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Illegal Immigrants Beware: L.A. Sheriff's Deputies Can Now Run Your Fingerprints in the Field

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Secure Communities 2.0?
The L.A. Sheriff's Department is busting with pride over its brand-new fleet of "state-of-the-art mobile data computers" -- the first of which are now installed in the patrol vehicles of a few lucky deputies.

In some ways, the computers are an overdue boot into the 21st century. Turns out deputies have been communicating via dinosauric, fax-speed "terminals" from 1989, and haven't even had access to a GPS system. Yikes. So thankfully, the new mobile computers take care of all that. But not without a Thanksgiving-sized side of creep sauce:

The computers, which set the department back $33 million (guess this county isn't as broke as we thought), can now communicate seamlessly with handheld Blue Check devices to run fingerprints in the field.

Basically, if you don't have your license on you during a traffic stop (which illegal immigrants, by default, will not), your biometric data will then be zapped into a massive database of everything anyone has ever done.

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Blue Check in progress.
"I can use this device here to instantly search millions of people in Los Angeles County and through the FBI and other databases for law-enforcement use," says the deputy in the promo video.

A spokesman at the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau tells us that results will include "parole or probation status" and "any other 'want' in the system."

He's not sure if that includes immigration status -- we've contacted the sheriff's Logistics section for more -- but even if it doesn't, many illegal immigrants have their status ingrained into their criminal records anyway, in the form of vicious-cycle "crimes" like trying to re-enter the country, work without a visa, etc.

"If you have been involved with the justice system at some point -- if you were selling ice cream, or 20 years ago you robbed a pair of socks -- you'll be in there," says Jorge-Mario Cabrera from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA).

Both immigration-rights and privacy-rights advocates have been making a huge stink over the federally mandated Secure Communities program, which allows anyone passing through the justice system to be screened by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. (Example: You're an undocumented 18-year-old hanging out, aka "loitering," at a public park with your friends, and you don't have an ID to show officers. So you're hauled off to the station and slapped with deportation proceedings. Really.)

But the Secure Communities program seems a shy little sibling to these mobile, Big Brother-esque background checkers.

Which would explain the department's elation over its new toys -- L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca has defended Secure Communities to the bitter end, even as leaders across the country have denounced the program as a racist, ineffective violation of human rights.

"We had heard from a couple of immigration attorneys that this is something they were concerned about," says Cabrera of the sheriff's new mobile data computer system (MDCS). He points out that once law-enforcement officials are aware of someone's immigration status, they can't unsee it, and are much less likely to let a low-level offender go.

Most disturbingly, FBI documents recently revealed that Secure Communities was launched as a first step to what the feds eventually hope to be an all-encompassing database of everyone's biometric info -- not just that of illegal aliens.

In other words, immigrants are just the defenseless Guinea pigs in America's greater plan for all-out police state. Fun!

We've contacted attorneys at the Southern California ACLU for their thoughts on these spooky new mind-readers. But given their disdain for Secure Communities -- and their rocky relations with both the L.A. Sheriff's Department and Raytheon, the military-tech company that designed the sheriff's system -- we're anticipating a bit of backlash.

More discouraging speculation on Raytheon, via the Los Angeles Times:

The deal with the Sheriff's Department is one of many that Raytheon has in the works for the public safety sector -- seen by many analysts as a steady stream of revenue for military contractors at a time when Pentagon spending is expected to decline.

Hey, if we can't spent our billions killing terrorists in the Middle East, might as well launch an equally expensive war on the huddled masses, right here at home!

[@simone_electra/swilson@laweekly.com]

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broke because of leeches
broke because of leeches

I come for visit, get treated regal,So I stay, who care I illegal?I cross border, poor and broke,Take bus, see employment folk.Nice man treat me good in there,Say I need to see welfare.Welfare say, "You come no more,We send cash right to your door."Welfare checks, they make youwealthy,

Medicaid it keep you healthy!By and by, I got plenty money,Thanks to you, American dummy.Write to friends in motherland,Tell them come as fast as you can.They come in rags and Chebbytrucks,

I buy big house with welfare bucks.They come here, we live together,More welfare checks, it gets better!Fourteen families they moving in,But neighbor's patience wearing thin.Finally, white guy moves away,Now I buy his house, and then I say,"Find more aliens for house to rent."

And in the yard I put a tent.Send for family (they just trash),But they, too, draw the welfare cash!Everything is mucho good,And soon we own the neighborhood.We have hobby--it's called breeding,Welfare pay for baby feeding.Kids need dentist? Wife need pills?We get free! We got no bills!

American crazy! He pay all year,To keep welfare running here.We think America darn good place!Too darn good for the white manrace.

If they no like us, they can go,Got lots of room in Mexico

Dj
Dj

Why do we have Hispanic citizens of this great country of ours that hate America so much? Alot we're born or naturalized citizens. They were educated in the US. Ate the fruits of the American dream. But they they turn around and betray America by voting and promoting illegal immigration for their own kind. Makes you think what these traitors are up to. They don't care about the welfare of our country. They roach off of us and betray us in the long run. Look at what they are doing now.

phlebmom
phlebmom

It's about time! It's not just for the illegals...anyone that's stopped and has no ID will have to have their fingerprints put through the system also. I'm so for this.

Beveridge B
Beveridge B

You watch, California's Governor will render this "new $33,000,000 investment" useless. 

Robinked
Robinked

It's about time that Calif. got something like this...Really they are soooo Infested w/ILLEGALS that it'll take a Miracle to "De-Mex" this state...!!!!--Technology like this is just Common Sense...!!! numbersUSA.org--Stop the Stupidity !!JudicialWatch.org--Sign the Petiition...Tell Your State Gov't to Enforce Exisiting Immigration Laws...DUH!!!

stevo1
stevo1

I come for visit, get treated regal,So I stay, who care I illegal?I cross border, poor and broke,Take bus, see employment folk.Nice man treat me good in there,Say I need to see welfare.Welfare say, "You come no more,We send cash right to your door."Welfare checks, they make youwealthy,

Medicaid it keep you healthy!By and by, I got plenty money,Thanks to you, American dummy.Write to friends in motherland,Tell them come as fast as you can.They come in rags and Chebbytrucks,

I buy big house with welfare bucks.They come here, we live together,More welfare checks, it gets better!Fourteen families they moving in,But neighbor's patience wearing thin.Finally, white guy moves away,Now I buy his house, and then I say,"Find more aliens for house to rent."

And in the yard I put a tent.Send for family (they just trash),But they, too, draw the welfare cash!Everything is mucho good,And soon we own the neighborhood.We have hobby--it's called breeding,Welfare pay for baby feeding.Kids need dentist? Wife need pills?We get free! We got no bills!

American crazy! He pay all year,To keep welfare running here.We think America darn good place!Too darn good for the white manrace.

If they no like us, they can go,Got lots of room in Mexico

Anasariverrat
Anasariverrat

Thats the problem with the USA. Ignorance.and that includes you and the rest of those who think like you, For starters your families would be classified as illegal aliens. That rapist and thief Columbus took and took from those that just wanted to share. That is God's way. That wasn't good enough, they had to take thier daughters, wives,livestock and land. That is the same thing that the Banks, Wallstreet, Appraisers, Mortgage Co. Oil Co, Utilities, Vehicles,etc....are doing to us all. Americans don't want to get they're lazy butts to the fields. They think they are to good. They don't want to walk and stand on a corner and beg for work. They don't want to dig ditches, wash dishes. clean grease from grease traps, with no aircondition, in the mud or 105 degrees. No decent toilets, no benifits, no medical even you hurt yourself on the job. Well the good thing is alot of Mexicans are going home. Not because your chasing them but because they want to see your stupid selves have to work in those areas. Our Government has made it so we can not compete with other countries for lack of bailouts for our schools. Maybe you'll be the next person to believe the appraiser thats working with the Banks, and Mortgage Co. when they tell you of course you can afford it , we are willing to give you a loan aren't we. They take your down payment and commision and closing cost and you find out the house wasn't even worth that amount but actually it's worth half that amount and to bad you have to pay for it. Now you know how the Indians felt when they took they're land. Good luck picking lettuce. tomatos, grapes veggies and fruit. Enjoy the spiders, rats, bees snakes, staph infections, heat strokes and contractor not paying you. Illegals may or may not use someones social security number or a fake one which means the do pay into SSI, disability ins., workmanscomp and don't get to use it. Where do you think that money goes, not to them. Normally when the go see a Doctor or Dentist they pay cash. Check your facts before you open your mouth. If I was your housekeeper and nanny I'd spit in you damn food.

stevo1
stevo1

When did we lose our common sense? Our Government, has allowed the invasion of 30 million criminals in direct violation of Article IV, Section IV of our Constitution. they force American tax payers to pay Billions to provide Welfare, Prison cells, Educate the invaders children, free medical care,massive document fraud, & are destroying our schools, hospitals, communities, culture while Robbing, Raping, Killing & Assaulting American Citizens WE ARE BEING INVADED! WAKE UP PEOPLE!An education is a good thing.

step #1 http://bit.ly/oBuTUdhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...http://immigrationcounters.com... http://ojjpac.org/memorial.asp http://www.immigrationshumanco...http://www.newswithviews.com/W...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010...http://www.rense.com/general81...http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=410...http://www.cairco.org/econ/eco...http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt...Every Non-representative including obama and holder are not upholding the oath of office! they swore to defend the Constitution! If these clowns were to do their job, this would all be a Moot point! Anchors and their criminal parents go, period, you knew you were breaking the law when you crossed the border.Next shut down any business hiring illegal labor. Oh and owners go to jail.any better ideas? lets hear them!

Diverclt
Diverclt

To the writer of this factually deficit story, your a fake writer. Yes your research of on this story was minimal at best. The city of L.A. has nothing to do with the purchase of L.A. County's Sheriffs Departments equipment. The Sheriffs don't give a crap about anyone's immigration status unless they commit a crime. Most of the time, even after arrest, it has to be a felony for them to even get booked for ICE to become involved. How could any law enforcement in California to become any part of a police state. The extreme liberals here will never let our happen. California in general is a pro-illegal immigrant state. Where else can you go and buy a car, house and business while being an illegal immigrant. So Mr. Wilson , your research and story are just inflammatory crap towards our already very tolerant government.

BajaRat
BajaRat

Illegal aliens are criminals and parasites, one and all. Practically everything they do on U.S. soil is illegal. They need to be ferreted out, rounded up like cattle, punished for their numerous crimes, then booted back to whence they snuck in from with such extreme prejudice that they will never, ever think of violating our sovereignty again. Build a wall and deport 'em all. Enough is enough.

novenator
novenator

Big brother has arrived.  They try to justify this for undocumented migrants right now, but mark my words, this will be used on citizens in the near future as well.

Dave Francis
Dave Francis

Republican NewtGingrich will have key problems in his electoral race, on a fact that illegalmigrants violated the law not once, but in a substantial number of cases--twiceover. That is the use of citizens or legal residents ID. Even twenty five yearsago, unquestionably you had to possess a driver’s license, Social Securitynumber as you do today.  I personallycarried my ID, just in case I was stopped by the authorities. Use of fraudulentID, no matter the situation, specifically if they belong to a deceased person,a new child or as (as I even heard,) stolen from our warrior-soldiers fightingabroad. Hundreds of thousands of American have found out somebody has usedtheir personal identities. But Federal appeals courts have been split over,whether the defendant must know that the phony ID numbers belongs to a realperson.

 

Defense lawyers haveargued that their clients should not be charged with stealing anotherindividuals  identity since theimmigrants only were seeking papers, so they so they could get a job? Theillegal aliens didn’t know if the numbers were fictitious or belonged tosomeone else, their lawyers say. That is a mindless excuse, as to think illegalaliens are stupid possessing any document to deceive an employer; but then thebusiness owners are well aware of the sham, but hire the discount labor anyway.The Federal appeals courts based in Atlanta and Richmond also have ruled in theadministrations favor in comparable cases, while the appeals court inWashington, D.C., sided with defendants. The ruling rejected an significantdeterrent for prosecuting and deporting illegal aliens, who have beenvictimizing innocent Americans by stealing their identities to get jobs inAmerica. Whether they are using someone’s stolen ID or not, they should bedeported, whether they have been here one year or twenty five years, theyshould fingerprinted through ‘Secure Communities’ or through ICE detention.This is why American workers desperately need a Mandatory nationwide E-Verifyprogram.

 

The American peoplecannot be apathetic anymore, as it is time to enforce our immigration laws. TheE-Verify program that has gained notoriety, but not popular screeching columnsof the Liberal press, the special interest lobbyists or radical open border andother so called anomaly organizations. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS FREE MONEY ANDLARGE PROFITS FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE IN CONGRESS, WHILE AMERICAN LABOR ISSTILL TRYING TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO WILL HIRE THEM. ALL I KNOW IS THAT EVERY YEARTHE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS IS RISING FACT, TO FINANCIALLY ACCOMMODATE PEOPLEWHO HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHT TO BE IN THIS SOVEREIGN COUNTRY. ONE OF THE ABSURD BUTOUTRAGEOUS CIRCUMSTANCES FROM THIS IMPASSE IS THEY PROTEST IN THE STREETSDEMANDING EQUAL RIGHTS TO CITIZENS AND NATURALIZED CITIZENS.

 

I’M SURPRISED THATTHE GOVERNMENT HASN”T GIVEN THESE ILLEGAL LEECHES THE RIGHT TO VOTE; OR HAVETHEY? DEMOCRATS ESPECIALLY ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE LAWS, SO YOU DON’T NEEDOFFICIAL PICTURE ID TO VOTE. ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE VOTING AND WILL AGAIN.

 

Illegal Immigrationis a conspiracy against the American people; otherwise it would be a straightFELONY, with prison time. All patriotic American should change for a new law,that convicts these people or we will never be able to relinquish the hold ofthe $15 Trillion deficit. Why in god’s honest truth should we be forced byfederal courts to pay part of our income to subsidize foreign nationals whobreak the law?

 

The time has come tobuild the real fence from Texas to California covering the whole 2500 mileswith double-layer fencing. It is also the time to contact the Ways and MeansCommittee responsible for bringing ‘The Legal Workforce Act’, bill H.R.2885 tothe House floor in Congress. Only the American voter or legal resident has asay in this urgent matter, which will produce large numbers of jobs STOLEN bythe 8.2 illegal workers as estimated to self-deport. The number to call for theWashington political phones is 202-224-3121. The legislators need to listen tothe People, instead of misleading us anymore. If you have further questions, goto the NumbersUSA via Google and study the facts of years of the fabricationand idiom we absorb through the Leftist associated newspapers or thepoliticians.

Johnritter
Johnritter

Your system is broken, your government is done, keep watching tv and keep laughing at your candidates, that's where they want your attention. America you're done! Corporations won.

bigriggs
bigriggs

Each and every police force in this country should have this technology.

Justice
Justice

And rescind Special Order 40.

Dave Francis
Dave Francis

STEALING FROM THE TAXPAYERS.

The concern of illegal immigration may be on the back burner to jobs, astruggling economy and not simmering under the surface? It doesn't mean that thisissue affecting our sovereign nation is going away. The financial sink hole hasopened wide again through former speaker Newt Gingrich revelation that peoplewho have settled in America and stayed out of trouble for 25 years, should beallowed to remain here; even with the clause that they can never receive a pathto citizenship. These people might have entered initially through an airportterminal, as an estimated 42 % percent of overstays have done, or the otherproportion who just slipped across the border at night All the while carefullyconceived by numerous administrations, was to make illegal entry just a minorcrime; like jay walking and not even substantiated as a criminal offense. This very well maneuvered plan and so carefullymanipulated by the politicians just to make it look like the government are obeyingthe people, the enforcement laws.

 

 But the truth asmillions of Americans see it, that it was a bluff, a downright lie; just plainhypocritical words meaning nothing and that the 'Rule of our Law' meansnothing?  To prohibit illegal immigrationwas never meant to work? That why this country has now an estimated 20 millionforeign nationals here, of which of a large preponderance lives of taxpayers asdo many American shirkers. Even if Gingrich did become President, how is hegoing to process those who are supposedly here for a quarter of a century? Thenthere is the problem of those who stole Social Security numbers of citizens orlegal resident’s, young children and even the dead. Surely this should be judgedas a FELONY?  Or is Newt Gingrich goingto take the wrong path of similarity to President Obama's presidential predilectionin permitting certain foreign nationals to stay; this isn’t going down wellwith the hard working Border Patrol agents or taxpayers.

Newt Gingrich will have major problems in his electoral race on this fact, thatthese illegal migrants violated the law not once, but in a substantial numberof cases, twice over. This is certainly happened after the 1986 ImmigrationControl and Reform Act. It was Massive fraud on a grand scale in the Amnestybill. The processing procedure was so overwhelming; the administration neithercompleted the investigations and background checks rushing pre-legality offarmer laborer’s; THE SAW ACT’ Special Agricultural Workers amnesty provision as a path to citizenship. The real fraud wasin the initial paperwork, as millions of phony documents were brought and sold,as of which showed that they had lived in the United States for five years. Thecost for the processing of all these millions of people was estimated to be$700 million dollars. After the law was passed and signed into law. Millions thendeserted their jobs in Agriculture, opening up even more hires for illegalaliens, in a never ending stream.

 

 

Today--as according to the Heritage Foundation, who has completeda thorough analysis of the cost, would be $2.6 trillion dollars for a newamnesty. Then fraudulent applications would be processed, with many employers’ continuingtheir illicit hiring practices, and once again illegal immigration pushingAmerica further into debt.. The Center for Immigration Studies estimated theillegal immigrant population was at 10 million as of November 2004, butthe U.S. Census Bureau estimated 8.7 million illegal immigrants were here by2000, and that immigration officials estimate that the illegal immigrantpopulation grows by as many as 500,000 every year.

 

Another Amnesty would be devastating to this country, as the millions of familymembers could be sponsored and placed on the conveyor belt, adding even moreunfettered poverty. Eventually our social safety net would collapse, because ofthe untold millions would then gain legal access to every conceivableentitlement program. The totalfiscal deficit on all direct and indirect costs is for the decade after 1986;but not including the costs of the blanket amnesty itself, was $78.7 billion.Most states are holding back because the Liberal Progressives in the Departmentof IN-Justice are using their power to undermine Alabama’s law. States that areONLY trying to safeguard their taxpayers money which includes Georgia, SouthCarolina, Indiana, Arizona and even Utah, is already being intimidated by theuncontrollable US government. Whether its Perry, Gingrich, Romney, Cain,Bachmann, Johnson—they better understand, that the main portion of the UnitedStates population insist immigration laws are enforced. There are hundreds ofthousands of Hispanic citizens out there, who want illegal immigration stoppedas well as millions of ordinary Tea PARTY members. Unless you are on legitimatewelfare or some public assistance programs, you as a taxpayer are beingfleeced.

 

 

The TEA PARTY will never be approving of another Amnesty, orany cleverly disguised term such as Immigration Reform, no matter what the powerfulpolicymakers say and do? The government cannot be trusted, as they have proventheir dishonest deception time and time again. It’s like the rules and laws welive by, doesn’t apply to them. Just takes a look at the latest corruptioncoming down the “pipes?” Insider Trading! Another concealed agenda DemocratNancy Pelosi and Majority Speaker John Boehne rand a great manyothers. For ordinary Americans and Wall Street people are found responsible for‘Insider Trading” the offence is punishable with time in prison; however thepoliticians are allowed to trade stocks and shares with insider knowledge with impunity.Read about the corruption in Congress at the ‘Judicial Watch’ web pages.

 

 

  The outlay in entitlement programs to illegalaliens and their children such as retirement, pensions, food stamps, Aid toFamilies with Dependent Children (AFDC,) Medicaid, housing and every other freeextra will be visited on miserable taxpayers, are far beyond what taxpayersshould be forced to pay by the courts in unfunded mandates. The TEA PARTY isnot just about stopping illegal immigration Amnesty, but halting the furtherencroachment of the distended government on citizen’s lives. It is a guardianof our Constitution from Liberal Extremists, trashing and drafting a new taxcode that is fair to everybody, with no exemptions to any company or any otherentity.

 

No more privileged tax havens in the Cayman Islands that ourpoliticians have ignored for their wealthy patrons. Start drilling for our ownoil for US consumers and for us export other countries. America has the largestdeposits in the world of oil and could reduce the 15 trillion dollar deficit.We must return federal Department to individual states, such as Education; each agency is stagnated from the bureaucrats that run them and likeeducation has fallen in performance behind China, India and many Europeannations? Cut thousands of mostly groundless regulations, thus industry can berejuvenated and create jobs.  We need realfree trading markets, seeing that according to Donald Trump; not the tricksplayed on us by China and other countries perpetrated on as of us today. It’s areal shame that Trump, the businessman didn’t follow through with his bid forthe presidency. Join the TEA PARTY in all of the 50 states and learn what youcan do, to stop this assault on our liberties, by Liberals.

 

 

The American people cannot be apathetic anymore, so it is timeto enforce our immigration laws. The E-Verify program that has gainednotoriety, but not in the Liberal press, the special interest lobbyists or radicalopen border and other so called anomaly. The time has come to build the realfence from Texas to California covering the whole 2500 miles with double-layerfencing. It is also the time to contact the Ways and Means Committeeresponsible for bringing ‘The Legal Workforce Act’, bill number H.R.2885 to theHouse floor in Congress. Only the American voter or legal resident has a say inthis urgent matter, which will produce large numbers of jobs displaced by the8.2 illegal workers as estimated to self-deport. The number to call for theWashington political phones is 202-224-3121. The legislators need to listen tothe People, instead of deceiving us anymore. If you have further questions, goto the NumbersUSA via Google and study the facts of years of the fabricationand idiom we absorb through the Leftist associated newspapers or thepoliticians.

 

Remember none citizens have been voting and are sure to votein State and federal elections. Citizens must be watchful or this dire consequence.

 

Alexander Khan
Alexander Khan

Mex, GET THE FU CK OUT OF MY COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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