On May 14, 7:22=A0pm, AnAmericanCitizen <NoAmne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 61 illegal immigrants detained in South L.A., officials say
>
> Three toddlers are among those arrested in a South Los Angeles house
this =
morning.
> Immigration agents find 'a scene of squalor' while investigating a
smuggli=
ng ring.
>
> By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
> May 14, 2008
>
> More than 60 illegal immigrants, including three toddlers, were
discovered=
at a house
> in South Los Angeles early this morning by federal immigration agents
serv=
ing a
> search warrant as part of an investigation into a human smuggling ring,
au=
thorities
> said.
>
> Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered the single-family,
two-=
story home
> in the 10000 block of South Normandie Avenue about 6:30 a.m.. and found
61=
Central
> and South American immigrants crowded into the house, with trash and
rotti=
ng food
> piled 2 to 3 feet high in each room, agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice
said=
.. The
> immigrants told agents that they had been staying in the home since
Friday=
..
>
> The immigrants were trans****ted to downtown Los Angeles for processing
and=
> interviews. It wasn't clear whether any of those discovered were
complicit=
in the
> smuggling operation.
>
> The immigrants were from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ecuador.
Th=
ere were
> six minors -- three teenagers and three toddlers -- among the group.
Immig=
ration and
> Customs was working with the consulates of those countries in an attempt
t=
o keep the
> young children with their mothers, Kice said.
>
> anna.gor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
asap, i hope, and fingerprinted too, to guard against
repeats? these folks are not immigrants, they're, "illegal aliens".
jenius
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