Second Man Dies From Injuries in Work Site Hit-and-Run August 14, 2007 - 3:58pm BURTONSVILLE, Md. -- A second construction worker has died from his injuries after a van slammed into five construction workers on Route 29. Montgomery County Police say 37-year-old James Cronin of Glen Burnie died Tuesday. On Monday, Cronin was flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. Police say the driver of the van, 31-year-old Manuel De Jesus Gonzalez-Geronimo, turned himself in at around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. Gonzalez-Geronimo, of Hyattsville, was charged with failure to immediately return and remain at the scene of a collision involving death, failure to immediately stop a vehicle at the scene of a collision involving bodily injury, and driving without a license. He is being held without bond at the Montgomery County Detention Center. Police say Gonzalez-Geronimo could face additional charges. Prosecutors say Gonzalez-Geronimo has also admitted to being in the country illegally for seven years. He is originally from Guatemala. Another construction worker, 30-year-old Martin Ruffin of Baltimore, was killed and three other men injured when the van plowed through a construction site. The accident occurred around 1 p.m. Monday when five construction workers were taking a break and sitting on a guardrail on northbound Route 29 -- north of Route 198 just before the Howard County line. The white Ford Econoline 150 work van careened out of control and struck a construction truck parked nearby, police say. Police say the impact caused the van to veer to the right and strike all five workers sitting on the guardrail. The force of the crash also caused the parked construction truck to hit another parked truck, which then hit a cement mixer. Three other men are hospitalized and expected to survive, police say. After the crash, police say Gonzalez-Geronimo jumped out of the van and ran into a wooded area off of Route 29. Police believe there may have been other people in the van who also fled. Police found blood in the van and police K-9 teams and helicopters scoured the area for hours after the crash. At the time of the accident, the workers had just finished patching up some sections on the bridge deck on southbound Route 29 and gathered on the northbound side to rest. Anyone with information about the accident can call the Montgomery County Police Collision Reconstruction Unit at 301-840-2435 or the police non-emergency number at 301-279-8000.

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"It's been a German town for a long time, every morning at 5 o'clock, 5 or 6 o'clock, it's like a cuckoo clock, German ladies out sweeping their sidewalks," said longtime resident Perry Roberts. "And now they're (immigrants) not mowing their lawn, and so they're trying to pass laws to get people to keep up their lawns and not park their car on them." I wonder why the MEXICANTS don't sign LEASE-PURCHASE deals? :? Must not be as dumb as they appear...

Farmers argued that the new rules — unveiled late last week by the Department of Homeland Security — will further stem a vital source of foreign labor that has kept many Vermont dairy operations afloat. An estimated 2,500 migrant laborers, many of them with dubious work and immigration credentials, currently toil in anonymity on dairy farms throughout the state, performing jobs that Vermonters increasingly don’t want to take. Federal law has required farmers to view and record their migrant workers’ green cards, Social Security numbers and I-9 immigration forms. Still, some migrant workers are willing to take the risk of entering the United States illegally to work at steady jobs paying $7 to $8 per hour, a wage they could not hope to make in their native lands. http://addisonindependent.com/?q=node/638 try tripling the wages and people will want the jobs. who wants to get up at 4am to go milk a cow at 10 below zero when if they need a job they can make more working someplace else that offers better working conditions.

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Mexico begins repatriation of 7,000 C American undocumented immigrants www.chinaview.cn 2007-08-16 09:59:10 MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Mexico has begun the repatriation of some 7,000 Central American undocumented immigrants, mostly to Honduras and Guatemala, local newspaper Sol de Mexico quoted government officials as saying on Wednesday. The Central Americans were stranded in the southeastern states of Tabasco and Chiapas after a regional train service suspended operations in late July. They were arrested while walking along the railroad line to the eastern coastal state of Veracruz, 400 km away, from where they hoped to board a train bound for the Untied States. The first batch of 350 migrants have arrived in Mexico's southern border city of Tapachula, from where they will be transferred to Guatemala on Tuesday night. Hundreds of such illegal immigrants enter Mexico through its southern border every day, hoping to cross the country and enter the United States in search of a better life. Editor: An Lu

The police were used to dealing with Perez, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who had a long record of being drunk, getting arrested and making 911 calls. http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-immigrantdeath0908.artsep08,0,4121040.story?track=rss

NEW HAVEN - The city's new identification card program, which has drawn criticism because it is open to illegal immigrants, has been much more of a success than officials expected. New Haven began issuing the ID cards to city residents on July 24, and city leaders estimated that 5,000 of them would be handed out in the first year. But officials say they have already distributed 3,226 cards. An estimated 10,000 to 12,000 of New Haven's 125,000 residents are believed to be in the country illegally. http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-apimmigrant0910.artsep10,0,6325040.story?track=rss

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_truck_explosion It could happen here. :( :shock: :(

Police migrant policies decried Officer's slaying fuels debate on 'sanctuary' Daniel González and Lindsey Collom The Arizona Republic Sept. 21, 2007 12:00 AM The killing of a Phoenix police officer by an illegal immigrant has ignited a firestorm of criticism over policies that prevent authorities from contacting federal agents about routine encounters with undocumented immigrants. The policies have long been controversial, but the slaying of Officer Nick Erfle has added fuel to the contention that they provide "sanctuary" to such immigrants and should be eliminated to prevent violent crimes at the hands of those in the country illegally. Most large Valley police agencies and many across the country observe the policies. Under the 20-year-old Phoenix policy, officers are prohibited from telling federal immigration officials about most encounters with illegal immigrants, including those found during basic traffic stops and arrested on misdemeanors. Crime victims who are in the country illegally also cannot be reported. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is to be contacted only when suspected illegal immigrants are encountered in drophouses or smuggling vehicles, though ICE is automatically contacted when illegal immigrants are booked into jail. The policy has become a lightning rod of criticism since Officer Nick Erfle was fatally shot Tuesday as he tried to arrest an illegal immigrant who had been deported last year. Internet message boards, talk-radio shows and the Mayor's Office have been overwhelmed by calls to repeal the policy. Even the head of Phoenix's police union has joined the criticism, putting the department's rank and file at odds with Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris and Mayor Phil Gordon. Harris and Gordon both defended the policy Thursday, saying it lets officers concentrate on fighting all crime instead of diverting limited resources to arresting illegal immigrants. "It is my position . . . that the job of the Phoenix police is not routine immigration enforcement," Harris said. The Police Department's job is to go after all criminals, regardless of their immigration status, Gordon added. But Mark Spencer, president of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, said that the policy overly restricts officers from contacting federal immigration authorities and that many officers are opposed to it. "I think the policy needs to be looked at hard. They are frustrated. Here the police officers are handcuffed from accessing federal tools to deal with illegal immigration," Spencer said. Of the past 10 Phoenix officers killed in the line of duty, Harris said, three were slain by illegal immigrants. Erfle's death and the controversy over the Police Department's policy have added fuel to the contentious debate about whether state and local police should be enforcing federal immigration laws. Many cities and states, frustrated with what they see as inaction at the federal level and failures to strengthen the border, are taking enforcement matters into their own hands. "We need to take the handcuffs off law enforcement," said Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, who is spearheading a ballot initiative that would end the policies in Arizona and require local and state law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws. He said the officer's death and other incidents will only spur support for ballot initiatives that crack down on illegal immigration. "Enough is enough," he said. Sgt. Andy Hill said the Police Department has no immediate plans to change its policy. The policy says police cannot stop people just to verify immigration status. They also cannot arrest someone when the only infraction is a violation of a federal immigration law. Officers also are not permitted to tell immigration authorities about the illegal status of a crime victim, as was the case with the man who was carjacked and taken hostage by Erfle's assailant. If officers think a suspected criminal is in the country illegally, they contact Phoenix police's violent-crimes unit to request ICE assistance. Ten ICE agents work side by side with the unit investigating homicides and other violent crimes. Hill said the department is not equipped to deal with primary-offense immigration enforcement. "We're all waiting for the federal government to come up with a comprehensive enforcement program involving undocumented criminal immigrants," he said. "When that program is developed, it will give us guidelines." Erik Jovani Martinez, the man accused of killing Erfle, slipped back into the country shortly after being deported last year. But when Scottsdale police arrested him on a misdemeanor assault charge, they did not know he was in the country illegally. "Police have to take race out of the equation when they make an arrest," said Sgt. Mark Clark, spokesman for the Scottsdale Police Department. "Should we call Immigration and Customs Enforcement if we arrest someone with a French last name?" Checks of his federal, state and local criminal history revealed no arrest warrants and raised no suspicions that he was in the country illegally. "There was nothing else we could have done," Clark said.

State To Deny Heating Aid To Illegal Immigrants Based on Blumenthal's opinion, the state agency will also develop a policy to allow illegal immigrants to apply for heating assistance if they live in a household with dependents who are U.S. citizens: children, elderly or disabled. http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-heatillegal0926.artsep26,0,4110604.story?track=rss every wetback with a kid qualifies and if they don't just ask a friend who has extra's to borrow a kid so they can claim the american born kid lives with them Last year, the energy assistance program served about 86,000 households, each of which received a basic assistance of $675, plus a few hundred dollars for crisis and safety assistance. section 8 housing, food stamps, school lunches, heating assistance, earned income tax credit Cheap labor for Biff & Muffy to exploit to get rich and let the rest of the population support them.

Suit Filed Over Immigration Arrests http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctimmigsuit0927.artsep27,0,6568818.story?track=rss The suit alleges city police illegally conducted an undercover raid with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at Kennedy Park, arresting the men who have become known as the Danbury 11. City police had no authority to enforce federal immigration law and relied on racial profiling rather than probable cause to randomly arrest immigrants at the downtown park early on Sept. 19, 2006, said Geri Greenspan, one of a group of Yale Law School professors and students representing the men. "In their frustration with the arrival of new immigrants to Danbury, Mayor Boughton and the police department have taken the law into their own hands," according to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven. Yale, didn't the clintoon's & bush's go there, any questions why the country is messed up ?

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." --Theodore Roosevelt, 1919