Don't Let The Door Hit You In The Ass On The Way Out!Molestors,Gang Members Deported

U.S. Immigration Officers Arrest 2,100 Illegal Immigrants

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

BOSTON — A swarm of federal immigration agents sped silently, headlights off, down a Boston side street early Wednesday and surrounded an apartment house.

"Police! Policia! Police!" yelled Daniel Monico, a deportation officer, holding his badge to a window where someone had pulled back the curtain. "Open the door!"

Moments later, agents led a dazed-looking Jose Ferreira Da Silva, 35, out in handcuffs. The Brazilian had been arrested in 2002 and deported, but had slipped back into the country. He now faces up to 20 years in prison.

In a blitz that began May 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested nearly 2,100 illegal immigrants across the country. Officials said the raids are aimed at child molesters, gang members and other violent criminals, as well as people like Da Silva who sneaked back into the country after a judge threw them out.

The crackdown is called Operation Return to Sender.

"This sends a message," said Monico, standing outside the gray Victorian apartment where Da Silva had been hiding. "When we deport you, we're serious."

An Associated Press reporter and photographer accompanied a fugitive task force as it made Operation Return to Sender raids Tuesday night and early Wednesday.

The operation has caught more than 140 immigrants with convictions for sexual offenses against children; 367 known gang members, including street soldiers in the deadly Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13; and about 640 people who had already been deported once, immigration officials said. The numbers include more than 720 arrests in California alone.

More than 800 people arrested already have been deported.

"This is a massive operation," said Marc Raimondi, a spokesman for immigration enforcement or ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. "We are watching the country's borders from the inside."

In New England, officials said the sweeps have caught more than 150, including 75 who had come back after being deported.

ICE has a network of 35 fugitive teams across the country. The 2006 budget increased that number to 52, and the Bush administration is pushing for 70 by 2007.

The challenge, agents said, is staggering.

There are more than 500,000 "fugitive aliens" who have been deported by judges and either slipped back into the country or never left. There is often a disconnect between local and state prisons and the federal government that allows illegal immigrants to serve time and be released without being transferred to federal officials for deportation.

The work that led to the series of arrests over the past 20 days began last winter. Agents in Boston, for example, began scouting targets four months ago, conducting street surveillance and following up leads from confidential informants.

"It's a lot of preparation, and it's a lot of patience," said Jim Martin, deputy director for ICE's New England field office. "All for a couple minutes of adrenaline."

During the raid late Tuesday, the federal squad, which includes a Boston police sergeant detective, wore bulging bulletproof vests and stiff Kevlar gloves to protect their hands from needles, knives and rusty fences.

Badges dangled on chains around their necks as they passed around wanted posters and shined flashlights on the face of a 24-year-old Latvian man who had served prison time for assaulting a police officer.

The team moved in the dark, climbing fences and hiding behind parked cars to encircle a three-story house in Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood. All at once they emerged from the shadows. A half-dozen agents filled the front porch, their knocks on the door echoing down the block. The target had moved, the agents learned, and a team split off and caught him in Weymouth, about 15 miles south of the city.

Another man caught in the recent blitz was a Salvadoran gang member who was convicted in a stabbing that left a 13-year-old boy paralyzed. Agents caught him working at Budget Rental Car at Boston's Logan Airport.

"The problems with immigration aren't going to be solved overnight," Raimondi said as the team sped toward another raid. "You start chipping away at it ... The more teams we get up and running, the more dangerous people we are going to get off the streets."

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Here's hoping this keeps going even after the election cycle.

-Kiamat Dusk

WOOHOO! now they'll just sneak back in oh wait the border is closed with National Guard troops

Operation Return to Sender. Heh.

that was too good to pass up

So, they are sending them back to their countries of orgin to their freedom so they can either wreak havoc in their own countries, or sneak back into ours and do the same damn thing? Good plan!

Not quite, as I read it.

The ones who have served time in the US and *should have* been deported are sent back. Ones that served time and were deported, then came back to the US, are sent back -- after a little tax-payer funded vacation:



Here's the problem:



What alternative do you propose?

Perhaps contacting their country of orgin, and making some sort of deal that they serve their prison time in that country or something along that line.
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Or we could just make Kiamat happy and execute them all /sarcasm

As long as they claim to be targetting child molestors, let them do whatever they want.

Jeez, why didn't they think of this excuse when caught logging our phone calls? Who's gonna argue with that?

Wait, wait. So you've taken issue with ICE enforcing our immigration laws and deporting illiegal immigrants?

-Kiamat Dusk

Well, it didn't say they weren't, did it? I don't know if that happens or not. Anyone else?



You're absolutely right. We should let them stay. Hell, let's put them up at the Hilton so they can live in comfort while targeting our kids. Give 'em a shiny new car, while we're at it. What was I thinking?

Typically when someone commits a crime in a foreign country, they are subject to that country's laws and penal system. This is why you do not want to be caught with drugs in Thailand and this is why that kid got caned in Singapore.

-Kiamat Dusk

Right, but once they've served time for it in the guest country, are they still liable for prosecution in their home country?

I assume that there's mention made of some sort when a person gets deported, that the home country is told why their citizen is being sent home. "Hey, Denmark, you can have your car thief back." No?

I'm sure they are. As for liability for further prosecution, that's doubtful, but I don't know for sure.

Either way, I'm glad they're not in our country.

-Kiamat Dusk

No, I'm against anyone using the boogeyman of "child molestors" to squelch complaints against an operation or policy. It's kind of like, I don't know, say 9/11 widows protesting the war on terror.