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Chosen
04-02-2009, 05:27 PM
Sanctuary by Authoritarian US Government directive.



Immigration Releases Workers Arrested In Bellingham Raid
Posted: 11:09 am PDT March 31, 2009

SEATTLE -- Many of the workers arrested by immigration agents last month in a Bellingham work site raid have been released and given permission to work.

In February, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 28 people at a Yamato Engine Specialists plant. They were suspected of being in the country illegally.

The raid was the first mass arrest of immigrants since President Barack Obama took office and appeared to contradict his policy that federal agents focus more on employers who hire undocumented workers than on the workers themselves. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ordered a review of the raid.

The Bellingham Herald reports ICE gave the immigrants work permits or the option of returning to their native country. ICE spokeswoman Lorie Dankers says the workers were released pending further investigation of the engine company.

Rosalinda Guillen, a community organizer in Bellingham, says most of the workers are remaining in the area with their families, and that two were deported.


http://www.kirotv.com/news/19055833/detail.html

Another article:

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/851694.html



Yamato workers freed as immigration probe continues into Bellingham company
JOHN STARK - THE BELLINGHAM HERALD

BELLINGHAM - Many if not all workers detained in the Feb. 24 immigration raid at Yamato Engine Specialists have been released from the federal detention center in Tacoma.

The unexpected move appears to be related to an ongoing federal investigation of Yamato.

"I can confirm that many of the individuals ... have indeed been released pending the further investigation of Yamato Engine," said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lorie Dankers.

Besides their freedom, the workers also have permission to look for work.

The workers have been given a document advising them "that per the Assistant United States Attorney assigned to this case, all persons involved with the Yamato Engine Specialists ... should be afforded the benefit of Deferred Action and an Employment Authorization Document, valid for the duration of this case."

The workers also have the option of declining the release and work permit offer and returning to their home country.

Dankers said the document would have to speak for itself, and she could not comment further on an ongoing investigation. Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle, said the same.

Shirin Dhanani Makalai, Yamato's administrative manager, said her attorney had advised her not to comment.http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/851694.html

Yamato workers freed as immigration probe continues into Bellingham company
JOHN STARK - THE BELLINGHAM HERALD

BELLINGHAM - Many if not all workers detained in the Feb. 24 immigration raid at Yamato Engine Specialists have been released from the federal detention center in Tacoma.

The unexpected move appears to be related to an ongoing federal investigation of Yamato.

"I can confirm that many of the individuals ... have indeed been released pending the further investigation of Yamato Engine," said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lorie Dankers.

Besides their freedom, the workers also have permission to look for work.

The workers have been given a document advising them "that per the Assistant United States Attorney assigned to this case, all persons involved with the Yamato Engine Specialists ... should be afforded the benefit of Deferred Action and an Employment Authorization Document, valid for the duration of this case."

The workers also have the option of declining the release and work permit offer and returning to their home country.

Dankers said the document would have to speak for itself, and she could not comment further on an ongoing investigation. Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle, said the same.

Shirin Dhanani Makalai, Yamato's administrative manager, said her attorney had advised her not to comment.

President Barack Obama and his Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, have indicated they want to shift immigration enforcement policy away from workplace raids that target workers, cracking down instead on the employers who hire those workers.

Rosalinda Guillen, executive director of the immigrant rights group Community to Community Development, said it was her understanding that all of the remaining Yamato workers detained in the raid had been freed late Thursday, March 26, and they have come back to Bellingham to be reunited with their families.

ICE officers arrested 28 workers in last month's raid. Three were women who were released later in the day to care for their children, pending a hearing on their immigration status. Guillen said two others have already been deported, but all of the rest have now been released.

Dankers said she could not confirm or deny that all the remaining workers are now free, and could not comment on any individuals' cases.

Guillen said the freeing of workers was surprising, because those detained in immigration raids can expect to be jailed for months to await a hearing, unless they can post large amounts of bail or are willing to accept immediate return to their homelands.

While the release of the workers is a welcome development, Guillen also expressed concern that the workers are being confronted with complex legal decisions about the consequences of cooperating in a federal investigation, without having lawyers to represent them. She said the workers have been told to expect further questioning from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

"It's basically offering them a work permit, but they don't have any legal representation," Guillen said. "How can they (prosecutors) be negotiating with these workers if they don't have legal representation? We don't know how long that work permit is going to be for, or what they have to do to keep it."

Reach JOHN STARK at john.stark@bellinghamherald.com or call 715-2274.

President Barack Obama and his Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, have indicated they want to shift immigration enforcement policy away from workplace raids that target workers, cracking down instead on the employers who hire those workers.

Rosalinda Guillen, executive director of the immigrant rights group Community to Community Development, said it was her understanding that all of the remaining Yamato workers detained in the raid had been freed late Thursday, March 26, and they have come back to Bellingham to be reunited with their families.

ICE officers arrested 28 workers in last month's raid. Three were women who were released later in the day to care for their children, pending a hearing on their immigration status. Guillen said two others have already been deported, but all of the rest have now been released.

Dankers said she could not confirm or deny that all the remaining workers are now free, and could not comment on any individuals' cases.

Guillen said the freeing of workers was surprising, because those detained in immigration raids can expect to be jailed for months to await a hearing, unless they can post large amounts of bail or are willing to accept immediate return to their homelands.

While the release of the workers is a welcome development, Guillen also expressed concern that the workers are being confronted with complex legal decisions about the consequences of cooperating in a federal investigation, without having lawyers to represent them. She said the workers have been told to expect further questioning from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

"It's basically offering them a work permit, but they don't have any legal representation," Guillen said. "How can they (prosecutors) be negotiating with these workers if they don't have legal representation? We don't know how long that work permit is going to be for, or what they have to do to keep it."

Reach JOHN STARK at john.stark@bellinghamherald.com or call 715-2274.

William Gheen of ALIPAC's comment posted online:

I have to be very careful about what I type here because reading this has flamed a sense of absolute rage in my heart.

This is AMNESTY! This is AMNESTY by executive decree. Congress did not vote on these policies, these laws are being created and executed arbitrarily by the Obama administration.

Obama's ICE just granted these illegal aliens amnesty and a new guest worker program with a policy that has been defeated in Congress several times.

The Constitution and our entire Republic has been thrown to the ground by this.

What use is it for Americans to vote for Congress or call their Congressional representatives when the President of the United States throws the existing laws aside and instates his own laws by authoritarian decree?

I'm going to show this to our supporters and ask how many support calling for the impeachment of Barrack Obama.

Right now, I want him stripped out of office because this news is going to send America into a titanic uproar!


By their actions, Napolitano, Obama et al. show that they just don't care about unemployed Americans and the jobs that open up to them when we enforce our laws.

Chosen
04-02-2009, 05:32 PM
This amnesty is authoritarian and anti-liberty. The B Hussein Obama administration used the government to forcibly give people who violated the law special treatment. The illegal aliens are felons and subject to the same rule of law as you or I.

Chosen
04-03-2009, 01:17 AM
bump, even tho' it is uncomfortable to the useful idiot open borders class.

Imagine that? Illegal immigration and global collectivism tied together, lol.

Bet you wished that this whole illegal alien thing would go away, it won't. It is a major violation of the rule of law and symptomatic of cosmopolitan decline.

silverhawks
04-03-2009, 10:15 AM
When I think of the bureaucratic hoops I had to go through and the money I had to pay out to get a valid work permit here in the USA, this makes me sick and furious at the same time.