These next two items so illustrate the agenda-pushing of that organ that I'm not even commenting or highlighting.
Of course, these items were buried on the second-page of the City/Region section.
"22 arrested in Brockton immigration sting; Officials say some linked to violence" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | June 14, 2008
BROCKTON - Local and federal law enforcement officers arrested 22 people on immigration charges in a two-day sting operation this week, using federal laws to apprehend some of the biggest players in the violence that has rocked Brockton in recent months. If the sting had been carried out earlier, they said, the city's seventh homicide victim of the year might have been among them.
Among the list of suspected gang members, affiliates, and seasoned criminals identified as targets in the planning stages of the sting was Bensney Toussaint, a 26-year-old Haitian immigrant who was gunned down Sunday night. The shooting, at a graduation party on Turner Street, remains under investigation, police said, calling Toussaint a victim of the same violence they had been working to prevent.
"Had we gotten to him a little sooner, he'd be alive," Police Chief William Conlon said Thursday.
The sting was part of Operation Community Shield, a partnership between local and state authorities and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement that was launched three years ago with a roundup of MS-13 gang members from El Salvador linked to crimes in Greater Boston.
Federal agents bring immigration charges against foreign-born residents with histories of crimes that could warrant their deportation. Of the 22 arrested in the Brockton sting this week, 16 were permanent US residents whose criminal convictions could make them eligible for deportation under federal law; five were in the country illegally; and one was wanted on a deportation warrant. At least 11 were known gang members or affiliates, police said.
Police would not identify the 22 people by name, saying they must still be charged in a federal immigration court. But they said they have histories of severe crimes that range from assault to racketeering, and to other gun and drug crimes.
"These are pretty much the worst of the worst," said Bruce Foucart, special agent in charge of the ICE's office of investigations in Boston.
Police believe the type of street violence that has rocked Brockton recently is perpetrated by the same core group of people.
Toussaint had a history of crimes dating back to 1999, including assault and drug convictions. But his family doesn't believe he should have been on the list of sting targets.
While his sister, Edwine-Toussaint Jeanty, acknowledges he had a history of crime, she said he did not resort to the type of violence that police described.
Their parents brought the family here 21 years ago, when Toussaint was just 5, to escape such violence in Haiti, she said. But now, her parents wonder whether they made the right choice and perhaps he would have been saved by being deported, she said.
"It would have been better for him to be back in Haiti, than not here at all," she said."
But, but, but... the MSM and the politicians all told me they were all hard-working people trying to support their families!
Why didn't they mention bringing GANGS and DRUGS to our streets?
When Lou Dobbs says it, they all start howling!!
Case closed, readers.
NEWPORT, R.I. --Hispanic advocacy groups denounced Friday the arrests of 42 people who were apprehended by federal authorities this week in the Newport area and charged with violating immigration laws.
Agents for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made the arrests Wednesday and Thursday in Newport and Middletown with the assistance of other law enforcement agencies. The suspects came from Brazil, Guatemala and Mexico.
Speaking at a news conference, Juan Garcia, who works with immigrants at St. Teresa of Avila Church in Providence, told WPRO-AM that federal immigration officials need to do their jobs with justice and humanity and also honor the Constitution.
Shannah Kurland of the Olneyville Neighborhood Association in Providence said federal agents are spreading fear in the Hispanic community.
Of those arrested, 33 people are subject to immediate deportation because they previously ignored court orders to leave the United States or returned to the country illegally after being deported. The rest of the suspects will have their cases heard before a federal judge.
In a written statement, Bruce Chadbourne, field office director of ICE's Office of Detention and Removal in Boston, said his agency works to enforce deportation orders.
"The United States welcomes law abiding immigrants, but foreign nationals who violate our laws and who commit crimes against those in our communities will not be allowed to stay," he said (AP June 13, 2008)."Whoever knew enforcing the law could be such a problem, huh?
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sure they are just hard-working folks.
