I never understood the controversy about seizing Illegal Invaders and kicking their law-breaking asses back to Guadalajara. But, as the son of a legal immigrant who married a legal immigrant, I never will!
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The sheriff's department has developed a remarkably effective - and controversial - way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs.
Those who take off are chased down and arrested on charges such as trespassing, for cutting through someone else's property, or loitering, for hiding out in someone's yard, or reckless driving, for speeding off in a car.
I can't believe they gotta use fuckin Al Capone techniques to arrest these criminals! Fuckin A, let's just nail the bastards on failure to file income tax forms and put em in Alcatraz!
U.S. immigration authorities are then given the names of those believed to be in this country illegally.
"It's not wrong for them to run, but it's not wrong for us to chase them either," said Sheriff Frank McKeithen, who created his Illegal Alien Task Force in April to target construction sites in this Florida Panhandle county.
Ah yes, construction sites. Also known as slave labour camps.
Immigrant advocates say the technique is repugnant, and the ACLU says its constitutionality is questionable.
"If they got nothin to hide, then why the fuck are they running?!" As for the ACLU... honestly, what the hell has the United States Constitution got to do with police driving up to construction sites?
Illegal immigrants are leaving town.
Buh bye.
And builders are worried the crackdown will deprive them of the labor they need to take part in a building boom in which Panama City's Beach cheap spring-break motels are being torn down and replaced with high-rise condos.
Awwww! No more slave labour to build flimsy shacks that fall apart in three years and cost only half a million! No more Porsches and Range Rovers for these tough, hardworking slave-drivers (I mean, subcontractors).
The sheriff said the raids are justified under a long-standing Florida law prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.
Right! So what's the problem?
His department has conducted dozens of these raids over the past three months, sometimes using five or six patrol cars, and has reported more than 500 people to immigration officials since November.
The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund is investigating the arrests because "the intimidation factor is of great concern," said Elise Shore, regional counsel for the organization.
And just how does the Tan Slavery Society investigate arrests?! Does Manuel come into the police station and demand to reenact every arrest?
Benjamin Stevenson, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida, said he finds the tactic troubling.
Of course! If he didn't, his name wouldn't be in the newspaper. Benny's just a goddamned attention leech!
"Why are they sending out six or seven agents to investigate a paper crime, and are they causing them to run in the first place through intimidation?" he asked.
"Why's Manuel running?"
As the debate over illegal immigration plays out in Washington, McKeithen is among a growing number of state and local officials taking it upon themselves to enforce immigration laws that up to now were regarded as a federal responsibility.
Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami, would not comment on the sheriff's tactics.
That's right. She's not gonna commend law enforcement for doing HER fuckin job. Someone might suggest Barbara is a fat fuckin waste of food and tax money!
McKeithen has asked Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum for a legal opinion on his tactics. A spokeswoman for McCollum said the office is researching the request.
A cruiser pulls up to a construction site and guilt-ridden criminals run like their sombreros are on fire. What's illegal about that?
The sheriff said that more recently, his officers have been making fewer arrests of workers who flee, and are concentrating more on asking employers for the paperwork on their employees. Sheriff's deputies then arrest workers whose documents are found to be fraudulent.
You arrest the slave-driving contractor for tax evasion and impound that muthafucka's new Lexus! THAT'S how you solve the problem.
Mexican illegal immigrant Jose Madrid, 28, said he has been unable to find a construction job over the past six weeks because of the crackdown, and hasn't been able to send money to his parents and his 7-year-old son back home.
Yeah! His 44 cousins and other close relatives NEED that money badly. How the fuck else are they gonna pay the COYOTES to get their asses across the Rio Grande and into a good construction job?
"We immigrants, we are leaving Panama City. People are afraid they will be deported," he said. "The companies don't want to hire illegal people. Now they're only hiring those with papers."
I love this quote. It makes me want to read it with a Speedy Gonzales accent! Ha ha!
But he says people are afraid to be deported. From what I've heard, NOBODY gets deported unless they're caught in the Arizona desert.
Developer Louis Breland is finishing the first phase of a $750 million beach condo project. "Subcontractors could not function without immigrant laborers for painting, rebar and steel work. They are the best workers," he said. "Without them, the cost of construction would be 10 times as much and nothing would get built."
Am I supposed to feel sorry for this rich fat bastard? He's running a slave camp and pocketing massive profits! Don't tell me construction would be so much more expensive! That's fuckin bull shit!
What WOULD happen is that the task-masters wouldn't be able to cut 40% profits for themselves if they had to pay their helots even the minimum wage.
FUCKERS!!!!
Jurched
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The sheriff's department has developed a remarkably effective - and controversial - way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs.
Those who take off are chased down and arrested on charges such as trespassing, for cutting through someone else's property, or loitering, for hiding out in someone's yard, or reckless driving, for speeding off in a car.
I can't believe they gotta use fuckin Al Capone techniques to arrest these criminals! Fuckin A, let's just nail the bastards on failure to file income tax forms and put em in Alcatraz!
U.S. immigration authorities are then given the names of those believed to be in this country illegally.
"It's not wrong for them to run, but it's not wrong for us to chase them either," said Sheriff Frank McKeithen, who created his Illegal Alien Task Force in April to target construction sites in this Florida Panhandle county.
Ah yes, construction sites. Also known as slave labour camps.
Immigrant advocates say the technique is repugnant, and the ACLU says its constitutionality is questionable.
"If they got nothin to hide, then why the fuck are they running?!" As for the ACLU... honestly, what the hell has the United States Constitution got to do with police driving up to construction sites?
Illegal immigrants are leaving town.
Buh bye.
And builders are worried the crackdown will deprive them of the labor they need to take part in a building boom in which Panama City's Beach cheap spring-break motels are being torn down and replaced with high-rise condos.
Awwww! No more slave labour to build flimsy shacks that fall apart in three years and cost only half a million! No more Porsches and Range Rovers for these tough, hardworking slave-drivers (I mean, subcontractors).
The sheriff said the raids are justified under a long-standing Florida law prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.
Right! So what's the problem?
His department has conducted dozens of these raids over the past three months, sometimes using five or six patrol cars, and has reported more than 500 people to immigration officials since November.
The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund is investigating the arrests because "the intimidation factor is of great concern," said Elise Shore, regional counsel for the organization.
And just how does the Tan Slavery Society investigate arrests?! Does Manuel come into the police station and demand to reenact every arrest?
Benjamin Stevenson, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida, said he finds the tactic troubling.
Of course! If he didn't, his name wouldn't be in the newspaper. Benny's just a goddamned attention leech!
"Why are they sending out six or seven agents to investigate a paper crime, and are they causing them to run in the first place through intimidation?" he asked.
"Why's Manuel running?"
As the debate over illegal immigration plays out in Washington, McKeithen is among a growing number of state and local officials taking it upon themselves to enforce immigration laws that up to now were regarded as a federal responsibility.
Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami, would not comment on the sheriff's tactics.
That's right. She's not gonna commend law enforcement for doing HER fuckin job. Someone might suggest Barbara is a fat fuckin waste of food and tax money!
McKeithen has asked Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum for a legal opinion on his tactics. A spokeswoman for McCollum said the office is researching the request.
A cruiser pulls up to a construction site and guilt-ridden criminals run like their sombreros are on fire. What's illegal about that?
The sheriff said that more recently, his officers have been making fewer arrests of workers who flee, and are concentrating more on asking employers for the paperwork on their employees. Sheriff's deputies then arrest workers whose documents are found to be fraudulent.
You arrest the slave-driving contractor for tax evasion and impound that muthafucka's new Lexus! THAT'S how you solve the problem.
Mexican illegal immigrant Jose Madrid, 28, said he has been unable to find a construction job over the past six weeks because of the crackdown, and hasn't been able to send money to his parents and his 7-year-old son back home.
Yeah! His 44 cousins and other close relatives NEED that money badly. How the fuck else are they gonna pay the COYOTES to get their asses across the Rio Grande and into a good construction job?
"We immigrants, we are leaving Panama City. People are afraid they will be deported," he said. "The companies don't want to hire illegal people. Now they're only hiring those with papers."
I love this quote. It makes me want to read it with a Speedy Gonzales accent! Ha ha!
But he says people are afraid to be deported. From what I've heard, NOBODY gets deported unless they're caught in the Arizona desert.
Developer Louis Breland is finishing the first phase of a $750 million beach condo project. "Subcontractors could not function without immigrant laborers for painting, rebar and steel work. They are the best workers," he said. "Without them, the cost of construction would be 10 times as much and nothing would get built."
Am I supposed to feel sorry for this rich fat bastard? He's running a slave camp and pocketing massive profits! Don't tell me construction would be so much more expensive! That's fuckin bull shit!
What WOULD happen is that the task-masters wouldn't be able to cut 40% profits for themselves if they had to pay their helots even the minimum wage.
FUCKERS!!!!
Jurched
