Thread: Migrant Shot in Robbery

This is one reason why we need to have illegals deported due to it being too dangerous for them to be here. If people started saying that maybe we could get somewhere. I also don't agree with the task force as there are many armed robberies of businesses, citizens and burlaries and other crimes against Americans which should take priority. This is a chance illegals take by being here.

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Migrant worker hospitalized after being shot during armed robbery in Oakland Park
By Macollvie Jean-François | Sun-Sentinel.com
4:07 PM EST, December 15, 2007
OAKLAND PARK - A man is in the hospital after being shot during an armed robbery early Saturday, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.

The robbery in the 500 block of Northwest 39th Street occurred about 12:30 a.m., Sheriff's spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright said. The robbers made off with the victims' cell phones and cash, she said. Paramedics took the shooting victim to Broward General Medical Center, Coleman-Wright said.

The Sheriff's Office deployed a helicopter and brought police dogs out to search the area for suspects in the Lloyd Estates neighborhood, said the men's neighbor Sean Fernandez, 21. Fernandez said he heard four shots, saw one of his migrant worker neighbors stumbling on the sidewalk and asking for help, and he called 911.


"These guys, all they do is work," he said. "And then they come here and hang out. Somebody must've been watching them."

If so, the crime would be part of an ongoing problem Oakland Park officials have dealt with in the past. Day laborers and migrant workers are often targeted because they walk around with cash from their day's work, and they are often afraid to report the incidents to authorities because of their immigration status, the Sheriff's Office has said previously.

Back in September, the agency set up a robbery decoy operation in Oakland Park, in which undercover detectives pretended to be day laborers. Five people who tried to take those officers' cash were arrested on the first day of that operation. Oakland Park officers were to continue such undercover operations throughout the city.

The Sheriff's Office did not release any further information about the shooting.

Anyone with information is asked to call Broward County CrimeStoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-8477

afraid to report the incidents to authorities because of their immigration status

I'm so sick of this excuse. Now days, most crimes are reported over the phone and can be anonymous.

Dixie

If they are that afraid of the authorities then why aren't they afraid to hang out in public looking for day laborer jobs. Most people know they are illegal when they see them and anyone can call ICE on them without saying who they are. In fact these illegal day laborers keep showing up at the same places where the police are called on them almost everyday. That is what happens at the Home Depot on 163rd St. in Miami. At least 5 to 6 days per week calls like that came in to Miami Dade Police. I don't know how much longer that will happen as I personally called ICE on them.