Pro-Illegal Immigration Advocates Working Against ICE

The Chicago Tribune details how some folks are using calling trees to beat immigration officers and keep illegals in the country:

Dozens of immigrants, legal and illegal, phoned one another, warning of a raid.

“I called my sister in the building next door and another sister in this building,” said Maria, who said she is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and has two children who are U.S.-born citizens. She asked that her full name not be used. “They came and knocked on doors, but no one answered.”

Nice.

There is actually an organization mentioned in the article called “Mothers Against Raids.” I guess the idea of not being in the country illegally as a way of avoiding a raid escapes them. They are trying “to save families from being cleaved when an illegal immigrant parent is caught and removed from the U.S.”

Maybe they should go back on their own then. Perhaps they could organize a way to get them back to their home country, set up a house to live in and a job, and then work within the system to get into the country legally.

Here’s why I say that:

The immigration agency’s 75 fugitive operations teams –the ones assigned to visit residences–arrested 30,408 illegal immigrants in the fiscal year ending last September, a figure expected to grow with 28 additional teams this year, officials said.

Almost 40 percent of those arrests were collateral, and the remainder were deportation-fleeing, or fugitive, immigrants, including criminals, Reilly said. For the first time, the backlog of fugitive immigrants fell last fiscal year, to fewer than 595,000, officials said.

Six out of every ten they are helping are fugitives. Those who are a party to these folks escaping need to face some repercussions also. They are aiding and abetting fugitives.