These are the type of ICE workers we have?
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yes your right. they just don't want to do their job. helll if they give me a job I'll do it.
Yes , they are breaking the law , just by being in this country .
Maybe she needs retraining or to be told exactly what she was hired to do .
I too have talked to ICE , but I got a completely different reaction about the illegals that were arrested in my town .
Carlos Slim Helu's fortune is up almost $20 billion in a year, built amid poverty and resentment in Mexico. Now he's gaining on Warren Buffett.
Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, the industrial titan whose holdings span telecom, banking, energy, tobacco and more, has built unimaginable wealth in one of the poorer countries in the Western Hemisphere. In the past year his fortune, now approaching $50 billion, has grown by $19 billion, an increase that eclipses any gain by any other billionaire in the past decade. He reigns as the third-richest person in the world on the 21st annual FORBES billionaires list. Slim (both his family surname and his nickname) is tantalizingly close to surpassing the wealth of the storied Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) of Omaha, Warren Buffett, the sage investor who has been number two to his protégé and pal, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s Bill Gates, since 2001 .
Slim, 67, amassed his pile in a nation where per capita income is less than $6,800 a year and half the population lives in poverty. His wealth comes to 6.3% of Mexico's annual economic output; if Gates had a similar chunk in the U.S., he'd be worth $784 billion. It's enough to give any populist heartburn.
In Hong Kong, perhaps, or even Finland, Slim would be heralded as a striving champion of capitalism, a self-made billionaire celebrated for employing 218,000 workers and for pushing his country into the modern age. But not in Mexico, where the media and the masses long have held a sneaking suspicion that there is something shady about Slim. He is decried as a rapacious monopolist who built his empire on cozy ties to Mexican presidents and other politicians.
Last year a cartoon in La Reforma, a center-right newspaper, depicted an oversize Slim in a boxing ring, splayed on his back and squashing a tiny opponent. The ring ropes were phone lines, an allusion to Slim's control of Telmex, with a 90% share of the landline phone business, and América Móvil, with a 73% share of the market for cell phone service. The caption: "Billion Dollar Baby." Slim has been pilloried on TV in La Verdad Sea Dicha ("Truth Be Told" ), a political-platform show from a defeated opposition-party candidate for president who had befriended, then betrayed Slim. In one segment a news anchor angrily shoves a pie into the mouth of a papier maché Slim, mocking him as a gluttonous, insatiable tyrant. Never mind that, in 40 years of business in Mexico, Slim isn't known ever to have been formally investigated, indicted, convicted or otherwise sullied in regard to bribery, influence peddling or any other scandal. For some in the working class here--the random cab driver, small-time actor, bellhop--Slim's fat-cat wealth is reason enough for suspicion.
As the best-known patriarch among the ruling families that dominate the Mexican economy, he draws the most fire for the distinctly Mexican form of crony capitalism that pervades the national economy. The cement industry is largely controlled by one player--Cemex (nyse: CX - news - people )--and its billionaire chief, Lorenzo Zambrano. Mexico has two national television networks, run by the country's ruling elite--TV Azteca, run by Ricardo Salinas Pliego; and Grupo Televisa (nyse: TV - news - people ), controlled by Emilio Azcárraga Jean, favorite son of the Azcárraga clan. Even tortillas are a monopoly market, controlled by the González Barrera family's Gruma, which has a 71% share of sales. In January people protested in the streets of Mexico City after tortilla prices doubled.
"Mexico has a dense, intricate web of connections and personal ties between the government and the business class," says Denise Dresser, a Slim basher who teaches political science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). "This ends up creating a government that doesn't defend the public interest, that isn't willing to go out and regulate in the name of the consumer," she says. "But it is rather willing to help its friends, its allies and, in some cases, its business partners thrive at the expense of the Mexican people."
Slim insists he is unfazed by the criticism. "When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered." At one point in a three-hour interview in his yawning, unadorned office in a three-story building in a tony enclave in Mexico City, he produces prepared talking points to rebut the notion that he is a monopolist. Sample page: "There are actually 44 concessions that offer long distance, 26 for local service and 10 for mobile service.… Telmex is not a company that has monopolistic practices."
Does he protest too much? Some people who know him well say Slim stings from the carping--and that he intends to do something about it. "He's like everyone else. He doesn't like to be criticized. He's a sensitive person who wants to do the right thing," says AT&T (nyse: T - news - people ) Chairman Edward E. Whitacre Jr., who has known Slim since buying a 10% stake in Telmex in 1990 (the $1 billion investment turned into more than $10 billion). "I think he wants to be remembered as someone who did something good for his fellow man," Whitacre says.
Lately Carlos Slim has taken up a particular interest in philanthropy, a pursuit he had neglected for most of the years he was building his businesses. He formed a foundation 23 years ago and funded it with a few million, and it has done little since then. A year ago Slim infused it with $1.8 billion; in the fall he pledged to donate up to $10 billion to the foundation in the next four years to fund health and education programs.
"My new job is to focus on the development and employment of Latin America," he says proudly. Yet even his philanthropic ambitions are greeted with wariness, or outright derision, by some in Slim's home country. ITAM professor Dresser goaded him in a newsweekly commentary for failing to give even more: "The day that you give 80% of your personal fortune to an unselfish cause is the day that I will become your champion." Michael Layton, director of the Philanthropy & Civil Society Project at ITAM, explains: "In Mexico, the perception is that public deeds are done for personal gain."
Click Here for List of Billionaires From Latin America.
That's why you have Congressmen and Senators, both at the state and federal level. A conversation like that should prompt you to make additional calls. You can also ask to speak to a supervisor. ICE HAS to take the complaint and HAS to give you a complaint number. What you observed was BLATANTLY illegal and should warrant an investigation. Some dimwit telling you "they can't do anything" is flat out wrong. Always be sure to take the name of the person you speak with, they may not act on the tip immediately, but if they get enough calls by enough people they've no choice but to act.
ICE is an agency put it place mostly to make people like you think that something is actually being done about immigration . Sure they deport felons every now and again ( because they dont deport them all -hmmm , whats wrong with that picture?) . Ice agents are on the lower levels are basically just people collecting a government check , whos hands are tied from doing any real enforcement by the Federalswho are in real power . Accept it , The North American Union beckons , and there aint a thing you can do about it . Because Bush , and Clinton before him , wont do anything about illegal immigration .
Yes they are breaking the law. But not to worry, we have the Dems in office and they are going to protect all of us, right? Yeah Right! Not!
Report them again. If you get the same answer get their name and department, inform him/her that you then need to speak to his supervisor /watch captain. Explain to the Captain his answer. I guarantee he won't be espousing those sentiments for long.
Yes. Perhaps they didn't see any proof from you that these people were in the country illegally.
You didn't mention how you knew these Mexicans were illegal. It might have been that they were, in fact, guest workers just using their Mexican ID's. I hate the illegal immigration as much as anyone but I don't think we ought to make assumptions based on someones race. ICE would be correct in asserting that they ( the Mexicans in question) can go and do what they want as long as they're not breaking the law. I don't read anything here that makes me believe that they were illegal immigrants. A witch hunt is such an ugly thing.
1. Think of the politics of the thing. If they did not allow people to lose their money in the casinos, the town would go broke.
2. How is that ICE agent supposed to go into a casino and find the illegal immigrants without disrupting the entire business and detaining citizens and legal immigrants? Explain how that is done.
3. How is it against the law for an illegal immgrant to enter a business and buy a drink and cash their paycheck? There is no such law. So how is the casino supposed to tell somebody, no, we can't take your money because you have a Mexican ID. What if that person came here on a tourist visa just so they can gamble and have a drink?
If you want to make it against the law for people without US government issued IDs to patronize businesses, buy food, sleep in hotels, buy a car, etc. then you talk to your congressperson and see what kind of response you get. Put your thinking cap on.
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