Undercover police in Houston, Texas, set up a sting that netted 30 illegal aliens:
The undercover officers posed as paint contractors last week, luring day laborers into their trucks and arresting them, police said.
Thirty were charged with soliciting work in the roadway, a misdemeanor, and two of those 30 also were charged with drug possession, said Houston police spokesman Lt. Robert Manzo.
Manzo said a police tactical unit set up the operation partly to search for a burglar known to be in the area and partly in response to frequent complaints of crime and trespassing. (Source)
Good job. As expected, law-abiding citizens love when cops enforce the law, but so-called immigrants rights groups hate it. I call for an investigation and audit of Coalition Against Intolerance and For Respect (idiotic name, isn’t it?), especially if the group is receiving public funds.
Related: DMV worker fired for “racial” profiling.
Update: Illegal alien gangbangers are a growing problem, especially in the Northern Virginia area, but local police aren’t allowed to ask suspected aliens whether they’re in the country legally. The criminals aren’t deported. They’re allowed to roam free, “day laboring” and cutting people up.
Side note: I’ve enabled a feature that requires first-time commenters to be approved, which means the comments go straight to the moderation queue until I approve or delete them. It’s great protection against drive-by trolls.
“Immigrants rights advocates” = lobbyists for foreign governments, mainly Mexico. And here in L.A. the biggest lobbyist for the illegals is none other than Cardinal Mahony…that is, when he’s not busy fending off the diocese’s legal troubles relating to all the pedophile priests he’s been protecting for the last 20 years.
Comment by Gary — 09.08.05 @ 2:09 pm
09 08 05
Ouch…The question of illegal immigration is so complex. I seriously think that if I lived in Mexico in poverty, I would come over here too. Of course that doesn’t excuse the negation of our laws etc that ILLEGALS commit just by coming here. Then again, what bothers me the most is the people who hire them. They are exploiting thinking that they are saving a buck or two and the immigrant thinks he’s getting over because he wouldn’t get paid that much in a couple weeks where he is from…I REALLY WISH that we would come down HARD on employers of illegal immigrants. Without people to hire them, they have no place to work! Some of these politicians who espouse the most annoyance with the illegal plm are the same ones who pay a Mexican maid to keep house and nanny their children! We have got to attack this issue on both sides: punishing the illegals for breaching our laws and punishing those who hire them. It is the employers who are taking money out of Americans pockets and effectively outsourcing jobs WITHIN our country!!!!
Comment by Mahndisa S. Rigmaiden — 09.08.05 @ 2:28 pm
I understand why poor Mexicans, etc. come here illegally. I still don’t like it, especially when they have the audacity to have kids. If anyone understands Spanish, check out the recent stories in the Spanish-language print media. Sometimes they have pictures of activists who are illegal themselves and are willing to “fight” La Migra to stick around. Never is illegality discussed in those publications as wrong, but as a right that they are entitled to. They should try criticizing their own gov’t instead of pointing fingers at the U.S.
Comment by mj — 09.08.05 @ 2:40 pm
09 08 05
MJ I do agree with you, but again why don’t we also look at the people who hire the illegals? They are shirking their responsibility to the American people by NOT contributing to the tax structure, SSI, Medicare nothing but something to line their pocketbooks with. I believe that illegals are wrong for coming here ILLEGALLY, but it ain’t just them. Remember that necessity is the mother of invention. If people simply didn’t hire them, there would be no need to illegally come here.
Comment by Mahndisa S. Rigmaiden — 09.08.05 @ 4:04 pm
Mahndisa S. Rigmaiden
I agree with you…it’s a lot like drugs… they only get through and continue to get through because of the demand for them… if there was no demand, they would peddle them elsewhere
Comment by Renee — 09.08.05 @ 4:12 pm
I have an idea…why don’t they pretend to be day laborers and then arrest the people that hire them. Until I see something like that, I believe this is crap!
Comment by maxxdogg — 09.08.05 @ 4:20 pm
Now that’s not a bad idea, maxxdogg.
Comment by La Shawn — 09.08.05 @ 4:21 pm
I agree with Mahndisa and Renee and others who commented elsewhere: if there was no opportunity, people wouldn’t come. So yeah, the people who hire should be punished. But I know at least one person who was fined for hiring illegals, and he didn’t pay the fine, and nothing happened to him.
Comment by mj — 09.08.05 @ 4:27 pm
CAIFR? I could sort of excuse the bad name if they were *really* trying hard to make some kind of cool acronym (eg- the PATRIOT act) but CAIFR sounds like the name for the noise my dog’s rear end makes after she’s been sneaking junkfood from the garbage can. (yes, ew.)
Comment by Jewels — 09.08.05 @ 4:56 pm
maxxdog’s idea is pretty good…
but as mj said, if the fines aren’t enforced…useless
Comment by Renee — 09.08.05 @ 5:40 pm
Will our president ever do anything about the illegal immigration problem? I doubt it
Comment by conservblack — 09.08.05 @ 5:50 pm
09 08 05
Hello:
Yeah I pretty much agree with all of you. Now what types of policies will you write you your Congress rep regarding this issue?
I think I will write exactly what I said above; come down hard on the employers of illegal labor:)
Comment by Mahndisa S. Rigmaiden — 09.08.05 @ 5:54 pm
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Comment by jack — 09.08.05 @ 5:54 pm
Here is the deal. When local authorities arrest illegal aliens, they go through all the paperwork, housing and feeding and transporting until the FEDS have their pro-forma “hearing” and release the illegal aliens to return to court on their “honor.” This teaches the local authorities that they are spending valuable resources on enforcing a federal law and that it will all end in naught.
As an example, I am aware of an instance when the Virginia police were notified that passengers carrying huge amounts of drugs on an Amtrack route were crossing into Virginia bound for Baltimore. If Virginia arrested these clowns, the state would have been liable for their trial and prison costs. The Virginia police boarded the train and made sure the “perps” made it to Baltimore and were arrested there.
In the end, no state is going to treat illegal aliens seriously if the state is going to be burdened with the trial and incarceration costs. This is not rocket science; it is simple economics: follow the money!
Comment by Heliotrope — 09.08.05 @ 6:51 pm
Heliotrope, you have got it right. The political-speak here in NYC when Koch was Mayor, was “we can’t get illegal immigrants to testify against their attackers if they might face deportation”. Now who is going to protect us from illegal immigrants when they attack us, and we can’t deport them because we can’t reveal their illegal immigrant status? Send them home!
Comment by Tom Bosee — 09.08.05 @ 9:22 pm
It’s amazing how convoluted common sense has become. When the police aren’t allowed to do their job and the president won’t back them up, we’re all in trouble. This has GOT to have some very dirty roots.
Comment by Mark La Roi — 09.08.05 @ 9:49 pm
I still say why have special “gang” laws…prosecute them under the federal terrorism laws (since they “terrorize” neighborhoods) and make sure the death penalty is attached…
I mean really, are they any different then the Beltway Snipers? Not at all.
Comment by Renee — 09.08.05 @ 10:02 pm
I am confused, I often hear that we must allow
illegals in because they take jobs that American
workers won’t take. My experience says jobs are
taken in order to make money (crass but true),and American workers will do any job if the
pay is right. So, what is really being said is,
illegals do work for which the pay is inadequate to
compensate American workers. Doesn’t that mean that
the “common man” is being denied a living wage for
doing a job that he would do if the pay was
sufficient for his or her perceived needs? Shouldn’t
the “left” be outraged that the common man is being
denied a living by “outsour
ced jobs” in our own country? Don’t artificially low
wages in baseline industries lead to lower wages for
everyone? “Labor” should be having a cow. And if a
“living wage” was forced on corporations in order to
get jobs done, wouldn’t American workers be enticed
to do those jobs? There-by removing able bodied
people from the wellfare rolls? Isn’t that a stated
goal of the “right”? Both sides get what they say
they want and illegals would be forced home by their own economics.
I also have a cure for cancer and the common cold.
But I’ve never heard this part of the issue
presented and I wondered why.
Comment by JP — 09.08.05 @ 10:33 pm
Check out this post, JP. This was my contention as well, that companies want to be allowed ‘guest workers’ in order to control the supply of labor and therefore maintain control over the price of labor.
ChristWeb
Comment by Stephen — 09.08.05 @ 11:33 pm
Doing A Good Job Gets You Fired
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Trackback by In the Bullpen — 09.09.05 @ 1:02 am
The employers aren’t all large companies, but those who hire illegal aliens to mow their lawns, etc. This kind of thing contributes to the problem as much as anything else. Do you shop at a garden center that has almost all illegal alien employees? Resturants? When we patronize these places WE contribute to the problem.
More than that, we have terrorists crossing our borders. Reactive goverenment isn’t good enough after we get killed.
Comment by pat — 09.09.05 @ 4:34 am
Illegal Aliens…
I agree that the hiring employers SHOULD be punished, but SO SHOULD THE ILLEGALS.
You CROSSED THE BORDER WITHOUT LEGAL RIGHT TO DO SO. You SHOULD be punished, and deported. Punished worse if you do it again (and no, I’m not talking about jail time). I’m sick of them coming here and then crying foul when they’re arrested. Well, duh. You’re criminals. Except to the liberal elite anyway. However, Liberals don’t understand concepts like integrity, REAL Fair Play and ethics.
Comment by Dan — 09.09.05 @ 8:50 am
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168871,00.html
Illegal immigrants “afraid” of law enforcement and asking for tax payer supported help after hurricane
Comment by Renee — 09.09.05 @ 9:57 am
30 Illegal Aliens Busted In Day Laborer Sting
Well this is great news. Police in Houston set up a sting where they posed as contractors looking for workers and busted 30 illegal aliens. Now if we could just get our immediate deportation laws in order. Of course every…
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Comment by maxxdogg — 09.09.05 @ 11:57 am
Stephen,
Thanks for the link, a very nice primer on capitalism and corporate strategy run amuck.
However, what I am looking for is a strategy so compelling that both the “left” and the “right” would have a difficult time standing against the return of illegals to their homelands. The burdensome cost of health care and schooling comes close but doesn’t tip the balance. So, try this on for size…frame the debate this way because, not only is it accurate, I believe it would be effective.
Wage suppression affects not only blacks and whites but, it is devastating to the US. Hispanic population. Play that card and the “we can’t offend the Hispanic voter” argument disappears How many undereducated whites, disadvantaged blacks and under appreciated Hispanics work two or more jobs to pay the bills? The numbers are staggering ,Jesse Jackson et al. and George W would have a hard time explaining support for a policy that not only “outsourced” jobs to illegals but lowered the standard of living for Americans (especially minorities) that do work.
Comment by JP — 09.09.05 @ 12:01 pm
Well, we all know none of our great ideas will be but into practice.
When does the government do anything by using common sense?
Only when enough people get angry and start voting in representatives that will change immigration laws will anything happen. Most people just don’t care enough because they don’t see any direct effect on themselves. They couldn’t be any more wrong.
We’ve got to get it together.
Comment by Chris Roberts — 09.10.05 @ 1:31 pm
What is needed is a person with influence, someone that has a forum (you know, like a recognized blogger) someone that appears on TV and radio and cares about the future of this here USof A. Do you know anyone like that? of course a black woman that mounted a campaign like this might be looked upon as another Condi Rice or Colin Powell or Clarence Thomas or Martin Luther King Jr….
that would be just awful….hmmm?
Comment by JP — 09.10.05 @ 3:59 pm
Regarding the DMV guy, I applaud his actions but he really should have informed his supervisor, which he concedes he shouldve done. However, to fire him for this is stupid, and dangerous. Dangerous because it sends the message that those working for the public good (civil servants) are not allowed to use common sense and act on it if they feel it necessary. The most that should’ve happenned to this guiy is a verbal counseling, reinforcing the chain of command and the need to use it. What also ought to happen is the implementation oif procedures that allow alert DMV folks to quickly get intouch with their supervisors and police when suspicious persons/ incidents become apparent.
Comment by Morgan — 09.11.05 @ 4:05 pm