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May 12, 2008

53 Illegal Immigrants Held For Ransom in Phoenix Home Rescued

Among the group of illegal immigrants there were also two 13-year-old girls, three women and a mentally disabled man, according to a spokesman of the Department of Public Safety.

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What? No one was willing to pay the ransom?

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They should have contacted LaRosa. This is pretty funny.

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Wait'll Joe Arpaio gets hold of 'em.
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This is NOT funny in the slightest. This is the EXACT reason why I am for make our immigration laws more lax, to the point where anyone without a severe criminal record (even then if they have a good explanation), terrorist connections, or raised in a terrorist country are allowed to come to the United States legally.

My mother tried today to tell me "We cannot support the whole world!" If they are WORKING in this country for MINIMUM WAGES (and if we upped the minimum wage!) we would NOT be supporting them.

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"Police arrested Jesus Nunez, 18, Yolanda Martinez-Garcia, 21, Anil Solis-Romero, 23, Porfirio Felix-Reyes, 25, and Vianney Terron, 22. They were caught at a Phoenix hotel, investigators said."

Life in prison sounds too good for this scum. A Mexican prison sounds better...
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Christopher wrote:
This is NOT funny in the slightest. This is the EXACT reason why I am for make our immigration laws more lax, to the point where anyone without a severe criminal record (even then if they have a good explanation), terrorist connections, or raised in a terrorist country are allowed to come to the United States legally.
My mother tried today to tell me "We cannot support the whole world!" If they are WORKING in this country for MINIMUM WAGES (and if we upped the minimum wage!) we would NOT be supporting them.
You should listen to your mother and do your homework. Clearly you've not done either, but when you grow up and have the truth in front of you, you'll see where our country is headed if we don't have the courage to stop the invasion. Again "Mother knows best."

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Christopher wrote:
This is NOT funny in the slightest. This is the EXACT reason why I am for make our immigration laws more lax, to the point where anyone without a severe criminal record (even then if they have a good explanation), terrorist connections, or raised in a terrorist country are allowed to come to the United States legally.
My mother tried today to tell me "We cannot support the whole world!" If they are WORKING in this country for MINIMUM WAGES (and if we upped the minimum wage!) we would NOT be supporting them.
Try proof reading before posting. I don't know what your are saying, partly because you make no sense, but no one wants illegals here, they can go home or take the proper steps to become a citizen. NO FREELOADERS.

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Illegals are not freeloaders.
Your Economy is not suffering do to illegals, but do to blacks, living of the government and draining the system.

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I am wondering from whom these people demanded ransom?

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Christopher wrote:
This is NOT funny in the slightest. This is the EXACT reason why I am for make our immigration laws more lax, to the point where anyone without a severe criminal record (even then if they have a good explanation), terrorist connections, or raised in a terrorist country are allowed to come to the United States legally.
My mother tried today to tell me "We cannot support the whole world!" If they are WORKING in this country for MINIMUM WAGES (and if we upped the minimum wage!) we would NOT be supporting them.
What part of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS did you misunderstand in the first line of the article? These people are/were not here legally working for minimum wage or anything else.
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Christopher wrote:
This is NOT funny in the slightest. This is the EXACT reason why I am for make our immigration laws more lax, to the point where anyone without a severe criminal record (even then if they have a good explanation), terrorist connections, or raised in a terrorist country are allowed to come to the United States legally.
My mother tried today to tell me "We cannot support the whole world!" If they are WORKING in this country for MINIMUM WAGES (and if we upped the minimum wage!) we would NOT be supporting them.
We currently have 305 million people in the United States.
China has 1.3 billion citizens.
How many Chinese do you want to take in?
500 million?
700 million?
1 billion?
There are over 6.6 billion people on earth right now, how many of them do you think we should take in? 2 billion? 4 billion? 6 billion?
How many from India?
How many from Russia?
How many from Africa?
How many from South East Asia?
How many from the Middle East nations?
How many from Europe?
How many from Australia?
All of them?
Can you imagine what this country would be like with 3 billion people instead of 3 million? 100 people for every 1 who is here now. Should we move them all to your town? Your state? Will you support them? Feed them? House them?
Less than 4% of all illegal aliens in this country are employed "picking crops", but over 40% of all illegal aliens in this country are on some form of welfare. Over 8 million illegal aliens being subsidized by our tax money.
What do you think it would be like if there were 800 million illegal aliens in this country on some form of welfare?
Where is the money going to come from?
What jobs would be here for our own poorest citizens?
Most illegal aliens work for cash and pay no taxes. Any illegal aliens who use ITINs and pay taxes work for minimum wages and don't pay enough in to support one illegal alien family on welfare for a month. At the end of the year they actually get more back than they paid in, so those who "pay taxes" take more out than they pay in.

Or is it that you think only "Hispanics" should be allowed to come here illegally? That would make you a racist.

The USA has a finite amount of resources.
Anyone who says "let them all come in" is a fool.
The USA cannot take in every single foreign national who wants to come here. What kind of ecological and economic disasters do you think we would be facing?
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Who the hell would be crazy enough to pay a ransom for these low-lifes ????

They are part of Hillary's voting block, she oughta get involved.
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Cheyenne Z wrote:
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We currently have 305 million people in the United States.
China has 1.3 billion citizens.
How many Chinese do you want to take in?
500 million?
700 million?
1 billion?
There are over 6.6 billion people on earth right now, how many of them do you think we should take in? 2 billion? 4 billion? 6 billion?
How many from India?
How many from Russia?
How many from Africa?
How many from South East Asia?
How many from the Middle East nations?
How many from Europe?
How many from Australia?
All of them?
Can you imagine what this country would be like with 3 billion people instead of 3 million? 100 people for every 1 who is here now. Should we move them all to your town? Your state? Will you support them? Feed them? House them?
Less than 4% of all illegal aliens in this country are employed "picking crops", but over 40% of all illegal aliens in this country are on some form of welfare. Over 8 million illegal aliens being subsidized by our tax money.
What do you think it would be like if there were 800 million illegal aliens in this country on some form of welfare?
Where is the money going to come from?
What jobs would be here for our own poorest citizens?
Most illegal aliens work for cash and pay no taxes. Any illegal aliens who use ITINs and pay taxes work for minimum wages and don't pay enough in to support one illegal alien family on welfare for a month. At the end of the year they actually get more back than they paid in, so those who "pay taxes" take more out than they pay in.
Or is it that you think only "Hispanics" should be allowed to come here illegally? That would make you a racist.
The USA has a finite amount of resources.
Anyone who says "let them all come in" is a fool.
The USA cannot take in every single foreign national who wants to come here. What kind of ecological and economic disasters do you think we would be facing?
Your point about 'finite resources' is the one thing these immigration-happy fools don't get, and it's frustrating. You did a good job providing numbers to go with the stance. Thanks.
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it was not a surprise that the folks holding them for ransom were the coyotes -wonderful guides walk off and leave these poor people to die in the arizona desert-no water-shelter or even a map- these were the lucky ones!
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Man that's just an awful story. No matter your take on immigration, whether you're for or against, the fact that these people have been taken hostage is just awful. Care more about getting these people out, then how they affect America's bottom line. Immigration is one of many problems its not our only one.
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WOW! I guess we should feel sorry for those trying to break the law and ruin life as we know it in America. If they had kept their a*8es in Me Hi Co where they belonged, this wouldn't have happened. I find it funny that people support these lawbreakers. And would you be so willing to aid a lawbreaker if it was a bunch of crack dealers who were held hostage?
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BAD JOHN wrote:
it was not a surprise that the folks holding them for ransom were the coyotes -wonderful guides walk off and leave these poor people to die in the arizona desert-no water-shelter or even a map- these were the lucky ones!
They knew the chance when they took it. Like a person who overdoses on cocaine. You break the law, you risk losing your life.
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Cheyenne Z wrote:
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We currently have 305 million people in the United States.
China has 1.3 billion citizens.
How many Chinese do you want to take in?
500 million?
700 million?
1 billion?
There are over 6.6 billion people on earth right now, how many of them do you think we should take in? 2 billion? 4 billion? 6 billion?
How many from India?
How many from Russia?
How many from Africa?
How many from South East Asia?
How many from the Middle East nations?
How many from Europe?
How many from Australia?
All of them?
Can you imagine what this country would be like with 3 billion people instead of 3 million? 100 people for every 1 who is here now. Should we move them all to your town? Your state? Will you support them? Feed them? House them?
Less than 4% of all illegal aliens in this country are employed "picking crops", but over 40% of all illegal aliens in this country are on some form of welfare. Over 8 million illegal aliens being subsidized by our tax money.
What do you think it would be like if there were 800 million illegal aliens in this country on some form of welfare?
Where is the money going to come from?
What jobs would be here for our own poorest citizens?
Most illegal aliens work for cash and pay no taxes. Any illegal aliens who use ITINs and pay taxes work for minimum wages and don't pay enough in to support one illegal alien family on welfare for a month. At the end of the year they actually get more back than they paid in, so those who "pay taxes" take more out than they pay in.
Or is it that you think only "Hispanics" should be allowed to come here illegally? That would make you a racist.
The USA has a finite amount of resources.
Anyone who says "let them all come in" is a fool.
The USA cannot take in every single foreign national who wants to come here. What kind of ecological and economic disasters do you think we would be facing?
VERY WELL SAID. And if the American people don't get off their duffs and do something about this disturbing trend, we will live to regret it.
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I am wondering from whom these people demanded ransom?
From their families back in Mexico. These smugglers usually get half of their fees before they bring them in then the other half after they reach the "safe-house"But as with all illegal contracts-fees and conditions may change at any time. More money can be demanded,and the families have no recourse other than to pay. Who are they going to call for help? What do you call a coyote with a bad reputation? Do you think the coyotes care about word of mouth? No they are in it for the money and they call the shots.
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Just Crazy Me wrote:
Illegals are not freeloaders.
Your Economy is not suffering do to illegals, but do to blacks, living of the government and draining the system.
U really think so? Well, I am black. I was visiting a friend in the hospital in Jackson heights, Queens, and walked past the medicaid office. All those Senoritas with 5 and six little bambinos were there. The entire place was Spanish. They turned down a man because he gets approximately $780 a month from some outside source, but every one of those mamacitas walked out of there with medical insurance for their children. At least black people (most of us) can read and write English.
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