be in the form of an April fools either.

This is definitely a case of where we need to look the gift-horse in the mouth! I sure hope we're prepared for battle with the 110th U.S. Congress.

Chertoff isn't exactly the smartest bulb in the box. I can't believe he announced his true agenda so soon, especially after everyone was celebrating ICE for finally do the job they were supposed to be doing long ago. Everytime they make a move, I seem to lose more faith in our federal government.

i already have no faith in this government

and come JANUARY 17 if two heroes go to prison for doing their job, i will have even less faith in this government and wont be a happy camper till all these idiots are out of office and these guys out of prison

Originally Posted by MW

Chertoff said the raids highlighted a need for the guest worker program, which would cut down on the demand for illegal documents.

BAM! There it is folks, the motivation behind the raids. I knew the real purpose of this early Christmas gift would eventually come clear. Identity theft was just the gift wrapping, not the actual gift. The gift will come in the form of a massive guest worker program in the spring and it won't be in the form of an April fools either.

This is definitely a case of where we need to look the gift-horse in the mouth! I sure hope we're prepared for battle with the 110th U.S. Congress.

Chertoff isn't exactly the smartest bulb in the box. I can't believe he announced his true agenda so soon, especially after everyone was celebrating ICE for finally do the job they were supposed to be doing long ago. Everytime they make a move, I seem to lose more faith in our federal government.

Yup MW. Right on. Read your earlier post and thought the same thing.

Since this clown thinks it was a bad idea for the raid at Swift.
lets give this jerkoff a piece of our minds


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national HQ.. blast em with phone calls and emails

make sure to reference this quote in the NYTimes article

Attorneys for the United Food and Commercial Workers filed papers in federal court in Denver on Wednesday saying the arrests of the Greeley workers violated their constitutional rights. The filing claims that those arrested are being denied access to lawyers and that their whereabouts are unknown.


and let these people know that if you do a check on your personal info and find your numbers are being used at swift that the union will be taking to court for aiding and abetting a know felon in anyone here illegally.
and tell em that the raids are a good thing and that you hope they continue.. tell em that these illegals better not have any constitutional rights especially that they better not have the same rights as an american citizen who was born here.... blast em

LETS ROLL!!!

Attorneys for the United Food and Commercial Workers filed papers in federal court in Denver on Wednesday saying the arrests of the Greeley workers violated their constitutional rights. The filing claims that those arrested are being denied access to lawyers and that their whereabouts are unknown.

On the news this morning, I head that Our Lady of Peach Catholic Church in Greeley is having a forum for Illegals families busted in the Swift Raid. Local attorneys will be attending.

Didn't we all know this long ago? Is the government just waking up and smelling the coffee? Come on Washington, do you think we are all that nieve?

I am sure they smelled the coffee long ago.... it is the waking up part that is iffy.