Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday arrested 19 people who work for Cloudburst Lawn and Sprinkler.
ICE spokesman Tim Counts said all 19 people were arrested on "administrative immigrations violations." That means they are accused of being in the country illegally.
Counts said there were no criminal arrests.
He said the 19 people who were arrested were being processed in Grand Island and would be detained in the Phelps County Jail.
He said preliminary indications are that 11 of the people arrested are from Mexico, six are from El Salvador and two are from Guatemala.
He said some people may decide to waive their right to a hearing and agree to be deported.
"Others may say they've got a right to be in the country and want a hearing," Counts said.
He said the hearing would be in the administrative immigration court in Omaha. Although the court is in Omaha, the judge in Chicago may hear the case through a video teleconference.
Counts said the administrative immigration hearing would be in "several weeks or one or two months."
He said he has no way of predicting hearing dates because the administrative immigration court resides in a different part of the federal government and sets its own schedule.
"ICE is part of the Department of Homeland Security and the administrative immigration court is part of the Department of Justice," Counts said.
He said the ICE arrests were part of an investigation, but he declined to say why Cloudburst Lawn and Sprinkler was chosen as the site for an immigration enforcement action.
The Independent was unable to contact the owner of Cloudburst on Thursday.
In December 2006, ICE conducted a raid at the Swift plant in Grand Island, arresting 261 people who it believed were in the country illegal. Only one of those arrests was criminal, with the remaining 260 arrests administrative violations.
ICE arrested four more Swift employees this past July.
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/09072007/new_mainnews07.shtml
2007-09-07 07:52:59 · 7 answers · asked by Untied States Of Latina 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Well this is a start; only 20,000,000 to go!!! Deport, Deport, Deport!!
2007-09-07 09:19:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I didn't see this. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
I'm glad to see that ICE is cracking down on the illegal lawn people too. They have destroyed many honest landscapers by doing the same jobs without paying taxes or licensing fees. They don't abide by the law and so can afford to reduce their fees to businesses and homeowners.
I sure wish ICE would come to DuPage County in Illinois! They are way overdue for an illegal alien cleansing.
As to those being held in jail after the arrest you mention, they will likely ask to be deported at taxpayer expense so they can get back to the middle of Mexico before the cold weather hits.
They'll be back in the Spring. There is no one stopping them from walking back across the border - unless someone decides to enforce our laws and build the already budgeted fence!
What is Chertoff doing about the rest of the country?
Yooo Hooo - we could use a lot of help in cleaning up northern Illinois!!!
2007-09-07 08:27:04 · answer #2 · answered by Naturescent 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Glade to see ICE is making head way the news media will not make this public>When the police are able to enforce our laws by asking for legal papers & arresting & detaine illegals this will be a start in the removel of illegals>
2007-09-07 08:06:22 · answer #3 · answered by 45 auto 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
No, I hadn't seen it. I hope this is just one of many. Since this is the 2nd time Cloudburst has been caught hiring illegals, I think it's time for the people responsible to be arrested too.
2007-09-07 08:06:21 · answer #4 · answered by Lori K 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
i think of its great yet what could make me even happier could be to work out the executive. bust the h#ll out of the corporation!as that's a month from now Koch ingredients could have replaced the illegals with greater illegals.you may desire to hit those sorry employer's of their financial employer money owed
2016-10-18 06:04:28 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FINALLY!
ICE is working with the tips they are receiving, want results? Start turning them in!
2007-09-07 08:51:49 · answer #6 · answered by go4gin1994 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Um, thanks for sharing.
2007-09-07 08:00:50 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋