Ice arrest 450 people in immigration raid

https://www.google.com/amp/www.latim...story,amp.html

I'm sure they are going after people with criminal issues and also I feel like they are making these moves to bring it up when it's time to present the dream act "that they have been working hard and continuing to get rid of the criminals who are here illegally" that way the republicans and their followers feel at ease about passing something knowing that they're also taking security m assures to protect the borders and citizens .

ICE arrests hundreds of immigrants in 'sanctuary cities' around the nation, California
ICE team
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement fugitive operations team surrounds a Montebello home during an operation in April. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Joel Rubin Joel RubinContact Reporter
Immigration officials on Thursday announced hundreds of arrests in an operation targeting communities where police and elected officials have refused to fully cooperate on enforcing federal immigration laws.

ICE said it arrested 167 people in and around Los Angeles, a region in which several cities and counties have been tagged by justice officials as being so-called sanctuaries — a loosely defined term used to describe local governments that restrict police from assisting immigration authorities identify and detain people suspected of being in the country illegally.


Arrests were also made in San Francisco and San Jose. Overall, ICE said it arrested nearly 500 people across the country over the last few days.

The surge of arrests was similar in size to several past operations ICE has carried out in recent years. But the focus on places deemed by justice officials to be soft on illegal immigration served to ratchet up an already tense standoff.




Sara Burnett, Director of Wellness and Food Policy at Panera
For some California sheriffs, it's not politics stopping them from fully helping ICE: It's the legal risk
With President Trump pushing for a sweeping crackdown on the estimated 12 million people living in the country illegally, he and U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions have insisted that local law enforcement agencies give immigration agents unfettered access to jails and delay releasing immigrants from custody so that agents can nab them.

Officials in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other liberal-leaning communities have rebuffed the demands, passing local laws or implementing policies that restrict what police can and cannot do for ICE agents. Resistance has come from more conservative corners as well, where authorities have been unwilling to hold on to inmates for ICE out of concern that doing so is illegal.

In response, Sessions has angrily gone after cities he deems uncooperative, lashing out at them in speeches and threatening to withhold funds — a move the courts have so far blocked as unconstitutional.

The spate of arrests was the latest volley in Sessions’ campaign.

“Sanctuary jurisdictions that do not honor detainers or allow us access to jails and prisons are shielding criminal aliens from immigration enforcement and creating a magnet for illegal immigration,” said ICE Acting Director Tom Homan in a statement announcing the arrests. “As a result, ICE is forced to dedicate more resources to conduct at-large arrests in these communities.”

Amid fear and resistance, immigration agents in L.A. have not ramped up arrests
As in past operations, ICE officials said they primarily went after people with criminal pasts and said participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, DACA, were not targeted.

All told, more than 300 of those arrested had criminal convictions, according to figures released by ICE. Nearly 90 of those people had been convicted of drunk driving, the most common offense.

In a press release, ICE highlighted the most serious criminals caught. It described the arrest of a Colonia Chiques gang member in Los Angeles as part of the raid, saying he “rammed multiple law enforcement vehicles in an effort to evade arrest” and was found with a loaded handgun.

Talia Inlender, a senior staff attorney at Public Counsel, which advocates for immigrants, criticized the focus on sanctuary cities.

“It’s clearly a political move that is not actually geared toward public safety,” she said.




UPDATES:

3:40 p.m.: This article was updated with additional details from the arrests along with a statement from the acting director of ICE, a comment from a public counsel attorney and background about the Trump administration’s position on sanctuary cities.

This article was originally published at 2 p.m.

Man, 450 arrests in a day. If they keep this up it'll take them 73 years to arrest everyone.

x 5 for the court backlogs lol


What a bunch of idiots.

Lol, yeah... bureaucrats are super inefficient.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...backlog-215649

Good, arrest them all bad hombres

there arresting the good innocent ones too to increase there numbers.

Aggravated assault 6 Illegal re-entry 5
Agg. assault public officer strong arm 2 Indecent Assault and Battery on a Child 2
Aggravated assault weapon 7 Invade Privacy 1
Amphetamine possession 3 Larceny 9
Amphetamine sell 1 Marijuana possession 1
Assault 13 Marijuana sell 1
Assault - Domestic Violence 2 Negligent manslaughter vehicle 1
Battery 4 Obstructing justice 1
Bribery 1 Peeping tom 1
Burglary 5 Possession of Cocaine 1
Carrying concealed weapon 2 Possession of Firearm 1
Cocaine possession 6 Possession of weapon 5
Cocaine sell 5 Prostitution 5
Contempt of court 1 Public order crimes 1
Controlled Substance 4 Rape 1
Counterfeiting 1 Receive stolen property 1
Cruelty toward child 4 Robbery strong arm 2
Cruelty toward wife 1 Robbery weapon 3
Damage property 3 Sex assault 4
Dangerous drugs 7 Sex offense against child/fondling 10
Disorderly conduct 7 Sex offense other 2
Domestic violence 12 Sexual exploitation of minor 1
Driving under influence 86 Shoplifting 2
Drug Possession 8 Simple assault 2
Drug trafficking 14 Stolen Property 1
Extort threat to injure person 1 Stolen vehicle 1
False citizenship 1 Theft of us government property 1
Forgery 2 Threat terroristic state offenses 1
Fraud 4 Threat to kidnap 1
Harassing communication 1 Traffic offense other 10
Heroin possession 1 Trespassing 3
Heroin sell 2 Vehicle theft 2
Identity theft 3 Weapon offense 11
Illegal entry 3 Total 317

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