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Federal deportation officers staged one of the biggest enforcement actions in years against businesses in Los Angeles this week, arresting 212 people and serving audit notices to 122 businesses who will have to prove they aren’t hiring illegal immigrants.
Nearly all of those arrested were convicted criminals, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE said it targeted Los Angeles because it’s a sanctuary city, meaning it refuses to fully cooperate with federal authorities on deportations from within its jails.

That means agents and officers have to go out into the community, said Thomas D. Homan, the agency’s deputy director.
“Fewer jail arrests mean more arrests on the street, and that also requires more resources, which is why we are forced to send additional resources to those areas to meet operational needs and officer safety,” Mr. Homan said. “Consistent with our public safety mission, 88 percent of those arrested during this operation were convicted criminals.”:snip:

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ICE is demonstrating the fruits of “sanctuary” policies in Los Angeles

Jazz Shaw

Feb. 16 2018

If you happened to be in or around Los Angeles this week you may have seen some new visitors in town wearing ICE/Police body armor. They’ve been paying visits to a number of businesses and residences, rounding up illegal aliens and scheduling them for deportation hearings. Their primary targets are those with known criminal records, but since they have to go out into the community to locate these criminals (rather than picking them up from local law enforcement when they get picked up for other crimes), they’re encountering and arresting some with little or no criminal records as well.

Thus far they’ve captured more than 100 and they’re not done yet. ICE spokeswoman Sarah Rodriguez would not comment on the specifics of an ongoing operation but did explain why they’re having to do it this way. (Los Angeles Times)

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One of the biggest complaints coming from the liberal bastions of the #RESIST movement is that illegal aliens who are “otherwise innocent” (meaning they haven’t been found committing any other crimes beyond violating federal immigration laws) are being deported. While that’s an odd complaint to make about individuals who are, by definition, in violation of the law, let’s take them at their word. ICE isn’t sending out lists of those people to the local cops because they’re too far down on the priority list. They would like to start with the ones who have serious criminal records.

If Los Angeles (and the rest of the sanctuary state of California) was honoring detainers, notifying ICE and holding those higher priority illegal aliens for them, the problem would be solved. Agents could pick them up at local jails in a secure environment where they are unarmed and unlikely to be able to flee. Far fewer agents would be required and the community would be safer as a result. And since the ones who aren’t committing other crimes are unlikely to be in jail cells, the low priority illegals wouldn’t get swept up.

 

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