Thread: Not all from Mexico.....

http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases ... afalls.htm


ICE removes 107 individuals, more than half criminals, to Nigeria and the Middle East
A total of 107 people from four countries removed on one flight

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - In a major removal operation U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 94 Nigerian nationals yesterday to Lagos, Nigeria. Fifty-five of the Nigerians removed had criminal histories in the United States.

The criminal histories of those removed included sex crimes, assault, cruelty to a child, drug convictions, embezzlement, forgery, fraud and counterfeiting.

The flight, contracted for by the Office of Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Operations Support and Coordination Unit, carried a total of 107 individuals being removed from the United States, including 11 Palestinian nationals, 1 Moroccan national and 1 Egyptian national. Four of the Palestinians and both the Moroccan and the Egyptian had criminal histories. The individuals had been housed at various detention facilities across the country and were staged at the Batavia, N.Y. Federal Detention Facility shortly before the flight. The flight departed Niagara Falls Airport on the afternoon of January 15 stopping in Lagos, Nigeria, Cairo, Egypt and Amman, Jordan.

The Canadian government also participated in the flight to remove 10 Nigerian deportees, 7 of whom were criminals. The flight was staffed with 20 DRO officers and 6 Canadian officers. 2 Nigerian Consular officers from their embassy in the U.S. and 1 Nigerian Consular from their embassy in Canada accompanied the flight.

"More than half of the individuals on this flight have criminal records in the United States. The ICE mission is to protect national security and public safety and this removal operation is an outstanding example of how we accomplish that mission," said Charles Mule', acting field office director for ICE detention and removal operations in Buffalo. "All of the individuals removed had due process through America's criminal and immigration courts and the foreign governments worked closely with ICE to make the return to their home countries possible."

In fiscal year 2007, ICE removed more than 278,000 aliens from the country including over 41,000 who returned voluntarily to their country of nationality, a record for the agency. More than 91,000 had criminal histories.
ICE manages alien transportation and repatriation flights via government-leased and chartered aircraft, and is also the largest user of the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS). JPATS is a shared program between ICE, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons, that is used to affect the majority of the ICE removals, particularly to Central America and the Caribbean basin.

So much for racial profiling...

Mexicans aren't the only people engaging in illegal immigration, that's for sure. People are flying in from all over the world, and scamming U.S. citizens and their laws by overstaying their visas.

We talk all the time about the border, but we better make sure that these efforts are also being done to monitor people who are flying in to "visit" who have no intention of obeying U.S. immigration laws.

Originally Posted by ourcountrynottheirs

So much for racial profiling...

Yeah, I am surprised they were not accused of "profiling" Nigerian nationals.
At least it looks like their Government assisted rather than condemed

ICE removes 107 individuals, more than half criminals, to Nigeria and the Middle East
A total of 107 people from four countries removed on one flight

IT IS TRUE THAT NOT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COME FROM MEXICO, BUT THE MAJORITY DO!

An ILLEGAL alien IS illegal NO matter WHERE he comes from!

Another step in the right direction, albeit a baby step in the overall scheme of things. I support daily flights on a chartered airline for my tax dollars...Now let's get some of those government buses rolling south!

We can definitely give credit to the government of Mexico and to our president for letting it be known to the entire world that the U.S. does not enforce immigration laws.

Hopefully, we can say that in the past tense now and instead say....."did not" enforce our laws.

(I'm not 100% sure that we can use the past tense YET)

Originally Posted by tiredofapathy

Another step in the right direction, albeit a baby step in the overall scheme of things. I support daily flights on a chartered airline for my tax dollars...Now let's get some of those government buses rolling south!

I'm with you there, tired. I gladly give my tax dollars to that program.

Which brings me to something I have been mulling over the last few years:

WOULDN'T IT BE A BLAST IF AMERICANS COULD DESIGNATE WHERE THEY WANT THEIR TAX DOLLARS TO GO??

For example, there should be a checkbox-style addition in our 1040 forms to designate where that taxpayer wants his taxes spent: Education, Iraq war, Immigrations, healthcare, environment, Foreign Aid, General Fund, etc. Maybe go a bit further and allow percentages. WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT AND MORE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE??

Congress passes all these bills, yet when it comes to the Approprations committee, they die. Remember the Secure Fence Act? What happened to that? Bush pulled the plug on us and stripped the bill of $3 Billion. WTF?? It's more lip service than political will. I say enough of you politicians!!

BUT if the American taxpayer HAD INPUT AND THE SAY-SO on where he wants his tax dollars to go, then Congress will have to abide by our vote. This will also eliminate all the special-interest "projects" of our lawmakers who are beholden to their campaign contributors (aka profit prostitutes).

If just the Alipac, Fair, NumbersUSA, etc. taxpayers check the Immigration box, then DHS will have all the funds it needs to build the fence and enforce interior immigrations law. What a concept!

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

BTTT