Thread: SOB - Bowling Green, KY PD Supports ILLEGALS in Their City

Another SOB story concerning ILLEGALS, "I'm all alone now," Leticia said in Spanish. Her brother has been an ILLEGAL in the U.S. for 10 years and still does not speak English was arrested for the third time in 4 months on the same charge of public intoxication. But not to worry, Letica and all ILLEGALS in Bowling Green, Kentucky are supported by Barry Pruitt and Monica Woods, of the Bowling Green Police Department. It seems to be the official policy of the BGPD. This would lead one to believe that Bowling Green is a Sanctuary City.

http://media.www.wkuherald.com/media/st ... age3.shtml

Local Hispanic crime rates lower than U.S. average
Ashley Belcher
Issue date: 5/7/09 Section: News
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On a dreary day in March, Leticia, an immigrant from Petén, Guatemala, got a tattered letter in the mail. She recognized the handwriting on the envelope as her brother's and breathed a sigh of relief.

She broke the seal, slid out a thin piece of crinkled notebook paper and read 17 scribbled lines of Spanish.

Though none of the faint graphite words were 'adios', they added up to goodbye.

"I'm all alone now," Leticia said in Spanish.

Just days before Leticia received the letter, Josue was arrested by the Bowling Green Police Department, she said.

Josue is one immigrant in a growing national trend of Hispanic crime. A 2009 Pew Hispanic Center study found Hispanics accounted for 40 percent of all sentenced federal offenders, more than triple their population share of 13 percent.

A previous study in 1991 stated that most of these offenses were drug-related, but the current study identifies immigration as the main offense.

But Bowling Green doesn't fit the national trend, and police are working with immigrant communities to increase trust and communication.

Leticia, a single mother from a poor Guatemalan town, joined her older brother, Josue, in Bowling Green about eight years after he arrived. Both are illegal immigrants.

Leticia, her brother and another family share the rent of a small, three-bedroom home in Bowling Green's Little Mexico, an area predominantly inhabited by Hispanics, she said.

Leticia makes money by picking tobacco. Josue works in roofing. The two make modest wages, but send almost $200 home each week to children they left with their mother, she said.

Leticia said it's more than they would make in Guatemala.

According to the records from the Warren County Regional Jail, Josue was taken into custody for public intoxication and resisting arrest on March 19.

Two days later he was released to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and taken to Louisville where he's awaiting an immigration court date in Chicago, Leticia said.

Barry Pruitt, public information officer for the BGPD, says the jail is required to report all inmates without a Social Security number to ICE. Josue has no Social Security number because he's an illegal immigrant.

But this was Josue's third arrest for public intoxication in four months, according to the record of his arrest. It wasn't until his latest arrest in March that ICE stepped in.

Jailer Jackie Strode said he couldn't explain why ICE didn't pursue Josue after his first arrest.

"To my knowledge, they respond to all of our calls," Strode said.

ICE was unavailable for comment.

But Pruitt said Hispanic crime isn't a big concern in Bowling Green.

"The ones we need to worry about are white males," Pruitt said.

Hispanics made up 0.8 percent of the 16,511 arrests recorded in the last 12 months, according to a report from BGPD quantifying arrests by race and gender.

White males made up 48 percent of arrests with nearly 8,000, according to the report.

Whites made up 78.5 percent of the population in Bowling Green, according to 2005-2007 US Census data. Hispanics made up 4.4 percent of the population.

Pruitt said he attributes Bowling Green's low Latino crime rate to the lack of gang activity in the community. He believes larger cities, which have significantly higher gang-related crimes, are the largest contributing factor to the national trend.

"They are coming up here and they are working hard," Pruitt said of the Hispanic immigrants in Bowling Green. "They're honest people. They are just wanting to make a better life for their family."

Monica Woods, international communities liaison officer for BGPD, said she's proud of the Bowling Green international community for breaking the trend.

She said it reflects positively on Bowling Green Hispanic population.

Woods, who also serves on the board of the Bowling Green International Center, works to build relationships between the BGPD and the international community

Anytime you have other cultures, it only enriches our community," she said. "It provides a global outlook and shows there is more to the world than just you."

Woods said she tries to help others see this. Her job requires researching different cultures and passing on the information to other officers.

"When we are in uniform, we're the most visible form of government," Woods said. "Police officers represent government in a visual sense."

Woods and James Robinson, director of the International Center, said the uniform rarely represents safety to immigrants.

"They've never seen anyone in a uniform that has respected them or not hurt them," Robinson said.

For this reason, officers aren't the only ones who require training, he said.

Robinson and the International Center work to arrange as many friendly encounters with police officers as possible for the immigrants they serve, he said.

The International Center offers a program called Preferred Communities which provides cross-cultural training, Robinson said. It also hosts meet and greets where it invites immigrants and uniformed police officers to social gatherings.

The program helps immigrants become comfortable with authority, he said.

Woods said she hopes programs like Preferred Communities will eventually decrease crime.

Higher trust for the police among immigrants will increase the likelihood of immigrants reporting crime, and more reporting will eventually lead to a lower crime rate, Woods said.

But services like those offered through the International Center and BGPD collaboration aren't offered to illegal immigrants, according to International Center officials.

Although Josue has been in the United States for almost 10 years, he doesn't speak English, Leticia said.

Josue was addressed in both Spanish and English but continued to resist arrest, according to the report of the arresting officer.

Leticia didn't know how to help her brother until about two weeks ago when another tattered envelope arrived in the mail, she said.

She opened the envelope to find a folded piece of yellow legal paper with the same handwriting. But this time, instead of saying goodbye, her brother asked for help.

He gave Leticia his alien identification number, assigned by ICE, and asked her to contact the Guatemalan consulate to obtain his passport.

He also asked his sister to buy minutes for his cell phone so that he could make calls.

Josue asked Leticia in the letter to call his mother and his children.

"Tell them I am OK and may God bless them always," he wrote.

But this was Josue's third arrest for public intoxication in four months, according to the record of his arrest. It wasn't until his latest arrest in March that ICE stepped in.




Amazing......no money except to "barely get by" but they've got plenty of money for booze and to send home.

Could there be a connection between the employees of the Mexican Cafe, El Mazatlan in the Bowling Green, KY area and the ILLEGAL community in Bowling Green, KY.

http://www.wehirealiens.com/employer/index.asp?id=21119

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6/3/2009 8:16:27 AM My aquantance is Adan Arturo Quezada-Hernandez and he is working under a false ssn with El mazatlan. This company pays thousands to cayotes in order to bring people from degollado Mexico and employs them under false ssn's, One ssn they are using is for Imelda Hernandez Vaca and she lives in Degollado Mexico and has never worked in the restuarant. She files taxes when she comes here recieves the tax stimulus check and a refund and never lifted a finger because someone else is working under her ssn in glascow, Ky. Her last Tax refunds came to my address 1029 Shive Lane #S1, Bowling Green, Ky 42103, Her son Adan has worked for this restuarant for 7 years under different names such as arturo hernandez, adan Hernandez, Arturo Quezada, they change their names often and never leave one employee at one restuarant for a long period of time. They are transferred to each resturant. They also have a 15 year old boy working in the kitchen in Munfordville and a 14 year old boy working in the Kitchen in Bowling Green. These people i mention are very nice people but what they are doing is against my morals and values. I am a single mother that fights for my children to eat everyweek and this woman lives in mexico and comes here once a year to file taxes. this is dishonest and stealing from my government. Please help do something about it. The employees come through the desert/mountains in Arizona. Children are coming through California. My name must stay quiet because I fear for my safety if it is to be revealed.

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But Pruitt said Hispanic crime isn't a big concern in Bowling Green.

"The ones we need to worry about are white males," Pruitt said.

Racial Profiling?

Hispanics made up 0.8 percent of the 16,511 arrests recorded in the last 12 months, according to a report from BGPD quantifying arrests by race and gender.

White males made up 48 percent of arrests with nearly 8,000, according to the report.

Whites made up 78.5 percent of the population in Bowling Green, according to 2005-2007 US Census data. Hispanics made up 4.4 percent of the population.

I've been out of school for a very long time but I interpret this as saying that even though whites make up 80% of the population less than 50% of those arrested are white. It would seem that if only 4.4% of the population is Hispanic and only .8% were arrested that less than 20% of that population was a problem. Well that's a statistical lie because the shear masses of whites makes them an easier target.

What I find most interesting though is that 48% plus .8% is still less than 50%. So apparently slightly more than 20% of the population accounts for more than 50% of the arrests yet they aren't even mentioned.

Yet the Pruitt has the nerve to say: "The ones we need to worry about are white males,"

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two make modest wages, but send almost $200 home each week to children they left with their mother, she said.

We CAN'T deport the poor man, we would separate him from his family! (SOB). Oh, wait . . . . his children are in Guatemala.