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Seven illegal immigrants arrested in Perkins, Sandusky traffic stops
By MIKE FITZPATRICK | Wednesday, April 1, 2009 7:12 AM EDT
SANDUSKY
Seven illegal immigrants were arrested early Sunday morning in two separate traffic stops.
It marked the second time this month local police aided in catching illegalimmigrants.
On March 2, a Perkins police officer pulled over a van and found 12 illegal immigrants from Mexico.
All of the immigrants in that arrest were living in Ft. Wayne, Ind., and have since been deported to Mexico, according to an immigration spokesman.
A Perkins police officer pulled over a 2002 Chevrolet Prizm at 1:46 a.m. Sunday morning after he spotted the vehicle making an illegal turn onto West Perkins Avenue.
Porifirio A. Lopez, 28, 1200 block S. Bay Drive, Port Clinton, admitted when interrogated he was in the country illegally.
He told police he'd been living in Port Clinton for two years.
Binicio C. Munoc, 29, 1700 block W.Perkins Ave., was a passenger in the vehicle. He was also in the country illegally, police said. Both men were taken to the Erie County jail, where they were detained for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
Nine minutes after Perkins police pulled over the two men, Sandusky police pulled over a 2000 Dodge Caravan after it was spotted traveling the wrong way on Tiffin Avenue near the railroad tracks.
Police discovered five illegal immigrants inside the van. They took Fidel Morales-Sunun, 47, first block Grand Ave., Norwalk; Julio Hernandez, 42, first block Grand Avenue, Norwalk; Gamaliel Morales-Sunun, 29, 5100 block U.S. 250, Norwalk; Roman Velazquez-Gonzalez, 28, 5100 block U.S. 250, and Eloy Rodriguez, 38, first block Grand Ave., Norwalk, to the Erie County jail, where they were held for ICE officials, the report stated.
On Monday, a woman who declined to give her name took custody of the van from Sandusky police.
The woman said she knew family members of one of the detainees and went to the police station Sunday morning after the men were taken into custody. She said she acted as an interpreter for the men.
The men were in Erie County to earn money for their families, she said. Illegal immigrants are often employed in jobs Americans refuse to do, such as low-paying factory work or jobs in the agricultural industry, she said.
"Mexicans come over here to support families and kids," she said. "They're not here to steal jobs."
Typically, illegal immigrants are flown by ICE back to their native countries.
Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for the Detroit division of ICE, did not return two calls for comment.
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ibd1 wrote on Apr 1, 2009 11:11 AM:
Ghost Town wrote on Apr 1, 2009 10:55 AM:
Blaine wrote on Apr 1, 2009 10:41 AM:
Chung Lee wrote on Apr 1, 2009 10:11 AM:
ibd1 wrote on Apr 1, 2009 9:40 AM:
Delaware Bob wrote on Apr 1, 2009 9:39 AM:
I can't say the ILLEGAL ALIENS are completely to blame for the shape of our economy, but they are a BIG part of the problem. The ILLEGAL ALIENS send BILLIONS upon BILLIONS out of this Country every year, money we will NEVER see again. Does this help our economy?
How about the BILLIONS the American taxpayers fork out for the ILLEGAL ALIEN BABIES, the schooling of them, the medical care and the list goes on, and on, and on.
How about the MILLIONS upon MILLIONS paid to jail ILLEGAL ALIENS for the crimes, then the cost to deport them. Does this help our economy?
Then you have these activist groups, the Catholic Church and the ACLU that want AMNESTY for these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It would be absolute suicide for this Country if AMNESTY were granted to the 20 million or so ILLEGAL ALIENS. We have more and more people out of work everyday and they want to add another 20 million to this Country? I say, "NO"!
If AMNESTY were ever granted to these 20 million ILLEGAL ALIENS, you can bet big money that 3 years from now, there would be ANOTHER 3-5 million ILLEGAL ALIENS demonstrating on our soil for AMNESTY.
An end MUST come to this illegal immigration. The perfect tool we have so far is E-Verify. It MUST be used by ALL businesses and Government Social Services. EVERY employee must be checked! If they are illegal, they are to be dismissed!
I believe it is time for all 50 States to pass a State law, like Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina and a few others. It is time for these ILLEGAL ALIENS to go back to their home Country and get out of this Country. The problems they are causing will not go away until the ILLEGAL ALIENS are out of this Country. I think that is plain to see.
The bottom line is that...NO ILLEGAL ALIEN HAS A RIGHT TO BE IN THIS COUNTRY FOR ANY REASON! "
DazyKay wrote on Apr 1, 2009 9:22 AM:
lillie chaos wrote on Apr 1, 2009 8:58 AM:
Send them, the homeless, tempest tossed to me....I lift my light beside the golden door....
OK, now we all practically homeless, poor and starting to huddle up and try to figure out what do about this economy..... Don't you think we should close the gate until we can take care of the people who actually live here? I don't mean welfare.....I mean work and quality of life for the working family. We are paying way to much to support the "homeless, tempest tossed" ---I wanna be free -- free of paying for other people's food stamps and drug habits.
If I had a "free" medical card for the emergency room and pharmacy my quality of life would be much better but I do have a job so I get no consideration. Excuse my bad attitude this morning....but I am real tired of all this abuse of the American way of life. There is no loyalty to long term workers and no real optimism in the near future. I am old and tired....who is going to take care of me? No one.....am going to work in a couple of hours and do what I can to scrap by. "
lhpb wrote on Apr 1, 2009 8:38 AM:
Deborah wrote on Apr 1, 2009 8:32 AM:
sub4 wrote on Apr 1, 2009 8:22 AM:
countrycowboy wrote on Apr 1, 2009 8:00 AM:
gRAPE vINE wrote on Apr 1, 2009 7:43 AM:
gRAPE vINE wrote on Apr 1, 2009 7:41 AM:
What do you think by cutting wages will bring for the UAW? nothing but less BUYING POWER for CHINA.
It will NOT bring down the price of a Car. They already took cuts and the price stayed the same or went up.
They also in the 1980's took a cut, and the price of cars did not go down, the price kept going up.
So jimibo, it does nothing at all for the our economy. But does even better for china's economy by reducing labor cost.
I'm afraid jimibozo, you are listioning to the RICH man talking. They want mexico labor price, why do you think so many are here, 11,000,000 illegals.
Jimibozo, if your wages does not match UAW, then your being underpaid. We all need more buying power to bring us out of this mess, not less.
Jimibozo, one of two things have to happen, either we ALL get more wages, or the Price of EVERYTHING must go down. Period. "
CM wrote on Apr 1, 2009 7:32 AM:
Edvit wrote on Apr 1, 2009 7:07 AM:
Winston Smith wrote on Apr 1, 2009 6:29 AM:
Softhearted caring liberals call them 'undocumented Americans' and future Democratic Party voters. "
Jimmy Ego wrote on Apr 1, 2009 6:28 AM:
grape vine wrote on Apr 1, 2009 4:44 AM:
The President said, there are 11,000,000 that's eleven million Illegals in the United states. They are ruining our economy. Who is feeding this eleven million, someone is giving 11 million a JOB, more Crime, not paying TAXES on the wages. If they were paying taxes on these wages, then they would be documented, or legal. I know a Italian man spent Eleven Years in prison for income tax evasion, it was his first offence in court, documented, but it appears this law is only good for Italian people, RIGHT. "
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