Hunt for illegal immigrants requires patience

“But for those who are here illegally, we're looking for them. They are taking jobs, they are committing crimes. This is a priority.”

Hunt for illegal immigrants requires patience By Theresa D. Mcclellan GRAND RAPIDS -- It starts with the drive-bys. Officers and agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement team gather in unmarked ... via Grand Rapids Press

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"I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," said 25-year-old Marco Zavala, his hands clasped before him in handcuffs while being processed at a downtown federal office.

He knows he is headed back to Mexico, a place he says is not his home. "I have not lived there in more than six years. I live here, have a good job and a girlfriend who is pregnant."

Zavala has been through this at least three times. Each time he was sent back to the border, he made his way back to this country. He says he hasn't tried to become a legal citizen because he has speeding tickets; Palmore said those violations would not preclude him from becoming legal.

In this case, Zavala was not the target. Agents got lucky when a series of tips led them to the York Creek Apartments in Alpine Township.

After several stops at the sprawling complex, they were led to a party where they found 11 suspected illegal immigrants.

Using a portable fingerprint taker, officers determined that one of their men is Alberto Hernandez-Contrarez, a 30-year-old Mexican national convicted on weapons charges, as well as possession of fraudulent identification and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Hernandez-Contrarez glared at the agents as he was escorted out in handcuffs.
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But Zavala said he wants to do his job, too.
He has a driver's license and was working three jobs, including one at a large retailer's warehouse. Next year, he said, he was going to be a team leader.

[BRENT NORWOOD]

I think is a matter of patience but, not to eject people from a place that they call home, instead we should ask our local, estate and federal authorities to provide this people with the documents they need to become legal, why?
its simple, our goverment espends millions a year arresting and deporting aliens that will be back within months to the usa, some of e`m even to their same houses and jobs!!!!!
obiously breaking laws repeteadly and wasting money resources from goverment agencies, if they would have the same obligations that an american (not the same rights, because they are not americans), and they break the law they could be sued, or trown in jail and do ther time in us prisions working in jail to pay their own encarceration (if they commit a crime in the estates) or in the best case, live and work in the us paying taxes like any of us without breaking the law and stoping once and for all this stupid mouse and cat chase than the inmigracion department has set on alliens.
its not okey to blame alliens, its ok to blame our goverment for choosing the most expensive and inefective way to resolve this problem.

[PSL]

Patience my a$$ they're all over the place.