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May 27, 2006

"Somebody's" Dumbest Criminals

 Those sneaky ICE guys...

 

 

 

Sometimes when I read stories like this, I think I hear the Vonage commercial music beginning to play in the background. Aparently ICE is stepping up captures of fugitive aliens with standing deportation orders, according to a recent story out of Minnesota from the AP. The federal officials who have the authority to make arrests, have been doing this at a whopping (for Bush-era roundups) one a day. Well, one per business day. (Does this mean Bush and Fox have agreed we get to keep Minnesota?)

 

Of course, not all parties are happy, including illegal aliens (understandably, since their scam is threatened) and the libs in city hall who hire them.

 

But instead of admitting this, they hope they can put a stop to this “aggressive” new policy of ICE through semantics: It seems ICE officials are at times identifying themselves as police.

 

I know if you’re half as much horrified about this rotten tactic as I am, then you’re already trying to prop your eyelids open.

 

Let’s look at this: We have armed federal officials given the authority to make arrests who need to establish quick cooperation in an environment where linguistics may not be (shall we say) the most reliable (and those in first contact may not have exceptional IQ’s, may be intoxicated, or may be children). While there might be many who do not understand “ICE” for whatever reason, even a four year-old understands the word “police”. There’s also the benefit included in the word’s ease of being understood due to its similarities to the Spanish policia. Although ICE officials didn’t say to my knowledge “we are local police”, it also would seem a federal agent would have the authority to say whatever he thinks will expedite a safe and quick surrender, just as any member of law enforcement local, state, or federal would.

 

From the AP story:

 

Rosalba Valenzuela is among the Twin Cities residents who have seen the approach close up. She said her daughter woke her up about 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 31 to tell her some men were there. She found that her 11-year-old son had let in two men who identified themselves as "police."

 

Valenzuela said they showed her a photograph of a black man she did not know and said they had information he was in her house. When the agents asked to search it, she consented. Only later, she said, when the men went to her sister-in-law's house using the same tactic did she realize who they were -- ICE agents searching for her brother.

 

Sounds as if she can’t even keep her story straight, which of course isn’t very honest. Keep reading:

 

Agents found him later that day. He was deported to Mexico three days later, she said. His wife and children eventually followed because they had no way to support themselves, Valenzuela said.

 

Now that’s interesting (though it deals with a slightly different matter), and right out of the mouth of the AP. It looks to me to be as laboratory as laboratory conditions can be for those on the people’s side in the House and Senate and so many of us who have been saying all along that if you go after the employers of unlawfully present foreign nationals, many of those illegal aliens will leave the country on their own. But this has more to do with intellectual honesty in Washington. Let’s get back to the Valenzuela household:

 

The priceless quote in the story came near the end. Remember when Valenzuela had trouble keeping her own story straight while talking to the AP reporter? Here’s what Rosalba had to say about those ICE officials: 

 

"It really bothers me that they came to my house with all these lies," said Valenzuela. "We expect people to be honest."

 

Surely she didn’t mean lies and dishonesty like hiding from federal agents after receiving a deportation order and harboring a fugitive; not to mention coming into the country illegally to begin with, committing fraud to find work (and also possibly committing other acts of conspiracy in coming into this country and getting that job, and the pro forma bogus paper tags for their car). Of course the man’s likely committing of yet another separate offense sufficient that it drew enough attention from generally uninterested authorities to get him ordered deported in the first place was probably the real doozie. He had to work really hard to get himself on ICE radar. As Bush would say, "It's hard work".

 

Not only were Rosalba and her brother, et al dishonest, they’re living proof in principle of why habitual gambling is a tax on stupid people, and why they are today's America's Somebody's Dumbest Criminals.

 

If only the wife could have collected on the social security benefits he stole…

 

 

Posted by Martin at May 27, 2006 06:46 PM

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