Immigration agents swooped on a group of men carrying out community service in Fort Worth, Texas and arrested 26 illegal immigrants who were out on parole.
Yesterday’s operation was one of the biggest carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in north Texas.
Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said those arrested had been convicted of a range of low-level felonies and high-level misdemeanors and had been released from jail by mistake.
But Juan Herrera, whose brother Jaime was one of those detained, said they were actually punishing those who were trying to do the right thing and bothered to turn up for their community service.
He told NBC: ‘It’s kind of weird, because the people who don’t do it, still outside and the people who try to be straight and pay all the money back and everything, that’s what happened.’
Mr Herrera said his brother had lived in the US for a decade and had three children born in the country.
It is believed to be the first time ICE have targeted undocumented immigrants who reported for court-ordered community service, which usually involves picking up trash or cleaning up vandalized buildings.
ICE spokesman Carl Rusnock said: ‘ICE routinely conducts immigration enforcement operations locally and nationwide.’
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That’s brilliant detective work, right there.
ICE had to go all the way down to the parole office to find those illegals.
Zoinks! It’s like watching an episode of Scooby Doo.
The parole officers were dressing up like illegal aliens and scaring everyone away from the ghost town in order to keep Old Black Bart’s gold all for themselves.
And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids.
tc,
Lol! Too funny!
Love it!
Memories!
“Immigration agents swooped on a group of men carrying out community service……….)
LOL! Swooped!? Adorned in their Talaria and invisibility capes? and tasers & lasers and, and stuff….
“But Juan Herrera, whose brother Jaime was one of those detained, said they were actually punishing those who were trying to do the right thing and bothered to turn up for their community service.”
Juan, must be new here lol!…..
(smh)…….
“were actually punishing those who were trying to do the right thing”………..(after they did the wrong thing????………????) oh hel!, must be a newer younger faster working group that can do twice the work of Jaime and his group Juan…..
“He told NBC: ‘It’s kind of weird, because the people who don’t do it, still outside and the people who try to be straight and pay all the money back and everything, that’s what happened.’”
Um! Too many places to go with this one^……….
“were actually punishing those who were trying to do the right thing”
Happens a lot here, more and more so lately……..
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Paroled? Why the F*%K are they paroled? They should be incarcerated then shipped OUT! Community service? The ONLY community service is to ship them out!