In the early hours of the morning, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested five men in Charlotte whom they suspected of being in the country illegally, as reported by The Charlotte Observer.The ICE team initially set out to arrest two men who had been charged with drug and burglary offenses and were undocumented. One of the men they were looking for is Santiago Villeda-Ramirez, a convicted drug trafficker in Idaho during the 1990s.
Agents never found their target, but they arrested two other men who lived in the apartment. One was the target’s brother, Francisco Villeda-Briseno, who admitted to agents he was in the country illegally.
“I came here to work, not sell drugs,” Villeda-Briseno, 41, said in handcuffs”…
Agents had been led to the Pinetree apartment, they said, because their target had used his brother’s identity during a previous arrest. Now the brother faces possible deportation, while the man they targeted has reportedly returned to Mexico.”
If Villeda-Briseno’s story checks out, he can at least look forward to the possibility of reformed immigration detention. The 30,000-bed detention system is currently holding immigrants awaiting deportation proceedings and those seeking asylum in prison-like facilities, “complete with razor wire, jail-style uniforms, armed guards and partitions that prevent physical contact with loved ones,” according to the Washington Post article. The articles goes on to say that immigrant detainees who are in custody under civil immigration charges and not criminal offenses
…could soon be held in facilities where they can wear their own clothes, participate in movie and bingo nights, eat continental breakfasts, and celebrate holidays with visiting family members.
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest contractor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has reached a preliminary agreement to soften confinement, free of charge, at nine immigrant facilities covering at least 7,100 beds – a deal that ICE officials see as a precursor to changes elsewhere.
If, however, Villeda-Briseno is indeed found guilty of drug trafficking or of having a criminal record in general, he will join other convicts who will likely remain in a prison-like setting, according to ICE Director John Morton.
Restructuring housing policies for detainees could very well serve to reform public opinion concerning undocumented immigrants. These budding changes underline the fact that the ICE does not consider someone a criminal due solely to migratory status; rather, a person must commit legal infractions once in the country in order to be registered as a criminal.
This article appears in Jun 15-21, 2010.
You are to be congratulated on finally using a question mark in the correct way. However, you have a long way to go if you are to overcome your handicap.
There will be a confrontation soon between Americans who want a halt to illegal immigration occupancy and the zealots who want open borders? NumbersUSA has all the answers to these question of those pandering to specific ethnic organizations, and wants you to keep subsidizing illegal aliens lives. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has the followers who see nothing wrong, for you to keep unceasingly pay-out for illegal alien families who need urgent care in hospitals, education for their children and other welfare programs Our country is 13 Trillion dollars in debt, which is mostly owed to Communist China. We have about 15 million people slogging the streets for jobs, but their is estimated to be 8.5 million foreigners working on bogus ID and Social Security numbers employed. If you haven’t checked your Credit report lately, I suggest you do? My own Social Security number was compromised of all things by a person working for a Security Firm in Dallas, TX.
Apart from Sen. Reid who has to go, Pelosi in charge of our Homeland Security, Clinton, Holder, Morton, Boxer, Schumer and Graham are all set on–FORCING–through another financially crippling–AMNESTY. Now that this fury battle has been ignited by the Arizona SB 1070 police law, we must not let this controversial issue sink quietly beneath the oil situation in the Gulf. Governor Brewer is an upstanding patriotic American and doesn’t crawl to powerful influences of businesses who hire illegal aliens, ethnic caucuses and reams of other soft-brained idiots who want massive avalanches of people from South-North of the border or intentionally overstayed their visa.
As a Independent, a Tea Partier I want politicians working for every American and legal entrant. Years of neglect have come back to haunt each political parties and now they are going to serve you a hundred billion dollar bailout, By legalizing criminal aliens who violated our sovereign law of defending our borders from drug criminals and others with criminal records escaping from foreign law enforcements. The criminal element is prevalent in the border state of Arizona, but if we don’t throw out of office the spreading violence and criminal will get worse. IN EVERY STATE!. It’s outrageous when an American public servant such as Madame Clinton reveals to a foreign Diplomat about our internal affairs before the US taxpayers who pay her salary. Clinton might be against the “ATTRITION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, but Governor Brewer has already received $48.000 from the Average Citizen-legal resident to support this the SB 1070 policing law.
Liberals are strictly behind this obnoxious push to obtain quasi–legitimate path to citizenship, which must be stopped at any cost. Learn about the corruption in Washington and in State Capitols in both ruling parties. Your vote is powerful, so its up to you and only–YOU! Obama’s administration Czars are debunking our US Constitution and not following the voice of the people? Support the State of Arizona. Stop any immigration Amnesty as it will bankrupt many states. Don’t follow the chaos that the Sanctuary–illegal alien–state of California is suffering from? De Mint is right–investigate for yourself, the money extracted by the IRS to pay for the invasion. Hundreds of thousands of “Anchor babies” get free everything for parents, including low income housing. Discover the abhorrent facts on NumbersUSA and Judicial Watch. Call your Representative at 202-224-3121 and demand their support of the state of Arizona or see the door in coming November elections.
“There will be a confrontation soon between Americans who want a halt to illegal immigration occupancy and the zealots who want open borders” ?! Are you sure you’re not Tim D’Annunzio under another name? Christ, if you People of Tea could only hear yourselves the way sane folks do, maybe you’d shut up now and then. Whiny, paranoid, and afraid of the future – what a way to go through life.
Sorry, as I am not an illiterate moron, I do not know what an “offical” section is. Please explain it to me.
I understand people like you, I really do. You’re not used to being held to a standard or being accountable for your actions.
Be that as it may, if you’re going to come onto a public forum, you should do it with a touch of decorum and eloquence, rather than spewing your incoherent idiocy and mutilated speech left and right and then expect to be taken seriously.
You’re little more than a sideshow amusement, and a bad one at that.
If you want people to speak to you as an equal, perhaps you should stop mangling the English language.
Arizona got it correct with its new Immigration Law I used http://www.azimmigrationrights.org to let the politicians know they need to get it right all over.