Most agree that local law enforcement officers deserve our gratitude. All too often, the heroic actions of our police and sheriff deputies go unnoticed by the news media. Fortunately, that is not case in Seward County this weekend.Late Friday night and in the early hours of Saturday morning, Seward County Sheriff deputies arrested 14 illegal immigrants during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 80. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, Sheriff Joe Yocum said a deputy pulled over a van and discovered its passengers were illegal immigrants.
A Seward County deputy notified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and escorted the van to the sheriff’s office. When the van was a block from the sheriff's department, it stopped and the driver and passengers fled.
The sheriff’s office called Seward Police and Nebraska State Patrol for assistance, and located all of the missing by Saturday morning. The sheriff’s office turned the suspects over to federal immigration officials.
No matter what your take on the immigration crisis, it is an atrocity that local law enforcement has become the front line in the war on illegal immigration. But due to Washington's lack of intestinal fortitude -- once known as guts -- there is no other choice: local sheriff deputies and police officers must detain illegal immigrants whenever encountered, regardless of the offense committed, and hold them until they can be processed by federal agents. Unfortunately, not all local law enforcement entities take this action. Many choose to look the other way.
We tip our hats to those at the Seward County Sheriff's Department. Their actions speak loudly to those who reside in our nation illegally, as well as those who employ them.
Rant and rave all you want, but illegal immigrants will find a way back into this country until the U.S. (this includes Nebraska meat packing plants) stop employing illegal immigrants. U.S. politicians also need to pressure the Mexican government to reform its economy and reduce corruption. This means YOU at the grass roots level need to write, call, and petition your representatives to stop cozying up to Mexican officials. A “fence’ will never completely eliminate the problem. You should also copy the AIDS activists of the 1980’s. When they felt that government and drug companies were not funding AIDS research adequately, huge numbers of people picketed and marched outside drug company headquarters and even closed down Wall Street. Picket Farmland! ACT UP!
ReplyDeleteDo our Saline Co. police officers also report illegals to the US authorities? I have no idea if they do or not.
ReplyDeleteA history lesson for me fellow Nebraskans....
ReplyDeleteNot so long ago, in a country right under our feet (and also a place 1500 miles west of here)...
California's "Anti-Okie Law" (from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okies)
In 1937, California passed the so-called "Anti-Okie Law" (Section 2615 St. 1937, p. 1406) which stated, "Every person, firm or corporation, or officer or agent thereof that brings or assists in bringing into the State any indigent person who is not a resident of the State, knowing him to be an indigent person, is guilty of a misdemeanor,"
The statute was eventually overturned in 1941 by Edwards v. California (314 U.S. 160). Edwards had brought his brother-in-law from Texas to California and was convicted and sent to prison for six months. The law would be considered today as a classist and politically incorrect act of prejudice against destitute people, as well a crude violation of the US constitution.
Unless you have a large number, INS will not come and get them. Also, some of our communities will not back us when we try to report them.
ReplyDeleteI applaud Seward SO, but until our Federal Government takes responsibility, and our State Government backs local law enforcement, we are between a rock and a hard place.
Unless they have committed another, jailable crime, INS will not even take interest, unless you have a large enough number for them to "justify" the expense.
Signed,
A frutrated police officer
In the Nebraska Legislature this year, three key bills were introduced to counter illegal immigration: LB1170, LB963 and LR224.
ReplyDeleteLB1170 would have created a cause of action against employers of illegal immigrants, making employers potentially liable for costs ranging from education to welfare. Under the bill, the attorney general, a political subdivision or a citizen of the state could have brought an action against an employer who “knowingly or recklessly” recruited or employed illegal immigrants for recovery of costs related to the provision of public services. LB963 would have prohibited illegal immigrants from receiving federal, state or local public benefits. LR224 would have encouraged law enforcement agencies in Nebraska to enter into a Memoranda of Agreement with the U.S. Department Homeland Security to perform immigration law enforcement functions.
None of the three bills made it out of their committees to get a vote by the full Legislature. Call your state senator and ask him/her what happened?
Have you really thought about the effect of removing all the illegal immigrants from this country? If you think prices for groceries are high now, imagine if you took away all the people who pick our fruit for less than minimum wage. So if you have a problem with the prices of goods now I would stop complaining because it would be a lot worse if they removed all the illegals.
ReplyDeleteUntil a couple of years ago, guess how much the packing plant in Lexington was paying in property taxes? ZERO!!! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Meanwhile your tax dollars and mine were subsidizing IBP & Tyson so they could recruit illegals to "do the jobs Americans won't do." If you believe Americans won't do those jobs, you are probably fine with the big increases in welfare spending that has allowed many lazy white folks to not have to work those jobs.
ReplyDeleteI live in San Jose, CA, we have been basically over run by Illegal Immigrants. I visisted a small town a dozen or so miles south of Lincoln in 1991. California has nothing on Nebraska. Nebraska is a great & beautiful state, but it to could be over run by illegals if people don't speak up to the government. In California there are drive thru resturants that greet their customers in spanish, and yes this area still has a majority of white people, not as big as say in 1991, but still a majority. At the local Sears stores the majority of over head announcements are in spanish. Our schools are being over run by Illegal Immigrants. Some of our hospitals have closed due to the burden caused by Illegal Immigrants over crowding our emergency rooms. Every Home Depot has at least 50 to 100 Illegal Immigrants standing outside waiting for work, taking work away from tax paying "American Citizens". "ICE" is no where to be found! My girlfriend & I have been looking for a house to buy for over two years now, every neighborhood we look at has homes with Illegal Immigrants who like to fly large Mexican Flags on their garage doors, play loud music, and have at 4 or 5 kids.
ReplyDeleteOn top of all that, I work in the Silicon Valley. Large high-tech companies have been laying off Americans only to a few weeks later hire people from India. In a lot of other cases they layoff the Americans here, and deport the high-tech jobs to India.
It would not be so bad if the Illegal Immigrants who come here, learn english, pay taxes, did not bring there whole "Entire Family", obeyed the laws of the U.S.A.
Where are great Americans like Warren Buffet? You can make a difference- Phone the White House, (202) 456-1111, to demand the government control Illegal Immigration!