Illegal Aliens Start Hotline to Warn of Immigration Raids

The Orange County city of Santa Ana, CA has long been a hotbed of illegal alien activity. The city is overwhelmingly Hispanic, though there's a mix of just about everything else in that town as well. There was a move to declare the city an illegal alien "sanctuary" (though you could argue that it already is), and when that move failed, the activists decided to fight back:

Responding to a refusal by city leaders to declare the city a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, more than a dozen people gathered outside City Hall on Monday night to denounce recent immigration raids, accusing federal officials of "terrorizing" immigrant communities and breaking up families.

A coalition of local immigrant rights groups, including the Orange County Alliance for Immigrants Rights and the Front Against the Raids, announced a planned program to create a hot line that will notify people where and when immigration raids will take place. The program would also coordinate a support system for the families of deportee targets.

"We want to have a more organized effort to counter these attacks," said Jaime Conteras, a 20-year-old Filipino immigrant who now lives in Santa Ana. "We cannot let people trample on our rights."

During five days of raids in June, 175 people in Orange County were arrested on suspected immigration violations. The raids arrested 27 suspected criminals, including a man wanted for murder and a convicted child molester. Santa Ana was one of the targeted cities.

As Captain Ed points out, one in seven of the people picked up in the immigration raids were wanted for other criminal charges, including child molestation. The activists want everyone to believe that every illegal alien is a saint who in another age would be riding on a donkey through a palm-strewn Jerusalem street. However, we still have laws in this country and you're either here legally or illegally. If you're illegal, you need to be out of here.

The hotline won't really do anything. ICE doesn't advertise their raids ahead of time. The only benefit of the hotline may be to chase more illegals out of town when they hear a raid is underway. It could have a positive effect on the legal residents of the city.