LEAGUE CITY — Police charged three Honduran men Thursday in connection with two burglaries in League City.

The burglaries were the latest in a string of break-ins plaguing the city. This week, 13 houses and buildings have been burglarized, according to police records.

While police Sgt. David Hausam said the upswing in home burglaries seems to be a national phenomenon, he said League City has seen a noticeable increase in the number of burglarized homes in 2009.

The arrests of three men Thursday charged with breaking into two buildings sends a message that police are diligently trying to catch burglars, Hausam said.

The three men are charged with burglarizing two buildings — a house in the 2900 block of Carolina Avenue and a building in the 400 block of Palomino Street, which might be headquarters for a Bible study group, Hausam said. Police have yet to identify the owners.

A neighbor called police after he noticed the men around the building on Palomino Street and heard glass breaking, Hausam said. When police arrived, two men fled on foot, Hausam said.

Police arrested the two at Clear Springs High School on Palomino Street, Hausam said. Police found the third man in a black car at the dead end of Palomino, Hausam said.

Police suspect all three men, who had Honduran identification, are in the country illegally, Hausam said. The League City Police Department notified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the arrests.

MORRISTOWN – A drug raid this afternoon led to two arrests and the seizure of about ,600 in cocaine and painkillers, authorities said.

Guillermo Flores Moreno, 30, and Jose Luis Vargaz, 24, each face charges of possessing drug paraphernalia, cocaine and hydrocodone, according to the Morristown Police Department. Police call both men illegal immigrants.

Officers served a search warrant just before 3 p.m. at the men’s apartment on Central Church Road. The search turned up about 16 grams of powder cocaine, a hydrocodone pill, digital scales, plastic baggies, bogus Social Security cards and about 5 in cash, according to a news release.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jul/24/morristown-drug-raid-leads-to-2-arrests/http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=20d1a2f6bb828d52

How many other illegals of this nature a lurking in the shadows ? What happen to their better life ?

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"Immigration officials will automatically be notified anytime the local or state police do a federal fingerprint check on a suspect who also happens to be wanted for serious immigration violations, under a new system being tested in Boston.

The automated notification is part of a Department of Homeland Security program that could expand the role that the local and state police nationwide play in the immigration enforcement effort.

To federal officials, it is a natural next step as police forces have hundreds of thousands of officers who routinely come into contact with illegal immigrants, while Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a squad of only about 6,000 criminal investigators."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/us/09immig.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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A Scottsdale man who ran four Western Union stores in Phoenix and Mesa was indicted Tuesday on 80 counts of money laundering and other crimes that are suspected of financing human smugglers and drug dealers.
Attorney General Terry Goddard announced the indictment of Bruce Dennis Love, 50, who owns homes in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley. Two other men suspected in the four-year-old, .8 million money-laundering scheme were also indicted. Their names have been withheld because they have not been served with the indictment, said Andrea Esquer, Goddard’s spokeswoman.
Vincent Picard, spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Phoenix, which participated in the 23-month-long investigation, said the indictments shut down one of the "illegal support structures for human smugglers and drug traffickers. This investigation hit them where it hurts."
This is how the scheme worked, investigators said.
Coyotes would bring illegal immigrants from Mexico into Phoenix. At coyotes’ directions, the immigrants’ family members would wire money to Love’s Western Union stores to pay the smugglers to take the immigrants to particular destinations.
Smugglers or their human cargo would go to Love’s stores to pick up the cash. Love received a Western Union fee on each transaction.
The indictment and court documents said Love ran his operation out of three locations in Phoenix and one in Mesa, which conducted Western Union and check-cashing services.
One of the stores was tucked into a small back room inside a Mexican butcher shop in west-central Phoenix.
Love was warned as early as 2004 by one of his store clerks that he would "get in trouble" for catering to his "coyote clientele," according to a court document.
But Love told the clerk that the "coyotes were driving his (money-transfer) commissions" and he demanded that such wires be paid by his cashiers, the court record said.
Love courted the coyote trade because the high- volume business boosted his commissions, court records said.
According to court records, Love’s employees estimated that 80 to 100 percent of all Western Union transactions in his stores were intended to pay smugglers bringing illegal immigrants into the United States.
Love’s suspected money-laundering scheme was unraveled by the Arizona Financial Crimes Task Force, which includes ICE, the Phoenix Police Department, the Department of Public Safety and the Attorney General’s Office.
The indictment claims that Love and the two unidentified suspects violated state money-laundering laws by making false statements and reports, not filing suspicious-activity reports, and accepting false personal identification from people receiving the wired money.
Love, also indicted on charges of conspiracy, participating in a criminal syndicate, and other counts, was arrested Friday.
He was released on ,000 cash bond and was ordered to surrender his passport.
He is expected to be arraigned in Maricopa County Superior Court at 8:30 a.m. next Wednesday.
If convicted, Love could face up to 100 years in prison terms if served consecutively or 23 years if served concurrently.

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/border/74873.php

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Generally, traffic offenses are not indictable even driving without a license. If police stop someone who doesn’t have a U.S. driver’s license or presents identification from their native country, officers can "work with what you have," whether a pay stub, piece of mail, car registration or other proof of address, to issue a ticket, said Sgt. Stephen Jones, spokesman for the state police.

If there’s no way to verify address and identity, he said, police might bring the driver into the station to check his fingerprints against a national database.

But if the driver presents a false ID, police can arrest him for committing a felony — an indictable crime that requires referral to immigration under the directive.

That’s what happened to Elder Salazar, 24, who was arrested in West Deptford in February after showing a phony Michigan license when he was pulled over for driving 14 miles over the speed limit. Salazar was released on bond but could face deportation at a pending hearing.

Although referring false documentation charges to immigration follows the directive, advocates worried how that would affect immigrant communities. With no way to obtain a government-issued ID, they said, buying a fake has become common practice. Officials may not have accepted them, but up until now, illegal immigrants rarely got arrested, much less deported, for presenting one, they said.

"The community is afraid of being stopped because they don’t know how the police are going to act," said Manuel Guzman, an organizer for the Farmworkers’ Support Committee in Glassboro.

Guzman said he believed police pulled him over in March for ignoring a stop sign in South Harrison because his license plates were from Pennsylvania, where registration requirements are not as strict. Then, he said, police went so far as to ask for ID from his friend, Aurelio Torres, 30, who was a passenger in the car. The officer arrested Torres after checking his Mexican ID against a national crime database.Police Chief Warren Mabey said Torres had the same name as a wanted criminal. At the station, officers sorted out the truth, released Torres and never called immigration officials. Still, Torres said the experience left him — and others — with an aversion to the police.

"You say you are someone and they don’t believe you just because you’re Hispanic," he said. "When they stop someone, they shouldn’t be racist."

Jimenez, 29, was arrested in August after an officer who pulled him over for speeding in Evesham saw an outstanding warrant for his arrest from four unpaid speeding tickets.

Jimenez said he hadn’t paid them because money was tight a few years ago.

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Working in the restaurant industry I work with MANY illegal immigrants. It was only a matter of time before I would befriend one. He and his wife came here illegally and have been here almost 10 years now with children, a house, 2 jobs, and a car. It’s all at risk now because the government wants them to present the DMV with proper identification (SS card) before allowing them to re new their license plates, otherwise face being deported….

I was thinking of offering him to change the title to my name so I could renew the plates for him…besides your ethical opinions are there any risks for me? Is it against the law? I really want to do the right thing, mostly thinking of his children and everything the family would loose if they were forced to leave the country. Thanks!

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Working in the restaurant industry I work with MANY illegal immigrants. It was only a matter of time before I would befriend one. He and his wife came here illegally and have been here almost 10 years now with children, a house, 2 jobs, and a car. It’s all at risk now because the government wants them to present the DMV with proper identification (SS card) before allowing them to re new their license plates, otherwise face being deported….

I was thinking of offering him to change the title to my name so I could renew the plates for him…besides your ethical opinions are there any risks for me? Is it against the law? I really want to do the right thing, mostly thinking of his children and everything the family would loose if they were forced to leave the country. Thanks!

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How many illegal aliens are using these fake documents to obtain services, drive, work and to even vote?

Should illegals be prosecuted for obtaining and using these documents? How can anyone not know they are buying fake and forged documents at a house instead of a government building?
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Agents: Alamo man forged thousands of government IDs
July 16, 2009
Jeremy Roebuck

McALLEN — A man who allegedly told investigators he forged thousands of U.S. and Mexican identification cards and ,000 in U.S. currency has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Miguel Wario Reyna, 38, told agents with the U.S. Secret Service that he had been running his forgery operation out of his Alamo home since the beginning of 2008 and had provided IDs to hundreds of illegal immigrants, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in his case.

He sold fake documents — including state ID, Mexican voter registration and permanent resident alien cards — for an average price of each, the document states. He also reportedly admitted to passing the false currency at local Wal-Mart stores, usually about ,000 at a time.

Secret Service agents arrested Reyna in June after he provided a forged Texas ID card, a Social Security card, a permanent resident card and a Mexican driver’s license to an undercover agent during a sting operation at an Alamo Wal-Mart.

A search of his home that same day yielded 20 more fake IDs as well as laminating tools, white plastic cards and computer programs suspected to be tools used in counterfeiting government documents.

Reyna’s attorney — Ricardo Alanis — declined to comment on the case Thursday, saying he had not had a chance to review government documents or confer with his client.

Reyna remains in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service on four counts of counterfeiting money, producing false identification documents and distributing the fake IDs.

If convicted on all counts, he could face up to 20 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines.

The Secret Service investigates financial crimes in addition to providing presidential protection.

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/mcallen-28596-agents-thousands.html

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greasy – noticed you have a new account how many does that make now?
Do you honestly believe that these illegal aliens do not know what they are buying? Are they part of the scammers, not the ones being scammed?

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Thousands of illegal immigrants, including West Indians, have been granted a temporary reprieve when a United States federal judge prohibited the Department of Homeland Security from carrying out new rules to crack down on their employers.

The ruling in the Federal District Court in San Francisco has dealt a legal setback to a central part of the Bush administration’s effort to increase enforcement of the immigration laws.

Judge Maxine M. Chesney also ordered the Social Security Administration to suspend a mailing, scheduled to begin Wednesday, of about 140,000 letters to employers advising them that some of their employees’ Social Security information did not match the agency’s records.

The U.S. government said illegal immigrants often apply for work with false Social Security numbers.

The mailings, known as ‘no-match letters’, were going to be accompanied by a two-page notice from the Homeland Security Department advising employers of the new rules, which give them 90 days to fire any employee who cannot show valid Social Security identification, or risk civil and even criminal charges for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

New rules

The Bush administration an-nounced the rules in August, which were expected to take effect on September 10. Judge Chesney has scheduled a hearing on the matter for October 1.

The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the national labour union, AFL-CIO, several California labour groups and the American Civil Liberties Union.

The suit argues that because of errors in the Social Security Administration’s database, many Caribbean-born American citizens and other legal immigrant workers could be dismissed because of the new rules.

The suit also claims the rules could lead to widespread discrimination against these workers.

Last week, Caribbean and other immigrants were given another setback when the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that immigrants with green cards without expiration dates must immediately replace them or face penalties

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An underage patron or group of patrons enter a bar serving alcohol, they either showed false identification or they were able to get passed the guy at the door. They are caught and ejected possibly they charged criminally for the false identification. If the Bar owner does not to the best of his ability enforce the legal age laws his licenses is revoked he is fined and he may also face criminal charges. Everyone agrees that this is just, even Bushes daughters.

An illegal immigrant or group of immigrants enter the country and seek employment, they either show false identification or slip past the guy at the door. They are caught and deported possibly they charged criminally for the false identification. If the employer does not to the best of his ability enforce the legal immigration laws his licenses to do business is revoked and he may also face criminal charges. 12 million plus illegal immigrants have entered our country and many may be illegally employed as well. Someone is not watching the door or is ignoring the laws.

Why would anyone think that there is anyway to justify the illegal actions of any of these parties?
Hannah, don’t fool yourself about their intensions…check out todays headlines about the "black tar granny"
single one, first off I’m not against legal immagration…I am against illegal immagration. I am against those whom would break the laws of our nation. Your idea of a global economy is off the track…economic aggrements exist between the U.S. and most countrys. I have lived and worked all over the world and allways did so with the proper documentation and bidded by the laws of the country that I happend to be in.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the Secure Communities Initiative nabbed more than 111,000 criminal illegal aliens since its inception one year ago.

The debut program is a partnership between ICE and local law enforcement agencies that uses biometrics to identify and remove criminal aliens.

Secure Communities operates jointly between DHS, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and participating law enforcement agencies to check the digital fingerprints of illegals arrested and booked into local level against DHS “biometrics-based immigration records in addition to FBI databases." This process allows ICE to take appropriate action to ensure that dangerous criminal aliens are not released back into communities.

The new law enforcement tool classifies illegal immigrants into three categories; level one crime includes murder, rape and kidnapping; level two and three include burglary and property type of crimes.

The first year of Secure Communities netted approximately 11,000 undocumented aliens with level one crimes, DHS also claims 1,900 of those criminals have already been deported.

“Secure Communities is one of the programs that enhance our efforts to keep the peace in the largest urban area in Texas,” said Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia. “My department was the first local law enforcement agency in the country to adopt the program.”

Now, a year later, the Sheriff’s department continues to use the program as a ‘safety net’ to help identify inmates who, have been placed in custody for allegedly committing a crime under state law.

\What do you think about this program ?
Is it the best way to really eliminate the illegal aliens that
have commoted crimes ?
If the caught 111,000 how many did they not catch and deport ?
August 13, 2009

Secure Communities
Secure Communities: Mission
Secure Communities: A Comprehensive Plan to Identify and Remove Criminal Aliens is a Department of Homeland Security initiative that improves public safety by implementing a comprehensive, integrated approach to identify and remove criminal aliens from the United States. The Secure Communities Program Management Office coordinates all ICE planning, operational, technical, and fiscal activities devoted to transforming, modernizing, and optimizing the criminal alien enforcement process. ICE plans to spend .4 billion of Congressional appropriations for criminal alien enforcement efforts in FY 2009.

Secure Communities: A Comprehensive plan to Identify and Remove Criminal Aliens is built on three pillars that address specific challenges
This one is one year old and I ask a question and added more information.

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