Burning Atlanta

This is sickening. Illegals and their fan clubs don't even want murderers, rapists and child molesters deported. These ICE teams are targeting those already ordered deported. Some simply lost their battle for a visa and said "Screw the courts, we're staying." Others are the lowest form of scum who have served sentences for all sorts of crimes and are on the loose. They NEVER should have been released from custody, they should have been deported immediately following serving their sentences. Some may have snuck back in and been reported to ICE, I'm not sure.

Boot them

When federal immigration officers visited over three days last October looking for an illegal Salvadoran immigrant, a neighborhood watch kicked into action each time.

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."

While federal officials don't object to free speech, they expressed reservations about efforts to thwart officers and agents. "One assumes they have something to hide," ICE spokeswoman Pat Reilly said.

"They're threatening us that they're going to hamper our ability to enforce the law," she said of the neighborhood watches in particular. "You know, one has to be careful not to aid, abet or harbor people who are illegally in this country, because that's a violation of immigration law. That can be criminal." Bark..bark..bark. How many/few are charged because their fugitive family member is living with them?

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.

In Santa Ana, Calif., Guillermo Zavala, 48, a construction worker, followed ICE officers in his car as they left their offices as early as 3:30 a.m. on 15 occasions last year, he said.

Zavala said he didn't interfere with their operations, but he did approach immigrants to advise them not to open their door unless a warrant is slipped under it.

"I go around and create a little bit of a hard time for those that are terrorizing my people--that's what the ICE agents do," said Zavala, who is of Mexican descent. "Once they split a family--because a kid is from here and they deport the mother and the father--that's a violation of human rights, especially when the family is working every day just to survive. That's not a crime." SCUMBAG!!! "YOUR people?" "MY" people are the citizens of this country, NOT illegal alien criminals. And the ONLY rights an illegal should have is to emergency medical care, food and water, and a nice trip out of this country. BTW, they can take their DNA with them.