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ICE Raids Spark Fear, Worry in East Bay

Undocumented immigrants who live in Oakland and Berkeley said they are fearful this week after a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.

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Ronda
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May 7, 2008
 
GOOD JOB !!! Do the Right and Legal thing!!
Tony Minneapolis MN
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May 7, 2008
 

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If they re fearful maybe they will start leaving.
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before u guys talk about how we need to secure our border we should be learning a valuable lesson from those who are illegally coming into this country.
1. the is the ultimate land of opportunity hence people trying to get in any way possible
2. instead of scaring them off help them to obtain legality
3. would you do the jobs that these
"illegals" are doing? i.e clean bathrooms, take out trash or how bout picking all the fruits and vegetables for people to consume????

stop this raiding nonsense and maybe we all need a reality check.
Sandy
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May 7, 2008
 
I'm sorry but if people want to come into this country - that's great! They need to do it legally!!!! It doesn't have to break up families - their kids can go back with them. I can't believe how slanted the media is on this subject. They come over here illegally, use our hospitals, schools, unemployment, etc. They don't get their kids vaccinated. They all need to go home and come over here thru the legal channels that are set up. I don't understand why so many people are so against enforcing the laws on the books about this subject.
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uncle buck...we certainly don't want or need "your kind".... you have an ugly heart
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May 7, 2008
 
How are we villifying our federal law enforcement agents? And holding so called "know your rights" classes in schools recieving federal monies? Time to send a wake up call to these schools. And Oakland Police escorting immigrants? Federal law trumps municipal law in these cases.
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$11 billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year; $2.2 billion a year spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens; $2.5 billion a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens; $12 billion a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English; $17 billion a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies; $3 million a day is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens; 30% of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens; $90 billion a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Security by the American taxpayers; $200 billion a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens; The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the U.S.; During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 million illegal aliens that crossed our Southern border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U.S. from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report; The National Policy Institute estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five-year period. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 billion in remittances back to their countries of origin; The dark side of illegal immigration: nearly one million sex crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the United States.

Total cost (tax dollars) for illegal immigrants is a whopping…$338.3 billion a year
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May 7, 2008
 
California is going bankrupt under the massive invasion illegal aliens.It's going to get a lot worse before it get's better too. As other states crack down on illegal immigration, California will be the lone holdout to continue to declare our cities "sanctuaries". ICE needs to make California a priority. We need 1,000 ICE worksite raids a day. California is already 16 BILLION over budget for just this year. Enough is enough! ZERO tolerance for illegal immigration. ZERO tolerance for employers who hire illegals. Keep up the good work ICE!
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I left California because of the insanity down there. The state is going bankrupt and yet everyone cries "racism" when someone tries to trim the budget by denying anything to illegal immigrants. ILLEGAL you fools, ILLEGAL. How do you think we would be treated if we went to Japan and tried to put our kids in their schools? They would laugh at us and ship us out. Why are ICE agents the bad guys here? They are enforcing the LAW. This is a sovereign nation, if these "migrants" don't want to live in fear of having their family broken up, then don't come here! Countries have laws you communist schmucks, its not our fault Mexico and China are craphole nations. We can't take care of the whole world.
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May 8, 2008
 
Minimum wage would be 20 plus $ and hr. if it kept up with cost of living.The reason it's not is our glass tower folk keep looking the other way so cheap labor can sneak in.Look people we heard these same sob stories back in 86 when we were told that we needed to give those criminels amnesty,REMEMBER what we were told then,What make these stupids think I believe them this time.GO I.C.E.
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May 14, 2008
 
i am not sure where you people get your facts however maybe you people should do a little more research before you go a state facts you know nothing about its funny how when they started this massive deporting our economy started going down hill the people that are doing all the complaining i bet you would collect unemployment before you do even half the jobs that the immigrants are doing. you people that judge other people sound so ignorant
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May 15, 2008
 
I wasn't judging immigrants, I was talking about ILLEGALS who have no right to be here, what other fact is there. Also if you had any idea what caused our economy to be in the tank you would realize that deporting ILLEGALS has nothing to do with it. If anything it will help,less money being paid to social programs that these folk latch on to when they get here,school less crowded, and employers having to pay a legal citizen a living wage. So spare me the tears as I have no sympathy for ILLEGALS at all.

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May 17, 2008
 
if they are illegal, there is only one thing that needs to be considered - DEPORTATION.

that's the law!!!
hayward king
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May 18, 2008
 
Asian Guy wrote:
if they are illegal, there is only one thing that needs to be considered - DEPORTATION.
that's the law!!!
..Open your heart, let all illegals in. thats what obama wants..his our new presidents soon, lets get them the welcome matt, welfare, healthcare, everything they want..!!!
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