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<WakeUp2005@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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>   Told ya so . . . every -- and I mean EVERY -- day I see people who
> are OBVIOUSLY very likely to be illegal aliens driving in California.
>
>   And if the following is happening in West Virginia, of all places,
> imagine what the case is in other places where huge populations of
> illegal aliens reside - North Carolina, California, New York, Texas,
> Arizona, Oregon, New Jersey, Illinois . . . about 40 or more states,
> in fact.)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Highway stops yielding illegal aliens
>
> September 11, 2005
>
> By Cindi Lash, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
>
> WHEELING, W.Va. -- The van was shabby, and the blinds on its side
> windows were drawn tight.
>
> Ohio County Sheriff's Deputy Brandon Groves had pulled the hulking
> vehicle over in early-morning darkness after it sped past him at 12
> mph over the 55-mph limit on Interstate 70. Groves approached the
> driver's window and asked for identification, but the driver didn't
> respond, then said "no'' when asked if he spoke English.
>
> Peering into the back, Groves saw several faces staring back at him.
> When Groves ordered them out, milk jugs filled with urine spilled onto
> the road along with 17 apprehensive people from Mexico.
>
> With the help of a Spanish-speaking deputy, investigators learned that
> all of the 18 people, including a 17-year-old girl and a 9-year-old
> boy, admitted to entering the United States illegally. Several of them
> were related, and they'd all been on their way from Missouri to work
> in New York City, Sheriff Tom Burgoyne said.
>
> "They were lying all over the van," Burgoyne said. "We're sure [the
> driver was] stopping only for gas and not allowing people out.''
>
> That traffic stop, at 1:38 a.m. Aug. 25, was the sixth time since May
> 3 that Ohio County deputies encountered illegal immigrants on the
> 14-mile stretch of I-70 that bisects West Virginia's Panhandle between
> Pennsylvania and Ohio.
>
> Their destinations included New York, California, New Jersey,
> Baltimore and Columbus, Ohio. Some told investigators they'd been
> picked up on a street corner in the Bronx and were paying about $300
> each to be driven to Los Angeles for work. All of those detained and
> turned over to federal immigration authorities were from Mexico or
> Central American countries.
>
> Burgoyne, who headed Wheeling's FBI office for 27 years before
> becoming Ohio County sheriff in 2001, said he remembered no other
> incidents involving illegal immigrants in the Panhandle since he's
> been in office. The upswing this summer has prompted him to dub the
> highway "an artery for illegal aliens."
>
> In addition to those incidents on I-70, West Virginia State Police
> detained two illegal immigrants this week in Preston County, near
> Kingwood, W.Va.
>
> Pennsylvania State Police said they, too, had found increasing numbers
> of illegal immigrants in traffic stops in recent months, particularly
> on I-70 and Interstate 80. During one four-day period in May, troopers
> around the state stopped and detained 117 illegal aliens while running
> a special enforcement detail.
>
> In the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, officials with the federal
> Immigration and Customs Enforcement regional office, which serves
> Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, have arrested about 1,000
> illegal immigrants. Those numbers are about the same as for the
> previous year, a spokesman said, but a breakdown of where the arrests
> occurred was not available.
>
> Law enforcement officials credit stepped-up, post-Sept. 11, 2001,
> vigilance by police for the increase in detentions and arrests.
>
> "It's about homeland security. We wanted to be more proactive with
> these issues," said Pennsylvania Trooper Wayne Kline, who oversees
> Operation Shield, a program state police proposed after the 2001
> terrorist attacks.
>
> The program, which began in November, has trained more than 150
> troopers to examine documents, ask specific questions and spot
> evidence of trafficking in illegal immigrants and other illegal
> activity during traffic stops.
>
> "I can't say its a large number [of illegal immigrants] more, but
> we're getting more," Kline said. "Before 9/11, if I stopped you for
> speeding, I would be less likely to ask for identification of your two
> passengers. Now, we're trying to be proactive, taking steps to
> identify everyone in the car."
>
> Local law enforcement officials acknowledge that numbers of illegal
> immigrants arrested here might seem insignificant when compared with
> the more than 230,000 illegal aliens detained across the country by
> the ICE's office of detention and removal during its 2003 fiscal year,
> the last year for which those statistics were available.
>
> "It's not the never-ending tide" of illegal immigration that the ICE
> and other agencies have to combat in Arizona, California and other
> border states, Burgoyne said. Nor did any of the people detained by
> his department turn out to be fugitives or hardened criminals when
> checked against computer databases.
>
> But criminals and terrorists can pop up anywhere, he said, adding that
> simply being in the country illegally is a crime.
>
> "After all those years I spent in the FBI, I worry about how easy it
> is to get in here," he said, describing a scenario in which a
> terrorist posing as a migrant worker could enter and move about the
> country.
>
> Burgoyne and his deputies said they were also worried about the
> exploitation of illegal immigrants by people who transport and hire
> them. They're aware of cases in border states in which immigrants died
> of thirst in overheated trucks or were killed in crashes.
>
> "This is probably how it's always been, with [illegal] people passing
> through. But I have told my deputies to be alert," said Burgoyne, who
> spent 33 years with the FBI. "They're getting caught here, and my
> stance is that we're not going to let them go."
>
> That stance has twice put his department at odds with federal ICE
> agents, who, according to deputies' reports, questioned why deputies
> had detained illegal immigrants whose names did not appear in computer
> databases of wanted criminals, fugitives or terror suspects.
>
> "At first, they were telling us to let them go," Burgoyne said, adding
> that ICE officials June 21 questioned who would pay the $50-per-person
> daily charge to house detainees in West Virginia's Northern Regional
> Jail in Moundsville. He, in turn, balked at freeing people who might
> have given false names and other background information without
> investigating them further.
>
> "ICE said, 'Let them go,' on one night. The deputy called me and I
> said, 'No, do not let them go,' " he said. "What do I do if we let
> them go, knowing that they are illegal, and then they hold up the
> local liquor store and shoot two people?"
>
> Deputies said they then contacted the ICE's Law Enforcement Support
> Center in Vermont, the national 24-hour facility that provides police
> with a computer database to search for information about illegal
> immigrants.
>
> ICE agents took custody of the immigrants detained and held by Ohio
> County deputies in that incident and in all of the others since May.
>
> But Burgoyne said he was so troubled that he requested in June and
> will continue to push for a meeting with ICE agents, the U.S. attorney
> in Wheeling and possibly other law enforcement officials.
>
> Ernestine Fobbs, a spokeswoman at the ICE's national headquarters in
> Washington, D.C., and Michael Gilhooly, a spokesman at the ICE's Law
> Enforcement Support Center, said last week that they were not aware of
> Burgoyne's request.
>
> On Friday, Gilhooly said Richard Boronyak, the agent in charge of the
> Pittsburgh regional office, "will reach out to the sheriff [this week]
> and address his concerns."
>
> Gilhooly said ICE agents at the support center did run the names of
> the detained immigrants through their database to determine whether
> they were wanted or believed to be threats to national security. But
> because the database cannot provide information about people who've
> never been entered into it, agents came to Wheeling to collect the
> detainees, obtain their photographs and fingerprints and start
> proceedings against them, he said.
>
> "Clearly, we do arrest people who are simple illegal aliens, but we
> work within the priorities of the agency, as does any law enforcement
> agency," said Gilhooly, whose center received 667,500 inquiries in
> 2004 from law enforcement officials around the county.
>
> "If we're involved in arresting criminal aliens who have re-entered
> the United States, an alien who's arrested for a simple speeding
> ticket may not be the priority," he said. "But we certainly respond
> and gather the information on them. There are major highways there,
> and people use those highways to move about the United States."
>
> Gilhooly said the immigrants detained in Wheeling were charged with
> being in the country illegally, but he declined to say what happened
> to them.
>
> Generally, detainees are treated like suspects arrested for other
> offenses. Based on the circumstances, they might be jailed, released
> on bond or released on their own recognizance with an order to appear
> for a hearing before a federal immigration judge. The judge may order
> immigrants removed, but their appeal process can take years.
>
> Immigrants who are released but don't appear for hearings are subject
> to detention if they are picked up again.
>
> Gilhooly said investigators would pursue information about drivers and
> owners of vehicles used to transport some of the Wheeling immigrants,
> saying ICE agents are involved in a number of ongoing criminal
> investigations in this area.
>
> "Therein lies a tragedy of people entering the United States
> illegally. They place themselves in the hands of people with no
> concern for their welfare and they have no recourse if they do find a
> job with dangerous or unhealthy conditions," he said. "The system is
> meant to work when people enter legally."
>
> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05254/569384.stm
>
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> "A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of
evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation . . . betrays [one nation] into a
participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter . . .
>   "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free
people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that
foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
>   "Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate
> antipathies against particular nations and passionate
> attachments for others should be excluded."
>
>   --  President George Washington
>       Farewell Address

And the creep in the White (should be brown) House wobbles around with a
bible in one hand, a flag in the other, and with his nose buried deep into
the hispanics communities collective arses.

Hank

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