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    13 Suspected Illegals Walk Away from Cops (CO)

    I hope this isn't a duplicate. I haven't seen it and it's not showing up when I search but sometimes I miss them.



    13 Suspected Illegals Walk Away From Cops
    Local, State, And Federal Agents Turn Away

    POSTED: 9:44 pm MDT August 7, 2008
    UPDATED: 6:13 am MDT August 8, 2008


    AURORA, Colo. -- Going 75 mph in a 55 mph zone seemed like a simple speeding ticket. Instead, the stop along Interstate 70 Wednesday morning would highlight an immigration system that is still full of holes.

    A red Dodge minivan was pulled over going eastbound near Tower Road at 9:19 a.m.

    According to the police report, the Aurora officer found a driver and 13 passengers in the van. Further investigation revealed that all 13 said they were picked up in Mexico two days prior by a man offering to get them work in Kansas.

    Valente Cantoral-Herrera, 33, faces 13 counts of human smuggling and assault charges for allegedly injuring one of the Aurora officers who responded. Despite several phone calls to state and federal agencies though, all 13 suspected illegal immigrants, including several women and a 12-year-old boy, were set free.

    "It's certainly our position we want to work with Immigration. But, as a local agency, we are not in the business of enforcing immigration law," said Aurora Police Detective Bob Friel.

    In the arrest report, one policeman writes, "I then inquired about the CSP task force that was formed for this issue." Officer Javen Harper was told "they only act as a type of liaison between police and ICE."

    The state patrol's Immigration Enforcement Unit was formed in July 2007. They did not respond to the scene. A spokesman, Sgt. John Hahn, said, " We can't respond to calls within city limits. This is a problem for all of us in law enforcement. If we responded to every call, it would require resources we don't have."

    Citing operational constraints, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement also refused to respond.

    "ICE responds to the vast majority of calls from local jurisdictions.On rare occasions, we don't have the manpower to spare," said ICE regional spokesman Carl Rusnok in Dallas, Texas.

    In April, Aurora's city council approved an expansion to its immigration detention center near I-70 and Peoria, nearly quadrupling it to hold 1500 people. None of the 13 suspected illegals was brought there. In the end, a police sergeant and commander told the officer on the scene to let the suspected illegal immigrants go.

    They were last seen walking south, away from I-70.

    "At that point, they disappear into society. We've lost track of them," said Friel.

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    Good grief, they didn't take them into custody. They could hold them until ICE comes to the jail. What idiots.
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    Yep. That's how it works, no one is responsible and the Congress has not ordered the citites to be responsible.

    A police officer pulled over three of the 9-11 hijackers and one was on the CIA watch list. All three were let go and allowed to "disappear into society". At least, all three had driver's licenses.

    No ID, go to jail under the Patriot Act. The Aurora jail needs the Criminal Alien Program (CAP).

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    This is why Im Here, this crap is ruining our lives in Colorado, and ALIPAC is the only place that cares enough to help do something about it!!

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    I read this article this morning and it is similar to the above story in CO, yet the illegals were taken to ICE in Charlotte but in CO they were let go. Is it going to be the case everywhere that ICE will become overwhelmed and not be able to respond to these kinds of things? It just makes no sense that they were let go when it was stated they were just picked up from Mexico.

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    Video shows why suspected illegal immigrants were let go
    written by: Colleen Locke reported by: Paula Woodward 4 hrs ago

    AURORA - When Aurora Police released 13 suspected illegal immigrants onto the streets of Aurora after a speeding stop in August, police told 9 Wants to Know they got hundreds of e-mails and phone calls from angry citizens.


    9 Wants to Know obtained the dash cam video of the incident at Interstate 70 and Tower Road.

    On the video, the officer that stops the van with the people inside reports, "It's a red Dodge Caravan occupied by about 15 illegal immigrants."

    After calling for backup, the officer tries to get help from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A half-hour later, three more Aurora officers arrive to remove the suspected illegal immigrants from the van. Forty-seven minutes later, ICE agents still haven't arrived.

    "ICE isn't going to do anything with them, you know, because they don't have any bed room for them," the officer says on the video.

    Two hours and 21 minutes after making the traffic stop, the officer lets 13 of the 14 people go. Aurora Police arrested the driver of the van because he had an outstanding warrant from ICE.

    Federal law says only ICE or officers trained by ICE can determine if people are here illegally and arrest them. If ICE can't respond and there are no outstanding warrants, the officers have to let the people go.

    9 Wants to Know spoke with a number of country sheriffs. Nearly all of them said ICE field agents don't have enough people to do the job they are being asked to do.

    "Unfortunately, media coverage centers on the rare occasions when ICE is unable to respond due to higher operational priorities, staffing constraints, or both," said Carl Rusnok with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Dallas, speaking about the incident in Aurora.

    Attorney General John Suthers is sympathetic to the ICE field agents. He says the agents work hard and do a good job, but there simply aren't enough of them.

    "They can't simply respond in a matter of minutes and local authorities can't hold them indefinitely waiting for ICE to respond," said Suthers.

    9 Wants to Know called all 64 sheriffs in the state to find out how often law enforcement has to let suspected illegal immigrants go. Only the Cheyenne County sheriff keeps track. Since July 2007, deputies caught 62 suspected illegal immigrants. No one now knows where any of the 62 people are today.

    Aurora Police also don't know where any of the 13 people released in the August traffic stop are today.

    Seth Donovan from Coloradans for Immigrant Rights has spent four years working for immigrant rights. She believes there aren't good answers for illegal immigrants packed into vans, but says understanding the desperation is a start, and the problem has to be fixed at the national policy level.

    "Fourteen people in a minivan is finding a desperate way to survive, to get somewhere that you can work. These people are trying to get somewhere that they can survive as a human being and also provide for their families," said Donovan.


    http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=105345
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