That’s a two week total:
In what federal authorities are calling the largest sweep of criminal and fugitive immigrants, federal agents over the past two weeks have arrested more than 1,300 Southland immigrants in their homes, in jails and at work, officials announced Wednesday.
As part of a stepped-up national crackdown on illegal immigrants, five teams of Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents raided homes in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties from Sept. 19 through Tuesday.
Some arrests were easy, while others involved agents peering into clothes dryers or squeezing deep into crawl spaces to find hidden suspects. Most of those arrested were from Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Of course, the feds are wrong for enforcing the laws. This is racist, blah, blah, blah…whatever.
“This is a war against immigrants,” said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, spokesman for the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities. “In this war, there is collateral damage. The U.S. seems to be blind to the suffering of family members and anyone else who happens to be in their way. Those that are not criminal are getting arrested.”
This is a war against illegal immigration, and it is long overdue. There is a problem with our immigration system, that much is true. But that does not give anyone an excuse to disregard out national sovereignty or our laws. And if you are worried about collateral damage, you could always surrender.
We’ll welcome you back, when you are legal.
And another thing real quick. I have said time and again that illegal aliens are not doing the jobs American’s won’t do, but they are doing the jobs America’s youth used to do. Case in point:
But amid heated public debate and increased political pressure to enforce the country’s immigration laws, the agency has waged a high-profile campaign across the country to clamp down on illegal immigrants, last month arresting dozens at McDonald’s restaurants in an identity-theft operation.
Dozens working at McDonald’s. Taking the jobs kids used to do.
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