Kindly Raids Allow Illegal Aliens to Skip Justice...

Kindly Raids Allow Illegal Aliens to Skip Justice



The Los Angeles Times is losing circulation, revenues and forced to fire lots of employees. This editorial is an example of why honest folks laugh at this newspaper.

The Times is calling for "kindly" raids of illegal aliens. They want child care and protection for those who are caught violating our laws.

From the article, "It should have been the perfect immigration raid — considerate, humanitarian, efficient, the agency’s standard since the debacle in New Bedford, Mass., last year when children, including a breast-feeding baby, suffered when their parents were taken away for days.’.

The Times is blaming the criminals for the after affects of being caught violating Federal laws.

Get over it. The blame for the problems of the children is with the illegal aliens, not law enforcement. law enforcement did not force these folks to break our laws, they did that on their own. The problem of their children is because of them, not our government.

When a newspaper asks for kindly raids, it is asking for non enforcement of the law. Would you buy a newspaper that has an editorial board more concerned about law breakers than honest citizens. Did you know that John Dillinger had a mother, yet we killed him. I bet Charlie Manson has relatives, yet the Times does not seem to be concerned about them. How about the honest father fired from a job, so an illegal alien can take it—what about the honest family.

Now you know why the Times is losing circulation, it is losing credibility.



The story is below...




The right kind of immigration raid


Law enforcement and immigrant advocates are working together to make for kinder crackdowns. April 3, 2008



Before U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took 144 men and women into custody at Micro Solutions Enterprises in Van Nuys a few weeks ago, the agency sent advance notice to civil rights groups. It put social service agencies on standby in case children whose parents were detained needed help. Once the suspected illegal immigrants were identified, ICE agents asked if they had chronic health conditions, child-care issues or other urgent personal situations. Those who did were released and given an order to appear in court at a later date. Lastly, ICE handed out a list of attorneys who would take cases pro bono.



It should have been the perfect immigration raid -- considerate, humanitarian, efficient, the agency's standard since the debacle in New Bedford, Mass., last year when children, including a breast-feeding baby, suffered when their parents were taken away for days. But the Van Nuys action still resulted in a lawsuit -- which led to progress. Lawyers waiting to assist the immigrants filed an injunction against ICE after they were stopped from accompanying the immigrants to interviews, a clear violation of the constitutional right to representation. ICE settled the suit several days ago, and since then attorney access has been smoother.



This is the reform of immigration enforcement far from the halls of Congress. It is being cobbled together bit by bit, with compromises, cooperation and confrontation by naturally opposing forces -- those charged with enforcing the law and deporting illegal immigrants and those who advocate on their behalf.



Tuesday afternoon, outraged immigration activists picketed ICE's downtown intake station, protesting the detention of about 30 suspected illegal immigrants taken in what they believed were "raids" on warehouses. Even a well-conducted raid is a hypocrisy, they said, illustrating contradictions between immigration enforcement policies and immigration law: A humane raid would not separate mothers from their young children for a long time, but the law allows the harsher separation of deportation.



It turns out, however, that the people picked up Tuesday were taken in routine port customs security inspections of freight warehouses. Those businesses have to comply with a lengthy list of security requirements, one of which is to not hire illegal immigrants, who are particular security risks because their status makes them vulnerable to coercion. All reasonable. So Wednesday morning, immigration advocates and ICE officials were on the phone together, examining and clarifying Tuesday's events -- and preparing for the next time.





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