Updates For Immigration

Patricia Morrison

Issue date: 4/8/10 Section: News

Immigration is a hot issue in the United States and especially in Ohio, where no legislation has been enacted to control illegal immigration.

The 128th Ohio General Assembly is currently debating two bills concerning illegal immigration. Both bills have passed in the senate, where they were originally introduced.

SB 35, sponsored by Republicans Bill Seitz and Jimmy Stewart, provides for the enforcement of immigration law by Ohio police.

SB 150 is sponsored by Republican Garry Cates and would both allow sheriffs to take illegal aliens into custody at the request of a board of county commissioners and would explicitly authorize state and local officials to assist federal immigration officials.

This bill contains the same provisions as SB 260 of the 127th General Assembly, which was also passed by the senate but failed to become law.

Both bills were introduced into the House of Representatives March 25. The house has not yet taken any action on either bill.

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), there were an estimated 115,000 illegal immigrants living in Ohio illegally as of the 2007.

While that means that illegal immigrants account for less than 10 percent of the state's population, Ohio's illegal immigration rate is still higher than the 7.9 percent national average.

According to FAIR, the annual cost to Ohio taxpayers for emergency medical care, education and incarceration projected is currently $224 million.

Those costs were expected to rise to $372 million per year this year and to $627 million per year by 2020.

Full text of both bills is available at http://www.legislature.state.oh.us.

By Patricia Morrison
Chief copy editor
pmorriso@capital.edu

Triple-Death Trial Revisits Newark's Turning Point

NEWARK, N.J. — The bodies of the three friends were found slumped near a playground wall, each killed by a shot to the head. Nearby, a fourth lay clinging to life after being shot and stabbed.

The barbarity of the August 2007 killings — a machete was believed used in the attack, and at least one victim was sexually assaulted — jolted a city already familiar with the human wreckage produced by the toxic mix of drugs, gangs and firearms. A series of anti-crime reforms followed that have been credited with reducing Newark's violent crime rate.

The events of that night will be relived in detail over the next several weeks when the first of six defendants stands trial on three counts of murder. Jury selection in New Jersey vs. Rodolfo Godinez is scheduled to begin Friday, with the trial expected to begin late next week...

Cattlemen Call For Government Action On Border Violence

APACHE - What should the government do to secure the border with Mexico? The Arizona Cattlemen's Association membership is preparing a list of action items and will present them to state and federal government officials in the near future.

In an interview Thursday, association member Basilio Aja said the 16-point plan wasn't ready to be released. He did say the plan, "Re-establish Our Border (ROB)," was named in honor of heritage rancher Robert Krentz, killed last Saturday allegedly by an undocumented alien. The proposal is in the final stages of formalization and does not look to place blame on any government agency.

Aja said he felt good about a meeting with area ranchers held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Wednesday night and that he hoped it was the first step toward a realization of the daily dangers that ranchers along the borderlands endure and toward an understanding that the time for talk is over.

"It's time for people to awaken and see the foreign invasion," he said. "We feel like we have been abandoned. We've been crying out for 10 years and no one has listened. We have the laws we need. They just need to be enforced."...

When Is Enough, Enough Mister President?

Last week in Arizona, an illegal alien from Mexico walked across the line, shot rancher Robert Krentz off his ATV, inspected his victim, and calmly walked back across the border—unscathed and untouched.

In Denver, another illegal alien, Francis Hernandez, driving drunk at 80 miles an hour through a stop light, ran over and killed two women and a three year old child, Martin Kudlis, while he licked his ice cream cone at a Baskin-Robbins with his parents. In court last week, jurors sentenced Hernandez to 60 years in prison. Too late! Both women and the child died because police failed to prosecute and deport Hernandez after 19 arrests.

Kudlis’ father said, “They should have hung him!”

Unfortunately, Denver’s Mayor John Hickenlooper and Colorado’s Governor Bill Ritter both support and allow Denver, Colorado to remain a “Sanctuary City” for illegals. That’s why police arrested Hernandez 19 times, but let him go instead of deporting him. Several years back, another illegal alien Garcia Gomez, caught three times by Denver police and released—executed police officer Don Young in the back of the head.

Every week, week in and week out, American citizens watch their loved ones die or suffer injuries from illegal aliens raping, killing, drunk driving killings, shop lifting, stealing, pitching drugs to their kids and an endless array of anchor babies, job thefts, ID forgeries and lawlessness—all 20 million of them.

When Is Enough, Enough Mister President?...

ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Gang Members In Asheville, NC

MS-13 member

FBI

Over a four-day period, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office and the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office carried out targeted raids throughout the Asheville area, which resulted in the arrest of 26 violent gang members, several of whom are illegal aliens.

In addition to immigration violations, many of those arrested, were charged with crimes ranging from violent assaults to drug trafficking. ICE agents also seized marijuana and cocaine from multiple locations.

ICE apprehended illegal aliens from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The gangs involved were Surenos, Bloods, M Zone Rydas and Sugar Loaf Clique 31.

Henderson County Sheriff Davis told reporters: “The location where most of the suspects were arrested was a well-known haven for active gang members. Gang recruiting and criminal activity for the entire region was in full view to anyone who attended this Asheville club. This joint operation with ICE, Henderson and Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office are precisely what this area needs to breakup and halt gang activity. We must continue to deny gangs any safe havens.”...

Homeland Security Expands Local Law Enforcement Pilot Plan To Arrest Criminal Aliens

Sixteen counties around the nation are the latest to join a federal-local law enforcement initiative to identify illegal immigrants with criminal records, prompting new debate about the effectiveness of federal deportation programs.

WASHINGTON -- Sixteen counties around the nation are the latest to join a federal-local law enforcement initiative to identify criminal aliens, prompting new debate about the effectiveness of federal deportation programs.

Since March 31, three counties in Maryland, one in California, one in Oregon, eight in North Carolina and three in Utah have been added to 142 other jurisdictions in 17 states participating in the Secure Communities initiative run by the Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

The program cross-references an arrestee's fingerprints with FBI records and the Department of Homeland Security criminal history databases, instantly notifying ICE agents when illegal aliens are in local custody...

Democrats Have No Incentive To Curb Illegal Immigration

A recent, rather biased, column asked us to take a new look at the old immigration problem, so here it goes. According to the Center For Immigration Studies, since 1980, 25.2 million legal immigrants have entered the United States, and 55 percent of them identified with the Democrat Party verses 30 percent with the Republicans. Of the estimated 20 million-plus illegal aliens in our country, 70 percent of them identified with the Democrats and only 15 percent with the GOP.

What explains this dynamic? It is because the majority of immigrants are poorer and less skilled than U.S. citizens and are, therefore, more dependent on big government social welfare programs. This is where the Democrats excel. Using taxpayer money, Democrats recognize that pandering to foreign immigrants - legal and illegal - with generous giveaways will result in votes and support from the recipients. The problem is that by giving away so much of the welfare, our poor citizens get shortchanged. The government handouts also encourage more illegal aliens to come across the borders with hands outstretched...

Strike Force Busts 11 In Taylorsville Document Mill Raid

TAYLORSVILLE — Eleven people are in jail following near-simultaneous raids on two homes where authorities say illegal immigrants were manufacturing fraudulent documents and selling guns.

The Utah SECURE Strike Force executed two search warrants Friday at 3534 W. Dutch Apple Cove (4740 South) and 4766 S. Blueridge Circle (3270 West), said assistant Utah attorney general Jake Taylor. The raids came after surveillance operations on both locations that included undercover purchases of guns at the Blueridge address...

Somalis With Terrorist Links Feared Headed To U.S. Border

Somalis with ties to a terrorist organization are believed to be plotting to illegally enter the United States after being mistakenly released from custody in Mexico, a confidential federal law enforcement report said.

The report, obtained by the Washington Examiner, said that 23 Somalis who entered Mexico illegally earlier in the year were caught there, then released in late January.

Only 16 of the 23 people were identified by both Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials, while the "other 7 are unknown," the report says.

Included in the group is Mohamed Osman Noor, 35, of Somalia, who U.S. officials suspect has strong ties to Al-Shabaab Mujahideen, an Islamist insurgency group in the ongoing war in Somalia with ties to al Qaeda.

The report was written by an intelligence official with the Laredo Sector Border Intelligence Center, a joint federal task force under the Department of Homeland Security that operates on the border...

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/world/Somalis-with-terrorist-links-feared-headed-to-U_S_-border-89954247.html#ixzz0kStkILkl

Hernandez Sentenced To 60 Years For Fatal Crash

CENTENNIAL | A judge sentenced Francis Hernandez to 60 years in prison Monday for causing a 2008 crash that killed three people, including a toddler in an ice cream shop.

The sentence means the 25-year-old Hernandez will likely be behind bars until he is a senior citizen, but it falls far short of the maximum 108-year sentence that prosecutors and the victims families asked for.

“I’m disappointed,” said Marat Kudlis, whose son, Marten, was inside a Baskin-Robbins in September 2008 when Hernandez, who was driving more than 80 mph on South Havana Street, crashed into a nearby pickup truck. The impact killed the two women in the truck, Patricia Guntharp and Deb Serecky, and sent an electrical box smashing into the ice cream shop, killing Marten.

After an eight-day trial, a jury in February convicted Hernandez of all 19 counts against him, including three counts of vehicular homicide and one of child abuse resulting in death.

Prosecutors said during the trial that Hernandez was speeding at more than 80 mph and ran a red light at East Mississippi Avenue that night. After the crash, he fled the scene and was arrested a short time later at his Denver apartment...

Man Who Got 2 Jobs Using Stolen Identity Awaits Deportation (Hamilton, Ohio - April 1, 2010)

HAMILTON — The Mexican man who held down two jobs in the Dayton area with an identity stolen from an unemployed Oklahoman is in federal custody awaiting deportation, according to federal authorities.

Jose R. Acosta, 51, was being held in the Butler County Jail “pending his removal from the U.S.,” Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement said in an email on Wednesday, March 31.

Last week, Acosta was sentenced in Warren County Common Pleas Court to three years on probation, but held for federal authorities, for using documents identifying him as Christopher Wilson, 42, of Antlers, Okla., to obtain jobs with a Springboro clockmaker and maintenance contractor for Miami Valley Hospital.

Wilson said he remained unemployed.

Immigration? No. Invasion

You've probably never heard of Rob Krentz.

Before March 27, there really wasn't any reason you would have.

Since then, however, there's every reason you should know the name and the man and the circumstances of his death.

But unless you read local Arizona news or ranching publications, you'll know nothing about what happened to Rob Krentz on his ranch that day.

The reason you know nothing is because there's a concerted effort by pro-illegal immigration advocates in government and media to keep silent on this story.

Think about it. Did you see any headlines about an innocent American rancher gunned down on his own property?

The truth is, even the cold-blooded murder of an American citizen on his own land by an illegal alien doesn't bother them because they're hell bent for leather to keep our borders open, allow illegals to cross with impunity and to give those already here illegally the precious gift of American citizenship.

If you're a patriotic, law-abiding American and this doesn't make you livid, you are more than a fool.

Robert Krentz operated the 35,000-acre family ranch with 1,000 head of cattle located some 12 miles from the Mexican border and near the city of Douglas, Ariz. He worked with his wife, Sue, and their three children on land that's been in his family since 1907.

That's three generations, 103 years of blood, sweat and tears to maintain a business that is nothing, if not tough.

Krentz had a reputation of generosity and was known for helping anyone in need, including illegals needing water or medical aid.

His eldest son, Andy, told Fox News that his "father was a very good family man. He supported his kids, supported his family. He went out of his way to help anybody we could … it didn't matter who they were."

So what happened that Saturday?...

Illegal Alien Drug Dealers Busted In South Carolina

Suspects captured in drug raid

Brunswick County Sheriffs Office

On March 25, the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office, Myrtle Beach Police, Conway Police and Horry County Police, along with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms raided a home in Loris, S.C., and found drugs, weapons, and a large amount of cash. Five suspected drug dealers were taken into custody, three of whom are illegal aliens.

The raid was the result of a three month-long investigation and netted $200,000 worth of cocaine, $180,000 in cash, and an assortment of shotguns, handguns, and assault rifles.

Mexican nationals Zacarias Gomes Espinosa, 34; Jorge Rivera Albarran, 47; and Esteban Rivera, 18; were all charged with trafficking cocaine, and possession of firearms by an unlawful alien.

Christopher Jerome Elleby, 29, and Roberto Fonesca, 30, were both charged with trafficking cocaine as well.

In recent years, the Myrtle Beach area has become inundated with illegal aliens, lured by jobs in the hotel and restaurant industry. Consequently, the area has experienced an explosion in drug and gang activity.

The FBI's National Gang Task Force Director Robert Clifford, said: “The migrant moves and the gang follows. If you follow the construction trade, that is where a lot of these immigrants go.”

Border Fence Under Renewed Fire After Rancher Killing

Local rancher Glenn Spencer stands by a vehicle barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. (Courtesy of American Border Patrol)

The killing of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz allegedly by an illegal immigrant has some critics pointing out that hundreds of miles of U.S.-Mexico border fencing isn't even high enough to stop a person on foot.

Of the 646 miles of barriers currently constructed along the 2,000-mile southern border of the United States, 300 miles are vehicle barriers, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That means they're meant to keep out cars and trucks, but aren't high enough to keep out people crossing the border illegally on foot.

Fencing in place just south of the Krentz family ranch in southeastern Arizona is exactly that kind of vehicle barrier, plus there's a sizable gap in the fence nearby.

Residents and officials say the security barrier is simply ineffective, and that the killing last month is shining a light on the problem...