Illegal Immigrants Rounded Up In Arizona And Massachusetts

   So the Feds have been on a roll with the illegal immigrant round up over the past few days what with the 300 illegal workers that they rounded up in a leather factory in Massachusetts on Tuesday and then the eight illegal workers they busted at a construction company outside of Tucson, Arizona.

   The bust in Arizona had a few other people being arrested such as a suspected counterfeiter, the company president, the outfits human resources manager and four others.  GO FEDS!!

   Three other individuals were charged with hooking the illegal workers up with fake works documents. That was in state court.   Source

   But wait, there's more!

AP

Federal agents also raided a party rental company in Southern California on Thursday and arrested 11 workers on immigration violations, authorities said. That company did work at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, and the raid was part of an effort by immigration authorities in San Diego to review employment records of military contractors.

In Arizona, immigration agents had promised stepped-up examinations of construction, agricultural, landscaping and service-industry businesses in hopes of deterring illegal hiring and lessening the economic incentive for immigrants to illegally cross the border.

The Pew Hispanic Center has estimated that 10 percent of all workers in Arizona's economy are illegal immigrants, a figure that federal officials have called conservative.

 

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VA Facts, the rise Of Violent Crime

American Progress Action     March 9, 2007

“More than a quarter of military veterans with disability cases before the Department of Veterans Affairs wait six months or longer for the agency’s decision, creating financial hardships for them and their families. �? As of March 3, the VA had almost 401,000 pending cases for disability compensation with almost 115,000 languishing for six months or more.”

Brig. Gen. Michael S. Tucker, a “combat-arms brigadier general from Fort Knox,” “will take over as deputy commanding general of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.” The move is intended to “inject a battlefield perspective into what has traditionally been a solely medical operation.” Meanwhile, Army Chief of Staff Richard Cody “has dispatched teams to numerous Army hospitals around the country to identify any similar problems.”

“Violent crime rose by double-digit percentages in cities across the country over the last two years, reversing the declines of the mid-to-late 1990s,” according to a report by the Police Executive Research Forum. “There are pockets of crime in this country that are astounding,” said Chuck Wexler, the group's executive director.

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