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THE CITIZEN SECURITY NETWORKER
for Secure Borders...Secure Immigration...Secure Citizenship...and a Secure Nation
an e-newsletter of the Illinois Citizen Security Network
2008-JUN-28 newsletter 2008.29 ICE arrests in northeastern Illinois

Dear Friends of Secure Borders...Secure Immigration...and Secure Citizenship:

Contents:

1. ICE arrests 43 in northeastern Illinois.


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1. ICE arrests 43 in northeastern Illinois.
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ICE arrests were made in northeastern Illinois this week. Below is the coverage from the Waukegan News-Sun. Other media outlets have been noticeably silent. The Chicago Tribune chose to run an article about the ICE processing center in Broadview, instead of covering the arrests (at least according to the Trib's online search engine.) That article is below. Compare the two articles..

(...of course, the Chicago Tribune ran the alternate article, because it would not suit the Tribune's "pro-illegal" agenda to have to admit that many of those arrested had criminal backgrounds...the Latino-pandering Trib only want the public to see the "innocent, angelic" side of illegal immigration...not the bad stuff that affects and hurts our own citizens...)

If anyone has seen any other articles on the arrests, either online or in print, or archived video coverage from the TV stations, please let me know. Please clip the articles, if you see anything in print. (You can send them to me at the following address: Dawn M. Mueller, 43 South Boulevard #1N, Oak Park, IL 60302.) Thank you!


ICE ARRESTS 43 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
(Waukegan News-Sun, 28-JUN-2008)
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/news ... S1.article
By RYAN PAGELOW rpagelow@scn1.com

Federal authorities arrested 43 immigration violators in Waukegan, Highland Park, Highwood and other cities in the Chicago metropolitan area this week.

It was part of a five-day initiative led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Fugitive Operations Teams.

Twenty-five of those arrested were immigrants who failed to appear for their immigration hearings or ignored deportation orders. The remaining 18 arrested were immigration violators that ICE officers encountered during their targeted arrests.
Of the 43 apprehended, 20 had previous criminal convictions in addition to their administrative immigration violations.

The foreign nationals arrested in the raid were from Albania, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Jordan, Mexico, Poland and Yugoslavia.

Of the 43 arrested, 27 were from Lake County, including nine in Highland Park, eight in Highwood, seven in Waukegan, two in Zion and one in Park City, said Tim Counts, an ICE spokesman.

Margaret Carrasco, an immigration rights activist with Casa Mexiquense in Waukegan, has been in contact with families of six Honduran nationals from Waukegan who were swept up in the raid. They were being held in Kenosha County Jail on Friday.

The six did not have previous criminal convictions and were in the process of appealing their administrative immigration violations when ICE arrested them, she said.

Some of the foreign nationals with criminal convictions included Jose Gabriel Arroyo-Diaz, aka Alejandro Gusman-Santibanez, a 38-year-old Mexican citizen who was arrested at his residence in Highwood. Arroyo-Diaz pleaded guilty to attempted child abduction in 2003 in Lake County and was sentenced to 160 days in prison. He was previously deported after he was released from prison, and illegally re-entered the United States.

Jose Garcia-Mata, a 22-year-old Mexican citizen, was arrested at his residence in Highland Park. An alleged gang member, he was convicted in May in Cook County for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Garcia illegally entered the United States in 2000.

Juan Roman Bautista-Eusebio, a 20-year-old Mexican citizen, was arrested at his residence in Highwood. An alleged gang member, Bautista-Eusebio was convicted in May 2006 in Lake County for obstructing justice. He last entered the United States illegally in 1997.

During the same five-day operation ending June 24, ICE officers arrested 32 illegal immigrants in Milwaukee and 48 in Kansas City.

ICE established its Fugitive Operations Program in 2003 to reduce the nation's backlog of immigration fugitives which is estimated to be 572,000.

DEPORTATION DRAMA PLAYS OUT AT BROADVIEW FACILITY
(Chicago Tribune, 27-JUN-2008)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 5325.story
Summoned by a recent 3 a.m. phone call, Christian Lopez went to a plain brick building in an industrial park off the Eisenhower Expressway for a hurried goodbye before his brother was deported to Mexico.

Lopez's parents, who are illegal immigrants, waited nervously outside the Immigration processing center in Broadview while Lopez, a U.S. citizen, went inside. He handed his brother $250 the family scraped together, a pair of socks, boxer shorts, jeans and—literally—the shirt off his back. They had only a few minutes to talk while a guard stood by.

"He told me to tell my mom he loves her," Lopez, 18, said. "I tried to hug him but they didn't let me. They said he's not allowed to touch me."

Every week roughly 300 immigrant detainees are processed through the Broadview Service Staging Area, a federal facility on a dead end street. Some are newly arrested, others are en route to a county jail or being released on bail pending a hearing. This is also the last stop for illegal immigrants in the Chicago area—and Indiana, Wisconsin and Kentucky—before they are shuttled to airports and deported.
White buses with clouded windows start arriving at the center in this near west suburb before dawn, bringing detainees from rural county jails. Families trickle in soon after, carrying bags of clothing and envelopes with cash.

Fridays are especially busy. That's when about 60 illegal immigrants are processed for deportation on government charter flights to Mexico operated by U.S. marshals.

Some are returning to a country they barely know, others are already planning covert border crossings to return to families here.

Lopez said his brother, Sergio Caballero, 23, hasn't lived in Mexico since he was a toddler. His parents came to the U.S. about 20 years ago on a tourist visa. They never intended to stay, but months turned to years. They put down roots and had two children here. Caballero has a 4-month-old daughter of his own.

"His real family is over here, not over there in Mexico," Lopez said. "His whole life is here."The Bush administration has stepped up border enforcement and netted record numbers of undocumented workers. Deportations in the six Midwestern states overseen by Chicago's regional offices are up 41 percent, from 6,310 in fiscal year 2004 to nearly 9,000 last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Immigration officials say increased enforcement ensures national security, and workplace raids protect U.S. workers as well as illegal immigrants who might be victimized by unscrupulous employers.

"We are mandated to enforce the nation's Immigration laws," said Gail Montenegro, a local ICE spokeswoman. "We carry out that mandate in a fair and humane manner."

Some illegal immigrants are too afraid to come near the Broadview center. They contact Rev. Jose Landaverde, who makes the rounds of county jails in rural Illinois and Wisconsin and drops off letters, money or clothes at Broadview every week.

His congregation at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Anglican Catholic Mission in Chicago collects money to help wives who are left behind.

"In the church I have 14 women who have nowhere to live," Landaverde said. "They owe two or three or four months in rent. I tell the wives, 'Now you are the mother and father to your children.'"

On a recent Friday morning, Cristina, 29, an illegal immigrant who did not want to be identified by her last name, joined religious leaders and Immigration activists at a weekly prayer circle outside the facility.

Her husband, a former forklift operator, was detained after a traffic stop in West Chicago on his way to the grocery store. He is awaiting deportation at a county jail, while she is scrambling to find a full-time job that will keep her from getting evicted and support her two young sons, who were born here.

"This is an injustice; we came here to work and we contribute [taxes] to the government," she said. "If they kick all of us out I don't know what would happen to the economy of this country."

Maria Elena, 40, an illegal immigrant from Mexico's Guanajuato state also declined to be identified by her last name. She joined activists outside the center after her husband, a former construction worker, was detained in February. He is being held in the McHenry County Jail pending deportation. If he is sent back, Maria Elena will stay and wait for him to come back across the border, again.

For now, she said, eking out a living in the shadows is preferable to raising their American-born children in Mexico. "They have a better future here," she said.

vbauza@tribune.com


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Please forward this newsletter to all citizens interested in securing our borders, ending illegal immigration, and protecting our citizens and the value of our vote here in Illinois.


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