How long are you going to let stuff like this go on, Obama? What is it going to take for you to see there is a problem with those people to whom you want to offer amnesty? Do you REALLY want people like this in our country?
From TheReporterOnline.com (serving North Penn, Indian Valley and neighboring communities)
TELFORD – Three illegal immigrants allegedly furnished three juvenile females from the Perkasie area with alcohol, had sex with them and took photos of one of the girls while she was partially naked and unconscious.
According to Telford Police, the incident happened last August.Irving Miuricio Cruz, 19, of Market Street, Hatfield, was arrested July 17 after he was stopped by a Hilltown officer for a vehicle law violation, then turned over to the Telford department for a warrant, police said.
Cruz was charged with criminal conspiracy, statutory sexual assault, corruption of minors, sexual abuse of children and furnishing alcohol to minors, police said.He was arraigned July 18 before District Judge Thomas Palladino, Pottstown, and taken to Montgomery County Correctional Facility with bail set at $50,000 cash, police said.
Cruz will be turned over to federal immigration authorities, police said.
Another 19-year-old in the case was recently captured by federal border officials after he fled the U.S to his native Honduras, then tried to return to the United States, police said.
He is awaiting extradition to Montgomery County, police said.
The third person accused in the incident is a juvenile and will be petitioned to Montgomery County Juvenile Court, police said.
Here is a good example of “crime-fighting at its finest”…
From the North County Times (serving North San Diego & SW Riverside counties)
ESCONDIDO: Immigration agents, GPS help police track down suspects
Suspected rapist caught through ICE ankle bracelet
Using Global Positioning System, or GPS, technology, and with the help of immigration agents, Escondido police were able to arrest two suspects in recent weeks, including a man charged with raping a 15-year-old girl, authorities said.
The arrests were touted by police as a success for the partnership between the Escondido Police Department and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a pilot program that has been heavily criticized by some advocacy groups, including the North County-based El Grupo.
In the rape case, police were able to identify the suspect as a family member of the victim. Police gave the name of the suspect, Wenceslao Mendez, 34, to ICE agents working out of the Escondido Police Department headquarters, and the agents were able to determine that he was wearing a GPS ankle bracelet.
Mendez was arrested the following day, police said.
The agency allows some illegal immigrants to wear the tracking device while going through deportation procedures because of limited jail space.
Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for the agency in San Diego, said that ICE permits some illegal immigrants who are fighting deportation to remain out of custody if they don’t have a history of criminal convictions. However, those immigrants are monitored either through a GPS bracelet, office visits or a telephone call-in system, Mack said.
About 40 persons are wearing the bracelets in San Diego County, Mack said.
“Without this technology and the assistance of the ICE officers, it is likely that valuable evidence could have been destroyed and the suspect could have fled the country,” said Escondido police Lt. Craig Carter.
But Victor Torres, a criminal defense attorney and a spokesman for El Grupo, said the case did not justify the department’s partnership with immigration authorities. He said the partnership will further alienate the city’s immigrant community and act as a deterrent against reporting crime in Escondido.
About 45 percent of the city’s 145,000 residents are Latinos, many of whom are immigrants.
Torres said the case illustrates what some in the immigrant community fear: the department’s side-by-side working relationship with immigration agents.
“There are many tools available to law enforcement,” Torres said. “A simple telephone call to ICE and relayed instructions directly to the patrol officers would have proven just as effective and without alienating 45 percent of the population.”
In mid-May, the department started a pilot program with ICE allowing two immigration agents to work with the department to identify and deport criminal illegal immigrants and those suspected of committing crimes.
Since the partnership began, the agents have helped police identify 114 criminal immigrants in the city, including several child molesters, people with multiple drunken-driving convictions, drug dealers and burglars, according to police.
Escondido is the only city in the county that has this kind of a partnership with ICE, said Mack. She said she could remember only one other department that has used the federal agency’s GPS system to track down a suspect: the San Diego Police Department, which did so last year.
Mendez was arrested in March on domestic violence charges, which were later dropped. While he was detained, ICE agents at the jail determined that he was an illegal immigrant, and he was released with the bracelet pending deportation proceedings.
On July 13, Mendez allegedly entered a home on the 500 block of West Ninth Avenue. The 15-year-old victim told police that her assailant locked her in a bedroom and raped her.
Using the girl’s description of her attacker, police determined the suspect was the cousin of the girl’s stepmother.
Carter said the immigration agents located the suspect’s name on their database and found that he was wearing the bracelet. With the use of GPS, they were able to track the suspect to his home in the 1100 block of South Escondido Boulevard.
A few days earlier, police were also able to track down Jimmy Alexander Magadiaga, 22, with the use of his ICE-issued ankle bracelet. Magadiaga, who also was awaiting deportation proceedings, allegedly broke into an Escondido home on July 8, police said.
A girl who was in the home at the time called police. Neighbors chased the suspect and told police that he lived in a nearby apartment complex.
Using the GPS tracking system, police were able to find and arrest the suspect, Carter said.
From these two stories we learn many things. One, not every illegal immigrant is from Mexico. That means that the cries of “racial profiling” simply do not hold water. In all honesty, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you which of these men were from Mexico and which were not. Would you have known without seeing some kind of documentation? A Mexican and a Honduran may well be classified as “Latinos” but the two countries are vastly different.
We also have proof that at least some illegal immigrants do not just steal an apple from the grocery store. Rape is a serious crime. It demands outrage on the part of the citizenry.
Furthermore, when an attorney considers the most atrocious part of this even was the alienating of “45% of the population” how does he spend the rest of his day?
Providing alcohol to minors, allowing them to drink enough to pass out, raping them and photographing them partially nude – isn’t that by very definition child abuse? Not to mention that something must be said about the child pornography issue.
These are the kinds of people our ultra-liberal Congress and president want to allow to stay in our country legally now that they are already here? What is wrong with you, Democrats? Wake up! Look around you. So far, this one little blog has provided eleven examples of why this simply cannot be allowed to happen to the American citizens and all the legal immigrants in our country.
These are crimes against every American citizen even though they only directly affected a few individual people.
One question that remains unanswered from either of these reports: Were the victims of the crimes committed by these illegal immigrants legal residents or illegal immigrants themselves? Would it really matter? Crimes are crimes at the end of the day, are they not?
Despite current claims by the Obama Administration to the contrary, the border is NOT more secure and resourced than it has ever been. Most Americans know nothing of the Punitive Expedition or the Mexican Border Campaign which occurred 94 years ago and involved more than 100,000 National Guard and Regular Army troops. This was the opening act for American involvement in the Great War and acted as the catalyst to transform our military into a modern force.
Here is a link to letters written by a National Guardsman on the Border exactly 94 years ago. Too bad our politicians are more interested in being politically correct than robustly defending the sovereignty of the United States.
http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/rio-grande-el-paso-southwestern-rr-tunnel-7281916/
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I hope everything is well and you are just enjoying the summer.
Not quite that simple, but I’ll be back before long, and I thank you for your concern.