11 accused in smuggling of Mexican restaurant workers
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It could be an unhappy Cinco de Mayo at seven Mexican restaurants targeted by an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A Buffalo-area restaurant owner and several managers were among 11 people accused of conspiring to harbor illegal workers smuggled in to work at restaurants. Forty-five undocumented workers were also apprehended. Read the press release here. The Buffalo News has a story here.
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Ball immigration bill opposed by state correction officials
Assemblyman Greg Ball says his new immigration enforcement bill is a pragmatic step that targets only criminals, but one of the major players in his proposal, the state Department of Correctional Services, is not interested.
The bill calls for training state police, county sheriff departments and state correction officers to take on the duties of identifying and deporting foreign-born criminals under a deal with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“We feel that it would be a waste of state taxpayers’ money for us to do this training when we already have well-trained federal investigators through ICE, who are basically at our disposal if we need them and do this kind of work all the time for us,” department spokesman Erik Kriss said.
Under an existing program, ICE investigates inmates flagged by prison personnel as being foreign born and handles the proceedings from there, Kriss said.
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My comments to the article:
1st post:
The bill calls for training state police, county sheriff departments and state correction officers to take on the duties of identifying and deporting foreign-born criminals under a deal with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
All illegal immigrants absolutely need to be identified ASAP, once LE arrests them, to keep any of them from slipping through the cracks. The only way this can be done is if LE receives ICE 287g training enabling them to use the DHS E-Verify database, which will allow them to immediately identify the illegals.
The ignorant politicians state that “We feel that it would be a waste of state taxpayers’ money for us to do this training”, when the real waste of taxpayers of money is having them in office, allowing illegal immigrants to cost us far more than the cost of the Wars in Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Illegals must be forced to leave our country, and the ICE 287g traing very successfully accomplishes this.
I have a list email addresses of Democratic New York State Senators, and Assembly persons, that I am going to dig out , and post here. Hopefully the good citizens of new York will use it to let their representatives know that status quo is not an option, and that 287g training is needed by NY Law Enforcement.
2nd post:
Illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers far more than the Wars in Iraq, and Afghanistan. In example:
As with all states, education is California’s single largest public expenditure and commands 42% of that state�s $150 billion budget. The State of California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office reports that of the state’s 6.4 million K through 12 public school students, one out of four is not fluent in English. Of that number, 85% are Spanish speaking. Additionally, one out of nine of these students require special education programs.
These children of Spanish speaking foreign immigrants increase California’s K-12 enrollment by 21.3%, nearly 1.4 million students. At $11,584 each, which is the state�s 2007-2008 budgeted allocation per student, the cost of educating these students is $15.8 billion. Add in the $1.3 billion for special programs to accommodate non-English speaking students, and the cost increases to $17.1 billion. The state’s current budget deficit is projected to be $16 billion.
Incarceration of illegal immigrant criminals in California State prisons, alone, costs 1.4 billion dollars a year.
Then there’s the cost of Healthcare, Welfare, Food Stamps, Section-8 Housing, the judicial system, and very high added law enforcement costs.
287g will actually enable New York residents to save money.
New York State Democratic Senators, and Assembly members, who supported Spitzer’s Driver’s Licenses for illegals
eadams@senate.state.ny.us; breslin@senate.state.ny.us; connor@senate.state.ny.us; diaz@senate.state.ny.us; dilan@senate.state.ny.us; duane@senate.state.ny.us; gonzalez@senate.state.ny.us; hassellt@senate.state.ny.us; shuntley@senate.state.ny.us; lkrueger@senate.state.ny.us; montgome@senate.state.ny.us; onorato@senate.state.ny.us; oppenhei@senate.state.ny.us; parker@senate.state.ny.us; perkins@senate.state.ny.us; sabini@senate.state.ny.us; sampson@senate.state.ny.us; schneide@senate.state.ny.us; serrano@senate.state.ny.us; masmith@senate.state.ny.us;stavisky@...ly.state.ny.us; eddingp@assembly.state.ny.us; engles@assembly.state.ny.us; ramosp@assembly.state.ny.us; sweeney@assembly.state.ny.us; lavinec@assembly.state.ny.us; schimelm@assembly.state.ny.us; hoopere@assembly.state.ny.us; weisenh@assembly.state.ny.us; zebrowskik@assembly.state.ny.us; JaffeeE@assembly.state.ny.us; ballg@assembly.state.ny.us; cahillk@assembly.state.ny.us; mcenenj@assembly.state.ny.us; canestr@assembly.state.ny.us; aubertd@assembly.state.ny.us; liftonb@assembly.state.ny.us; johns@assembly.state.ny.us; morellj@assembly.state.ny.us; ganttd@assembly.state.ny.us; koond@assembly.state.ny.us; schimmr@assembly.state.ny.us; peoplec@assembly.state.ny.us; hoyts@assembly.state.ny.us; schroem@assembly.state.ny.us; parmenw@assembly.state.ny.us