Thread: Call Obama and urge him to continue with Imm. raids.

The pro-illegals are calling his offices today demanding a stop to immigration raids. We need to counter that.

Here is an article about the oppostion:

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http://www.impre.com/laopinion/noticias ... 695-1.html

The office of Hermandad Mexicana located at 7915 in Van Nuys Blvd., in Panorama City, is making thier phone lines avaiable for the public to make calls, send faxes and e-mails from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Those who wish to use their telephones and call the White House, said Gloria Saucedo, can calll 202-456-1111 and say: "Mr. President, keep the families together, stop deportations and raids".

Just sent this letter off to the new president!
I just last Saturday Jan 10, 2009, attended my first firearm training for a 9MM auto pistol. I fear for myself and my loved ones. Because the amount of people that are entering our country illegally is alarming. I also realize that a lot of these people are very respectable Mexican citizens whom only want too better their live and live in harmony with us. You and I both now that 10-15% of apprehended illegal aliens are criminals, and they’re the bad kind, rapist, murderers.
Do to the inability of our government America is unsafe every night because our government has decided to do away with the international borders of the North American Continent. I really feel that the American citizens should have been asked before this was started. I believe our government should be By the People for the People. Now what we have is by the people in control of government.
Please do not continue with the elimination of our sovereign borders, this is very disappointing.
Would you please read what the Illegal Alien said below and realize that there are good reasons to have borders and please build that fence to protect our country from people that are coming here undermining the working class and whom wish to do us harm.

Alejandra an Illegal immigrant that has applied to become an American. Her words!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... full.story
“Her sister Alejandra was the first to leave. In Los Angeles, she and her husband were barely able to make ends meet. As in Mexico, "there was little work and it's poorly paid," she said.

Eight years ago, she and her family moved to Kentucky, where a friend said there was more work and were fewer Mexican immigrants bidding down the wages for unskilled jobs.

In Kentucky, Alejandra picked tobacco. The work was hard and she didn't know the language. But soon, life improved. Over the years, she invited her siblings to join her. One sister married a man who managed a Golden Corral, a chain of all-you-can-eat buffets. Soon several Magdaleno siblings were working in Golden Corrals. Their husbands found work installing windows and as farm-labor contractors. They went to night school to learn English because few people in Lexington speak Spanish.

Today, the Magdalenos in Lexington earn more than they did in Los Angeles, in a city where the cost of living is lower. Kentucky is now their promised land, and they talk about California the way they used to talk about Mexico.
What we weren't able to do in many years in California," Alejandra said, "we've done quickly here.
"We're in a state where there's nothing but Americans. The police control the streets. It's clean, no gangs. California now resembles Mexico — everyone thinks like in Mexico.â€

So, is that same phone number the one we should use? As I have been reiterating lately our border agents have had their hands full with intercepting the massive shipments of drugs, busting up the marriage and visa fraud rings and also interdicting guns headed south. I routinely forward news releases from ICE and CBP to my Congressmen.

How much more of this can we stand? By opening the borders even further (i.e reducing enforcement) we are certain to make these problems worse. It is not just the individual smuggling efforts at the border. It is also the networks of distributors already inside the US and the related crime it engenders. And don't get me started on the consequences of document fraud.

I just called that phone number and got a recording "We are sorry, we are unable to answer your call at this time" Guess, I'll email next.....

With all due respect the above letter sounds more like a human interest story, although I can appreciate your perspective as a local resident. Here is an example of a news story from ICE:

22 charged with massive international Visa scheme

Washington, D.C. - A 74-count indictment, which charged 22 foreign nationals and U.S. citizens for massive immigration-related fraud, resulted from an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its partner agencies.

According to the indictment, since March 2001, the defendants and co-conspirators carried out a conspiracy involving visa and asylum fraud, marriage fraud, making fraudulent statements under oath, and filing fraudulent documents to obtain foreign labor visas for hundreds of alien employees. Some visa petitions were submitted seeking to bring in substantially more alien workers than what client hotels or businesses had contracted for or needed, and that most of the alien workers brought in through the fraudulent scheme were contracted out to hotels or businesses other than those listed on their visa and were working in states other than Virginia.

"Today's charges reflect the law enforcement community's steadfast commitment to aggressively target the perpetrators of document and benefit fraud," said Mark McGraw, Acting Special Agent in Charge for ICE's Office of Investigations in Washington, D.C. "Schemes such as these pose a significant threat to the United States and its citizens and cannot go unchallenged."

As cited in the indictment, the aliens were encouraged or induced to enter or reside in the United States, and transported and shielded from detection for commercial advantage and private financial gain.

Today's announcement is a result of a joint investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the U.S. State Department-Bureau of Diplomatic Security; the U.S. Department of Labor; the Internal Revenue Service; the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Norfolk Field Office; the Naval Criminal Investigative Service; and the Virginia Beach Police Department. Assistant United States Attorneys Joseph DePadilla and Stephen Haynie are prosecuting the cases for the United States.