From the LA Daily News, 01/28/2008, here:
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8104586 "The message here is that if you are an individual that has entered the country illegally, who has been ordered removed and not departed, we are coming after you," said Brian DeMore, deputy field office director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention and removal operations.
"And if you are a criminal who has committed crimes against our citizens, we are going to come back after you with more vigor."
These ICE goons are building up a police state on the backs of immigrants.
This guy they interviewed, who is being chased down by ICE, did break a law - he had oral sex with his wife's underage sister - but is a blowjob and cheating reason enough to go after this man and deport him? Public shaming is in order, and government punishment perhaps, but not deportation.
The government structures being created to go after these small-time quasi-criminals is a threat to citizens' freedoms. They will create an environment of mistrust, and a constant, threatening presence of police.
These immigrants without papers were informally "invited" to this country by millions of jobs that were offered to them by the business owners of America. Hundreds of thousands of micro, small, and even large businesses have hired immigrants illegally. The lives of a huge section of the American Middle Class Entrepreneurs depend on the labor of the exploited millions of unauthorized workers, who toil to help feed their families.
Now, the public opinion has turned against the Latino, Mexican, and Native American, again. They're being blamed for America's problems. So, the politicians who service the business class have also joined in the Brown-bashing rhetoric. The ICE goons have seized the moment to abuse immigrants, to lock them up for months, and to strategically create a police state... for their own benefit, to get rich off the backs of immigrants.