Thread: Los Angeles Police Arrest More Than 120 Illegal Immigrants

Los Angeles Police Arrest More Than 120 Illegal Immigrants

Updated: June 6th, 2007 11:48 AM PDT

Story by knbc.com



LOS ANGELES --

Federal prosecutors and immigration officials will announce Wednesday the arrests of more than 120 illegal immigrants with criminal or prior arrest records and membership in Los Angeles-area street gangs.

The arrests took place during a 90-day operation that led to the indictment of more than 50 of the suspected gang members on federal drug, weapons and immigration charges, according to a notice distributed in advance of Wednesday's formal announcement.

The acting U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles, George Cardona, will be present at the 11 a.m. news conference to discuss the arrests and charges, along with Robert Schoch, special agent in charge at the Los Angeles office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


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sounds like little over one-a-day a part time meter maid with Narcolepsy
can do better then that

I'm sure the mayor of LA is preparing to pardon all of his fellow countrymen as we speak.

Originally Posted by JimH

I'm sure the mayor of LA is preparing to pardon all of his fellow countrymen as we speak.

Either that or they've been ordered to put on a show by arresting the "criminals" and gang members under the pretense of securing our country prior to trying to shove the bill down our throats.

Originally Posted by WhatMattersMost

Originally Posted by JimH

I'm sure the mayor of LA is preparing to pardon all of his fellow countrymen as we speak.

Either that or they've been ordered to put on a show by arresting the "criminals" and gang members under the pretense of securing our country prior to trying to shove the bill down our throats.

Not to mention the fact that ex-gangbanger, current member of MEchA, former president of LA Chapter of the ACLU, Mexican Mayor of LA, Tony Villar, has been campaigning full time from the first day he was elected two years ago...to be the next CA Governor.

Now...he can't decide whether he wants to be Hillary's VP or Governor before he becomes the first Mexican President (of the US, of course)!

He is also Hillary's National Campaign Director!

P.S. He's going for the Guiness Book of Records MOST PHOTOGRAPHED POLITICIAN IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE title! He's almost there! He never met a camera he didn't like.

Dozens of foreign gang members nabbed in L.A. area

Jun 6, 2007, 20:40 GMT


LOS ANGELES - Dozens of Mexican and Central Americans with ties to violent southern California street gangs have been arrested or indicted on drugs, weapons and immigration charges, immigration officials in Los Angeles said on Wednesday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said 124 gang members had been arrested in southern California over the last three months as part of a nationwide operation against gang members who come and go across the southern U.S. border and commit crimes ranging from murder, robbery and drug smuggling.

Fifty-six foreign nationals linked to more than two dozen Los Angeles area street gangs have been indicted on federal criminal charges that include re-entering the United States after deportation.

Most are Mexican but the group also includes people from Guatemala, El Salvador and Belize.

The officials did not provide figures for previous periods and it was not possible to determine whether such arrests and indictments have increased or decreased.

'The foreign national gang members we're targeting are career criminals -- brutal thugs who, in many cases, prey on members of their own immigrant community,' said Julie L. Myers, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

'We want to send a clear message to these gang members: we will deal strongly with those who ignore our immigration laws and place our neighborhoods at risk,' Myers said.

U.S. immigration agents have been working with federal and state law enforcement agencies as part of the crackdown aimed at taking gang members off the streets of Los Angeles, which police and city officials have dubbed the gang capital of the world.

The city of Los Angeles is home to an estimated 400 gangs that were blamed for more than half the city's 478 murders last year. Hundreds more gangs flourish in greater Los Angeles and neighboring counties.

Many Los Angeles street gangs trace their roots to Central America and its civil wars of the 1980s that prompted a flow of immigrants to southern California.

One of the six people arrested in Los Angeles last week as part of the probe was named as Pedro Barboza-Serrano, 40, a Mexican national and reputed member of the Los Angeles Eastside Longos gang whose record includes prior convictions on drug charges, robbery, burglary, and spousal battery, officials said.

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