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| quote: | Hundreds deported after LA sweep
By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writer
Wed Jan 24, 8:46 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested over the past week in one of the biggest U.S. stings have been deported, but some are being held for possible criminal prosecution.
Federal authorities announced Tuesday the results of a weeklong series of raids in the Los Angeles metropolitan area that targeted illegal immigrants who had previously been deported for crimes or defied final deportation orders.
Of the 761 people arrested in a five-county region since Jan. 17, more than 450 have already been removed from the country, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
More than half of those arrested in the sweeps were already in jail and are being turned over to federal authorities as their sentences expire, an ICE official said.
At least one person, however, was hit with a criminal case instead of being placed in civil deportation proceedings.
Erik Omar Galindo-Vazquez, a Mexican national taken in during the sweeps in Orange County, was charged with illegal re-entry to the United States after felony deportation — a federal crime than can carry up to 20 years in prison.
ICE officials said Galindo-Vazquez was deported in October 2005 after being detained in Arizona and was convicted six years earlier in Orange County for assault with a deadly weapon, a felony charge.
While federal law makes it a crime to enter the country illegally, only a fraction of the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants caught every year are ever prosecuted under criminal laws. There just aren't enough agents, prosecutors and prison space.
So authorities go after serious offenders such as Galindo-Vazquez, whose rap sheets combine past deportations with convictions for crimes such as assault, murder and drug trafficking.
"We have to focus on the worst of the worst," said Jim Hayes, director of the Los Angeles field office of ICE, whose agents are readying about 12 other cases for criminal prosecution stemming from the sweeps. "We can't prosecute every single individual we come across."
The raids made public Tuesday were a major push within Operation Return to Sender, a crackdown that has resulted in 13,192 arrests nationwide since late May. Immigration officials have also identified 3,000 inmates in state and local jails who will be deported.
An estimated 600,000 illegal immigrants who have ignored deportation orders are still at large, said Virginia Kice, an ICE spokeswoman. |
Hundreds deported after LA sweep
Doesn't differ much from what Russia did with illegal immigrants from Georgia. |
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| LazFX |
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue: you are kidding me right?? Comparing the deportation of a few compared to the killings and BS Russia has done?? :rolleyes:
Nigga Please. |
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| star-traveller |
| quote: | Originally posted by LazFX
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue: you are kidding me right?? Comparing the deportation of a few compared to the killings and BS Russia has done?? :rolleyes:
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read news better.
talk to you mom like that. |
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| Dopey |
700 people :stongue:
there are millions of illegals in California
millions - 700 = success!
probably cost them a million $ for this "operation" |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by star-traveller
read news better.
talk to you mom like that. |
my mom is honorable woman, so No, sorry , she is not a nigga |
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| Magnetonium |
| quote: | Originally posted by LazFX
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue: you are kidding me right?? Comparing the deportation of a few compared to the killings and BS Russia has done?? :rolleyes:
Nigga Please. |
You should learn from this guy:
| quote: | Originally posted by Dopey
700 people :stongue:
there are millions of illegals in California
millions - 700 = success!
probably cost them a million $ for this "operation" |
He knows and understands more about the illegal immigration than you can ever do, LazFX.
I guess you failed to notice that Russia also has a big problem with illegal immigration - but unlike in USA, when its a good thing to deport, in Russia its violation of freedoms. Dam, the standards are too high, eh? |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by LazFX
she is not a nigga |
she a wigga? |
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| ogvh5150 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Magnetonium
I guess you failed to notice that Russia also has a big problem with illegal immigration - but unlike in USA, when its a good thing to deport, in Russia its violation of freedoms. Dam, the standards are too high, eh? |
It's the Do As I Say Not As I Do Doctrine just like in the "The Wørd" segment from the Colbert Report. |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Magnetonium
I guess you failed to notice that Russia also has a big problem with illegal immigration - but unlike in USA, when its a good thing to deport, in Russia its violation of freedoms. Dam, the standards are too high, eh? |
is there a problem with illegal immigration in Russia? really, i didn't know.
where do the immigrants come from mostly? |
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| Magnetonium |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
is there a problem with illegal immigration in Russia? really, i didn't know.
where do the immigrants come from mostly? |
Most of immigration to Russia comes from former Soviet republics. It is estimated by most sources that anywhere between 1.5 - 20 million illegal immigrants are present. Its a huge problem, because some Russian regions have significant unemployment rate, while illegals get the jobs because they're willing to get paid less. Also a huge damage for Russia is created because most of these illegal workers are not planning to stay in Russia and instead send the money they earn back to their countries, and they dont pay taxes and subsequently dont abide by the law because they're not citizens. |
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| ogvh5150 |
Are there day laborers waiting for work in Russian towns just like here in the USA?
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