Burning Atlanta

This is almost a non-story but it cracks me up whenever ICE is out and about picking up the worst of the worst because the illegal alien community wets themselves.

Thanks ICE

WAUKEGAN -- Specific illegal immigrants who "pose a threat to public safety" are being targeted for arrest this week in what was described as on ongoing operation by a spokesperson for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Responding to News-Sun inquiries about rumors of raids taking place late Sunday or early Monday, ICE spokesperson Gail Montenegro could only confirm that "an ongoing enforcement operation" was under way.

"ICE routinely works with other law enforcement agencies to investigate and arrest individuals who pose a threat to public safety, which is the case in this operation," Montenegro said in a statement. "It should be emphasized that specific individuals are being targeted."

In 2003, Waukegan police participated with ICE in a sweep called "Operation Stolen Virtue," a two-day effort in which 21 immigrants with deportable criminal records were apprehended.

In that case, 17 Mexican nationals, two Hondurans, one Russian and one man from Belize -- 14 of whom lived in Waukegan -- were apprehended and detained in Chicago for deportation after authorities identified them as having past convictions for sex crimes, drug offenses, gang crimes and other violent crimes.