Thread: NC: Bus containing some illegal immigrants stopped

Highway Patrol pulled over a bus suspected of carrying illegal immigrants in Alamance County Wednesday.

Bus containing some illegal immigrants stopped


Posted: Today at 2:46 p.m.
Updated: 4 minutes ago

Hillsborough, N.C. — A bus containing 20 Hispanics, some illegal, was pulled over Wednesday afternoon at a way station near the merger of Interstate 40 and Interstate 85, Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Everett Clendenin said.

The bus, traveling from Wilson to Mexico, was stopped for a minor traffic violation at mile marker 143, Clendenin said.

The Highway Patrol had been made aware by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that illegal immigrants were being taken to certain destinations in the country, Clendenin said. The bus orignally was believed to be apart of that group.
http://www.wral.com:80/news/news_briefs/story/3374275/

Excellent news...there are so many of these types of busses leaving cities like Chicago, New York and even Philadelphia ...many teeming with illegal aliens.

There's also the TRans-bridge Line out of Bethlehem PA where many suspected illegals can board the busses and go from PA destinations to Philladelphia, suburban Bucks County, Lambertville, NJ, all the way to Newark Airport, the Port Authority and to NYC. Most of the stops allow people to board and just buy tickets on board, no identfication required. ICE should investigate these busses.

Shoot, why bother with buses heading to Mexico carrying illegals? It means they are leaving!

BUSES ARE TOTALLY UNSAFE

WHY SHOULDN'T AIRPLANES, TRAINS, AND BUSES ALL BE SAFE FOR ALL AMERICANS

Sounds like they have a fix on bus companies used for human trafficking. I expect to see raids at these companies in the future.

vortex wrote:

Shoot, why bother with buses heading to Mexico carrying illegals? It means they are leaving!

They were stopped in North Carolina. There are probably a lot of stops between NC and the border. There was no mention in the story that anyone on the bus had a one-way ticket to Mexico. Furthermore, it's against the law to knowingly transport illegal aliens.

Originally Posted by MW

vortex wrote:

Shoot, why bother with buses heading to Mexico carrying illegals? It means they are leaving!

They were stopped in North Carolina. There are probably a lot of stops between NC and the border. There was no mention in the story that anyone on the bus had a one-way ticket to Mexico. Furthermore, it's against the law to knowingly transport illegal aliens.

Correcto a mundo.

This link works

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3374275/

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Originally Posted by Buzzm1

This link works

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3374275/

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Thanks Buzz

Immigration officials begin deportation proceedings against seven passengers
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August 13, 2008 - 3:32PM
Times-News
Seven passengers from a bus headed to Mexico that the state Highway Patrol pulled over Wednesday afternoon because of a safety violation now face deportation proceedings.

Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Wednesday evening that after interviewing the passengers of the bus ICE agents determined that seven of the passengers, three women and four men, were illegally in the country and in violation of immigration laws. Due to privacy policies, Gonzalez could not release their names.

Gonzalez said the seven individuals were placed in removal proceedings but were released on their own recognizance and issued an order to appear before an immigration judge who would determine the outcome of their cases.

Bus passengers were loaded onto an Alamance-Burlington School System bus and transported to the Best Western on Huffman Mill Road after the bus was stopped along the interstate near the 143 exit at around 1:15 p.m.

The bus driver, Aaron Luna, said the nine adults and three children passengers ate dinner and were interviewed by ICE officers at the hotel.

Alfredo Martinez, who took the bus in Richmond, Va. and was headed to Oaxaca, Mexico, said in Spanish that the bus was supposed to make several stops before reaching its final destination in Mexico. He said that about an hour after the bus was stopped, authorities told them that there were some safety issues with the bus. They were later informed that the driver did not have a driver's license issued in the United States, Martinez said.

Trooper J.B. Brewer told a Times-News reporter at the scene that the bus, operated by Autobuses Ejecutivos, was stopped because of a safety violation involving its rear suspension. The differential of the rear axle on the right side was lower than the legal limit for commercial vehicles.

Luna said in Spanish that the bus had been inspected on Friday in Houston with no problems.

Another trooper told a reporter that the violation was called in by troopers at the weigh station in Orange County.

After the bus was pulled over, troopers questioned the legality of the driver's license and a possible connection to a bus crash near Sherman, Texas, on Friday that killed 17 people.

At the hotel, ICE agents began questioning the passengers. Meanwhile, two transport vans from the Alamance County jail were waiting outside the hotel.

Martinez said an agent wearing a blue ICE jacket asked him his name, date and place of birth, the name of his parents, where he was going and whether he is in the country legally.

Martinez, who originally came to this country illegally but legalized his situation in 1987, said that in the years he's been living in this country he had never gone through a situation like this. "They've never asked me questions like these," he said.

Claudia Alarcón, 34, who was also a passenger on the bus with her two children, Atziri, 14, and Leonardo, 1, said some of the passengers did not have proper documentation. Alarcón, who was on her way to Mexico after visiting relatives in Wilson, said she and her children entered the country with tourist visas.

Martinez said he knew that at least four of the nine adults in the bus had proper documentation to prove that they are in the country legally.

MarÃ*a Lopez, 35, said "she didn't have any papers" but added that she was not worried about talking to the ICE agent. Lopez was traveling with her 7-month-old daughter, Marlene, and was on her way to Georgia to visit friends. She got on the bus in Wilson.

The driver said that the bus company is paying for the passengers to spend the night at the hotel and then everyone will get on a different bus in the morning.

It is unclear why ICE was involved in the stopped or who called them to assist. Gonzalez said ICE was contacted by the state Highway Patrol. However, Highway Patrol officials at the scene said they were not the ones who called federal authorities.

"The Highway Patrol's main concern is for the passengers' safety," Brewer said. "The legality of the passengers ... is the federal government's business."

Times-News reporters Michael Abernethy, Keren Rivas and Brie Handgraaf contributed to this report.


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