Thread: Stop the Raids

Some folks in NY just don't get it.

Editorial
Stop the Raids

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Published: October 4, 2007

Armed squads bursting into homes in the dead of night with shotguns and automatic weapons, terrorizing families and taking away anyone who lacks identity papers, even if they have raided the wrong house. It may sound like Baghdad, but it is the suburbs of New York City, the latest among hundreds of communities around the country where federal agents have been invading homes and workplaces in search of immigrants to deport.

Federal officials say the raids are a focused campaign to catch gang members and other fugitives. That would be good if Immigration and Customs Enforcement were carefully extracting the dangerous criminal sliver from a population of 12 million illegal immigrants. But as immigration raids have vastly increased, they have become something murky and ugly.

ICE is catching modest numbers of undesirables, but also a much larger by-catch of peaceable immigrants. Its agents have set off waves of fear and outrage, not only among illegal immigrants, but among citizens whose privacy and security they have violated, through unchecked aggression, carelessness and incompetence.

Last week, dozens of federal agents fanned out across Nassau County, Long Island, to execute warrants on accused gang members. County Executive Thomas Suozzi and Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey were so dismayed that they have refused to cooperate on further raids until ICE gets its act together.

They described a seriously botched “cowboyâ€

1. ICE agents are Police Officers, in the sense they have arresting powers.
2. For fugitive apprehension I don't think a warrant is required.
3. Just because the people at a house claim that a fugitive doesn't live there anymore is pretty unreliable.
4. Jorge Bush saying illegals won't be arrested is illegal in itself - the oath of office to uphold our laws. So it is worthless.

Also all law enforcement agencies use the name "Police". When banging on someone's door pre-dawn I doubt they have time to say "United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, formerly the US Immigration and Naturalization Service" and hope it is understood by anyone, let alone a foreigner with limited or no English.

Just get in, get them and then get them out of here. If there aren't any there that day, come back another day.

Bull; the minor raids that are going on should be expanded and sustained. The operative word is ILLEGAL. We have to get a grip on this problem.

Gosh I have 5 homes around me with illegal's. I need them here too.

This all sounds like progress to me, and I'm all for it.


The best part of this article is them saying ICE agents were wearing cowboy hats. I suppose the writer thinks cowboy hats are racist too.

Then, what we have to do is commend ICE on the work theyare doing and encourage them to continue the raids, arrests and deportations.

Stop the raids?? To h--l with that! Stop the d--n invasion!

Oh, TOO bad, those poor, poor illegals actually getting caught for BREAKING THE LAW!!