Thread: ICE Targeting and Raiding the homes of DREAM Act activists?

BREAKING: Is the Mesa Police Dept through ICE Targeting and Raiding the homes of DREAM Act activists?

by Dee Dee Garcia Blase on Jan. 11, 2013

Erika Andiola is an Arizona DREAM Act student and prominent activist, and it appears her home may have been raided and targeted for retaliation purposes.

According to Jose Penalosa, Arizona Immigration lawyer in Phoenix:

The Mesa Police Department (PD) a few months ago stopped Erika’s mom for an alleged traffic violation. She was arrested and taken to their headquarters. Mesa PD took her biometrics and questioned her regarding this matter. Because it was a Saturday night, the Mesa PD cut her loose on her own recognizance. After the television exposure and Erika’s [immigration activism] video being posted on you tube, Univision, etc., [It is possible] the Mesa PD was not happy about the matter.

Did the Mesa PD some how contacted DHS after her mother’s first court hearing?

It’s possible the Mesa PD probably pushed the matter for an investigation. The DHS finally investigated the matter and they could have taken retaliatory action against Erika, her advocacy efforts, and her family allegedly on behalf of the Mesa PD. Frank Milstead is currently the Chief of Police of the Mesa Police Department: Main Number: 480-644-2030

DREAM Act and legal immigration reform activists are contacting John Morton, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano requesting asylum for Erika Andiola’s mother who fears being deported.

http://tucsoncitizen.com/hispanic-politico/2013/01/11/breaking-is-ice-targeting-and-raiding-the-homes-of-dream-act-activists/

Dream Act activist’s family taken into custody


By Danielle GrobmeierThe Arizona Republic-12 News Breaking News Team
Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:36 AM

Immigration officials took the mother and brother of Dream Act leader Erika Andiola’s into custody Thursday night but released one of them Friday morning.

Immigration and Customers Enforcement officials said the other individual, who has not been released, will be released soon.

According to the United We Dream group, ICE officials went to the family’s home Thursday night to take Maria Arreola and Heriberto Andiola Arreola into custody.

ICE officials said they took the the two into custody based on information from a prior arrest.

Andiola was a board member of the United We Dream Network, which is a network of immigrant youth, and is associated with the Arizona Dream Act Coalition.

ICE officials said a fuller review of the cases is ongoing.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/20130111dream-act-activists-family-taken-into-custody.html

Oh well.

ICE says activist's role didn't spur mom's arrest

Updated 10:35 am, Friday, January 11, 2013

• FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2012 file photo, young immigrant Erika Andiola, of Mesa, Ariz., poses for a portrait at a site where people line up to get guidance on a new federal program, called Deferred Action, that would help them avoid deportation in Phoenix, Arizona. The mother and a brother of Andiola were arrested Thursday evening, Jan. 10, 2013 at the family's Phoenix-area home. Andiola says ICE agents said there was a long-pending deportation order for her mother. The brother was released early Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, while the mother was transported to an immigration detention center in Florence. Another brother says the family has been told by the Mexican consulate in Mexico that the mother would be released after being returned to Phoenix. Photo: Ross D. Franklin
  FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2012 file photo, young immigrant Erika...

PHOENIX (AP) — Federal immigration officials say they're releasing the mother of an immigration activist after the mom and another relative were arrested at the family's Phoenix-area home.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it did not target the relatives of activist Erika Andiola because of her role with the Dream At Coalition.

Andiola says ICE agents said there was a long-pending deportation order for her mother but that she questions whether that actually prompted the arrest.

The mother and a brother of Andiola were arrested Thursday evening. The brother was released early Friday, while the mother was transported to an immigration detention center in Florence, Ariz.

Another brother says the family has been told by the Mexican consulate in Mexico that the mother would be released after being returned to Phoenix.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/ICE-says-activist-s-role-didn-t-spur-mom-s-arrest-4186664.php

the good people stayed in mexico and work for their country. We have gotten the manipulators and welfare cheats. JMO

Arrest them all, deport them all.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Arrest them all, deport them all.

W

Wouldn't it be great if they started rounding up the parents of every DREAMER who demonstrated in cities all over the country. It was the parents that caused all of these problems.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Wouldn't it be great if they started rounding up the parents of every DREAMER who demonstrated in cities all over the country. It was the parents that caused all of these problems.

If they did that, illegal immigration in America would slow to a trickle! Problem solved.

W

DREAM Activist's Family Picked Up by Immigration Authorities

ABC NEWS 3 hours ago

The mother and brother of a prominent immigrant rights activist in Mesa, Ariz., were released today after being arrested and detained last night by U.S.

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http://www.alipac.us/f12/ice-arrests...itives-270212/