Burning Atlanta

To me, there are few things lower than hiding behind children, their fears and their tears. These people are the very lowest form of filth. I put them on the same level as those that enslave illegals.

Don't deport my daddy.

When federal agents raided a San Rafael apartment complex in the early morning hours of March 6, 2007, searching for 30 undocumented immigrants, they left behind a lot of terrified children, Kathryn Gibney, the principal at nearby San Pedro Elementary School, said.

The agents shone flashlights in the children's faces. Several parents were handcuffed in front of their kids. The next day 40 of the school's 400 students were too frightened to show up for class, and others arrived in tears. A year later, Gibney said the effects continue with higher absenteeism, lower test scores and increased counseling for her students.

"They left behind them a trail of fear," Gibney told lawmakers Tuesday in a hearing before a House Education and Labor subcommittee.

Woolsey said children are often getting swept up in the arrests. She pointed to the case of Kebin Reyes, who was 6 when his father was apprehended during the March 2007 raid in San Rafael. Reyes, whose father is his sole parent in the United States, was detained for 10 hours in an ICE field office when his father was arrested. (The American Civil Liberties Union and the San Francisco Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights is now suing the agency, alleging that it violated Kebin's constitutional rights.) Kebin is a citizen, but his father is not.

Woolsey said after a raid this month at the Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa - the largest workplace raid in U.S. history, which netted 389 arrests - a nun at a local Catholic church told the committee that many children were sleeping in the pews, fearing more raids.

"She said that most of these children are not going to school," Woolsey said. "They are traumatized and fearful."

James Spero, the deputy assistant director of ICE's Office of Investigations, told lawmakers the agency tries to carry out the raids in a humane way. He noted that after the Postville raid, 62 of those arrested were given a conditional release for "humanitarian purposes" - in most cases because they were the sole caregiver to children.

Let's get this straight. Illegals are subject to arrest and deportation at any time. These jerks show a total disregard for our laws and a contempt of this nation. They sneak in, overstay visas, and bring thier DNA with them or decide to have children while they're here. Some do so in the hopes they can use that child's citizenship as an insurance policy.

In a case they cited, that the ACLU has filed suit over, an illegal who had already been ordered deported in 2000, who now has a 7 year old, is crying to the heavens because he got picked up and his son was held until a relative could come and get him. Cry me a river.

Let me share a little dose of reality. If you or I, as citizens, get arrested then our kids end up in custody until somebody can get them. Also, in some jurisdictions, if you don't pay your traffic fines a bench warrant will be issued and the deputies can show up at your home at any time and take your ass to jail. These jerks don't want to see any enforcement and are trying to gain sympathy by hiding behind children. They are the very lowest form of scum excelled only by murderers and on a par with child predators. If they cared so much for their children they wouldn't have had any. And they can avoid any potential splitting up of families or emotional "trauma"to their children by getting the hell out of this country.