Thread: {SOB} Ingenious Tactic Used By ICE!

I watched a pro-illegal attorney whining on TV today because she feels the "constitutional rights" of illegals were being denied by tactics used by ICE in Florida. She said they had a "right" to work without harassment. Sob story below.



Florida Sheriff Targets Illegals
By MELISSA NELSON
Associated Press Writer

Posted: Jun. 27, 2007

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — The sheriff's department has developed a remarkably effective - and controversial - way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs.

Those who take off are chased down and arrested on charges such as trespassing, for cutting through someone else's property, or loitering, for hiding out in someone's yard, or reckless driving, for speeding off in a car.U.S. immigration authorities are then given the names of those believed to be in this country illegally.

"It's not wrong for them to run, but it's not wrong for us to chase them either," said Sheriff Frank McKeithen, who created his Illegal Alien Task Force in April to target construction sites in this Florida Panhandle county.

Immigrant advocates say the technique is repugnant, and the ACLU says its constitutionality is questionable.

Illegal immigrants are leaving town. And builders are worried the crackdown will deprive them of the labor they need to take part in a building boom in which Panama City's Beach cheap spring-break motels are being torn down and replaced with high-rise condos.

The sheriff said the raids are justified under a long-standing Florida law prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

His department has conducted dozens of these raids over the past three months, sometimes using five or six patrol cars, and has reported more than 500 people to immigration officials since November.

The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund is investigating the arrests because "the intimidation factor is of great concern," said Elise Shore, regional counsel for the organization.

Benjamin Stevenson, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida, said he finds the tactic troubling.

"Why are they sending out six or seven agents to investigate a paper crime, and are they causing them to run in the first place through intimidation?" he asked.

As the debate over illegal immigration plays out in Washington, McKeithen is among a growing number of state and local officials taking it upon themselves to enforce immigration laws that up to now were regarded as a federal responsibility.

For example, Farmers Branch, Texas, is trying to prohibit apartment rentals to illegal immigrants in the Dallas suburb. Georgia passed a law requiring employers to verify the immigration status of all new employees.

Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami, would not comment on the sheriff's tactics.

McKeithen has asked Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum for a legal opinion on his tactics. A spokeswoman for McCollum said the office is researching the request.

The sheriff said that more recently, his officers have been making fewer arrests of workers who flee, and are concentrating more on asking employers for the paperwork on their employees. Sheriff's deputies then arrest workers whose documents are found to be fraudulent.

Mexican illegal immigrant Jose Madrid, 28, said he has been unable to find a construction job over the past six weeks because of the crackdown, and hasn't been able to send money to his parents and his 7-year-old son back home.

"We immigrants, we are leaving Panama City. People are afraid they will be deported," he said. "The companies don't want to hire illegal people. Now they're only hiring those with papers."

Developer Louis Breland is finishing the first phase of a $750 million beach condo project.

"Subcontractors could not function without immigrant laborers for painting, rebar and steel work. They are the best workers," he said. "Without them, the cost of construction would be 10 times as much and nothing would get built."



http://www.localtechwire.com/news/natio ... y/1538642/

I love it, that is awesome. Police all over the country should do the same!

This SOB , he just won't make the kind of money he's been making by hiring americans. These people should be jailed!

Pure goodness.

Mexican illegal immigrant Jose Madrid, 28, said he has been unable to find a construction job over the past six weeks because of the crackdown, and hasn't been able to send money to his parents and his 7-year-old son back home.

"We immigrants, we are leaving Panama City. People are afraid they will be deported," he said. "The companies don't want to hire illegal people. Now they're only hiring those with papers."


so it really does work...

"Subcontractors could not function without immigrant laborers for painting, rebar and steel work. They are the best workers," he said. "Without them, the cost of construction would be 10 times as much and nothing would get built."

OH please! Let's not exaggerate here....10 times as much? I don't think so. Companies just wouldn't be raking in quite as much profit and those greedy jerks want every penny they can get.

Hi FedupDeb,

Seems kind of strange that the attorneys and handlers of illegals aren't demanding pay raises for illegals.

Illegals pay scale is a quarter on the dollar.

Why aren't these self-rightous, pompous attorneys demanding minimum wage for their beloved illegals?

Same goes for corporate CEOs who demand unconditional open borders and amnesty for their beloved illegal employees - are they willing to bring em up to minimum wage?

Just to re-hash what we all know:

Corporate CEOs whose firms employ illegals and indentured H-1Bs
need to be arrested and charged for:

-- Harboring illegals
-- Income Tax Evasion
-- Violation of the Wage and Hour Law
-- The crime of indentured servitude
-- Rackateering (supporting street gangs, ie. MS13)

Additional charges come to mind:

-- Violation of OSHA standards (bringing diseased illegals onto the property).
-- Violation of the Age Discrimination Laws (firing Americans over 40 and replacing them with young H-1Bs from India)
-- Civil Rights Violations - Replacing minority Americans with illegals and majority H-1B workers from India.
-- Violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act - Firing disabled Americans and replacing them with illegals and/or H-1Bs.

Amen, Coto!

Now they're only hiring those with papers."

Well now, isn't that strange, I mean really, only hiring people who are abiding by the laws, what a concept! What will they think of next?

As for this sheriffs office, Jecg, wouldn't that be nice to see Multnomah County Sheriffs office do this?

Illegal immigrants HAVE no constitutional rights in our country. WTF?

Good luck to the ACLU getting a sympathetic ear. Meanwhile, who do I make out a check to? The sheriff?

This issue is SO out of hand and it's clear that it will continue to be a pseudo-racial issue for many who have no clue and don't want one.

However...WE WON TODAY!! IN YOUR FACE BOOSH!! IN YOUR FACE ACLU!! IN YOUR FACE ILLEGAL ALIENS!!! RUN, RUN, RUN!! We're taking our country back!!

Heya AmericanElizabeth! Yeah, Bernie Guisto?! That assclown is as crooked as the rest of Multnomah Co.. They work for Tom Potter.

Ah, but to dream...maybe someday...