Thread: ID:Immigration officials detain 16 illegal workers in Nampa

I.C.E. News Release

December 4, 2008

16 illegal workers at Nampa company arrested in ICE operation


BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 16 Mexican nationals this morning on administrative immigration violations at an Idaho wood framing company.

The illegal workers, all of whom are male, were employed by Idaho Truss in Nampa, Idaho, and will be placed in deportation proceedings. The arrests are part of an ongoing ICE worksite enforcement investigation.

All of those taken into custody were fingerprinted and photographed. They were also interviewed by ICE agents to determine if they had any medical, caregiver or other humanitarian issues. The interviews assist ICE in determining whether an individual will remain in ICE custody or be eligible for an alternative to detention based on humanitarian factors while they await a hearing before a federal immigration judge.

ICE initiated this investigation after reviewing the employment records of individuals who were helping build military housing at Mountain Home Air Force Base. Further investigation revealed that some of the workers may have secured employment using false Social Security numbers and other counterfeit identity documents.

"The lure of jobs in the United States continues to be one of the primary factors fueling illegal immigration," said Leigh Winchell, special agent in charge of the ICE Office of Investigations that oversees the agency's activities in Idaho. "This investigation is directly tied to ICE's effort to target those who violate our country's employment laws."

Since its establishment in 2003, ICE has dramatically enhanced its efforts to combat the unlawful employment of illegal aliens in the United States. During fiscal year 2008, ICE made 5,173 administrative immigration arrests at worksites nationally. In addition, 1,101 criminal arrests were made in connection with worksite investigations.

To help employers build a legal workforce, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has an initiative called the ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers or IMAGE. IMAGE is designed to build cooperative relationships between the government and businesses, strengthen hiring practices, and reduce the unlawful employment of illegal aliens. The initiative also seeks to gain greater industry compliance and corporate due diligence through enhanced training and education of employers. ICE strongly encourages employers to review IMAGE program materials available at www.ICE.gov.

ICE was assisted in this investigation by the Metro Violent Crimes and Gang Task Force based in Nampa and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

-- ICE --

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was established in March 2003 as the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE is comprised of five integrated divisions that form a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities.

Last Modified: Friday, December 5, 2008
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0812/081204boise.htm

The scourge of ICE and the American citizen-- is the concept of "profiling". For some reason--looking at a person and noticing oor mentioniong he/she is black (for example), has become politically incorrect and is avoided lest one be accused of bigotry, racialism or whatever.
I called ICE to report work crews in my neighborhood who were short, dark and spoke Spanish. I was dismissed out of hand. I was , brusquely asked, "How do you know they are illegals?", (How the heck would anyone know without checking.) "Do you speak Spanish, are you sure it was Spanish?" I felt that I was being attacked as a nusance caller.

Later I spoke to a person who is heavily involved in the illegal immigration combat and he told me that even ICE was afraid they would be accused of profiling. He also said that he believed in spite of the curt way I was handled that my information would be put into a list that, based on time available , would be looked at.
I don't--I felt like I was the illegal.

So I ask you out there, how does one determine that anyone is illegal?? Am I a bigot, a racist? because I notice an entire work crew is short, dark and speaks Spanish???

Originally Posted by misterbill

So I ask you out there, how does one determine that anyone is illegal?? Am I a bigot, a racist? because I notice an entire work crew is short, dark and speaks Spanish???

Political correctness has become so extreme in the US that it is automatically assumed, in the Detroit area where I live, that White people need to be fired from their jobs in order to get revenge for Slavery. It is also thought to be a good thing to steal from White people so that "black people can get back what was stolen from them in the first place" and when Black people kill white people in random shootings and robberies, it is thought to be an "expression of Black rage" for the "400 years of bondage Blacks have had to endure at the hands of their white masters".

Since smart Latino civil rights activists realized that there was alot of money and power to be gained by accusing White people of being racist against Mexicans and oppressing them in the same way that they oppressed Blacks, there is never going to be a time in which you will not be accused of being racist against any Hispanic person working at a job site, you will always be accused of being racist for even noticing and you will be lectured in smug, divisive tones that this country was really their's to begin with and that "the white man stole it from them".

Get used to it. Political correctness has completely destroyed this country and you will always be considered the enemy of good people everywhere.